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by jebarker 3y ago
My belief, which may be false and not informed by direct experience, is that the search appliances didn't really work that well since the hyperlink based search ranking method of the day doesn't really work on relatively small dat
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by jebarker 3y ago
My recent experience with the expensive smartwatch class is that they're buggy and shitty.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I switched to the Coros Vertix from Garmin Fenix a few years ago. At the time it was because their battery life was massively better. Things have evened out since. But I've been really happy with all aspects of the Coros and it's
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by jebarker 3y ago
Your comment really triggered a trip down memory lane for me. I also remembered how crazy it is that we used to go and choose vacations out of paper catalogues at the travel agent. I also remember reading the football results for my dad on
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by jebarker 3y ago
I watched some video reviews and am definitely tempted. Cost is high though given my amateur status. I can afford it, I just don't feel worthy!
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by jebarker 3y ago
That's actually not a terrible idea! 3D print something to improve the ergonomics and provide real controls
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by jebarker 3y ago
Yeah, I've noticed when reading about options that it's probably helpful to not try and find one size fits all devices. They the to cost more and yet still be compromised.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I'm at the early stages of learning photography. I've always taken lots of photos, but without much skill or care. I have an entry level DSLR and understand that the quality of my photos is almost entirely determined by my skill a
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by jebarker 3y ago
Thanks, the distinction between awareness and consciousness is definitely something I've overlooked. I tend to think of them interchangeably.
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by jebarker 3y ago
It definitely seems like aspects of conscious experience are just more parts of the world model, e.g. we experience having a continual visual view of the world through our eyes, like watching a movie, but we know that's not what is act
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by jebarker 3y ago
I'm also a cocktail philosopher, but isn't consciousness different to just having a model of the world and self within it? Consciousness is the lived experience. The world model and feeling of self appear in consciousness. I think
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by jebarker 3y ago
If you have the means to collect the data then this seems pretty tractable to me. Mostly because you don't need to deal with the raw optical data but rather just the derived trajectories. So data formats and volumes shouldn't be a
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by jebarker 3y ago
> Now outside academia, SLURM is nowhere Do you mean outside of academia _and_ HPC? Industry HPC clusters using slurm are quite common.
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by jebarker 3y ago
This is gold. I spend my days debugging LLM training setups in support of research and I'd have loved these notes when I started!
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by jebarker 3y ago
Disney Imagineering? I have no direct experience but I'm continually impressed by the technical innovations they make public and the effects they manage to achieve in their products.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Sure, but was "porn mode" for the benefit of the user or the data collectors? I don't feel like that's a controversial thing to suggest given everything we know about the extent of online tracking and the players involve
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by jebarker 3y ago
I wonder if the original intent of the feature was to lull people into a false sense of security so the data could be collected on activity people wouldn't otherwise share.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I used to have a second hand, well-worn Buffalo Systems pullover and it was fantastic for staying warm whilst wet hiking.
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Lanny Smoot – First Imagineer Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame(thewaltdisneycompany.com)
3 points by jebarker 3y ago|1 comments
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by jebarker 3y ago
I'd never heard of Lanny Smoot before but found the included video really inspiring.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Isn't that a huge gamble compared a pretty great and almost guaranteed salary?
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by jebarker 3y ago
I did follow iFixit and replaced the battery and SSD. Battery life is still terrible compared to a modern laptop. It's just a limitation of 14 year old tech.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I use a 2010 MacBook Air with Debian and i3 for writing and coding practice using vim and cmdline tools. No web browser installed. For those tasks I'm much more productive on it than on any modern machine I own. I just wish the battery
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by jebarker 3y ago
I agree. What's crowded is generative AI for chatbots and image generation. Applications of deep learning outside of those areas is wide open still.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Exactly. The newer teaching materials and resources are great, but they don't change the advice in the article about how to learn programming. In fact, they might make it harder in some ways because of the temptation to take shortcuts.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I recently got approved for a mortgage with a mainstream lender where they took unvested stock into account for the pre-approval. Thankfully I'm not reliant on that stock vesting to pay the mortgage. As I understand there are quite a f
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by jebarker 3y ago
Interesting. That perception underestimates how much researchers like doing research I think. The demand shortage and price paid is just function of how much society values research versus entertainment.
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by jebarker 3y ago
> And this is not just an academia problem: the same mismatch between supply and demand is found in many other creative and aspirational careers, think actors, singers, sports I don't often hear people complaining that sports, music
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by jebarker 3y ago
I often see people where I live choosing smaller more fuel efficient vehicles and then permanently keeping a storage box on top. I always wonder if the drag offsets the gas savings.
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by jebarker 3y ago
There are purveyors of artisanal organic bullshit now, but it's pricey.

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