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811.
by mft_ 3y ago
> I think continued progress in the wearable sensor field... I'm interested in people's general experience with wearable sensors - of whichever type. I wear a Fitbit (mostly for sleep tracking) but it's mostly a curiosi
812.
by mft_ 3y ago
I took it totally differently (it was humerous, with a hint of irony I'd expect a Brit[0] to appreciate): that due to Github's lack of resilience, the poster has had to become resilient in their own daily practice. [0] > &#x27
813.
by mft_ 3y ago
You're right, but I don't believe the previous poster was talking about sampling. What happens with machine learning models is more similar to someone learning to play music: everyone learning some form of musical expression will
814.
by mft_ 3y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful answer :)
815.
by mft_ 3y ago
> 2. People tend to plant monocultures I can't count the number of times someone has pointed to neat, ordered ranks of nothing but pine-trees or blue-gums and labelled it a “forest”. Nope. A forest is an ecosystem, a great variety o
816.
by mft_ 3y ago
(Obviously) I don't fully understand your architechure, but isn't there a (relatively) simple check that it shouldn't test for a word that it has never taught? (And on the bright side, I'm sure I'll remember unsere
817.
by mft_ 3y ago
Just playing with it now for German, and the second ever set of words it taught me were ‘Er’, ‘aus’, and ‘Dorf’, and it then asked me to fill in the blank: Er ist aus unserem Dorf …only it hadn’t taught me ‘unserem’, so I had no way of ev
818.
by mft_ 3y ago
Love the idea; can I kindly ask if you're expanding to include German?
819.
by mft_ 3y ago
Maybe before you get into the technical aspects, there's another consideration. Out of that 23TiB, are you able to estimate how much of a problem it would be, if you lost some or all of it? e.g. * disastrous * very upsetting * disapp
820.
by mft_ 3y ago
I really struggle with this, which seems to be an odd extrapolation of the pervasive celebrity culture we have nowadays. Take politics, for example: I dislike the idea that politicians must be impressive and charismatic. What I really want
821.
by mft_ 3y ago
It's not just the dark-pattern cookie popups that are a problem - it's having any mandatory cookie popups --even the fairly-designed ones-- on virtually every website that you ever open. That's what's crappy about the
822.
by mft_ 3y ago
Why?
823.
by mft_ 3y ago
I agree with your overall point, but I’m not sure you’re making a fair comparison: - Eurostar trains run from central London; cheap flights leave from Luton, Stansted, and Gatwick, none of which are close to London, and which therefore all
824.
by mft_ 3y ago
Type 1 diabetics have been managing their insulin for decades with occasional blood sugar testing - i.e. certainly not testing for every dose. They’d be fine to manage things for a period without a confiscated monitor.
825.
by mft_ 3y ago
I discovered Flet via HN a few months ago, and it has been really fun to play with (although it's a bit tricky to figure out the right path to make updates happen to nested controls). Thanks for your work on it, and (shameless nudge!)
826.
by mft_ 3y ago
Repeating the same things without additional explanation or arguments doesn’t really progress the discussion. Slavery is involuntary and unpaid, so it wouldn’t be that. The form of indentured servitude that was outlawed a long time ago was
827.
by mft_ 3y ago
Or just maybe —and bear with me here-- there’s a place in the universe for both for-profit entities, and entities set up with different goals? I’m no Musk apologist, but the idea that he’s inconsistent or a hypocrite because he’s expectin
828.
by mft_ 3y ago
If you pass by the slightly inflammatory language (“indentured servitude”) it’s just a different model. As in: if I want to go and work on Mars, but can’t afford the flight, it’s not unreasonable to take a proportion of my earnings up fro
829.
by mft_ 3y ago
Interesting example. I’m fine with LLMs struggling or refusing to answer judgement calls, but this is just a request for it to compile factual data. This is so obviously a use case for computer assistant of some sort, as it would convenient
830.
by mft_ 3y ago
Something doesn’t add up; or is that your point about real-world range? > a 48 kWh battery providing 420 km CLTC range The Tesla Model 3 is currently the most efficient EV, and does ~4.5m/kWh, which is ~7.2km/kWh (ballpark; pre
831.
by mft_ 3y ago
We've found something that Germans do on Sundays? I guess there really is an exception to every rule ;)
832.
by mft_ 3y ago
You're absolutely right; but I'd argue that that doesn't excuse the human cost of this situation within the US, or that it's an unfair situation that because the political system isn't actually working in the intere
833.
by mft_ 3y ago
I'm late to the party on this one, but (as I've probably posted here before) the root cause of high drug prices in the US comes back to the US's broken political system. Pharma companies charge more in the US because they ca
834.
by mft_ 3y ago
Seems to happen a lot when I'm pasting in/out of a browser; not sure if that's the same issue, or one further augmented by Firefox? :)
835.
by mft_ 3y ago
Now we just need to train a model on this visualisation to help us to interpret it...
836.
by mft_ 3y ago
Interested what problems you’re experiencing? I use Firefox daily on Mac and Windows and can’t think of a single problem or failing page?
837.
by mft_ 3y ago
Interesting; I experienced similar frustrations with various German-teaching apps, but I actually want something even lower friction: I’d like someone else to have selected (e.g.) the 200 most important nouns, the 75 most important verbs, a
838.
by mft_ 3y ago
Could you expand? I'm interested in what you're getting at.
839.
by mft_ 3y ago
Hah, someone IRL gave me a very similar answer. I guess I hold the (idealised) view that doctors and hospitals should be held to higher standards than the other professions you listed, to varying degrees. It's probably also harder make
840.
by mft_ 3y ago
Interesting questions. > Will your next workplace value all the effort you spent that way? I'd hope so - as it's reasonable to assume that a next role for someone already managing/leading would involve more management&#x2F

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