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I recommend https://www.paprikaapp.com/, been around forever, fantastic dev and pricing model. Recipe extraction is incredible

This was my approach when using agents to analyze HVAC IoT data doing anomaly detection / investigations and it similarly worked very well. Mix that with some context like install location, geographic features with some context / info on seasonality (like ASHRAE values for the regions), and some classification like (residential / commercial), the bot was quite able to deliver actual insights into problems vs creating a bunch of excess noise.

We also mixed in some GSA (https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04104) steps during the analysis in the sub agents to further reduce hallucinations

I mean (allegedly) giving your significant other an STD, and then trying to procure secretive meds to give to them so that you don't have to tell them is high up on the list of horrible behavior for a person

I would recommend anyone interest in the topic to check out the book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_We_Burn. The author covers (in depth) a solid analysis of the failures to enact long term change across several major "revolutionary" movements over the last couple year (including the Arab Spring and Occupy among others). I think his analysis is quite good and points at significant issues in organizational leadership, co-opting, and other structural failures (or adaptations by governments) that illustrate classic approaches to mass protest are more difficult to achieve desired goals in modern times. Worth a read if you have the time.

If anything, there's lots of writing on how Germany was ultimately inspired by socio-political events here in the USA on how to conduct their fascist behavior.

Guessing the original comment hasn't taken complex analysis or has some other oriented view point into geometry that gives them satisfaction but these expressions are one of the most incredible and useful tools in all of mathematics (IMO). Hadn't seen another comment reinforcing this so thank you for dropping these.

Cauchy path integration feels like a cheat code once you fully imbibe it.

Got me through many problems that involves seemingly impossible to memorize identities and re-derivation of complex relations become essentially trivial

This reminds me of the apache age postgres extension as well. Very cool work

The system in this case for me is usually building a stronger backbone or improving communication and elevating constraints to highly our strengths/weaknesses and capabilities to actually achieve the desired outcome.

I view it as more a single system of constant improvement and understanding ability to execute in the environment. Nothing hurts credibility more than late commms, and missed deadlines due to over commitments.

It hasn't unlocked a magical promotion track for me, but it has engendered support and respect from my teams that has allowed us to produce delivery exceeding what we thought we could because there was true buy in from the business around the definition of exceptional circumstances.

I'm not personally engineering my career in leadership around moving up, but building teams of people that can do exceptional things tends to be the driving factor that allows me to continue up the track.

This is why you have to have skin in the game, and a backbone to say no to executives when it compromises delivery if there isn't escalated mediation.

Said another way, I don't say no a lot, I put prioritization up front and tell them that we are sacrificing other deliver items.

That is a decision that an exec can work with, mediate between teams, and builds mutual respect for senior leadership as you don't break promises you've already made, unless there is mutual agreement from the business.

IME the gap in management between ICs is accountability. It's easy to say you are sorry, or say things won't happen again but good management, and what I strive to do is hold myself accountable.

To me, that means 1. To identify the issue that occurred (especially when you caused it), and much more importantly, 2. Put systems into place that prevent it from happening again.

Employees can feel very clearly when a manager lacks accountability and as part of mid and especially high level management (if your goal is actually improving both output and quality of people's lives) to not just say you did something wrong, but actually put your skin in the game ensuring what happened will not happen again (usually it means being better at saying no or aggressively managing prioritization rather than heaping additional tasks on people).

Just wanted to say, seeing you in the wild, thank you very much for the hard work you do on OpenMeteo.

Picked up a commercial license about 3 months ago, service is amazing and have been using it for helping to provide runtime data analysis and anomaly detection for smart home thermostats.

I'm a fan of Joseph Tainter's analysis around organization of societies and issues around collapse being related to diminishing marginal returns. I think there's a lot to that position when you look at the general political party agendas. Technocratic solutions trying to squeeze more blood from the stone while providing less and less to participants (I have less of a theory on effectiveness for any given action, this is more of an observation).

https://risk.princeton.edu/img/Historical_Collapse_Resources...

This. I have enough devices under frequent use of the keyfile that the chance of each of them beings corrupt is extremely unlikely (n>=3 at any given time).

That being said, not an approach useful for all and a good mental model and sharing system with redundant copies on flash media / live systems/ mobile devices can be an effective strategy.

