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I've been thinking of ways to parser phone screenshots with payment data or use bank APIs to add data to my expense tracker, as opposed to adding everything manually, which is the best way I've found for consistency and to make sure everything is properly formatted.
I didn't know about PSD2. Do you have any links or references for me to look at?
TIM FERRISS - Long-time fan, and I believe this was one of the shows that encouraged me to start my own podcast. He's interested in learning methods from top-performers and dissect them in the show so you can get actionable advice.
CAL NEWPORT's Deep Questions - He's been answering guest calls and always adds a more conceptual block to develop some ideas from his own writing, mainly about personal productivity, deep work, career advice, and digital minimalism.
A specific book I've highlighted is Aurelien Geron's Hands-On Machine Learning Book. It's a great way to revisit machine learning concepts I want to interiorize and I had been thinking of turning those into flash cards. I may try Mochi Cards for that.
I's also note that spaced repetition in any form requires great dedication. In the case of Readwise, it's somewhere from one to four minutes to read about five daily quotes.
> You probably won’t finish this article. In fact, I may have already lost you to another tab in your browser.
I found it funny that the writer teases the reader to do a full read.
Most third-party plugins aren't available yet. For instance, Elgato Stream Deck doesn't work with these builds but Elgato is working on a compatible version for OBS Studio 28, which mainly means updating from Qt 5 to Qt 6.
Writing in the reMarkable feels as analog as writing on paper does. I can convert my handwriting into digital text and email it to myself for editing and digital archiving right from the tablet.
I've also tried handwriting with ink in Moleskine notebooks and transcribing pages with the Google Translate API, which works surprisingly well.
I love the analog method. Yet I want to document my writing digitally for easy retrieval when editing and looking for content to publish.
What other methods are people using to digitize, transcribe, and archive "analog" handwriting?
"According to the study […] there are two types of creativity that can blossom at different points in a person’s life. [1] Conceptual innovators tend to do their best work in their mid-twenties while [2] experimental innovators peak in their fifties, the researchers contend."
"[…] radical thinkers who come up with something new usually do so before they are steeped in the conventions of their field. Meanwhile, experimenters take decades of trial and error and accumulated knowledge to make unusual connections, going beyond the conventions of their domain."
Subdomains aren't working though (e.g., https://sketch.nono.ma).
Update: It seems everything is resolving properly now.
Thinks their $5 Droplet is now $4.
[Continues reading...]
Realizes their $5 Droplet is now $6 (!).
We have to continuously shape-shift to learn new programming languages and paradigms, frameworks and networks.
Take blockchain as a random example, you need to understand the Ethereum chain and learn Solidity to write smart contracts, and you'll have to learn Rust and familiarize yourself with the Solana network if you want to write programs for Solana.
The worlds of machine intelligence and blockchain are moving so fast that we have to either choose a niche and assume we'll miss out on mostly everything else, or learn how to quickly catch up on new things.
I think an in-between point works. You want to either sharply focus on one thing or focus on different things, sharply, in sprints.
Trying to catch up with every single new thing isn't productive unless you want to stay on the surface of everything.
There's only time for a few deep dives.
It's a bit uneasing to hit the landing page and find a typo in "personalizaton made easy."
> This is just an ad though.
I'm a paying user of Descript and thought these tips can be great for someone getting started. I see your point of this being an ad—that was definitely not my intention sharing this.
> Did Jad consent?
If you're asking of whether Jad consent to have that blog post made, he's been collaborating with Descript to promote their product and appeared on some of their live events.
Can you elaborate a bit on what "IAB-certified analytics" means?
How would your service compare to other platforms such as Blubrry, Buzzsprout, Transistor, Castos, Podbean, Simplecast, or Resonate?
I'd love a walkthrough.
How can we connect?
Nono
> This book is an essential resource for arts educators and practitioners who want to explore code as a creative medium, and serves as a guide for computer scientists transitioning from STEM to STEAM in their syllabi or practice. It provides a collection of classic creative coding prompts and assignments, accompanied by annotated examples of both historic and contemporary projects. These are enriched by more than 170 illustrations of creative work and a set of interviews with leading educators. Picking up where standard programming guides leave off, the authors highlight alternative programming pedagogies suitable for the art- and design-oriented classroom, including teaching approaches, resources, and community support structures.
> The book first offers a collection of syllabus modules, each built around an open-ended assignment or prompt, and all tested, adapted, or observed by the authors over twenty years of practice and teaching. Examples have been selected for their explicability and for their representation of varied approaches. The book then presents brief programming exercises relevant to artists and designers, helping readers learn computational techniques to control elementary visual (or in some cases, auditory or textual) patterns and forms. Finally, a diverse group of educators—including Dan Shiffman, Lauren McCarthy, and Taeyoon Choi—discuss the challenges of teaching expressive and critical studio arts through the tools of software development.
MIT Press
> The repository contains example solutions for the Exercises presented in Code as Creative Medium, pp.150-183, by Golan Levin and Tega Brain, MIT Press, 2021.
> These solutions were developed and/or ported by Golan Levin and Tega Brain with the assistance of Lingdong Huang, Tatyana Mustakos, Cassie Scheirer, and Xinyi (Joyce) Wang. In some cases and where indicated, solutions have been adapted from code by Dan Shiffman and others.
> Where possible, we have attempted to provide solutions in all of the following computer programming languages and toolkits. We welcome contributions, additional implementations, and ports to other languages and toolkits.
- Java (Processing) - Python (Processing.py) - JavaScript (p5.js)
## Acknowledgments
> This work was supported by grant #1855045–34–19 from the Media Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts; by a grant from the Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier, administered by the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University; by support from the Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology (IDeATe) program at CMU; and through graduate assistantships from the Integrated Digital Media program at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University.
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· Part 2: If it can be automated, it will https://sketch.nono.ma/if-it-can-be-automated-it-will
· Part 3: The machine takes care of it https://sketch.nono.ma/the-machine-takes-care-of-it
· Part 4: Who made it, why, and in what context? https://sketch.nono.ma/who-made-it-why-and-in-what-context
Part 2: If it can be automated, it will https://sketch.nono.ma/if-it-can-be-automated-it-will
I highly recommend you to give Lobe a try. Every little detail has been taken care of to remove the complexity out of the task of training a machine learning model. And its user interface is beautiful.
I had the chance to talk to Adam Menges, one of the founders of Lobe and enjoyed learning not only about the beginnings of Lobe and the Microsoft acquisition, but about Adam's unconventional education and career, why he strives to have death present in his day-to-day, and his life hacks and daily routines, including custom-made clothing, note-taking and file-management workflows, meditation, and much more.