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by rg111 5y ago
> [...] realized that the author was full of shit. Not only are her writings this way, she was nearly a wacko. I will recommend to you a documentary where you can get to know the person better. The documentary is very nice, though. The
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by rg111 5y ago
"What the Buddha Taught" by Walpola Rahula is an extremely good book. It limits itself only to direct teachings of Buddha, and it explains the core concepts and teachings of Buddhism by explaining everything simply. The author is
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by rg111 5y ago
> Easwaran's translation is the best If you want a balanced, philosophical, explanatory, and a direct version, go with the translation by Servapalli Radhakrishnan. SR was an educator, philosopher, and the first Vice President of fre
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by rg111 5y ago
Same goes for me. Changed my outlook towards any intellectual matter or pursuit.
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by rg111 5y ago
It has changed my life to some degree- very clearly and significantly. Yet, I read only one chapter and following the advice and instruction to the letter for almost a month. I am feeling the deep joy from meditating just ten minutes. I kno
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by rg111 5y ago
Ah, missed that one. The faces were weird to look at. Too many of them. The best I have seen in the "X does not exist" category is https://thisbeachdoesnotexist.com .
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by rg111 5y ago
I have been using Kagi since it was introduced here on HN. I find it absolutely great to use. I find its results to be of much better quality than Google. Google search shows a lot of SEOd results which are absolutely horrible in quality, f
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Are all these cats real? Or, are they generated by some sort of deep generative model?
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by rg111 5y ago
Bosch was a really good one. Will recommend it. It is among all-time-bests, I will say. Tales from The Loop was unique and dream-like. I liked it for being so original. Wheel of Time bloopers made me feel like it was "manufactured
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by rg111 5y ago
The Pink Panther series of movies ("live action", not animated) is among the most hilarious creation I have ever consumed. I highly recommend them if you want to laugh hysterically. (Note: I watched them a long time ago, and there
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“Economic Fables” by Ariel Rubinstein(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
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by rg111 5y ago
What? I downloaded 1080p videos regularly before it went bad. I downloaded whole playlists. I can still download videos, but the resolution options are 144p ajd 360p.
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by rg111 5y ago
Oh no. Tech conference talks, (potentially) deep podcast episodes, lecture videos of a topic I am learning, 45 minutes Chopin prelude "jukebox" , etc. Anything that I think could be very interesting or I had preplanned- beyond 15
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by rg111 5y ago
> Spammy marketing means the leadership of the company has bad product sense. I understand this point-of-view. But this cannot be the sole reason. Are there any other reasons that are concrete, provable? And this is also not a universal
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by rg111 5y ago
> but every time I see/hear about it I have a pretty negative reflexive reaction. That's what I am trying to figure out. Why is every reaction that I get on HN is negative? Everybody says it's bad, but nobody clarifies.
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by rg111 5y ago
> Questions about privacy What questions, exactly? Does it get flagged by tracker control apps a lot, or did any privacy expert wrote bad reports on it? > but that would mess with their precious metrics So, do you think that or is it
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Ask HN: Why do many people hate Pocket?
11 points by rg111 5y ago|13 comments
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by rg111 5y ago
That’s a good decision. I know both Keras and PyTorch, and I will recommend PyTorch any day. I haven’t used TF/Keras in the last 2.5 years outside of Edge AI projects- neither at work nor at personal projects. JAX is interesting, thoug
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by rg111 5y ago
I had stopped using Vanced a few weeks back, because I couldn’t download videos beyond 360p. Now I know about Newpipe, but I manually download some videos with youtube-dl and then Syncthing them to my cell phone. Then watch it with VLC. It
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by rg111 5y ago
Two things I forgot to mention. If you want to see what the curriculum of a "Math for ML" from a top research uni looks like, you should check out the website of Math for ML course offered by Universitat Tubingen [0]. If you know
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by rg111 5y ago
My suggestion is to learn just high school amount of Differential Calculus, Linear Algebra. That much Statistics is not needed. And do these the right way- forget about being able to prove stuff for test, or remembering the heuristics for
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by rg111 5y ago
> Consumer should be voting with their wallets and they should have a choice. This only works when there are no monopolies or oligopolies. This is an idealistic view that is not worth anything because most markets have monopolies and oli
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by rg111 5y ago
Thr best option for you is- Gradient Paperspace and Colab. Both are free and managed. Learn Machine Learning first. Do not spend time on managing infra for ML while you are learning ML. Focus on learning ML first. You can make decent cutt
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by rg111 5y ago
Wow, that's a nice project!
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by rg111 5y ago
The easiest way to do this is to create the animation in PowerPoint which is trivially easy. Then export the transitions to a video [0]. [0]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/save-a-presentati...
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by rg111 5y ago
The moment I read the headline, the first words to come to my mind were - "How to Grow a Language" by Guy Steele. Hadn’t the author heard that ? Then, when I read the piece, most were already known to me. One should watch the ma
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by rg111 5y ago
The one where he talks about managing your workspaces. It's a fairly recent one.
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by rg111 5y ago
I have also used kagi for a few weeks. The results are much much better than Google. And I am using it constantly.
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by rg111 5y ago
I have used Brave on Linux for a very long time now. Super smooth experience.
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by rg111 5y ago
This was recently covered in the Huberman Podcast as well. One should not only maintain screen color and brightness, but also room and overall environment color and brightness. I bought a "smart" light after listening to that epis

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