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by truth_ 5y ago
You can look up "The Mind Illuminated" by Yates (Culadasa) and Immergut. It is completely devoid of run-of-the-mill pseudo-spiritual stuff, and consists of practical advice that you can follow. It is a complete guide that provides
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by truth_ 5y ago
What resources are you following? How are you learning this in general? In most cases, it's just a big and elaborate grid search done manually.
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by truth_ 5y ago
I also started learning Elixir, really loved it. But I have wanted to go through the whole of SICP for a while. I realized that that is a better thing to do (grow core, fundamental skills) during the pandemic where I can get uninterrupted t
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by truth_ 5y ago
I am going through SICP. I have just begun. I am learning more about Transformers architecture and modern NLP using the Hugging Face API. Building a computer from scratch using nand2tetris on Sundays. Learning to meditate following a detail
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by truth_ 5y ago
Not true. Very high quality AI research regularly come from Facebool, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Yann LeCun at FAIR is pioneering Self-Supervised Learning which is likely to be a gamechanger in AI.
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How Google Built the World’s Dominant Ad Machine: A Visual Guide(wsj.com)
2 points by truth_ 5y ago|0 comments
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by truth_ 5y ago
I too, could not watch from the Microsoft website. I had to switch to Twitter.
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Microsoft’s own Windows 11 livestream runs into technical difficulties(theverge.com)
3 points by truth_ 5y ago|2 comments
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Mouse movements reveal your behaviour(wwwen.uni.lu)
2 points by truth_ 5y ago|0 comments
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Leidenfrost Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by truth_ 5y ago|1 comments
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by truth_ 5y ago
> Over the past few years, I have made several attempts to replace Google Search with DuckDuckGo I have been using Startpage for a while. It's results are same as Google, but with zero tracking. But it puts (non-personalized) ads in
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by truth_ 5y ago
> This is the ultimate human-in-the-loop based AI you can ever have. Where do you see AI in the article?
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Did you get a ‘handwritten’ note offering to pay cash for your house?(thestar.com)
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by truth_ 5y ago
I have read 1Q84, and yours is the only response so far that mentions this book. It was a fascinating book. While "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki" is more anime-like, I found "Hard Boiled Wonderland" very full of (unpronounced
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by truth_ 5y ago
> Second, Asian literature often seems to follow a "Life continues with or without you" path and the characters may not learn anything and may have been completely bound to their (generally doomed) trajectory from the very star
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Mouse research identifies new types of neurons in the “gut brain” (2020)(popularmechanics.com)
64 points by truth_ 5y ago|29 comments
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Haruki Murakami and the Scarcity of Serious Thought(calnewport.com)
90 points by truth_ 5y ago|35 comments
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by truth_ 5y ago
What do you think about Elixir in this context? Is it not "creativity-enhancing" enough?
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by truth_ 5y ago
Duplicate of- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27528285
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by truth_ 5y ago
You mention in another comment that it skipped some part of the proof and that you were disappointed. Do you still recommend the book?
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by truth_ 5y ago
I found a list [0] on HN awhile ago of "free, open source and privacy respecting services and alternatives to privative services". I have been using many of the items before I came across the list, and started using some after goi
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by truth_ 5y ago
There are already better interpretation. And "know that history as well as he does" approach is not suited for knowledge fields. The notion that you need to know as much as a creator to critic their works is childish and immature.
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by truth_ 5y ago
Yes, I can propose a concrete correction. Just not in the mood. And, moreover, I don't need to. It is already "out there".
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by truth_ 5y ago
> According to the text, however, this practical part really started with Konrad Zuse's patent application of 1936 "According to the text" I don't agree with the text, that is the point.
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by truth_ 5y ago
I agree with much of what he says, I just pointed out things I don't agree with. And what's up with the wall of quote? I read the article in full. On top of what I already said, I add that crediting Lambda Calculus as only the bas
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by truth_ 5y ago
This story, for me, proves to me again- significant things are possible if people have more liberal access to a computer and internet, and better resources in general. The fact that many potential great artists, scientists, developers, musi
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by truth_ 5y ago
You have to work with what you have. And while I am unaware of the music scene of YT, you can get access to world-class tutorials in CS topics- from MIT, Stanford, etc. They are as good as any. And, yes, critical feedback is very important,
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In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical Renaissance(restofworld.org)
255 points by truth_ 5y ago|169 comments
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Three Iraqi women explain how and why they stay anonymous online(restofworld.org)
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by truth_ 5y ago
Much like novels and poetry, math and programming have sincerely contributed to my happiness. It is not that I can't socialize or don't have friends, it's just that I don't like what most people do (like watching sports,

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