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by solresol 6y ago
To put this in perspective, in Switzerland your employer takes your church donations out of your salary. Your taxes directly fund the church. _That's_ the opposite of separation of church and state. In the USA, tax deductions to church
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by solresol 6y ago
I was 26; it was the dot-com boom. I had no clear plan but a potential client called me asking for something I could deliver at a price that they were happy with. I was mostly profitable by about week 5 -- so I only skipped one pay cheque,
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by solresol 6y ago
My pitch to help: you can probably replace the GPU-intensive ML model with some incredibly dumb linear model. The difference in accuracy/precision/recall/F1 score might only be a few percentage points, and the linear model tr
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by solresol 6y ago
Dentistry: can we replace dental x-rays with infrared? Can we build optical panographs just using the reflections from a dental mirror? How can we monitor patients' oral health over the long term more often than just an annual visit to
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by solresol 6y ago
I think that has been the most interesting part of the pandemic for me -- how church has changed and adapted. I sometimes find myself in the bay area to meet clients, and if I'm there on a weekend there's a church I tend to go to
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by solresol 6y ago
I don't think it's a post-2000s thing. In a year where hundreds graduated with a CS degree, I think there might have been around 15 females in my year (1994). My brother did CS as well (mid-1980s). There might have been only one f
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by solresol 6y ago
New Zealand appears to have achieved (2).
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What's the etiquette for greetings on video calls?(blog.ifost.org.au)
2 points by solresol 6y ago|1 comments
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by solresol 6y ago
Let me tell you one day about the interview questions I got at a FAANG last year which were supposed to determine whether I was operating at a senior level...
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by solresol 6y ago
Because "geniuses" may well want to get reasonably wealthy and retire, but might be fundamentally unable to adapt to working for a large corporation.
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by solresol 6y ago
I think it's a pre-covid stock photograph, but yeah... I hadn't noticed that before.
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by solresol 6y ago
Building https://triage.dentist/ -- trying to make the most cost-effective teledentistry platform. While dentists can't practice, it's much easier to get time with them to figure out what they need and don't
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by solresol 6y ago
Probably, but it will depend on the interest rate. The lower the interest rate, the higher the safe level of debt. Right now federal bonds have a negative interest rate, so perhaps there is no limit to the amount of debt, and in fact that t
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by solresol 6y ago
Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan. Well, not completely eliminated, but it will be eliminated soon enough based on current trends.
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by solresol 6y ago
What would qualify as hyperinflation? If by hyperinflation you mean "several years of 10-20% inflation" -- something unprecedented in developed economies in recent history -- then sure, that's not unimaginable. It's also
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by solresol 6y ago
My story: first contact December 2005, started work October 2006.
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by solresol 7y ago
I was expecting something completely different and far more exciting. This is Zapier after all, so I was expecting that this was going to be a tool where you could point it at some program on screen and get data / events from it to int
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by solresol 7y ago
(Sorry for the weirdness of replying in two different places...) If I understand what you are doing correctly, in Zoom you will either select the camera with the VM window in it (which OBS is creating a virtual camera for), or you select th
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by solresol 7y ago
That's why I do the two system thing (Workspaces for the slides, laptop for my face video). Then I don't even bother editing it afterwards unless I think there's something really important. The recording shows your face in a
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by solresol 7y ago
I'm usually teaching over Zoom / Nexi / Google Hangouts or something like this, not OBS. This is bi-directional, interactive teaching, not broadcasting / live-streaming a class. Those tools too can capture individual scr
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by solresol 7y ago
One odd property of remote teaching is that you can use notes a lot more; you can have a pile of papers on your desk with your lesson plans written out -- and you can refer to them without your students really noticing anything odd. So you
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by solresol 7y ago
Sorry about that -- I can change the post to remove them if that would make it more credible. I'll be very surprised if I make any money from them anyway since the target audience (teachers and students) would get krisp for free, for e
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How I Teach Classes Remotely(blog.ifost.org.au)
243 points by solresol 7y ago|100 comments
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by solresol 7y ago
That was also around the time that -- according to credible sources -- doctors in China were given a quota of cases that they were allowed to report each day. I guess we'll see what happens with other countries, and then that can give
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by solresol 7y ago
I was recording a remote class (I often teach face-to-face), and decided to put 5-second musical intro to it. So I composed some music for the first time in close to a decade. Also, I've discovered how lucrative it is to have clients i
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by solresol 7y ago
I saw no relationship between anything I was asked during interviews and what I ended up working on beyond "they both involve software for a computer".
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by solresol 7y ago
Being relatively young and having a childhood history of asthma could get them hearing a little higher than 20 khZ as well, so it's not out of the question that they are hearing the sound itself. But the most likely thing is that they
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by solresol 7y ago
Given that this is fraud prevention, the correct error function should be measured in dollars. The thing you want to minimise is money lost. Is the cost of allowing a fraudulent transaction through much greater than the cost of blocking a n
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by solresol 7y ago
I was in the senior leadership team of a company a while back (I was brought on to build a software team from scratch). I worked with the other execs to ask the question "what culture do you want in your software development team; what
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by solresol 7y ago
If you have a lot of work that needs doing, it may well work out cheaper to find a dentist overseas, fly there, stay for a period of time, and then fly home again. For some reason I keep hearing about people flying to Serbia to do this.

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