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Royi··on Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Management
While some of the features of LogSeq are great I find it has a major drawback.

The MarkDown files it generates aren't compatible with other similar programs (Obsidian for instance). It adds 2 spaces which makes thins incompatible with others.

This is the major advantage of Obsidian, it is not too much opiniated about how the RAW file should look. Which makes moving form one editor to other pretty easy.

Royi··on Ask HN: What note taking websites/applcations do you use?
I can see that display math is working with $$LaTexCode$$. But in lie math: $LaTeXCode$ doesn't.
Royi··on GIFs Without the .gif: The Most Performant Image and Video Options
Another great option is Animated PNG [0]. It has better quality and better compression compared to GIF.

It appears as a side note in the article but it should be considered for the use case.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG

Royi··on AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize
That would be interesting data driven research.

I can say something about the effect I want to achieve with the money: recognition and publicity. So the amount of money should make them on front page of many news papers and such. Now from data it might interesting to get the right amount.

I just want the people who make such achievements to be recognized by younger generation.

Royi··on AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize
I agree, my wording was not perfect.

My point was that such a prize should be backed with more money. Even for the sake of a statement what we consider to be important.

So the emphasize was about the enormous ratio between the two and not about lottery being wrong (Moreover it pays for itself).

Royi··on AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize
I agree with you. I should have made a better choice than lottery. My intention was that the needle which sets the reward for research, long life work pursuing the solution of a problem should move to the right and get those people more.

$3M isn't enough in our days to recognize remarkable work in my opinion. Yes, one of them made a lot of money, but is it true for all the past winners of this prize?

Royi··on AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize
I wonder what people, in 100 years, would say about our era.

One might research, work hard and solve a problem that might change the course of development of a major field and win a recognition by $3M while someone which fills few numbers on a lottery ticket may earn 1-2 folds more.

I wish the system would give this kind of efforts and stories a bigger exposure, recognition and compensation.

Edit: The idea was about the prize amount, not those specific people. It wasn't the best choice, but the idea was that even as a statement, prizes for scientific achievements should be higher so they will be an extreme to all people to recognize and strive for. I guess one could find a better analogy than what I had in mind.

Royi··on From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion
I agree on your analysis. Assuming someone wants to go the path you did, where should one start to read about it? Do you have a blog on your path?

If there's a way to contact you (Sharing similar challenge) I'd be happy.

Royi··on From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion
That's interesting. How far did you get utilizing AI for treating ASD?

Do you know other efforts in that direction?

Royi··on Ask HN: Are there any good Diff tools for Jupyter Notebooks?
I wish for a simple option in VS Code: On close of a Jupyter Notebook clear its output. Or something that separate the display of the output from the saved file (Still `ipnyb` file). See [1].

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/issues/9514

Royi··on Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
KaTeX also supports only susbset of the features of MathJaX. Some of them are really important. While speed is great, missing basic features is the worse. I'm happy with GitHub's choice.
Royi··on The big six matrix factorizations
Where's the data? It could be indeed interesting.
Royi··on Ask HN: Modern Alternatives to C
Another esoteric choice would be the Odin Programming Language [0]. While being very simple it is modern and effective with some real projects built using it.

Performance wise it is at the very top with other low level languages.

[0]: https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin

Royi··on Windows needs a change in priorities
The only direction Windows should go is being more modular and less features. Speed is probably the only feature all users want.

So make all features modular with advanced user being able to remove and get a lean and mean OS.

We want less, we want speed.

P. S. It is about time to upgrade the File System. It is too slow...

Royi··on Introduction to K-Means Clustering
Is there any implementation in Python / Julia / MATLAB?
Royi··on Introduction to K-Means Clustering
Not only limited to Gaussian Spheres but also being isotropic (Unless data is pre processed or distance is defined by Mahalanobis Distance).
Royi··on Introduction to K-Means Clustering
Is there a paper or a post which describes the solution?
Royi··on Prefix Sum with SIMD
Have you looked at [ISPC - Intel SPMD Program Compiler][0]?

  [0]: https://github.com/ispc/ispc
Royi··on Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (2014)
But unfortunately it doesn't have option to turn off reactivity which makes it not appropriate for intensive computation.

I wish it had a sequential mode.

Royi··on “Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)
Amy Klin has a nice model of Autism (At least the the non harsh cases) which I interpret as the brain at early age (0-18 months) can't focus. So by this theory ADHD and Autism might be seen as two sided coin.
Royi··on SciRate: An open source website to browse, save, and comment ArXiv articles
It is very to similar Short Science [0]. Since both didn't take off, maybe they should merge.

[0] http://www.shortscience.org

Royi··on Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen
Windows has a built in Video Compression optimized for Screen Cast / Screen Capture (See [Windows Media Video Screen][1]). It yields much better results than x264 for this task.

It is used by [FastStone Capture][2].

I wish modern codecs had this as well (A mode optimized for screen casting).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Video#Windows_Me... [2]: https://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm

Royi··on The Rise of Meson
I prefer [XMake][1]. From my experience XMake > Meson > CMake.

[1]: https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake

Royi··on Elementary OS 6 Odin
I don't get how an OS is released and performance isn't mentioned.

I think each OS release must include data about the performance (Speed and resources at steady state).

We want performant and lean OS's.

Royi··on Looking into Zig
If only Zig had Multi Dispatch and built in support for arrays (Vector, Matrix, Tensor).
Royi··on A plain text note-taking system for problem solving
Could you make a portable version for Windows? Maybe even work with PortableApps (It will increase exposure).
Royi··on Intel Distribution for Python
How could one do your trick on Windows?
Royi··on Syncthing: Syncing All the Things
Regarding WhatsApp, How do you merge different database files into one coherent big database?
Royi··on Julia Computing raises $24M Series A
Do you have updated comparison with some data of performance and memory vs. PyTorch / TF?
Royi··on Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance
What would be the best solution (Performance wise) if one is only after running Photoshop + Office? Looking for a solution which is easy to install and configure.
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