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Saturday
MoHo farmers market, and grabbed my bike from Bike Therapy.. The mechanics complimented the rear color matched titanium wheel which makes me cry for the stolen wheel.
Otherwise, got to housework today: cleaned Dad’s boat, drained and scrubbed the tub, and the regular weekend tasks.
Exercise-wise, got in ab circuit #1 and a 30min bike ride.
…Thursdays
Exercise
CEO took the bike into Bike Therapy for the gear cable fix, should be riding in a few days.
Got in a workout, middling energy, max is slowly increasing:
| Exercise | Set | Weight | Reps |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neutral Grip DBell Bench Press | 1 | 105 | 12 |
| Neutral Grip DBell Bench Press | 2 | 105 | 14 |
| Neutral Grip DBell Bench Press | 3 | 105 | 12 |
| DBell Decline Bench | 1 | 105 | 7 |
| DBell Decline Bench | 2 | 105 | 10 |
| DBell Decline Bench | 3 | 105 | 9 |
| Triceps Extension | 1 | 52.5 | 9 |
| Triceps Extension | 2 | 52.5 | 9 |
| Triceps Extension | 3 | 52.5 | 8 |
| Chair Dip | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| Chair Dip | 2 | 0 | 14 |
| Chair Dip | 3 | 0 | 15 |
Weds Rollers
Exercise
I noticed my speed was decently low on the rollers because of the resistance of the drums & fans. I collected the Kreitler Rollers info so I could better calculate work put in across a ride.
On a different biking note, my shifter cable broke for the front ring – new failure to me: the wire sheath split out from the plastic housing when placed under tension. I’m not even going to try and fix this one myself as the cable needs to be a very specific length. Tomorrow’ll be a good day to take it to Bike Therapy in town.
…Buckaroo Banzai
As planned, skipping lifting legs this week to focus on cycling. Got in a 1h20min ride for 12.5mi at about 150w power. For now, I’m going to give myself a 1.5x multiplier on mileage with the fan belted on.
Also, watched Buckaroo Banzai. I don’t think I fully get it. Yet.
Got in an F1 race with EBJ, falling into second behind him around Barcelona. Super fun track, but man I was almost a second a lap off his pace. We have Monaco coming up next – put in a quick practice and I crushed three front wings. More practice necessary.
…LLM's get Reflexive
Self-Reflecting LLMs
My dad shared some fascinating news on GPT-4 (via this video): it performs better with reflexion, i.e. if you ask it why it provided an incorrect answer it will sometimes catch it, meaning it can sometimes self-reflect on wrong answers to offer an improvement. Here is a substack post from the paper’s authors Noah Shinn and Ashwin Gopinath – one of the provocative points is that GPT-4 crossed a threshold of complexity to be able to improve via reflexion, unlike the earlier GPT models.
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