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petargyurov

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My website/blog: https://petargyurov.com/about

Reach me at: pgyurov93 at gmail dot com

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petargyurov··on Ask HN: How to go about reverse engineering and deformulating a beverage at home
1. Buy the ingredients listed on the back

2. Look up basic proportions & recipes for canned sodas online, just to get an idea about how much to use

3. Start experimenting, varying the ratios of each ingredient in each batch

petargyurov··on Darwin Machines
> avoid anything written in the last 10 years

Why?

petargyurov··on Ask HN: What tags would you add to HTML?
<ad src="..."/>

So that I can block all ads with ease.

petargyurov··on Ask HN: What single line of code would you put on a programming shirt?
# noqa
petargyurov··on Kino: Pro Video Camera
Same thing happens on Android. Even for recognised apps/brands, the top search result is an ad for a competitor.

Just this morning I searched for "Strava" and the top result was some random hiking app.

petargyurov··on PayPal and Mailchimp close accounts of Iranian cheetah conservationist
I am not affiliated with the Iranian Cheetah Society but I saw this post on LinkedIn and it struck a cord with me.

Text from LinkedIn post:

What is the right time to give up? It has been 17 years since I entered the world of wildlife conservation as a volunteer and then as a professional. I have experienced many hardships, joys, failures, and successes alongside the groups I have worked with. Wildlife conservation was never meant to be easy, let alone in a country that has been severely sanctioned for 50 years and has a totalitarian government.

Although we have often grown tired, paused, and then resumed, I have been thinking about this question lately: When should we give up? While we always fail, how far should we go and at what cost should we continue? PayPal recently blocked our account for receiving donations, due to sanctions. Also, Mailchimp, closed our account without any warning, solely because we are Iranian, without allowing us to back up the 20-year-old database of subscribers and recipients. Although humanitarian and environmental activities have never been sanctioned by the U.S. government, service providers refrain from cooperating with Iran. Worse still, they do not behave professionally or respectfully towards us, or perhaps we simply do not matter. Every year, the number of international organizations interested in collaborating with us decreases, and obtaining foreign financial resources has become almost impossible.

On the personal front, due to a lack of financial resources, we have always had difficulty paying salaries, and currently, not even one full-time employee remains for the Iranian Cheetah Society. Thinking about a situation where the government has no interest in nature conservation, and we are under pressure inside the country, and while the Asiatic cheetah is on the brink of extinction, continuing seems impossible. We met with rangers and local communities in the cheetah habitat. They are also extremely tired and hopeless. We tried to give energy to them, but in reality, we were also spending our last shreds of hope and energy.

A few months ago, among specialists in cheetah conservation in Ethiopia, among those who face much fewer and more solvable problems, I found about how meaningless the path we have taken seems. Even the cheetah conservationists asked us "Why do you still continue? You have no chance!"

Last week, after a problem arose with our PayPal account, I couldn't sleep for several nights. The moment we received the final email stating that our account was being permanently closed, I thought about whether we deserved this level of failure, despair, and stress. How long should we endure all this and continue? Where is the stopping point? When, after various harms from all sides, our mental health is severely threatened and stress and pressure have taken away our ability to work, where is the END?

Now, I think more seriously about giving up, and I imagine that after all these years, we are on the verge of losing our beautiful cheetah and facing final defeat. Without hope, without motivation, and without a future.

petargyurov··on Show HN: Vapi – Convince our voice AI to give you the secret code
Very cool. This sort of latency is what I want from any AI on my phone/laptop.

Were the clues/riddles it started giving me intended? You could crack those just by telling it you had already answered it! Didn't work for the actual secret though. I got bored after that and gave up x_x

petargyurov··on Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
This is amazing! I am curious what algorithm is behind the scenes?

