martingoodson

I hate the fact that hosts are allowed to cancel at the last minute, completely spoiling your holiday. You can't leave a review to warn other users.

It's open to abuse. We've been screwed over by hosts who cancel at the last minute (eg they couldn't find anywhere else to stay). There's literally nothing you can do.

I looked randomly into one of these 'alternatives', the Atomic Pi. It seems to be completely useless for my purposes (https://hackaday.com/2019/06/06/the-atomic-pi-is-it-worth-it...).

I'm starting to think waiting until Q2 is a good idea.

Thanks. Do you (or anyone else) have experience with these?

Do you think an eleven year old be able to get up and running with a Rock Pi 4 Plus Model C, for example?

Thanks!

The book is 'Computer Coding Games for Kids: A unique step-by-step visual guide, from binary code to building games' by Carol Vorderman

This is dangerous and wrong. The incidence of SIDS has been reduced greatly by stopping putting newborns to sleep on their stomachs.

Stay civil.

This is not an argument against programmers, like other professionals, learning the aspects of the law which are relevant to their job. Why should programming be the one profession where this is not required?

If there are clear boundaries, there would be no need for interpretation. Interpretation is needed to resolve questions that arise because the boundaries are not clear.

‘clear boundaries that can be evaluated and prosecuted when violated.’

Have you ever looked at media law or libel law? It does not have clear boundaries, but journalists are still expected to follow the law. Journalists are not absolved of the responsibility because it’s complicated.

You just need to not break the law. It’s how it works. If you don’t want exposure to liability, you need to acquaint yourself with relevant law.

Yes of course they need to know the law. Anyone who might potentially break the law during the course of their work needs to know what that law is. ‘Just following orders’ is not a defence.

This is very odd special pleading by programmers. Every industry needs to do this: journalists learn media law in their university degrees, architects have to learn the building regulations. Why is programming any different?

Hold the baby while standing and bouncing. I read that the optimal bounce frequency is between 1 to 2 Hz.

This worked for me!

I’ve accidentally bought several books only to find that I already have them sitting on my bookshelf, unread. I think I need to stop buying books.

But how do I maintain the seasoning over Time?

If my seasoning is getting a bit thin I just smear on some oil in a thin layer and heat at high temperature for about 3 minutes and that’s it. I never have any rust spots because I always dry it after use.

I don’t find it very high maintenance at all.

I think you’re doing it wrong. It’s very easy to renew the seasoning and it doesn’t retain smells.

Carbon steel woks are useless for induction or electric jobs. The sides are so high that they don’t get near to the heat and never season. Then they rust.

I which I could find an alternative to non-stick woks. I’ve ordered a steel aluminium laminate. Maybe that will work.

Anyone know how I can replace a non-stick wok? Carbon steel doesn’t work unless you have gas. Induction and electric hobs don’t heat up the sides enough to maintain the seasoning of a wok, which has very high sides.

I would rather not use non-stick coatings but I can’t find a good alternative.

I use a stainless steel pan for sauces. Sauces start with a base of onions, garlic etc which is not prone to sticking on stainless steel.

If I need to fry some fish or steak, I use my cast iron frying pan.

What evidence is there that bushmen have a long healthy life? Please don’t cite a YouTube video or blog as a reference.

This is a poor headline (from The Economist) that does not reflect the referenced work. The correct interpretation is that nudges need to be tested in the field to find out if they work. This is common knowledge in behavioural science.

Experts are not good at predicting which nudges are going to work in practice[1]. Trials are always needed.

This is no different to the requirement for drug trials. Drugs are not released just on the say so of pharmacologists, empirical evidence is needed. And yet nobody says pharmacology is looking ‘shaky’.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2115126119

“So Vic, we have an urgent issue, one that I need addressed right away. I’ve already assigned someone from my team to help you, and I hope you can fix this tomorrow” said Steve.

“I’ve been looking at the Google logo on the iPhone and I’m not happy with the icon. The second O in Google doesn’t have the right yellow gradient. It’s just wrong and I’m going to have Greg fix it tomorrow. Is that okay with you?” Of course this was okay with me.

Just to clear things up: Joseph Redmon (who made the first YOLO) has anointed Alexey Bochkovskiy as the keeper of the flame [1]. Alexey is a very careful researcher and does a ton of performance evaluation on his models. His results are to be trusted.

He gave a great talk at the London Machine Learning Meetup in April, if you’re interested [2]. (Full disclosure: I run the meetup)

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/pjreddie/status/12538910781821992...

[2] https://youtu.be/nxOzeTmqe3Y

The BMJ has had to issue several corrections about this author’s work. For example:

This Feature (BMJ 2015;351:h4962, doi:10.1136/bmj.h4962) by Nina Teicholz stated that when the guidelines advisory committee started its work in 2012 there had been several prominent papers, including a meta-analysis and two major reviews (one systematic), that failed to confirm an association between saturated fats and heart disease. This statement did not aptly reflect the findings of the more authoritative of these reviews, by Hooper et al (Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2012;5:CD002137), which found that saturated fats had an effect on cardiovascular events but failed to confirm an effect on cardiovascular mortality.

https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h5686

This is highly misleading. The 45% rate only applies to the portion of salary over £150k. Someone earning £200k will pay 75k in income tax. That’s 37.5% overall.

It’s essential to read Hernando Barragán‘s perspective. His ideas and work were stolen and turned into Arduino:

http://arduinohistory.github.io/

Evolution AI (AI data extraction from financial documents) are looking to hire someone for applied deep learning research. Must like a challenge. Any background but needs to know how to do research properly. Contact Martin@evolution.ai

Study slowly

Don’t skip through anything

Do the exercises

Another 808 cowbell recreation and a lot more here: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/synthesizing-cowbell....

The whole series is a valuable guide to analog synthesis.

Behringer TD-3-RD Analog Bass Line Synthesizer

Model 15 Modular Synthesizer App (not hardware but close to the experience and sounds great)

Geoff hinton’s dropout was based on neuronal stochasticity. Convolutional neural networks were based on the processing in the V1 visual cortex.

I once worked with a CTO who decided to move from AWS to GCP (and also move from Spark to Hive and python to scala, at the same time). That guy was an idiot.

(At one point somebody accidentally spent £30,000 in data transfer costs with one key press.)

The project was never completed and the CTO just moved on to another fancy CTO position.