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He has a B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford, so he at least has the foundation.

Waking Up with Sam Harris. It's an app for iOS. Sam Harris is a very insightful philosopher and neuroscientist. He explains things in a very concise and concrete way that I value above my experience with Headspace.

It's meant for functional components, not classes.

True, but they serve up ads related to what you're searching for instead of building a profile about your demographic and interests.

I'm not experienced enough with ML to provide great feedback, but I did start getting segfault errors when I trained on too many images. I have multiple pictures of nearly 1000 different pinball machines, so right now it's a lot of trial/error as I determine how many pictures of each backglass I should train on and how diverse of angles/lighting produce the most accurate model. Right now I'm at about 15 different pinball machines, each with 20-30 pictures, and I get around 85% accuracy using my test set. I suspect/worry I won't be able to make a good model that can identify 1000 different pinball machines, but my patrons have asked for it so I'm giving it my all.

I'm working on an image classifier to identify pinball machines by their backglass art. I've been using Turicreate. I can't find any comparisons of the libraries (turicreate vs fast.ai). Does anyone have any resources that compare/contrast the different solutions available for image classification?

That's a very interesting project! I hope it catches on.

The book was released in 1984. Could it be that his descriptions of tech were just true to the times? I imagine his stylistic embellishments were also important in the same way older movies about technology (e.g. Hackers[0]) stylize digital events.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Bmz67ErIRa4?t=69

I recently switched from a 2015 Macbook Pro to a Lenovo T480s (w/ Fedora 28) and have been relatively happy with the purchase over all. A key did break off within 2 weeks, but I'm hoping after that is taken care of it'll be smooth sailing from here on out.

Let's say the web app is a game and it keeps track of your high score when you play it, if the high score is stored somewhere you have complete control over, what's to stop someone from modifying that score? Substitute high score for any variable a server tracks about a user that isn't explicitly supplied by that user.

This is brand new but worth checking out.

https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos

Wouldn't users be able to tamper with their own data? Seems like another attack vector.

I did this just this past weekend so great timing.

I switched from a late-2015 Macbook Pro (some say this is the last time a MB Pro was good) to a Thinkpad T480s w/ Fedora 28. My workflow on Mac was fairly simple -- sublime text, npm, git, and a web browser -- so my transition was probably smoother than most (although I now use VS Code instead of Sublime Text and I don't think I'll be going back).

The biggest pain point for me was losing the Apple trackpad. I loved the 3-swipe gesture to switch between workspaces and although I have shortcuts for this on my new xfce desktop environment it just isn't the same. I did, however, fall in love with the Thinkpad trackpoint (nub). I'm having a few minor issues that I still need to work out (like my screen not locking when I close the lid), but overall I'm really happy with my decision so far.

Newer Android phones allow you to set an accessibility menu shortcut. If you only have one menu item selected, the shortcut just toggles that menu item. I press vol-up & power to toggle greyscale.

Your Async/Await article link goes to the wrong page.

Sorry, I was using the 'singular' they.

IIRC, they were in a serious time crunch when they drafted/made git. I can't remember the whole story...

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Letters from a Stoic by Seneca.

I guess you could say any book on Stoicism, really, as the others I would mention also fit that bill.

Ethereum does have plans to switch to 'proof of stake' (as opposed to its current 'proof of work') which would dramatically decrease the power consumption.

You ask that as if it means something

That's because they've encouraged package developers to switch to NPM.

I would highly recommend a guided meditation app such as https://www.headspace.com/

Best decision I've made this year

Link leads nowhere for me.

I don't understand why it needs to hijack the back button.

Didn't have any noticeable effect for me.

I was using scaled resolution. Switched to default; will report back.

Edit: Been at 100% for 10 minutes. Much, much better. If anyone knows how to set default zoom on Firefox it'd be greatly appreciated.

Firefox Quantum kills the battery on my Macbook. I love it otherwise.

You should make github gists of these.

This guy is as wholesome as wholesome can possibly be and he was still demonetized. Wears suits, is cordial with his viewers, doesn't curse... what more could YT want?

I'm finding myself enjoying Ars less and less. Recommendations for what to replace it with?