nicodjimenez

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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
Deep learning doesn't actually work unless you're doing vision or NLP.
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
Mathpix PDF search is fully visually powered and does not use underlying PDF metadata, even working on handwriting. It’s a great choice for researchers (especially in STEM) who want to build a searchable archive of PDFs.
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
Mathpix Snip also supports PDF search, including for handwritten content, and including math symbols in equations. Disclaimer: I’m the founder.
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In nature, nothing is constant for very long.
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
> Because there are a fuck ton of actions and power on the side of increasing gdp at all costs. Like what? The most basic thing you can do to help GDP growth is try to promote families and childbirth, and keep energy prices low. Right no
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
The only real alternative to growth is decline and eventually death. This is true for companies, individuals, and even countries. I say our obsession with _not_ growing must end!
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
For STEM applications, nothing beats Mathpix OCR. FB Research uses it, London Stock Exchange uses it, Chegg uses it (in fact even recently transitioned to Mathpix OCR from Google vision), and many, many other companies and individuals. Disc
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
I love Elon and his antics but competing against the space programs of military super powers China and Russia will not work in the end. State power is ultimately orders of magnitude greater than a single corporation's power.
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
> It's obvious now, In a conventional war, the US would obliterate Russia in weeks. Napoleon and Germany thought the same as you. Unfortunately it did not go well for them. Historically, countries that underestimated Russia's m
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
> The only real fully existential physical threats to the US will come not from sea, air, or land, cyber, or biology where it is already well defended, but from space. This is such an absurd statement. US is literally collapsing before y
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
USA especially but also Western Europe.
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
If you really think the war on fossil fuels in the West is in the citizen's best interests, you are delusional. In the West everything is a scam. Our health system is a scam, the military industrial complex is a scam, our education sys
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
The "both sides" idea is an illusion, the two sides disagree on everything but on one very important point there is no disagreement...
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
<laughing emoji />
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
Yep. That, and space force, and cheap energy, and renegotiating trade agreements, and not starting any new wars.
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
There's two main "foreign" forces at work in the USA that have more power than the average Joe/Jane, but I'll let you do the math on which forces those are.
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
USA is still fine now but it's the direction that's frightening. The overall direction of Western Europe and USA is not good, to put it mildly.
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
Wealth is something that is given by God, not something that is taken from another person or state. Many nations will prosper but the colonies will never prosper. The people that are actually eating our lunch are our oligarchs right here in
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
Any sovereign nation would be better. Mexico, China, India, Hungary, Croatia, Singapore, Switzerland… USA is a zombie nation state that is more like a colony than a functional nation state.
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
If the opinion you share is unpopular, it's because it's correct, and the truth is the enemy of the oligarchs that are scamming citizens in the US and the West in general. US is now a scam that exports inflation and crap 2nd rate
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
Congrats to the Brave team on building a great product I hope there is a sustainable business model behind it.
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Event Camera: The Next Generation of Visual Perception System(spectra.mathpix.com)
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
I started a math tools company (mathpix.com) and I could not agree more! US needs humanities far more than STEM. US is extremely strong at STEM and extremely weak at humanities. This includes understanding of the real world and human affair
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by nicodjimenez 4y ago
The real pivot for FB was their pivot to Instagram, with facebook.com pivoting to a "secret police" business model and shutting down open discussions, which used to flourish there. They've done this very well. FB today is mor
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by nicodjimenez 5y ago
Interesting about transcriptionists that makes perfect sense to me but still very unique to a particular task just like piano.
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by nicodjimenez 5y ago
What program do you need more than say 20 shortcuts for?
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by nicodjimenez 5y ago
I know I'm going to get downvoted for this, but this is just ridiculous. Typing isn't piano or weaving, folks. Lots of keys on a keyboard! You never need to press 10 keyboard keys at once => you don't need a pedal. VIM als
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by nicodjimenez 5y ago
Educated people are more easy to brainwash actually. They’ll believe anything the establishment tells them because they spend more time in school following directions and going “by the book” - they excel at this. Less educated people need t
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by nicodjimenez 5y ago
Pair programming can be powerful with the right people and the right problem. It's a situational tool that can speed up progress in certain cases. Sometimes diving deeply into code is scary and having someone else right there can provi
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by nicodjimenez 5y ago
There is some percentage of people who become wealthy accidentally - but PG is not one of them. He's like the Michelangelo of early internet startups.

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