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I got inspired by this post to add a sushi belt to my Japanese learning website: tokidoki.meertens.dev

Whether it's actual creativity or not, it is a lot of fun to have an idea and see it executed immediately!

Yep! Fixed it already!

> are wondering who is at fault? It's you I know, that's why I wrote it down.

I did not expect that Github facilitates other accounts creating scam pages under the domain I own...

I wrote it down and posted it for others to learn, and to see if Github can make it harder for scammers to abuse the mistakes of others!

I very much agreed to the "build your own tools for learning" route they took. I made my own site to practice Japanese grammar as it was hard to get feedback on that. tokidoki.meertens.dev -> it's open source so anyone can adapt it to their needs as well!

> To be sincere, I have a strong preference for written content.

At the InfoQ podcast we always create a transcript of the whole episode. It takes quite some time to turn the spoken content into written content, but it's amazing how many people come to me to tell me that they only read the podcast, but never listen to it.

Makes you wonder why one would not immediately write an article rather than spending the effort to create the spoken content.

You might think "who is Christopher Hohn, and what is the TCI Fund", but this guy has a history of making money in weird ways. Just before the banking chrisis, in 2007, he managed to force one of the biggest banks of the the Netherlands (ABN Amro) to either be taken over or to be split up. He has a history of suing the boards of companies if he thinks they can be worth more to investors in some way or another.

You can read more about what happened with the ABN Amro bank back in the days in the super thick book "The Pray" (https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Prey-Wrong-Banking-Industry/d...). I read it last summer and it is surprisingly interesting for a book which follows the board of a big bank...

Both my father and uncle had acute leukemia three years ago. Their brothers went in for a check, but were not a match for stem cell transplants. Luckily, for both there was a match with a random stranger who went through the effort to donate their stem cells such as what happened in this blog post.

I can absolutely recommend everyone to register as a stem cell donor. Thanks to these random matches my father lives on.

As a random fun fact: he got to write one letter to the donor, who got to write one letter back. You never get their contact details, and don't even know in which country they live. Needless to say, tears were shed over the short letter conversation back and forth.

I used CoPilot last Advent of Code and really liked it.

This year I recorded most of my days and uploaded them to youtube. So if you want to get a realistic view, take a look here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOqPGQCzgieAOL6iOJjj8hg.

The earlier days you can see it speeds you up a lot. The later days (such as today) you still want to wrap your own head around difficult computer science concepts so it is kind of useless.

Let me know if you have any questions!

A while ago I gave a presentation at the chaos computer conference looking into this topic for those spinners you encounter everywhere.

Turns out, you can't win anything: https://youtu.be/DstR4mdG2MU

Would love to know this as well! Are you using an official API or did you reverse engineer it yourself?

InfoQ's QCon conference frequently has an "architectures you always wondered about", which frequently has good talks. You can find them here: https://www.infoq.com/architecture-design/.

A great day to read upon my old article on building the most complete palindromic sentence: http://www.pinchofintelligence.com/worlds-longest-palindrome...

Wait, did the site go down again??

Does LinkedIn actually allow this? I thought they didn't allow bots on their platform...

Keep in mind that if you use this data often as training data you want to store it close to your GPU. No point in saving money on the data storage and have your expensive GPU idle because you are waiting for data to download from Dropbox...

Half a year ago I made the same idea but with colour: http://www.pinchofintelligence.com/painting-by-prime-number/. It's interesting that we both took the Mona Lisa to visualise the concept :)

Hey everyone, I'm the author of this article. Tensorflow releases go very fast nowadays, and I noticed it's hard to keep up. This weekend I spent some time going over the changelog, searching for changed parts of Tensorflow that might be important for me and others. If you have any questions about this version update, or in general about Tensorflow, leave a comment here or under the article!

Care to elaborate on your experience? What project is yours? Also: what do you think it takes to get a project accepted?

You can unconnect on their profile page. Updated the article to show you the button!

Hey! Great that you answer questions. A question I had was if you took the temperature into account in your experiments.

A second question I has was: how similar is the sand you are using to real martian sand?

Do you have any images of the resulting potatoes? Would they be edible?

Hey, Thank you for answering questions. I was wondering if any of you have blogs describing your experiences so far.

Also: I was wondering how much you interact with the other current residents in the program. Are you all together coming up with new ideas? Or are there multiple small group with their own interests...

I led several (non-daily) standups in various formats in a research environment. What you might want to do is:

- each 2 weeks determine a set of tasks/goals for the next 2 weeks -> write down in a tool like Trello what this task is and assign a set of people to it.

- each standup, instead of discussing each person, discuss each task with the group. People don't have to be competent individually (leading to what you are seeing), but have to be competent as a group.

You might also be interested in this paper about SCORE (Scrum for Research): https://www.cs.umd.edu/~mwh/papers/score.pdf

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me!