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Artificial Intelligence, a modern approach – Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig
I also like the overall format of the website and the radio feature is a nice touch. I'll visit it again in the future, out of curiosity.
A follow-up article may extend it with collaboration (git) or may delve in either Unix-like (e.g. with the GNU utils etc) or Windows, or both. But the author should first address the highlighted shortcomings...
Projects are created in a ~/playground directory and are eventually moved to a ~/projects one (but sometimes they just stay in a RAM-disk; i.e. experiments).
Within coding projects I usually have /src, /doc (by category and subcategories) and /utils (with utility scripts, Docker-related files, etc) sub-directories.
PDF et similia that don't fit within a specific project typically are generic enough to be placed somewhere under ~/books.
The main issue with this system is that there could be work-related things under distinct paths (e.g. ~/documents/work/<org> and ~/projects/<name>), but those may be archived together...
Another tip was to avoid rapid energy consumption (such as from intensive use of CPU or discrete GPU usage) while on battery.
My main issue is that whenever you plug an external monitor, this automatically trigger the discrete GPU, and I'm using an external monitor for working from home (due to the cervical), so I'm mostly using the charger.
1. JS is kept for what it's meant to be and do; nothing more.
2. A WebKit webview is probably lighter than Chromium + NodeJS.
3. The whole thing should be managed to be linked as a shared library, avoiding many pitfalls of Electron's applications (by means of a semantic-versioned library).
4. The whole solution is really language-agnostic, despite my efforts with Go.
I'm glad that we are slipping away from Electron...
Beside that, the article is quite poorly written and misleading! Do not assume that everything said apply for the rest of the world.
> Changing our clocks twice a year has little benefit, economic or otherwise, so isn’t it time to stop this antiquated practice?
Yeah, thanks for such a scientific sentence with no explanations, no data, not even an introduction to the topic. Next time maybe also ask some astronomers…
> As experts on biological rhythms, we support the switch to a permanent time.
That's perfectly fine, but at least explain why… and provide advice for the current practice (e.g. for the Spring change, move up your daily routine/schedule by 3 minutes every day for the 20 days before the change, so it will occur smoothly).
> People on the western edge are forced to get up an hour earlier than people on the east, according to sun time.
What ?! Not in standard time-zones. That can happen only in countries which span across different time zones and decides to keep a single "official" time.
> Analysis of health data from millions of people shows that […]
No source at all; that seems more a supposition from a USA article. They see sunrise/sunset 19 minutes early (depends on the latitude), but that doesn't mean that they sleep less. All the rest is just bullshit.
> Permanent DST would make sunrise even later for everyone, while permanent ST would make sunrise closer to body time.
In the northern emisphere permanent DST would make sunrise later in the Winter; permanent ST would keep the sunrise to the current optimum (for the Winter; during the Summer we already wake up with the Sun).
The overall debate revolve around daylight which change in function of one's latitude.
With an internationally agreed grid (e.g. current longitude division plus steps of 15° of latitude), we may solve those problems easily for everyone, wherever they lives.
Please, Standard Time is preferred globally, but don't confuse the topics.
Several years ago, a knowledgable guy told me that the most compelling reason for choosing between PostgreSQL and MySQL was the expected I/O: "for read-intensive workloads (e.g. blogs), choose MySQL; for mixed workloads (e.g. forums), choose PostgreSQL".
But I honestly don't know if that may still be valid as of today.
Nowadays, I think that for basic things, it doesn't really matter; but for peculiar things, Postgres may have some advantages (both technically and not). Also keep in mind that, for some popular scopes, SQLite is likely everything you really need.
Which is by far one of the most accurate description in this community.
> the entire process sounds like something that takes place in a totalitarian state run by a crazy person
It's due to the way the Universe works, it only requires a review of your early school notes about science / geography / astronomy.
DST is a way to compensate that "strange" behavior for the current definition of a "time-zone".
Is DST good ? it depends because we over-generalize the definition of a "time-zone" by taking in consideration only the longitude, but not the latitude. (and above/below certain latitudes, nothing can be done)
Is DST good for EU (or North America) ? Mostly yes if you take a closer look at the year-round daylight charts for key geographic coordinates.
Extra notes while here:
1) "EU propose to get rid of DST", its our best interest to keep it; don't let some incompetent rule such a thing because he/she doesn't really know how it works but only how it's perceived.
2) "If I have to choose, I prefer more daylight in the evening": fine, but that is out of scope from DST; it's about changing schedules. Clock should (I'd say "must") stay on their natural "time-zone" for the sake of coordination and travel.
Obviously a solution that is "one size, fit all" doesn't exists, hence those (poorly informed) discussions...
The energy's story is mostly a consequence.
The disagree generally comes when we talk about DST based on our main location (and thus experience), but the problem is intrinsic in the elliptic, so it must be addressed from another point of view (IMO): the Latitude.
I think that we should consider a further subdivision of the coordinate space; not only Longitude by 24, but also Latitude by something reasonable (e.g. every ±30° from the Equator; maybe not even of equal size but based on regions of the climate system).
With "time", we may acquaintance with this new kind of grid-based time-zones (which are easy to memorize/map-to given a basic knowledge of the Earth).
Any (useful) opinion ? :)
I'll just let you read this: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html