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I'm taking a week off from work, and planning to use that time to read interesting papers, dig into the LLaMa models, and catch up on learning and exploring things I generally don't get time to. I'll keep a daily entry for summarizing the day's explorations as I go.
If things go well, by the end of the week I'll have played a little bit with cuda, inference, understanding some model dimensions, fine tuning, etc.
Emacs surpassed my expectations yet again by supporting ssh'ing with multiple
hops transparently. The trick to setting this up is to use a file path like
sshx:dev1|sshx:dev2:~/ and it Just Works. I could even use a shell over this
smoothly.
For using Tramp comfortably (as it spawns multiple sessions) I find it extremely
valuable to use ControlMaster to share SSH connections and skip authenticating
repeatedly. The .ssh/config additions to enable this are:
ControlMaster auto
ControlPersist yes
ControlPath /home/kunalb/.ssh/multiplex/%C
A quick Google search and reading a couple of articles shows this one from CyberCiti which covers the bits I use, and several bits I don't.
From a video that floated across my YouTube recommendations: Abstractions remove/generalize details to focus attention on important details instead. Illusions accidentally remove important details... confusing end users. This is clearly a goldilocks zone, and the decision of important is a matter of taste and experience.
The speaker also calls out the risk of the uncanny valley where an abstraction is almost like another platform you're used to -- it becomes much harder to use, because you're not sure which bits are missing.
— Kunal