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Leveraging my potential. Closing one chapter and prompting a new one. In a podcast recently @Brian reinforced the idea that we all have value, those words and the other messages shared through his other interviews and posts resonated strongly with me. Then over the past couple of months on social posts, @Roxanne encouraged me to post here and tag, her and you (@Brian ), though I just couldn't bring myself to be so utterly vulnerable. I've shed that feeling and present my situation. I warmly encourage advice, support, and suggestions from anyone in our wonderful multiplex community as well. Now there is a longer story to this (and happy to go into detail about any of it), but in short, a little over a year ago I was diagnosed with a rare heart disease, and in many cases, the first symptom can lead to sudden death. It's an electrical issue with the heart, is the short version. Though, I'm lucky, very lucky, to have caught it in time. No cure but a bit of prevention is now in place to keep things going. It came at a cost though a tremendous cost. I never expected I'd be at this stage at this point a year later. Though deeply grateful for the support and that I'm alive, I practice my reflections of gratitude every day, through meditation, prayer, and more. However I'm determined to get to and through this, and that's why I'm posting this. I have a pinned post on my X.com profile, and pretty much everywhere I'm at that is a fundraiser (a GoFundMe), it goes into more detail about what is going on, however, it's not got the traction I needed it to. A donation isn't what I'm asking for, not exactly, and not refused of course, but I want to give back, to earn your support, I want to build and create value, to again be a net positive. Why I'm posting, in short, is that I need help, but I also have a very hard time asking for it. I prefer being the one helping. I want to lean more into the value I can provide. That's why I'm asking for your help, anyone's help, short-term, long long-term, that will allow me to help someone or something and earn a modest living doing it. I have over 20+ years of experience in technology, marketing, entrepreneurial journeys, adventure, and outdoor management, being a founder, agency owner, software developer, and even a chef. So here I am now, the situation I've been worried about fully sharing, to post more publically, though I'm a pretty open book about most. That cost I alluded to above, was at the cost of my business, my savings, my income, many of my friends, and more. To get to a place where I can say I feel healthy and more ready than ever. I am studying everything I can to capitalize on the background of my past, and the pace of AI. I need to build a business, help a business, or both. I need to find projects, opportunities, and fast. Who knows it might be right around the corner, but that corner I've been standing at for some time which is why I'm now finally writing this post. So I'll get to the point. I have less than 30 days (end of November 2023). I need help. A reality I may face is that I won't be able to pay for the most basic needs, most importantly rent and associated costs. I'm already preparing for the real potential that I will be living out of my truck and in the North East during winter ... will be rough, and add that I'm recovering from heart surgery. Not a good situation. I will be freezing, coding, and homeless but not hopeless. I'm willing to move anywhere and work anywhere. I need help, I have highly valued skills, I have a rich set of experiences, and I have a proven history of determination and perseverance. I am willing to post links to my profiles and bios and such but I didn't want to be overtly self-promoting as this is a bit #general when it comes to forum posts. I will follow up on this shortly with a "summary" of my professional experience too so you know what I've done and can do, but if there is any way to have some sort of support or connection. Hiring, side gigs, strategies, however, and whatever form that help manifests, I humbly accept. I do have value and potential and I want to close this chapter and start prompting a new beginning. With Deep Gratitude, Andrew VIn a podcast recently @Brian reinforced the idea that we all have value, those words and the other messages shared through his other interviews and posts resonated strongly with me. Then over the past couple of months on social posts, @Roxanne encouraged me to post here and tag, her and you (@Brian ), though I just couldn't bring myself to be so utterly vulnerable. I've shed that feeling and present my situation. I warmly encourage advice, support, and suggestions from anyone in our wonderful multiplex community as well. Now there is a longer story to this (and happy to go into detail about any of it), but in short, a little over a year ago I was diagnosed with a rare heart disease, and in many cases, the first symptom can lead to sudden death. It's an electrical issue with the heart, is the short version. Though, I'm lucky, very lucky, to have caught it in time. No cure but a bit of