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by navbaker 2y ago
Matter and The Hydrogen Sonata are very good, more action-packed stories that I thoroughly enjoyed. Surface Detail is also extremely good, but has some pretty dark setting and themes involving virtual afterlifes. If you’re looking for somet
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by navbaker 2y ago
I found the second book in the series, The Player of Games, much more explanatory about what the Culture is than the first book, Consider Phelbas. I enjoyed Consider Phelbas much more upon re-reading after I did an initial read through of t
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by navbaker 2y ago
7-11 spam musabi is amazing if you’re ever on one of the Hawaiian islands
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by navbaker 2y ago
Maybe in what we think of as traditional tech, but there is enormous job security working as a developer in government or government adjacent organizations. You obviously take a pay hit, but also don’t have to live in an area with a huge co
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by navbaker 2y ago
This is bad advice. Ollama may be “just a wrapper”, but it’s a wrapper that makes running local LLMs accessible to normal people outside the typical HN crowd that don’t have the first clue what a Makefile is or what cuBlas compiler settings
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by navbaker 2y ago
Yes, I’ve switched from conda to a combination of dev containers and pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv on both my Linux and MacBook machines and couldn’t be happier
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by navbaker 2y ago
The mantis shrimp episode of Octonauts is still one of my favorite all-time episodes of kids TV.
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by navbaker 2y ago
Oh wow, small world! I use soundslice nearly everyday as an end user of a few music education sites!!!
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by navbaker 3y ago
It will be quantized in a matter of days and runnable on most laptops.
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by navbaker 3y ago
They have a whole food court inside.
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by navbaker 3y ago
Julian Lage and Kurt Rosenwinkle are another couple of guitarists to check out. Deep Song, by Kurt, and Gladwell, by Julian, are great entry points into their music!
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by navbaker 3y ago
Thanks!
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by navbaker 3y ago
I’ve used Pydantic with FastAPI, but can’t really get a solid feel for what this is doing. Can someone explain this to me like I’m 5?
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by navbaker 3y ago
I do the same for the three FFG LCGs I play. Chessex makes every color combo imaginable, so I was able to match LOTR, Arkham, and Marvel colors perfectly!
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by navbaker 3y ago
The other big need is for a straightforward library for dynamic allocation/sharing of GPUs. Bitfusion was a huge pain in the ass, but at least it was something. Now it’s been discontinued, the last version doesn’t support any recent ve
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by navbaker 3y ago
Have you ever been around kids? They have a complete lack of situational awareness that leads to things like not noticing they’ve not pushed the fridge door shut and sealed all the way after grabbing cheese and running back to play. I can’t
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by navbaker 3y ago
Our work uses Zoom, but for one specific project I have to use Teams to talk with a government sponsor. Every single meeting without fail I get disconnected at exactly the 18 minute mark past start.
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by navbaker 3y ago
This is why you have to be careful to avoid 90 degree bends in high end wire like this so the ones don’t get jammed up and stop the flow of sound.
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by navbaker 3y ago
Sorry, it was not. There’s an internal component that you get implanted that takes the sound from the processor and sends it through the skull to your ear. The brand is a Cochlear Osia 2
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by navbaker 3y ago
I am almost completely deaf on my right side, having lost hearing in two separate episodes. The first only took the upper frequencies, so I was able to wear an in-ear hearing aid to compensate. I absolutely hated wearing it and eventually s
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by navbaker 3y ago
I will be singing “if you have to go potty STOP! and go right away” until the day I die.
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by navbaker 3y ago
No blood samples, all the vitals are from strap-on sensors. They do want to incorporate video and audio from the helicopter/ambulance for the pre-hospital portion and from the ER for in-hospital data in future phases of the competition
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by navbaker 3y ago
I’m on the data engineering team prepping the training datasets for delivery to the competitors’ workspaces. It’s been a really fun challenge sorting through all the different modalities of data and wildly different formats coming from the
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by navbaker 3y ago
Anecdotal, but a former co-worker’s young daughter was just completely cleared of leukemia after several years of treatments that didn’t work followed by CAR-T
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by navbaker 3y ago
We definitely explored using these tools, but we’re constrained by government sponsor rules regarding data protection in our day to day work. We can use ZoomGov captions, but most of the other tools weren’t approved. It looks like Windows 1
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by navbaker 3y ago
Yeah, it wasn’t on his own time. He had a full budget and this was right in line with stuff he had already done research in anyway, so he just went for it.
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by navbaker 3y ago
Seamless Streaming looks really promising! We just had a new employee start a few months back with profound hearing loss and our company had no idea what to do with him from an accessibility standpoint. They threw out solutions like Dragon,
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by navbaker 3y ago
The HuggingFace embedding models are really good! See here for a good intro tutorial: https://huggingface.co/blog/getting-started-with-embeddings
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by navbaker 3y ago
That patent expired several years ago.
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by navbaker 3y ago
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