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brechmos··on Google Cloud Sets World Record by Calculating Pi to 100T Digits
I would like to know how much it would cost me to do that on Google Cloud :)
brechmos··on G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1, 2022
I also have the $99 / year Microsoft 365. This gives you 5 people, 1Tb of space each, email, calendar, etc. $99 per year. Not per person per year. Just per year.

Sadly there are too many things I have tied to Google that I am not sure if I can make that switch to Microsoft. But it is getting more and more tempting.

brechmos··on G Suite free edition no longer available starting July 1, 2022
For the many families who have used GSuites for the past years, I would love to see a $3 / month / user, maximum of 5-10 users.

I am stuck in the same boat as many others who created it for the family 10+ years ago and now am going through how to move each service (GMail, Drive, Keep, Photos, YouTube etc etc) to a plain Gmail account. I have most of it worked out, but it is going to take a lot of time getting 5 people migrated.

Sigh.

brechmos··on Multiple Sclerosis Causality
What is interesting is that Epstein-Barr has been reported to be related to Multiple Sclerosis since the early 1980s.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=epstein+barr+multiple+...

It is great if there is new information and if this leads to knowledge on how to reduce the chance of getting MS.

brechmos··on An Unbelievable Demo
Finding code in multiple places....

Semi-related... I TA'ed a Comp Sci class a long time ago (back when they had to submit their code as print-outs). I read through the print-outs and noticed that the "look" of one of them seemed oddly familiar (blocks, line lengths, indenting etc). I went back through the others and found another one that was almost exactly the same.

Took it to the Prof and we agreed the ones that copied got 0 on the project, and the ones who allowed the copying got 50% of their mark. Honestly, they got off quite easy.

brechmos··on Wilhelm Scream
20-Thousand Hertz did a great podcast on this:

https://www.20k.org/episodes/wilhelmscream

brechmos··on Global email deliverability disrupted as SpamCop domain expires
I got hit by this yesterday. I run a postfix server with a spamcop check and email stopped coming through. I had fail2ban setup to shut out bad SMTP requests and interestingly this spamcop issue made fail2ban completely ban the incoming SMTP requests.

Thankfully I figured that part of it out, but it is nice to see where the issue actually came from.

[I took out spamcop checks completely.]

brechmos··on Show HN: Docs2Book – Distribute your Google Documents in a whole new way
May want to proof read your site... "Distribute your e-book in a hole new way." :)
brechmos··on Firefly III – Self-hosted financial manager
Quick glance and I got excited that maybe Joss Whedon was going to be able to create another series based on Firefly.
brechmos··on Show HN: Enlyte – A Computer Science and Tech Only Hacker News
I have to admit, I think the interface is prettier than HN.
brechmos··on Weight-Agnostic Neural Networks
Awesome, I was just reading the paper when you sent this. It looks like a really interesting direction of work.

I have a couple astrophysics CNN problems for which I am not sure the best architecture and I am now curious to try this out.

brechmos··on Weight-Agnostic Neural Networks
Given a network topology found using this technique, I wonder how it would compare with the same topology with fit parameters?
brechmos··on Mongolia is changing all its addresses to three-word phrases
I didn't see any discussion in the article of having different languages but the what three word website talks about it.

One thing that I don't quite understand is two locations very near each other have completely different sets of words. I would have thought there would be some sort of hierarchy of words (sort of like geocoding a lat long where it defines a box and the precision of the geocoding gives you larger or smaller boxes).

I wonder too if there are going to be collisions of words and locations that aren't going to make people too happy. Though they must have thought through that too.

Either way it is an interesting idea.

brechmos··on Introducing the Keybase filesystem
Me too please?
brechmos··on Ask HN: Evernote alternatives for research?
To be honest, I use plain old email. If you have a decent client (I use Thunderbird) you can put any text, links, images etc in there. Searching is built-in. Tagging isn't quite as good but there are ways around it.

I then use procmail for putting into the right folder.

It has worked really well for me.

brechmos··on A neuroscientist had his brain scanned for a year and a half
Agreed. I have been scanned around 1,500 hours over the years and I have not had any ill effects (at this point). And that is 1.5T, 3T and 7T MRI scanners
brechmos··on A neuroscientist had his brain scanned for a year and a half
As a note, there is a longer study, weekly for 3.5 years, that has been published, in part, at: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.....

The results in this paper relate to the functional MRI aspect of the study.

brechmos··on 56153 is the largest number factored on a quantum device (2014)
Admittedly I was so confused by the title. Factoring a prime number seems, well, kind of easy.
brechmos··on Detecting Fraud Using Benford's Law
My favorite Radiolab episode talks about Benford's law http://www.radiolab.org/story/91697-numbers/
brechmos··on Amazon Inspector – Automated Security Assessment Service
Hahaha....

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brechmos··on Ask HN: More programmer friendly alternatives to Evernote?
I have been using Google Docs for the last year at my new job. It has worked out reasonably well as it is primarly me that reads it. But it is super easy to cut and paste (incl images) and as well as share docs. Auto-save, accessible on my phone etc etc.

But, I would love to hear what others use as I am not convinced Google docs is necessarily the best way.

brechmos··on The Skyscraper of the Future
The elevators are quite cool but it seems like turbolift (vertical and horizontal) in Star Trek. Still cool.
brechmos··on CapitalOne has the most secure password system
That is going to make lastpass hard to use for the site.
brechmos··on Holding On and Letting Go
I was wondering. Thank you. And RIP.
brechmos··on Encrypting Amazon RDS Resources
It looks great but it appears the smallest encrypted RDS is medium. I would love to see it for the micro or small instances (my level :-) ).
brechmos··on Open-source HIPAA compliance company policies
Oh, wow, you guys are awesome. Thank you so much for doing this. About a year ago I went through websites to try and figure out what all this HIPPAA means for my website but it is very confusing. It is great to have a template to at least start with. Thank you!!!
brechmos··on Open-source HIPAA compliance company policies
I too would love to be able to use the verbiage as a base for my extremely small (me) company that does deal with some PHI. I have no desire to sell your documents but in reading through the license it does appear that I can't use it. Any chance that you could re-license it so that I/we can use it within a commercial (small!?) venture?? :-) Please? I am happy to attribute or not attribute Catalyze. Either way, thanks for releasing these.
brechmos··on William A. Edelstein, 1944 – 2014
I worked in the same department with him at Hopkins over the past number of years. He was honestly one of the most interesting people I have ever met. He had interests in so many different areas (not just MRI).
brechmos··on Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
Sure... but that is hardly ready for the masses! :-)
brechmos··on Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
It will be more helpful when GMail has it built in... Google?
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