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Viet Phan
flying over Kabul is a total WIFI dead zone
Github copilot keeps timing out and wasting premium requests
dont fly over afghanistan if you want to have anything done
instead do spec driven planning and execute once cross indian borders
5:59 AM · Nov 24, 2025
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Viet Phan
free wifi on economy flight is insane
thought i would be stuck yapping to local qwen
but chatting with gemini 3 Pro for 11 hours straight is on a whole another level
12:32 PM · Nov 20, 2025
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Viet Phan
just tried Nvidia dgx spark irl
gorgeous golden glow, feels like gpu royalty
but 128gb shared ram still underperform when running qwen-30b with context on vllm
for $5k, 3090 still king if you value raw speed over design
wont replce my mac anytime soon
12:32 PM · Nov 4, 2025
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Viet Phan
openai atlas behaves like a lazy intern with low self-esteem
gives up mid-task, making up excuses, needs constant Tony Robbins level motivational pep talks
spent an hour filling excel and got only 98 rows done
openai needs to hook this thing up to claude before it develops burnout
1:43 PM · Nov 1, 2025
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Viet Phan
market can go way higher for way longer
Its too soon to call AI a bubble
8:12 AM · Oct 30, 2025
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Viet Phan
after hitting 70 features in my risk model and manually trial-erroring myself whole night, i gave up and let biological evolution cook
genetic algorithm now breeds the best candidates toward an optimization goal. finds local maxima in minutes on my laptop instead of years
tldr: risk model still sucks, but at least i outsourced the suffering to natural selection
7:25 PM · Oct 29, 2025
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Viet Phan
this is the beginning of the end for B2B SaaS startup scene
why pay $$$ in licenses for turn key when any desperate vibe coding agency can rebuild anything over a weekend?
marginal cost of “custom internal tool” is approaching zero
2:49 PM · Oct 28, 2025
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Viet Phan
if you think your boss isn’t thinking day and night on how to make you redundant with AI, you’re living in fantasy mode
the top 10% thought they were safe, then the top 1% realized they could replace them
now the 0.01% are working on replacing the remaining 9.99%. It is just a matter of time
2:45 PM · Oct 26, 2025
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Viet Phan
while everyone’s chasing LLMs, i’m still out here doing classic ML
built a risk model with 35 features, not a degenerate wsb strategy savior, but cuts expected loss by 40% while lowering gains only by 15%
roc-auc 0.774. still same false positives, fewer false negatives.
at this pace, I might flip this strategy to break even
7:02 PM · Oct 24, 2025
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Viet Phan
EuroVelo 9: 185th Km, Day 3
9 a.m. I pack, leave the hostel. Throw the keys in the box.
Still thinking about that burger…but the joint opens at 11. Too late to stick around.
No breakfast at the hostel, so plan B, a local grocery store - Coop. Classic backcountry chain.
Lock the bike. Step inside. Turns out it’s owned by Vietnamese. I say hi, exchange a few words.
But people start rolling in. Sunday. Short hours. Small shop. Can’t block the entrance.
Grab donuts, cookies, banana.
At the counter, I watch locals line up. Each holding 3–4 bottles of alcohol.
Moravia. Heavy drinkers. Everyone looks a decade older than they are.
I get a discount. Didn’t expect it. Say thanks and leave.
Eat the donut on the square. Then back on the bike.
7 km just to get back to the EuroVelo path. That’s the tax for the detour and a bed.
Garmin tells me my sleep plan isn’t working. Tried to max out recovery. But Two nights in hotels and still only a 65 score.
Body wrecked no matter how comfy the bed is.
Tent sleep would probably be 35 or worse.
Let’s see how fast my muscles adapt as the kilometers stack up.
The route drags me through small villages. Lots of construction. Maybe next year it’ll be smooth bike path.
Today it’s me pushing through sand or carrying a loaded bike over ditches.
And all of this is just the warm-up.
Jeseník district ahead. Borders Poland north & west. Mostly hills.
South, mountains. North, plains. Only one road to cross it. Which means busy climbs.
But for now… I’m enjoying the flat, peaceful scenery.
Like this cement mine.
9:25 PM · Sep 24, 2025
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