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by yboris 5y ago
Nonsense. A better title is "An expensive phone for a poor person is a tax on stupidity" I bought a used iPhone 7 literally two days ago for $65. Prior to this I've been using iPhone SE that I purchased for about $100 over 3
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I'd say the opposite. The quicker the feedback loop, the faster you can learn. Just because some beginners choose to get the feedback faster doesn't mean they are doing something wrong.
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As the originally-posted-link suggests, Keras is a great way to start in ML (this is how I started, with the book Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet, the creator of Keras). And after one is comfortable with the concepts and the
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by yboris 5y ago
Keras is wonderful. I can't understand whether your comment is in favor or against it. Either way, could you share why?
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by yboris 5y ago
Many color-blind people do not discover they are color blind until teenage years (or even later). You can live without realizing you're different even when people use different words that to them seem to be describing the same thing. I
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by yboris 5y ago
This year I moved from New Jersey to Michigan (since my job is now 100% remote). Homes in NJ are around $400k. In Michigan I bought a duplex for $160k. I could rent out the other side of the house, but instead we had our friends move in. We
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by yboris 5y ago
There's a great video (by Undecided with Matt Ferrell) on a "breakthrough" technology that might work for hydrogen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7CCq4oBgw4 The gist is that a company has found a way to st
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by yboris 5y ago
Marketing is hard. I have a personal charityware project Video Hub App that I've tried to promote. The most sensible place seems like Reddit, but even when posting to a fitting subreddit, my posts sometimes get taken down because you
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by yboris 5y ago
Counterpoint: GiveWell has a link "Our Mistakes" directly on the main navigation bar! https://www.givewell.org/about/our-mistakes It's beautiful to see such behavior <3
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With $11B why can't we funnel all that money into _fusion_ research? Feels like a bigger payoff than anything this could bring :/
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by yboris 5y ago
I have not read this, but I really like the philosopher David Benatar. A book he wrote The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys may be interesting. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007VJU7C4/
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by yboris 5y ago
Obligatory comment about the new file format that's going to replace jpegs: JPEG XL https://jpegxl.info/ It also has lossless setting (in addition to being better at compression when you want a lossy format).
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Related: America’s Food Safety System Failed to Stop a Salmonella Epidemic. It’s Still Making People Sick https://www.propublica.org/article/salmonella-chicken-usda-f...
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by yboris 5y ago
My favorite exploration of the possible future technologies is from a 1990 book: Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis It includes a great section on space travel and space living. https://en.wikipedia.or
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Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases(theatlantic.com)
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I learned about Approval Voting from the amazing podcast by 80,000 Hours https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/aaron-hamlin-voting-... It's an amazing in-depth interview about Approval and other types of vo
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by yboris 5y ago
I've been stuck for years with a bug in my commercial Electron application where images do not get displayed if the folder path has spaces in it :'( https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/issues/6
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My favorite git-related thing is `diff2html` so I set up an alias `diff` which will open the browser and show me all the changes I've made to the branch: https://diff2html.xyz/
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by yboris 5y ago
That's awesome that Facebook is supporting it! https://jpegxl.io/tutorials/facebook/#facebookjxlsupport > [as of] the 8th of November 2021, all JPEG XL files were accepted ... Facebook offers full JPEG XL
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by yboris 5y ago
Not true: https://caniuse.com/?search=jxl It's in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera behind flags - works great!
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There was also an update to it called FUIF - Free Universal Image Format https://github.com/cloudinary/fuif But it too got superseded by JPEG XL (.jxl) https://jpegxl.info/
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The successor to JPEG is going to be JPEG XL (.jxl) https://jpegxl.info/
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by yboris 5y ago
Since Hop doesn't do compression, the most appropriate comparison would be to asar https://github.com/electron/asar It's not hard being faster than zip if you are not compressing/uncompressing.
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by yboris 5y ago
Great work! Reminds me of Gravity Wars - the game that got me into some "hardcore" coding with Visual C++ (using a book from the library). I've re-written the game several times over the years - always a pleasure. Current i
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Students Eat Less Meat After Studying Meat Ethics(link.springer.com)
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Sorry, grammar pet peeve of mine: "could have" not "could of" :) cheers!
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Side note: "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Crowds-James-Surowiecki/dp/038...
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JPEG XL: An Update by Jon Sneyers Image Ready v1.2(youtube.com)
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Very related: Education Automation : Freeing the scholar to return to his studies by R. Buckminster Fuller We had the technology even in the 1950s to do mass education that would arguably be better than status quo in many subjects. https
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by yboris 5y ago
It does seem possible to audit many college courses without paying. Perhaps that would be a cheaper avenue for someone pursuing the knowledge rather than the degree. After graduating I chose to audit 30 credits per semester for a year (for

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