Look up Andrej Karpathy's tutorials. He teaches you Character Language Model building from scratch.

And he gets a lot of love from the HN folk too.

Karpathy.ai

I'm 45. I run a small ISP. It's a dying business, which will be dead in maybe 7 years or so as prices in my geographical area drop 10-15 percent every year.

I started an agri commodity trading business in 2015 (anticipating telecom going down in the future) which did quite well for a while. Covid years were ultra bad. And the market instead of recovering has gone even worse now. Many small companies are closing down (2 of my clients this month).

Learnings from 2001, 2007/8 were to turn to education in a down cycle. I had anyway not completed my undergrad college degree. I joined one in data science. Found some problem areas for my existing clients could be solved with data science. Registered a new company last month, and this week got my a miniscule seed funding (debt).

Things are not great but they're still looking up for me. I do not consider myself skilled at anything except maybe relationship building. I too feel that I've faked a lot by just being there. I would suggest you leverage your existing experience, join a MOOC, network with people - it'll take a while, maybe a year or more, but things will work out.

I'll leave you with this cliche - luck is when preperation meets opportunity. Be prepared.

I have the exact opposite opinion (about the OpenBSD book). I used basic ls, dd, tar, ps, cat, etc. Did not know (still do not) Unix systems beyond configuring a basic "how to" driven webservers, DNS servers, etc.

Michael Lucas can delve into depths without making it sound too technical IMO. Sure, you can skip chapters too (ktrace in my case) and continue with the next one if it gets heavy.

His books can be read by newbies and seasoned pros alike.

Farming experience since 2014-15. My advice would be to immediately contact a coffee contract farming company in your area. Work out the minutest details in terms of work and costs, something similar to WBS in project management.

Next sign a 3-5 year contract with the contract farming company (WBS was to make sure you're not getting a raw deal). Get them to provide you technical help. The way this works is, they recommend and you execute.

All the best!

> My advice would be to immediately contact a coffee contract farming company in your area

There aren't any thanks to a bottom tier poor country.

I use OpenBSD as a daily driver. To make GP's point though, there are a few video's [0] and blog posts dissing OpenBSDs security claims.

[0] https://youtu.be/3E9ga-CylWQ

Works for me, both on cellular and on home broadband. Would be good if you confirmed with your ISP first.

>it's bulky

Slight nitpick, Total gold above the earth's surface is less than a cube with sides 25 metres each.

The weird thing to me is that the total mass of silver mined is only about 8x the total mass of silver, but the price spread is 80x.

Copper is much more abundant, over 400x more copper than silver has been mined, but silver is almost as scarce as gold. It really seems like the price spread should be closer.

For anyone that is curious, it's about 4.5 double chests of gold block stacks in minecraft. Not particularly difficult, but a challenge nonetheless.

How I learnt/taught myself when I first studied this subject, was characteristic or character. People change when they come into money, or rather their character changes (in my head I called them characterless). People with character don't change. Characteristic vector/Eigen vector is something which doesn't change.

Someone's chopping onions. I feel I'm faking it everytime I read something like this.

As a human interest story. I'd like to know more if you're okay to share. How is he doing now?