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by gxqoz 6y ago
I'm not sure if they're using Python per se, but Netflix gave an interesting talk at KDD 2018 on how they're using machine learning in various parts of film/TV production. One example is optimizing the workflow of a spec
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Oh I thought this was going to be one of those low-stakes investigations like that Reply All missing song episode as described in this essay: https://hotpodnews.com/the-problem-with-the-inconsequential-...
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by gxqoz 6y ago
And before this there was correspondence learning (i.e. learning via snail mail). Many technologies have been pitched as being transformational for education. Often they have some impact but don't live up to the hype.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
And I'll add that my main feature request for Pocket is its inability to grab data behind some paywalls / PDFs. I want my data in this one place because I want a uniform way to read and highlight. I've developed a workaround
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by gxqoz 6y ago
My alternative to catching up on longform articles when I don't want to read them on a screen is to just use Pocket's text-to-speech functionality and go for a walk.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I believe Retro Gamer magazine interviewed him within the last year. It's behind a paywall though.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
My understanding is that newer Bluetooth sets can at least get closer to being better. But still not as good as a wired set.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
The docs were probably better than they were for the NES. Nintendo's were poor translations from the already sparse Japanese version (think of an entire book full of the Engrish found in early NES games). Australian developer Beam Soft
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by gxqoz 6y ago
My wife was angry at me that I could fit a Switch into my pocket the other day. Although it's pretty cumbersome to carry it around like that.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
In the US you still do some reading aloud but it's very limited. Certainly it's not common to have a class on rhetoric. One of my hobbies is quizbowl, a type of trivia competition. Quizbowl questions need to be read aloud with spe
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by gxqoz 6y ago
This blog post from 2018 from Discord indicated that the browser implementation of WebRTC wasn't as good: https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-handles-two-and-half... Is this still the case? Would you still hypothet
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by gxqoz 6y ago
There's a good early episode of the Reply All podcast on Minitel: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/8whoda One story: They got more business use than you might otherwise expect because they didn't
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by gxqoz 6y ago
The killer feature for me in Facebook's early days is that people could list the classes they had. This made it easy to message your classmates to get help on an assignment.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
By the American Revolution, newspapers were getting closer to our modern perception of them. But for the hundreds of years between their ostensible invention in Germany and the late 18th century they were quite different. Many only reported
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by gxqoz 6y ago
If in fact it's still very likely you can get severe Covid while wearing a mask, then sending the message that "wearing a mask will almost certainly prevent severe Covid" will likely lead people to engage in riskier situation
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Have they actually solved the (non-noise) environmental concerns of SST? From a NYT article a few years ago: "According to a 1999 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, introducing 1,000 commercial SSTs more advanced
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Alfred Crosby's classic history The Columbian Exchange explores how syphilis was perhaps the only major disease that went from the New World to the Old World. Well worth a read even though it's almost 50 years old at this point. A
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I find the bookshop.org model a bit weird. There's no real reason that independent bookshops need to be part of it, apart from a marketing angle to court people who want to "help local bookstores" over Amazon.com. From a rece
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Explosions of (literal) shit are apparently not uncommon in Beirut: https://thebaffler.com/latest/waste-away-mounzer?src=longrea... "In November 2018, I was away from Beirut, briefly, for work. One morning I woke
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by gxqoz 6y ago
My impression is that there was actually some benefit to having really long streaming albums, at least if you were already a hit artist. You'd rack up more individual plays and thus more money. This only works, though, if people are co
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by gxqoz 6y ago
My impression is that Audible does explicitly fund some exclusives. This is especially the case for "Audible Originals" which are a sort of gray area between Audible Exclusives and podcasts.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Looks like Libro.fm has a similar subscription service, although it's $15/month for one book. This isn't all that shocking that it's a bit more expensive than Amazon. Hard to beat them on price.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Have people used the Libro.fm Android app? I've used the Audible Android app for years and it's trash, even compared to something like OverDrive. No other audio app on Android gets shut down in the background like Audible does (if
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Last time I checked there wasn't even a good way to filter on Audible exclusives. They're typically the only audiobooks I get through Audible, as I'd otherwise wait for them to be available in my library app.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I personally found the Kleppman book to be great. I wouldn't characterize it as essential for data science per se but anyone designing data-intensive applications ought to give it a read.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Another take on the same incident: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/the-atomic-ori... "The biggest consequence of the nuclear-winter debate, though, has had to do not with nuclear-weapo
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Heh: "Tryon, for example, denounced musk, 'the dearest of stinks', as 'an excrementitious matter - or the fume or froth proceeding from a fierce, fiery, violent-natured creature'. Had it been scarce, he said, hog&#x
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I expected an old-fashioned "click part of the image and go to a different link" where I could click on a book's spine and get linked to a page with more details about it. Of course, this is a lot more work so I can see why t
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Can't find the original Tweet to credit it, but a great bookstore joke: "I've got the idea for the perfect escape room. You're in a bookstore. You have 60 minutes to escape while spending less than $50. Good luck!"
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by gxqoz 6y ago
My impression is that Spotify only pays royalties to songs that get streamed for over 30 seconds. Presumably if you skip a song early this is a feature used in its recommendation algorithms. Not as strong as an explicit dislike but I would

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