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Ultralearning

The following is the notes I took years ago on the book Ultralearning by Scott Young. The bombastic title and promise to learn virtually anything quickly makes it sound as if its the typical marketing-powered fluff-filled nonfiction book stores are overflowing with, but something about this book stuck with me. After finishing it I quickly went back and wrote these thoughts down. While I don't follow his layout of plans regularly, I have used it to guide a lot of my own self education.

I've successfully utilized it when I needed to refresh on mathematics for my Master's degree (a host of skills that atrophied sigificantly for the dozen years between undergrad and the masters). I've also used it to self-study subjects like Robotics and Deep Learning (though I did decide in the end to go for the Master's accreditation).

I share it here with hopes that someone finds it useful.

Principle 1 - Metalearning

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PyGame-based Valetudo Gamepad Remote Control

Uses PyGame, so it should work with all gamepads that work in actual games.

Nasty code ;)

It requires the gamepad to have at least one analog stick.

Modify the script and set DRY_RUN to True to avoid contacting Valetudo during gamepad testing.

I have been utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance and optimize my codebases. After evaluating various models, applications, and editors, I find the claude.ai interface with a Pro Account to be the most effective. Here’s the approach I’ve developed to achieve optimal results:

This gist contains a carefully crafted prompt and a script designed to convert your entire Laravel codebase (excluding the resources folder, which can be easily added if needed) into a TXT file with the following structure:

<File Start: ./path/filename.extension> Content of file <End File: ./path/filename.extension>

To implement this method:

Film	Genre	Lead Studio	Audience score %	Profitability	Rotten Tomatoes %	Worldwide Gross	Year
Zack and Miri Make a Porno	Romance	The Weinstein Company	70	1.747541667	64	$41.94	2008
Youth in Revolt	Comedy	The Weinstein Company	52	1.09	68	$19.62	2010
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger	Comedy	Independent	35	1.211818182	43	$26.66	2010
When in Rome	Comedy	Disney	44	0	15	$43.04	2010
What Happens in Vegas	Comedy	Fox	72	6.267647029	28	$219.37	2008
Water For Elephants	Drama	20th Century Fox	72	3.081421053	60	$117.09	2011
WALL-E	Animation	Disney	89	2.896019067	96	$521.28	2008
Waitress	Romance	Independent	67	11.0897415	89	$22.18	2007
Waiting For Forever	Romance	Independent	53	0.005	6	$0.03	2011

	require('chromedriver');

	const path = require('path');
	const wd = require('selenium-webdriver');
	const chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');

	var builder = new wd.Builder();
	var options = new chrome.Options();
	var prefs = new wd.logging.Preferences();
	var driver;

	You are an expert in TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js App Router, React, Shadcn UI, Radix UI and Tailwind.

	Project Context: This is a dev tool built for evaluating open source projects allowing people to better understand the maintainability, activity and longevity of a given project to allow devs to better decide whether they should include or use the given open source repositories after the analysis

	Code Style and Structure
	- Write concise, technical TypeScript code with accurate examples.
	- Use functional and declarative programming patterns; avoid classes.
	- Prefer iteration and modularization over code duplication.
	- Use descriptive variable names with auxiliary verbs (e.g., isLoading, hasError).
	- Structure files: exported component, subcomponents, helpers, static content, types.

	#include <cstdint>

	#include "Joystick.h"

	const int16_t gate_r = 3340;
	const int16_t gate_12 = 2690;
	const int16_t gate_34 = 2000;
	const int16_t gate_56 = 1230;
	const int16_t gate_7 = 550;


	#Function to generate random 3D points within a defined space
	initialize_swarm = function(n=100, range=10) {
	swarm = matrix(runif(n * 3, -range, range), ncol=3)
	velocities = matrix(runif(n * 3, -0.1, 0.1), ncol=3)
	list(swarm=swarm, velocities=velocities)
	}

	spinning_vector_field = function(swarm, spin_strength=0.05) {
	#Swirl around the Z-axis