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Android devs, are there any good places online where experienced and friendly devs answer questions? (I need some handholding and the advice I got from Reddit usually turned out not quite right.)

MonsterWriter is your product, correct?

Thanks for sharing your experience and links! Based on plyer's GH, it looks like you could use it to develop an iOS and Android app. If it supported more APIs (like Health Kit, accessibility), I would try it in a heartbeat.

https://github.com/kivy/plyer

AFAIR, there are also some 3D graphics libraries for Kotlin Multiplatform.

I have the hardest time figuring out whether I should use Kotlin, Dart/Flutter, or React for building an iOS and Android app. I don't care about the GUI part, but I want easy access to all APIs (like Health Kit, Health Connect, sensors) and relatively stress-free development. When I was learning Flutter a few years ago, it was very frustrating because its documentation and username were scant and scarce. Is it better nowadays?

I had a highly-educated, very intelligent girlfriend once. She loved cleaning the toilet. She said it relaxed her and she enjoyed seeing the results of her work immediately.

Thanks for replying! It looks very intriguing. I have only worked with caps that have electrodes covering the whole sculp (32 channels). I have no research funding at the moment, but thanks for offering!

I had a very similar idea a few months ago. I wanted to use this approach to have the LLM provide the probability that the generated answer is correct. The probability would simply be what fraction of all generated answers was the one selected. (Each generated answer would be generated with a different seed and the question would be of single choice kind.) The two issues I found were 1) the cost, 2) on some problems, LLMs can be wrong more often than they are not.

Hopefully, as inference gets cheaper and of higher quality, someone will come up with a more feasible solution.

If you are at liberty to share, how many channels and are the electrodes dry or wet?

What would you recommend learning instead?

Thank you for the advice! Regarding building a RAG, do mean making one based on, e.g., the this example? https://python.langchain.com/docs/expression_language/cookbo...

She might enjoy the Percy Jackson & the Olympians novel series.

Speaking of books, I am a big fan of books about witches (typically YA and up, but I am open-minded). Does anyone have any recommendations?

Looks like it is a collaboration with Tryolabs: https://tryolabs.com/blog/tryolabs-google-introducing-tempor...

Would you mind sharing how you got access to Claude? I applied a long time ago and have never heard back from them.

Tangential question: I would like to compute many different mobility measures from GPS data (beyond buffer zones and convex hulls). I was wondering if anyone can recommend Python/R packages or standalone software that has many mobility measures built-in, is easy to use, and is not ArcGIS?

Not quite. For example, the web apps don't support COM add-ins.

They support the same files, but in terms of features they aren't equivalent, especially in a business environment.

I can't switch to Linux because I need fully functional Microsoft 365 desktop apps; mainly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Are there any reasonable options beyond running Windows in a VM?

If you ever wondered:

- HN: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22complex+and+multifaceted%...

- arxiv: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22complex+and+multifaceted%...

- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&q=%22... (quite a few pre-GPT)

Finger tapping test: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-37068-023

Anecdotaly, I find Google Ads hard to use despite their market dominance.

I have been trying to recruit participants for my academic observational health study. My ads get incorrectly flagged as clinical trials and there seems to be no way to reach anyone who could override it. I also wanted to use a specific advertising strategy, which is only available via Google's poorly documented desktop software. Facebook Ads, while far from ideal, are much easier to set up.

I worked at least 50 hours a week during my research internship at Google. Towards the end, I worked seven days a week. It was mostly because I was the only person on my team with the expertise required to complete the project, and I cared about being eligible for future internships. There were a few non-research interns who I vaguely remember not spending a lot of time in the office, but I would say they were there at least 20 hours a week.

To clarify my earlier comment, if your goal is to prevent or delay dementia, then you would want to know whether dementia causes poor vision or poor vision causes dementia (via reduced visual stimulation or reduced engagement in cognitively engaging activities that require good vision like reading, some sports, etc.). This is because there may be effective interventions and strategies for dealing with vision impairments.

While the direction of causality is (usually) hard to determine based on observational data, given that we observe a similar effect in individuals with hearing impairments and, AFAIR, in people with limited mobility, it seems that decreased sensory stimulation plays a role in the development of some dementias. There is also a recent pilot study about a positive effect of olfactory stimulation [1].

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1200...

Is there a tool similar to this one but for searching through the offerings of large manufacturers like Lenovo or Dell? In other words, based on my criteria, it would find PCs with configurations closest to my needs.

I need a relatively high-performance i9-based desktop PC (for ML and toying with LLMs) with on-site warranty, so building my own PC would not work for me.

That was my experience with OriginPC, i.e., a seriously messed up build, unhelpful (but friendly) customer service, and terrible warranty.

I am on a market for a new high performance PC right now, but I can't find any vendors with onsite warranty outside of Lenovo and Dell, which don't really sell anything that would meet my requirements.

I have just tested it for a few minutes.

What I really like is that it opens much faster than Excel and, as advertised, can handle large files. I will certainly consider buying it after the trial.

A couple of improvements that you could consider are: 1) implement row/col freezing like in Excel and not via split view because the split view is not as space-efficient (you see fewer rows on the screen), 2) add an option to add GS-Calc to "Open with" context menu, 3) a more modern UI.

Congratulations on shipping a very promising product!

How did you like the health-tech industry? It is something I have been considering but have heard mostly negative opinions.

One thing I find very annoying about Samsung is that it tries to get people to use Bixby (Samsung's "Google Assistant") by remapping their phone's power button to Bixby. Due to the nature of my current project, I talked to many Samsung owners in their 50s and 60s who don't know how to turn Bixby off and, consequently, don't know how to, e.g., shut down or reboot their phones.

It looks like a very useful tool, but didn't get much traction when someone submitted it here a few days ago. (I have no affiliation with this software.)

I am not the author. Just sharing it here because some folks may find it useful.