AlanYx

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by AlanYx 6y ago
If you're looking to use an e-ink tablet as an external monitor, you should also consider the larger BOOX e-ink tablets. The BOOX Max (starting from the last gen) and the new Max Lumi offer HDMI input for external monitor use.
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by AlanYx 6y ago
IMHO using Emacs as your X window manager isn't particularly strange -- conceptually at least, it seems more natural than the Chromebook model, where people are essentially using a web browser as a window manager.
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by AlanYx 6y ago
Don't forget: Real Analysis = generalizable calculus That was my favorite course.
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by AlanYx 6y ago
It's fairly likely that third parties will make some kind of somewhat-dockable display+battery. The choice of micro HDMI likely will help with some designs of that kind of accessory, given how large the strain reliefs of full-size HDMI
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by AlanYx 6y ago
Raspberry Pi can run Squeak, which is a full-blown Smalltalk-80 environment, not unlike the one Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg taught kids to use in their Dynabook work. You could configure a Pi to boot directly into Squeak and it would be the
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by AlanYx 6y ago
In addition to all the standard FOSS software you can think of, Wolfram has made the full commercial version of Mathematica available for free for Raspberry Pi users. (It's a huge 600mb+ download.) It's a phenomenal thing for kids
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by AlanYx 6y ago
You can use a USB audio dongle. Just to take one example, the Apple USB-C audio dongle is only $8 and has extremely good measured performance: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/r...
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by AlanYx 6y ago
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around LeCun's thinking regarding the Nabla reference. The Nabla link is just a blog post by three people without any technical details provided at all. How can this possibly "debunk"
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by AlanYx 6y ago
I'm in the same boat. I keep a virtual machine with an up-to-date Acrobat Pro license just for the OCR. It's not that the OCR is state-of-the-art any more. It's not as accurate as ABBYY in my experience. But it still generate
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by AlanYx 6y ago
I agree with you. But technically Steve Jobs did work for HP once... he had a summer job at HP at age 12, which he landed after calling Bill Hewlett asking for some spare parts to build a frequency counter.
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by AlanYx 6y ago
The actual paper is behind a paywall for me. I'm having trouble understanding your description of the experiment. How does selecting C over B, after initially preferring B, support the thesis that random choices become preferences? Sho
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by AlanYx 6y ago
I wonder if there's an aspect of the experimental design that's left out of the linked article. For example, could the toys have been hidden behind some sort of shield, so that the baby couldn't see what color they were picki
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by AlanYx 6y ago
The last example you provided is very helpful, thanks. I'm surprised that the unhinted rendering is so good.
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by AlanYx 6y ago
>Converting Epub to PDF doesn't necessarily yield a good quality.... at some point I was so annoyed by the relatively nondeterministially poor quality... Is this ever true! I use three different workflows for converting ePub to PDF,
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by AlanYx 6y ago
You're probably thinking of the documentary Between the Folds. He's appeared in a lot of places though. Really interesting guy: homeschooled by his father in a van, finished his PhD before many people finish their second year of u
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by AlanYx 6y ago
Amen. I don't even really understand why most of the commentary surrounding this potential acquisition refers to TikTok as a social network. TikTok is much closer to a video playback/sharing platform (somewhere between YouTube and
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by AlanYx 6y ago
This article doesn't seem particularly balanced. Unless I'm missing something, the author doesn't really give any generalized details about the amount of bias (for example, mean bias). The author cites one study where doctors
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by AlanYx 6y ago
I haven't read that book, but the Wikipedia article gives a reasonable account based on what I've read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards#Origins >But are you really telling me that China in 1966 wa
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by AlanYx 6y ago
>one big difference is that the Red Guards were created by Mao as a way to purge the party of his enemies... No -- that's not the case, and that's precisely why I think the parallel to what is happening now is so strong. The Re
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by AlanYx 6y ago
I think there are some important qualitative differences with the French Revolution, at least in its relationship with the academy (although I'm not an expert). During the French Revolution, most of the aristocratic cadre of scientists
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by AlanYx 6y ago
I feel the same way, but I think this era is much more directly similar to the "red guards" period during the Chinese cultural revolution than Soviet examples. Some of the parallels are just so direct -- students denouncing their
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by AlanYx 6y ago
They address that in the new macOS 11 HIG [1], indicating that protrusions from the square look "to combine depictions of the physical objects that best convey the app’s core purpose" are acceptable. TextEdit, Preview and Xcode al
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by AlanYx 6y ago
Not to take away from your point, but Doom was actually written on a NeXTstation and cross-compiled for PCs, so at a minimum they were using 1120x832 resolution (2 bit greyscale).
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by AlanYx 6y ago
>It infuriates me to no end that Microsoft does not accept that letters in caps keep their accents. That behaviour is actually locale-dependant in Microsoft apps. Setting Microsoft Word to "French (Canada)" uses accented capita
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by AlanYx 6y ago
It depends on the book. Some Kobo eBooks are protected by Adobe DRM... it's mentioned on the main book page in small print about halfway down beside the format if DRM is included.
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by AlanYx 6y ago
Thanks for this -- do you know if there's a consolidated list anywhere of other books Springer is making available for free right now?
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by AlanYx 6y ago
Gruber hasn't said what it'll be about, but judging from the episodes list he links to, it seems to be roughly the same sort of content as on the Daring Fireball blog.
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by AlanYx 6y ago
There's probably a lot more merit to your comment than most people realize. Absent from most of the media reports I've read today is that Sidewalk Labs was facing yet another approval decision on the project from Waterfront Toront
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by AlanYx 6y ago
It's fascinating to watch how even babies pick up on what's a pressable button (and what's not) in the real world via contour perception. Before they even have an understanding of cause and effect, they love to find buttons o
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by AlanYx 7y ago
This paper references two tools for assessing the risk of bias: the Cochrane risk of bias tool and PROBAST. Does anyone have any experience with these tools? Are they something that are mainly only practical/useful in the medical field

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