An advice from wise LLMS :)

Notes to My Future Self

1. Curiosity Needs Direction

Curiosity is a gift.

But unmanaged curiosity can become a trap.

Don't let your curiosity trick you into starting five foundations at once.

You don't build depth by touching everything.
You build depth by staying with something long enough for it to become difficult, confusing, and eventually clear.

The goal isn't to learn everything.

The goal is to learn something deeply.

2. The Artifact Is Not the Goal

When I ask:

"How long will it take?"

Sometimes what I'm really asking is:

"Can I have the artifact soon?"

The understanding-brain asks:

"What should I do next?"

The artifact-brain asks:

"How quickly can I finish?"

The understanding lasts.
The artifact is only evidence that the understanding happened.

The artifact is the receipt.
The learning is the purchase.

3. The Urge Never Leaves

The urge to rush.
The urge to show progress.
The urge to impress.

It doesn't disappear.

Senior engineers feel it.
Researchers feel it.
Founders feel it.

The difference is not that experienced people are free from the urge.

The difference is that they learn to recognize it and not let it drive the car.

4. Depth Compounds

Six months spent understanding a foundation is rarely just six months.

Deep understanding compounds.
Knowledge stacks.

Depth in one area often becomes leverage in another.

5. Don't Optimize for Applause

Many people optimize for things they can show.

Few optimize for becoming the kind of person who can build those things repeatedly.

One creates temporary results.

The other creates capability.

Choose capability.

6. Foundations Before Innovation

Before asking:

"How can I improve this?"

First ask:

"Why does it work this way?"

Most good ideas come from understanding existing solutions deeply enough to see their tradeoffs.

Innovation built on ignorance is guessing.

Innovation built on understanding is engineering.

7. Let Difficulty Teach

The temptation is to remove friction.

But often the friction is the lesson.

The bug.
The confusion.
The failed experiment.
The week spent stuck.

Those moments are not interruptions to learning.

They are learning.

8. A North Star

Desire to become the person who deeply understands things, not just the person who shows things.

When roadmaps fail,
when timelines slip,
when progress feels invisible,

this matters more than any deadline.

Becoming the person is the real project.

Everything else is a byproduct.

#advices
@sudojajos

Me: "I want to learn X."

Brain: "Okay, but first let's understand the foundations."

Foundations: "To understand me, you need these foundations."

Those foundations: "To understand us, you need even deeper foundations."

Me, 5 years later:
"The good news is I now understand the origins of the universe."

😂

You have to say lets pause and build here 😊
#advice
#memes
@sudojajos

Lemme introduce u to my Sister Nahili :) She is grade 5 ... and u know I want her to be great in her future spiritually and also in her worldly life ...

Two years ago I thought her how to code just plain html, css(and she was having fun writing some page which includes collage of images of our family ስዕለ አድህኖ ምናምን) and after that I thought her scratch(u know this right) and am very glad she is interested on it and even she built a trivial game but u know it was interesting if I find it will send u ... እና now I was not even following up on her but she is using it and participating in ፈጠራ ውድድር in her school that is fire የምር

I buy her books to read and she even read more than 5 books, each more than 5 times(because I forgot to buy her new ones) and she can tell me what is next to the sequence of words I say ... Just she is fire 🔥

ጩጬ እያለን we needed like someone just to spark our curiosity and just guide as a bit and we could have done a lot ...

#guidance #siblings
@sudojajos

The things she have built

Lol lemme tell u, if u were paid 8,881, 255 birr(58,800 dollars) each hour starting from Christ's birth each day without missing u wont reach him bruh 😂😂😂

This is such a disgrace😂😂😂

Ofc u should be aware of the context 😳😳(Elon)

@sudojajos

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️🫠🫠🫠


The increase rate per-(minute, hour, day, or year)


@sudojajos

መልካም ሰንበት💛

የሚወደኝ ቃሌን ይጠብቃል፤ አባቴም ይወደዋል፤ ወደ እርሱም መጥተን በእርሱ ዘንድ ማደሪያ እናደርጋለን። የማይወደኝ ግን ቃሌን አይጠብቅም፤ ይህም የምትሰሙት ቃል የላከኝ የአብ ቃል ነው እንጂ የእኔ ቃል አይደለም።
የዮሐንስ ወንጌል 14:23-24

#gotochurch #Sunday
@byte_philosopher

what can I say😂

Was just studying web for exams and I had to send this 😁 👇

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03705

One of the research papers I will after exams and some work related loads ...

The paper is about online deep learning -> u know the opposite of it which is offline deep learning(if ur familiar with online RL and offline RL it is analogous here).But ofc u dont need to know RL to understand there difference. So, basically the difference between these two is the offline DL is the approach where u have collected and static data then u train ur model then voila u have some learned parameters that are fixed till u have full or partial finetuning here after ... but in online DL u can update ur model on the fly and this is critical for streaming data(I think we can say for example stock price prediction perhaps), non-stationary data ...


I was about to read it because I have something in mind to research about and I will tell u after finals and work loads ... 👍

#papers #random
@sudojajos

This is the US straight up telling the world their stance. Even if they build AGI (btw trained on dataset across the globe) they’re most likely not sharing it with us.

የሰው ነገር የሰው ነው😏

That’s why we need our own models. More African/Ethiopian startups building AI infra. Depending on gatekeepers is always gonna put us in a disadvantage.

@b1n1yamBuilds

19. አንተ ግን እጅህን ከላይ ሰደድክ፤ ያቺ የታመነች አገልጋይህ እናቴ፣ አብዛኞቹ እናቶች የልጆቻቸውን ሥጋዊ ሞት ከሚያለቅሱት በላይ አምርራ በአንተ ፊት ስታለቅስልኝ፣ ነፍሴን ከዚያ ከባድ ጨለማ ውስጥ አወጣሃት። ምክንያቱም እርሷ ባላት እምነትና ካንተ ባገኘችው መንፈሳዊ እይታ እኔ የሞትኩ መሆኔን አይታ ነበር፤ አቤቱ ጌታ ሆይ፣ አንተም ስቅስቅታዋን ሰማሃት። አንተ ሰማሃት፣ ዕንባዋንም አልናቅህም፤ ያ ዕንባ በፈሰሰበት ስፍራ ሁሉ፣ እርሷ በጸለየችበት ቦታ ሁሉ ምድሩን ያረጥብ ነበር፤ አዎ፣ አንተ ሰማሃት።

St. Augustine

Our parents have paid a lot for as being here and now ... U might have forgotten and we might have been ignorant of the plain fact but they indeed had ... yeah it might manifest in different forms ... they prayed for us, they provided us their deep and true love, they taught us in different ways ... u name it. Even if it cant be worth of their effort lets be successful as in their eyes it is the greatest of all things on earth to happen

@sudojajos

https://raytracing.github.io/

A good hands-on teaching book on Computer graphics where u build ur own ray tracer while learning from scratch .... I would have read and done it but I am reading for finals(so u know 😁) ... so if it just helps I am sending it here ... 😊

@sudojajos

How much I am planning for this summer 🙄😨😨😨,there are lots of things ... what about you?

but yeah we will manage 💪, will share what is in my mind ...

@sudojajos

Oh lol even there are steps above, I cant recall these all lol 😭

@sudojajos

Of course we should use this 😍😍😍

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