And how easy would it be to make this work for any city?

petargyurov··on Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?
But if I am in Airplane mode (or generally without any signal) why would it bother? Unless it checks a locally stored token for validity, which would be exploitable; but even so, a local check should be near instant.
petargyurov··on Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?
Offline playback: my biggest issue with Spotify. I have my library downloaded, why is the UI "loading" and blocking? It should be instant.
petargyurov··on Show HN: Hypersplit – Like Infinite Craft but in reverse
It was fun until I split "Latitude" and it gave me "Lat" and "itude"! Nice implementation though.
petargyurov··on I Turned 72 Today
I've heard it as "Holding a grudge" instead of envy/hatred, which makes more sense to me.
petargyurov··on Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver
Did not expect to see the Georgi Gerganov here :) How is GGML going?

Поздрави!

petargyurov··on Blazer: Business intelligence made simple
How does this compare to Metabase?
petargyurov··on Ask HN: How are you finding Gemini Ultra?
> gpt-4 is still best for ML Python coding

How does GPT4 do with Pytorch, Pytorch Lightning, etc? I'm pretty surprised at how poor GTP3.5 is with those sometimes.

petargyurov··on Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Version number suggests they're waiting to announce something bigger already?
petargyurov··on Google AI has better bedside manner than doctors – and makes better diagnoses
> The last thing I want is to read through pages of AI blogspam at the doctors office

I think you underestimate how much of an effect the doctor's style of response can have on patients. A curt response and an embellished response may both provide the same facts, but the latter is more likely to resonate with people. At the end of the day, everyone thinks they're special and not just "another patient".

I am not advocating for "pages of AI blogspam" -- LLMs can be instructed to craft better responses than that -- in the real world, doctors suffer from empathy "drain" very often, LLMs don't.

That's all well and good if the patient doesn't know they're interacting with an AI though!

To clarify, my stance on this whole thing is mixed.

petargyurov··on Cars suck, man
OP here.

Yes officer, this one right here.

But in all seriousness, why? I would maybe find it tolerable if it was consistent, but most of my experience is that it ramps up to 48/60fps and back down to 24fps in a matter of seconds. It's jarring.

petargyurov··on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
I have a reactive dog. She used to be a street dog so she doesn't take kindly to other dogs -- but get this -- only when on the street; in the park she's perfectly fine.

We have been doing months and months of training and she has improved a lot but occasionally regresses. If I could record the data I could potentially see some trends.

I've been recording each dog interaction in a spreadsheet but that quickly got cumbersome and required me to remember each interaction first and then remember to log it at a later point. This lead(s) to a lot of missed data.

So I'm putting together a simple app that will allow me to log the entry on my phone with a couple of taps and eventually generate charts, etc.

petargyurov··on Ask HN: What perfect software did you discover of recent?
Shottr [0]

Screenshot utility for Mac. It's free but it works so well I recently purchased a license for like £6.

[0] https://shottr.cc/

petargyurov··on Show HN: Mylens.ai – Create timeline for any topics with AI
Really like this concept. Difficult to tell what key events are missing from timeline, unless you already know.
petargyurov··on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions
Starting to think this was all some media stunt where they let ChatGPT make boardroom decisions for a day or two.
petargyurov··on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
A 5 SECOND timeout for a concurrency issue? I doubt it.
petargyurov··on A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger
Hilarious. Took a few attempts to connect but it was worth it.
petargyurov··on Ask HN: What is one thing that has improved your energy the most?
Sleeping better (recently found out that increasing warmth vastly improves my sleep)

Exercise.

Not eating crap (i.e: sugar)

petargyurov··on Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
I'm assuming something to do with the illegal trading of exotic/endangered species; mentioning pythons and pandas, alongside whatever wording was used to sell the course probably triggered the bot to flag it.

That's the only explanation I have.

petargyurov··on 4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering
Wow, that's impressive. Thank you for these.
petargyurov··on 4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering
Anyone know how well this technique deals with mesh/lattice type structures? For example, fences, ladders, climbing frames, etc.
petargyurov··on Do you make over 20k a month?
Just seen your personal website. Out of curiosity, from which avenue (LinkedIn, your site, word of mouth, etc) do you receive the most contracts/engagement?
petargyurov··on Do you make over 20k a month?
Can't decide if this is inspiring or depressing.

Are software/tech consultants paid solely for their opinion or do they actually implement things, write code, etc?

I can't imagine getting paid as much as the commentors reported for simply giving advice...

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