janpmz

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by janpmz 2y ago
Speaking and pronouncing words feels like more effort and requires more attention than typing on my keyboard or moving the mouse.
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by janpmz 2y ago
During hiking, I realized that I’m more likely to tip over in my hiking boots compared to my sneakers. The center of pressure is much higher in hiking shoes than in sneakers. And the shape of my sneakers is roughly like a triangle, with the
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by janpmz 2y ago
Recently I’ve learned that if you listen to audiobooks in your field of expertise every day on your commute, you might pick up a semster worth of education in a year.
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by janpmz 2y ago
I would have published on arXiv, but to do that you need an endorsement from an established arXiv user in that specific category. And even then, you can only submit papers in that category. On Zenodo, I was able to publish quickly, and I li
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by janpmz 2y ago
I did some leisure research on how the Nazca Lines align with mountain shadows and made a publication. That was a nice weekend. https://zenodo.org/records/11422308
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Show HN: Listen to PDFs in Any Language
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Listen to your PDFs in any language
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by janpmz 2y ago
You can listen to an explanation of the paper here: https://www.pdftomp3.com/shared/67d8abf0ecf38326f8973e49 I created this tool last year to listen to a machine learning book, now I use it for ML papers. The explanati
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by janpmz 2y ago
How long will it take for people to realize, they are looking at a contradiction?
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by janpmz 2y ago
You can try https://www.pdftomp3.com/ as well.
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by janpmz 2y ago
I've heared claims before that quantum computers are not real. But I didn't understand it. Can anybody explain the reasoning behind the criticism? Are they just simulated?
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by janpmz 2y ago
Yesterday an article was trending "The Secret Electrostatic World of Insects". Now I wonder, how much does static electricity actually affect cells? https://www.wired.com/story/the-secret-electrostatic-world-o
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by janpmz 2y ago
My first thoughts after visiting the webiste: People will be quick to create apps with this. But what happens if I want to implement something that is not supported by the framework yet? That is a common problem with frameworks in my experi
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by janpmz 2y ago
I asked ChatGPT which behaviour results in Reelin being present. It's physical exercise, cognitive activities and social interaction. Behaviours that reduce Reelin are stress, drugs and bad nutrition. Maybe it's just correlation.
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by janpmz 2y ago
Recently I've learned that half of the people are slow caffein metabolizers. The caffein stays longer in their system and it might negatively affect their sleep. Considering how many people drink coffee, I think a lot of people are aff
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by janpmz 2y ago
It should become a standard for papers to publish their code. After all it's a publication.
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by janpmz 2y ago
I wonder how they know the axe-heads are 4k years old. Carbon dating tells them how old the material is, but how do they know when the head was formed into an axe? The same goes for cave paintings. They can date how old the paint is, but ho
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by janpmz 2y ago
I like the concept. What I didn't like was: - Re-opening the project in a dev container felt like overhead - I sometimes stuggled with setting the work directory - Restarting the development container for various reasons interrupts the
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by janpmz 2y ago
Mitochondria are ancient bacteria that merged into the eukaryotic cell, accordinga to a theroy. They have a distinct DNA from the rest of the human body and are inherited via the mother. The amount of mitochondria can change, if you exercis
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by janpmz 2y ago
The Nazca lines in Peru seem to align with the shadows of the mountain, I made two videos to demonstrate it: https://x.com/janBuild/status/1796472554905022785 In the second video, you can see that the shadow seems
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by janpmz 2y ago
I like that it's without a subscription. I don't need SEO research all the time, only when I consider a new project.
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by janpmz 2y ago
You can upload a PDF and convert the chapters into MP3s (either original text or simplified text). But for PDFs without a table of contents, you can only convert single pages.
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by janpmz 2y ago
Recently I found the getToc function in PyMuPdf was too slow. I told them about it in their discord, and a day later they had fixed it. Now it only takes a couple of milliseconds. I'm using it for my project pdftomp3. Pdf.tocgen looks
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by janpmz 2y ago
My thoughts: I love the idea. For a website that produces designs, your landing page looks a bit simple. I asked it to generate a table. Now I'm not sure if the progress bar on top shows the code generation progress or if I'm runn
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by janpmz 2y ago
What is your experience with serverless hosting versus self hosting?
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Show HN: Self-Hosting Starter Package
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by janpmz 2y ago
Reading about brain waves makes me think analog computing could be the way to go.
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by janpmz 2y ago
I've built a workflow recorder with a screen history (MVP). I concluded that in case this is a viable approach, Microsoft or Apple will built that into their OS natively as part of a copilot that remembers everything and comes to assis
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by janpmz 2y ago
Sad they didn't cite you. But you never know, maybe your ideas influenced their future thinking pathways.
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by janpmz 2y ago
If I understood this correctly: Minimizing entropy: Learn filters that can increase the likelihood of the observed data. Maximizing entropy: Learning how to combine the filters.

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