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Wouldn't the cooled down gas expand when heated leading to higher pressure, so you need to pump gas down?

Why would that be interesting?

A friend absolutely bombed his IQ test (mostly on purposes, because he couldn't be bothered). He was a few standard deviations under the average person. When they asked him how he felt about it he excitedly said he was happy with the result. He later got the job.

> A CS student developing novel learning-based image processing methods has no need for knowledge of obscure gdb commands and C++'s pointer and dependency voodoo.

I guess you could argue that AlexNet was the product of one very motivated CS student who was very proefficient with C++ and CUDA. This particular skill set had a very deep impact on the computer vision community. Today, how ever, you don't need it because all that has been abstracted away. But someone had to lead the way.

This person doesn't want to see a therapist and as such shouldn't go see one. While I understand the sentiment, a therapists job isn't to change this guy's world view. A therapist is supposed to help people with the problems they want help with. (This person doesn't believe that they have a problem, it seems.)

Depends on the bean you cook. Most beans are fine, kidney beans, for example, are not.

I'm very curious what narrative he had on what he did right to land this deal and if that changed with this new information.

I think a mindfulness teacher would describe what you refer to as flow as absorbed awareness. The alternative would be panoramic awareness, where you aren't just focused on one thing (the problem you're solving) but you are aware of everything that is going on in the moment.

Carbon removal from the air sounds like paying of credit card debt by aquiring additional credit cards. Is it not the case that it will always take more energy to get carbon out of the air than it does to put it in the air in the first place? If that's the case, we will have to not only replace our current energy consumption by renewable sources, but add a lot of extra energy to drain the atmosphere. And we have to do that within decades. This is probably a naive take, but that's what it feels like.

> Yet autonomous aircraft still do not exist.

Well, that's a truth with modifications [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2uc98EEPqE

I was going to complain that this blog post seemed like a rip off of the book Atomic habits. I'm not very clever. Great book that I would recommend to anyone!

Have you read Peak by K. Anders Ericsson? I haven't found the answers you're looking for, but I'd start with reading that book.

The 10,000 hours is how much solitary deliberate practice the students who were accepted into some acknowledged music conservatory had put in by the age of 18 (or some such). They aren't considered experts. But for the ones that make it through the ordeal of that school, some of them will be what we consider experts some day in the future.

Huge difference in wear, yes. But not in the direction you think, I think. Warming up an cooling down is more damaging for a card than running constant temperature. It 'jiggles' parts more.

You gave up 15% of your salary to work in a company where, presumably, everyone earns 15% less than your previous salary. Would you accept earning swedish wages working remote from sweden in a german company?

What about Test Driven Development for Embedded C?

Pseudo-code for quantum computers is currently linear algebra. Fortunately, most programmers have the required linear algebra to get a thorough understanding of the basics! Check this out https://quantum.country/qcvc. Fair warning, I did have to brush up on my linear algebra a bit, but it's worth it imo. Friends in the know say that when you understand this article, you understand quantum computers.

On the continuum from preground coffee to cafe quality pour over, a $60 wilfa burr griner will get you 80% in my opinion. You'll have days when the brew comes out very well, some days it's disappointing. The biggest advantage when going from no grinder to cheap grinder is that you can buy quality beans rather than supermarket coffee and that time from grinding to brewing is minimized, so you lose less flavour. For me, that's 80% of the value for 20% of the effort/money.

Or, you know, all the skills they have from the industry makes it easier for them to get a job in it. Personally, as a lowly peon, I don't really care if my company is fundamentally unprofitable. I care that I get to develop the skills I want to develop.

For the people that think this is a dumb take, he's got a point. There's a roaster in my town that tries to pay a more fair price for the coffee he buys. He has a list of exactly how much he pays for the coffee which everyone can read. He's written a bit on the economics of coffee here https://timwendelboe.no/2012/11/coffee-is-cheap-part-2/?v=c2...

If you want consistency that grinder is going to cost a lot. There are diminishing returns and $60 grinder will get you 80% of the way. But going from 80% to 99% you're looking at a price increase of about $1800. You're obviously not going to buy that equipment for your home though.

Great tip. Thanks:)

The lectures have a ton of gems in them, but I have a hard time following the lectures as a beginner/intermediate practitioner, as around 1-5 percent is relevant for me. I don't particularly like the fastai library as it feels like an obstacle between me and the underlying pytorch library. After trying to use fastai for some time, I started looking directly at pytorch and found that all the abstractions and features I liked with fastai were actually from pytorch. That said, it's a great resource and if you're doing cookiecutter stuff it seems pretty nice. Also, students of fastai have done some pretty amazing things. I like how Jeremy emphasizes the top-down view, but it's very hard for me to submit to it. I can't shake the need to understand the underlying ideas and build stuff bottom-up, even though I see my progress suffers from it.

> That gave me the gut feeling that most people doing the research were lacking the necessary mathematical background.

I don't find this to be the case with most ML researchers. Is it possible you have misunderstood some of these papers? It is, after all, hard to jump straight into a new field.

> The second paper converted float to bool and then tried to use the gradient for training.

This sounds like binarized neural networks. If that's the case, they keep the activation before binarization to use for backpropegation.

> The third paper only used a 3x3 pixel neighborhood for learning long-distance moves.

A single layer of 3x3 convolutions would not be able to model long-distance moves. But I have not read a single paper where they have only used one layer. Is it possible they stacked multiple conv + pooling layers? The receptive field of each unit higher up in the stack grows pretty large in the end.

I'm also interested in a tool like this. I think it could be very interesting to combine with a recording from a webcam as well. I know what I'm going to see if I start with this though. I'm in a disassociated state, procrastinating or avoiding thinking about work more than I do actual work throughout the day.

> To me as a casual observer it has always been obvious that the price of energy over the long term is going to zero.

This is not at all obvious to this casual observer. Earth radiates heat away at a constant rate. We can never produce more energy than the earth radiates away, for obvious reason. With current trajectories we will release more energy than earth radiates away in less than 200 years. I'm not sure how the price of a limited resource can go to zero, but I'm also not very well versed in economics.

> it would mean sunrise at 10am in wintertime.

Not sure why this is a problem

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From what I can gather the supervised approach allows you to only learn the representation for style rather than which digit it is. The only reason to use one over the other is to demonstrate that it works, I guess?

I was fortunate enough to have started directly with an emotion-based treatment and the changes from last year to now have been huge. Very incremental and I have no idea when they happened, but I feel so much better now.

> I'm now comfortable suggesting that this approach is overlooked by mainstream medicine to the great detriment of many people suffering chronic illness

If people are interested in this, checkout https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Back-Pain-Mind-Body-Connectio...

To be fair, you're not expected to know random abbreviations from random fields of study. That said, if you're interested in emotion-based therapy you can check out http://istdpinstitute.com or http://www.iseft.org/ (they have global lists with therapauts).