prevention is now in place to keep things going. It came at a cost though a tremendous cost. I never expected I'd be at this stage at this point a year later. Though deeply grateful for the support and that I'm alive, I practice my reflections of gratitude every day, through meditation, prayer, and more. However I'm determined to get to and through this, and that's why I'm posting this. I have a pinned post on my X.com profile, and pretty much everywhere I'm at that is a fundraiser (a GoFundMe), it goes into more detail about what is going on, however, it's not got the traction I needed it to. A donation isn't what I'm asking for, not exactly, and not refused of course, but I want to give back, to earn your support, I want to build and create value, to again be a net positive. Why I'm posting, in short, is that I need help, but I also have a very hard time asking for it. I prefer being the one helping. I want to lean more into the value I can provide. That's why I'm asking for your help, anyone's help, short-term, long long-term, that will allow me to help someone or something and earn a modest living doing it. I have over 20+ years of experience in technology, marketing, entrepreneurial journeys, adventure, and outdoor management, being a founder, agency owner, software developer, and even a chef. So here I am now, the situation I've been worried about fully sharing, to post more publically, though I'm a pretty open book about most. That cost I alluded to above, was at the cost of my business, my savings, my income, many of my friends, and more. To get to a place where I can say I feel healthy and more ready than ever. I am studying everything I can to capitalize on the background of my past, and the pace of AI. I need to build a business, help a business, or both. I need to find projects, opportunities, and fast. Who knows it might be right around the corner, but that corner I've been standing at for some time which is why I'm now finally writing this post. So I'll get to the point. I have less than 30 days (end of November 2023). I need help. A reality I may face is that I won't be able to pay for the most basic needs, most importantly rent and associated costs. I'm already preparing for the real potential that I will be living out of my truck and in the North East during winter ... will be rough, and add that I'm recovering from heart surgery. Not a good situation. I will be freezing, coding, and homeless but not hopeless. I'm willing to move anywhere and work anywhere. I need help, I have highly valued skills, I have a rich set of experiences, and I have a proven history of determination and perseverance. I am willing to post links to my profiles and bios and such but I didn't want to be overtly self-promoting as this is a bit #general when it comes to forum posts. I will follow up on this shortly with a "summary" of my professional experience too so you know what I've done and can do, but if there is any way to have some sort of support or connection. Hiring, side gigs, strategies, however, and whatever form that help manifests, I humbly accept. I do have value and potential and I want to close this chapter and start prompting a new beginning. With Deep Gratitude, Andrew V
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OpenAI 16K Context Windows, Updated Models, and Steering OpenAI as of today a few hours ago, announced interesting updates. It poses for me a question and I'd love to hear our mastermind's feedback too on how it will or may impact your prompts. I do recognize this is for primarily developer-related requests, so this update won't be immediately realized, but if you're using a 3rd party tool, or have developed your own, I think this will open up some interesting discussions. On one hand a larger context window, but on a GPT 3.5 Turbo Model *yet updated model*, then you also have an updated GPT-4. Updated in what ways, I think the prompts will tell us that. Documentation will say, for example, GPT 3.5 Turbo, will now support 16k context which means the model can now support ~20 pages of text in a single request. As always I'm humbled by the brilliance of this group, and filled with gratitude for all that contribute to it.OpenAI as of today a few hours ago, announced interesting updates. It poses for me a question and I'd love to hear our mastermind's feedback too on how it will or may impact your prompts. I do recognize this is for primarily developer-related requests, so this update won't be immediately realized, but if you're using a 3rd party tool, or have developed your own, I think this will open up some interesting discussions. On one hand a larger context window, but on a GPT 3.5 Turbo Model *yet updated model*, then you also have an updated GPT-4. Updated in what ways, I think the prompts will tell us that. Documentation will say, for example, GPT 3.5 Turbo, will now support 16k context which means the model can now support ~20 pages of text in a single request. As always I'm humbled by the brilliance of this group, and filled with gratitude for all that contribute to it.
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