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by vijucat 5y ago
> Let’s talk about what machine learning is...it analyzes training data to uncover correlations between different phenomena. The author seems to have missed or excluded reinforcement learning and planning algorithms in this definition.
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by vijucat 5y ago
Hilarious and heart-warming (minus the drinking daily on the job part, of course)!
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by vijucat 5y ago
Yes, I quite liked this about New York city, too. "Wow, look at that thing, it's about to fall". Anyone can start talking to you. I was on a business trip and having a coffee near Times Square when an American tourist just co
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by vijucat 6y ago
> In what way? I do not face the same eye fatigue after hours of sitting in front of a VA panel compared to sitting in front of an IPS one.
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by vijucat 6y ago
Honest question: how is any firm meant to make any money in this worldview? If everything has to be Open Source, then maintenance contracts (which are completely optional) will be the only way to earn and will decimate revenues. Creating a
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by vijucat 6y ago
Can you please recommend a VA panel that is good for text sharpness, too? My eyes don't react well to IPS, for some reason: I used to have a BenQ GW2760HS (1080p, VA panel) and then upgraded to a Dell UP3017 (2K, IPS) and find it harsh
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by vijucat 6y ago
Wow, that was great. Very engaging UX / text. By the way, I hated the Spotify ads so much I paid up for YouTube Music + Premium. Even though the Spotify Windows app is VERY usable compared to https://music.youtube.com . Good
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by vijucat 6y ago
Lovely anecdote. Thanks for sharing!
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by vijucat 6y ago
Yes, it goes against the cult of Effort, "10000 hours of deliberate practice" and all that. But I believe you're 100% right: those at the absolute right end of the distribution are often gifted. They work hard, too, but that
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by vijucat 6y ago
I briefly looked at Plastic SCM and really liked it ( https://www.plasticscm.com/ ). It's design is much more sensible from the get go, and it has a great UX + UI. If things being Open Source is so important, then I drea
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by vijucat 6y ago
Also, my desktop PC is my "cloud" computer. I don't waste time trying to sync code, OneNote, or browser tabs between my laptop and PC. I just Remote Desktop into my PC using my laptop (on the rare occasion I try to work using
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by vijucat 6y ago
My first day in Japan, I switched on the TV and was immediately thrust into a program where different designs of nail cutters were being analyzed. The angle of the cutting blades, etc; The cutting of the nail was inspected in slow motion vi
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by vijucat 6y ago
Suggestion: make a theme park from grounded / unused planes. A Disney World, but flight-themed, and with REAL planes (and real ex-pilots). I can tell you that a ton of boys would be excited as hell to learn how to take off and land fro
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by vijucat 6y ago
Interviews, and in fact, most first meetings between people, are often shibboleths: a perfunctory test of similitude to prevent outsiders from getting in and causing unnecessary angst by thinking differently. (In Biblical times, apparently,
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by vijucat 6y ago
Talking to folks. And https://reddit.com/r/ContagiousLaughter .
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by vijucat 6y ago
"C:/Program Files/AutoHotkey/Compiler/Ahk2Exe.exe" /in Cleaner.ahk /out Cleaner.exe /icon Cleaner.ico That's it :-)
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by vijucat 6y ago
FYI, AutoHotKey on Windows is a much better (my opinion) version of Karabiner, with it's own programming language. It's quite amazing what you can accomplish with AHK: it goes well beyond key mapping to process control, building q
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by vijucat 6y ago
Woah, it's just 108k on Cygwin. Amazing.
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by vijucat 6y ago
The "Who am I?" enquiry as described in "Self Inquiry Practice" [1] (just the first few minutes of the audio will suffice) and some combination of listening to the various Nisargadatta Maharaj audios on YouTube ([2], [3]
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by vijucat 6y ago
> Do thought-free states feel better than good feeling thoughts? Yes, significantly better. Firstly, the state of just being is much lighter, not dependent on the memory and understanding of the world it takes to be cognitively happy; it
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by vijucat 6y ago
An interesting resource that I found on the topic of breathing is https://www.normalbreathing.com/ Dr Artour Rakhimov claims that breath starvation (breathing slowly and less) is key to higher oxygen absorption; and defin
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by vijucat 6y ago
I used it way back (5+ years ago), and it was too cumbersome to train the recognition engine to recognize my writing properly...Maybe it has improved since then? Maybe the iPad ecosystem does this better Not sure, to be honest. The writing
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by vijucat 6y ago
Wonderful reply. Thanks!
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by vijucat 6y ago
My theory about handwritten note-taking is that the bandwidth difference between thinking (fast) and writing (slow) is somehow extremely beneficial to the process of generating creative and evocative output. There have been so many journali
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by vijucat 6y ago
FYI: > How Widespread is This? > It seems this is very widespread. Just a quick internet search turns up tons of people having the same issue. Sadly, most people think it is specific to them, that they've done something wrong, or
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by vijucat 6y ago
> Suboptimal...No. Just no. The best developers I've known wrote code with tiny laptops with poor 1366x768 displays. They didn't think it was an impediment. I've realized that a stable environment does wonders for produc
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by vijucat 6y ago
Aside: Zoom stock has risen 252% during this time ($67 on Dec 18th 2019 to $236 on Jun 18th 2020).
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by vijucat 6y ago
Yeah, art was the wrong choice, but you get what I mean.
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by vijucat 6y ago
As someone noted, no one remembers the critics. If put on the spot, you can probably name 3 great painters, but not 3 great art critics, for example. So there's no need to worry. As someone (else) stated it really well, "Other peo
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by vijucat 6y ago
Aside: I noticed that Google has some great fonts as part of Google Slides and other products while helping my daughter with her distance learning homework during the recent COVID 19 scare. In particular, I liked Comfortaa [1], Pacifico [2]

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