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rgarrett88··on Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel
Get the looms while you're at it
rgarrett88··on Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix
I prefer my clothes hand woven but it's so hard to find artisanal weavers these days. And the rate they want! Outrageous when other clothes cost next to nothing.
rgarrett88··on Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users
They don't because they don't take a 30% cut of everything purchased on your MacBook.
rgarrett88··on Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
I'm of the opinion that Apple will never natively allow unmanaged code outside macOS due to app store revenue. I mean if the AVP fails it would be a huge write down but if it wins and allows people to circumvent the Apple tax that's still a fail for the company.
rgarrett88··on How ECMO is redefining death
>and no industry corporation has an incentive to run this either.

Are insurance companies not incentivized to measure cost effectiveness of treatments in the US?

rgarrett88··on Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires
I think AI will make every complicated process much more accessible as you can interact with a, rounds to free, teacher that can explain each piece in the appropriate level of detail for your skill level.
rgarrett88··on Apple Vision Pro review
I think the difference is everyone knew market penetration on cell phones would be close to 90%. This may be better than the Quest but is it going to take AR/VR mainstream? Seems iffy. In which case drawbacks may never get ironed out.
rgarrett88··on Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says
Presumably they're looking at comparable shoppers before and after one starts Ozempic during the same time period. Or are you implying people are starting Ozempic to avoid buying food?
rgarrett88··on How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs
>computer

Has always felt like a stretch to me for a device I'm not allowed to run my own code on.

rgarrett88··on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone
I use an (awkwardly) pocketable keyboard as my daily driver. It's cool to be able to do real tasks but also not really a big enough value add to always keep with me.

https://www.amazon.com/MoKo-Ultra-Thin-Rechargeable-Compatib...

rgarrett88··on High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan
Found these for the curious.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6328548/

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/low-dose-atrop...

rgarrett88··on BrainGPT turns thoughts into text
>4.4 Cross-Subject Performance Cross-subject performance is of vital importance for practical usage. To further report the We further provide a comparison with both baseline methods and a representative meta-learning (DA/DG) method, MAML [9], which is widely used in cross-subject problems in EEG classification below. Table 2: Cross-subject performance average decreasing comparison on 18 human subjects, where MAML denotes the method with MAML training. The metric is the lower the better. Calib Data Method Eye fixation −∆(%) ↓ Raw EEG waves −∆(%) ↓ B-2 B-4 R-P R-F B-2 B-4 R-P R-F × Baseline 3.38 2.08 2.14 2.80 7.94 5.38 6.02 5.89 Baseline+MAML [9] 2.51 1.43 1.08 1.23 6.86 4.22 4.08 4.79 × DeWave 2.35 1.25 1.16 1.17 6.24 3.88 3.94 4.28 DeWave+MAML [9] 2.08 1.25 1.16 1.17 6.24 3.88 3.94 4.28 Figure 4: The cross-subjects performance variance without calibration In Table 2, we compare with MAML by reporting the average performance drop ratio between withinsubject and cross-subject translation metrics on 18 human subjects on both eye-fixation sliced features and raw EEG waves. We compare the DeWave with the baseline under both direct testing (without Calib data) and with MAML (with Calib data). The DeWave model shows superior performance in both settings. To further illustrate the performance variance on different subjects, we train the model by only using the data from subject YAG and test the metrics on all other subjects. The results are illustrated in Figure 4, where the radar chart denotes the performance is stable across different subjects.

Looks like it crosses over. That's wild.

rgarrett88··on Wyoming discovery could be America's first new source of rare-earths since 1952
You know that population isn't uniformly distributed across the states right?
rgarrett88··on Things Silicon Valley gets wrong about agriculture
> 4. You can't A/B test a farm (yet)

Pretty sure you can subdivide a farm however you want and use different methods across them. Iteration cycles are in the year time frame but otherwise seems pretty easy to test whatever you want.

rgarrett88··on Tim Berners-Lee: Web3 is not the web
I'm pretty much there with my z fold and termux.
rgarrett88··on Lumber rally cools with transport snarls easing, buyers balking
Nobdy wants to lose money leaving their real estate investment empty. Vacancy rates are low.

If we had "enough" homes it wouldn't be profitable to speculate. Most peope agree we're in a housing crisis. We need to be focusing on making it legal to build more housing rather than worrying about if people are making money owning homes.

rgarrett88··on Accurate Image Alignment and Registration Using OpenCV
I use a similar algorithm at work to detect if pages match a template and then align the image to OCR from mapped fields. Not perfect but pretty effective.
rgarrett88··on Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

>A skeuomorph (also spelled skiamorph, /ˈskjuːəˌmɔːrf, ˈskjuːoʊ-/)[1][2] is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original. Examples include pottery embellished with imitation rivets reminiscent of similar pots made of metal and a software calendar that imitates the appearance of binding on a paper desk calendar.

rgarrett88··on Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops
GP didn't even call it racist just mentioned a movie. Racist rant just came out of no where...
rgarrett88··on Newsom signs legislation to boost California’s housing supply
>but it will only lead to construction on ~3% of all single-family plots statewide.

Over what time frame? Do you have a source?

rgarrett88··on Pavel Durov: Most studies show humanity is now less free than several years ago
It's just the worst when people park their broken trucks on their driveways, glad you made it to somewhere where we can fine them for it.
rgarrett88··on NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings
We know now that vaccination status and even natural immunity is not stopping people from virus transmission, so this argument is off the table.

We've always known that some percent of those vaccinated will transmit the virus. The vaccine's effectiveness is not 100%. The point, among other reasons, is it reduces transmission.

rgarrett88··on Wezterm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer
Looks like it cleared all it's comments to lorem ipsum. That's funny
rgarrett88··on My Life in E-Ink
Recently bought the Boox Nova3 and in terms of being hackable it's pretty good. It runs android so you can install anything from the app store. Runs chrome pretty well on the slight ghosting setting. I returned it for the kindle because I couldn't really see my self using it over my phone for browsing and anything I want to read long form I can get there. If you want to go all in on e-ink though I'd recommend it.

https://www.boox.com/nova3

rgarrett88··on My Experience at Apple
Read his biography. He was abusive and got shit done.
rgarrett88··on A family with no fingerprints
Scarification seems like it might would be worth the trouble. I wonder if any of them tried.
rgarrett88··on SEO Is Gentrifying the Internet
I love how he complains the entire article about how googles’ search results are terrible and ends with a call to action to regulate google but never actually looked at any other search engine.
rgarrett88··on IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration
Maybe she could have a hiring manager proof what they’re looking for so it actually makes sense? This just means the first introduction to your company by a potential hire showcases a broken process.
rgarrett88··on [dead]
This one is just particularly easy to overdose on.
rgarrett88··on Toyota invests $394m in Joby Aviation's flying taxis
How would this differ from existing regulations for helicopters?
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