The 4th day of my 100 days of code challenge
Published: 2023-05-18 22:47:14

Sooo.
Today started with a desire to make a project that would take about 30 articles and summarize them all into one big article while they're all on completely different subjects using Hugging Face's Transformers library. Needless to say, it didn't quite go as I expected it to.

Especially as most of my time went towards fighting with installations. Goddamn Homebrew and PATH variables.

I did feel like I lacked the basic foundations and understanding as to how to apply these existing technologies, I like to be have a clear understanding of what I'm doing before I do it, but I didn't find much comfort in the documentation.

Time also really got in the way so I didn't do much. Granted, the first time, I couldn't do anything. The second time, I chose to ride on motorcycles over at my uncle's. I did put in about 2-2:30 hours today and that isn't too bad, but when I have as much time as I did today, it should be more. Tomorrow, it's gonna be more.

Tomorrow, I'm planning on doing McKay Wrigley's "Takeoff School" to get a clear understanding of the most prominent concepts in the field of applying these already existing technologies and some foundation on how to apply them, I love me some structure to get myself off the ground in a completely new field.

I'm super motivated to keep on going with Andrew's course though, this field seems huge but all I see is "the more to learn", and if I'm going all-in, I wanna be in the field all-in. So while most of my time will go to applying these existing technologies, I plan to pursue this on my free time as long as I move at a pace of at least 1 week of his course every week and a half.

Well, if it doesn't get astonishingly difficult, that is.

By completing McKay's course, I will also have a pretty solid foundation in LangChain, which I couldn't differ from Hugging Face's Transformers library, but now that I'll see them both in action, I'm sure that this will change.

Always excited about courses that give you the base you need to go out there, can't wait to update you guys! His course seems really well-structured as well, 51 minutes for models! Seeing the title and the duration got me pretty excited, as this term repeats itself a looooot from what I've seen.

As I got home at 12AM, I put in 10 minutes for reading Atomic Habits. Didn't progress much from yesterday, but on the subject of how your identity shapes your habits, the analogy of votes was amazing. You don't need the votes to be unanimous, meaning everything needs to be perfect and productive. Some votes can go to the other side, meaning sometimes, you can be unproductive or fall back a bit. All you need is the majority.

And, let's say I wanna create a mobile app. He gave a super interesting viewpoint. If you want something to happen, be that something. What do I need to be to do that? A Software Developer. And when at doubt, I should ask myself the question, "What would a Software Developer do?". This message, I absolutely loved.

I find the book to be incredibly insightful and hope to implement as many of those things into my life as possible. I've already started by focusing on the system rather than the results as he states in the beginning of the book, and make this be about the identity I'm developing, the "proof" I'm gaining for it rather than nothing but my goal.

That's about it, this was a rather long one. But hey, documenting my growth! Wouldn't wanna miss out on important details.

Happy coding everyone!