Use case: 10+ year keepass user, never lost a credential or had one compromised that affected more than one account due to breach. Thank you Keepass devs!

They can pry my offline key file from my cold dead hard drive. Some things shouldn't be on the internet.

It's remarkable how much effort some people put into portraying this as a 'highly complex' legal issue. In reality, laws like this one typically include standard boilerplate provisions precisely to prevent situations like the current one, regardless of the administration. A simple Google search is actually enough to establish what one _should do_ here according to the law.

Claiming that this is complex isn't just a matter of disagreement; it's a deliberate distortion of language and intent. This approach dismisses a clear legal bright line in favor of framing the issue through power dynamics and a 'what can I get away with' mindset. Without independent or ethical agents of enforcement or a process that's interested in keeping up, what we can get away with ends up being a lot and will likely be substantially impactful.

Thank you, this is something I think people really misunderstand about "money" in our system. Every time I create a "loan" for a family member I've technically created (i.e. debt) I've done the equivalent as to what a bank does to create "money". The question becomes if I can take the IOU I have from my brother, and trade that to another individual when I need to acquire goods.

The fact we have a mechanism to create trust in trading debut is about assigning and managing risk in the payment of that debt, and transferring/holding that risk over time, which is a separate aspect to the raw creation of money concern (managing total debt loads).

Nominal Determinism at its finest

I think that's more your interpretation/experience rather than the intention of the tools. Those constants and coefficients are there because the math is describing the shape of the solution based on logic, mathematical object rules, and symmetry/conservation laws and needs to be "grounded" to make them physical.

The Lagrangian is just "conservation of energy" (L = T[kinetic] - V[potential]). There isn't some magic, it's a statement that the energy needs to go somewhere.

Your straw-man belies the underlying issue you are experiencing, you don't just come up with a PDE, you see nature and then you describe ways to conserve counts of things, "energy", "population", whatever. The PDEs describe the exchange between these counts. The accuracy and additional terms are about more accurately representing the counts and conservation of things.

Having studied undergraduate physics, I think this viewpoint is inverted from the realities of the matter. It is less that the math is complicated and more so these are the relevant tools invented for us to model the experimental results we obtain post discovery/formalization of SR/GR/Quantum experiences. There are computers that can run these simulations but they are infeasible to model large scale processes. That is the reason people are looking for more than numerical solutions to problems, but laws and tools that can simplify modeling large scale emergent behavior that it would be infeasible or unnecessarily complicated to do with numerical simulation. These tools are the more straightforward approach

It is fair to argue that the oil crisis acted as a catalyst rather than a root cause for dismantling elements of the social contract. The crisis illustrated vulnerabilities in the postwar economic order, provided a convenient pretext for shifting economic policies, and exposed a population that, for various reasons, was less unified and mobilized than in earlier decades.

While the ruling class had long-standing interests in undermining their “extracted duties” under the social contract, the oil crisis gave them a plausible narrative and a set of conditions that made such changes appear more justifiable and less resistible shifting the narrative from away from collective welfare solutions and toward individual responsibility and market-driven approaches.

I kind of view it as the oil crisis serving as a stress test that revealed the fraying unity and decreasing mobilization capacity of the general populace which occurred alongside broader cultural and political shifts in the 1970s that coincided with a decline in trust in institutions (partly due to events like the Vietnam War and Watergate).

Typed view model bindings to templates was always amazing and 100000x more ergonomic than WPF (in my experience). That being said with so many things going to client apps, I'm less inclined to go w/ server side rendering and treat my backend as a data API so I'm not stuck building that twice.

An example of a company using AI in the space to help extract data and match patients is this company https://deep6.ai/

I always loved that the derivative of the heavyside operator is equivalent to the dirac delta operator. The idea of impulse and how to apply that to a system is such a unique and useful unlock in E&M and has such a nice analog of connecting the circuit.

One of those things that made it click for me that math truly is defined rules of operations over definitions and could be constructed as to be useful for us, and not just a handed down pure concept. We need to model this very specific thing, here's an operator for it.

+1 This was our strategy at TempoIQ for our ts storage engine (built on top of rocks).

Very efficient and effective at managing tons of data ingestion (and deletion) at scale.

Not an easy out of the box tech to build on top of though when you have to build all the analytics/management pieces that something like PG gets you so I get the lack of public examples

Similar migration (IN->CA), it has changed my life. I had the worst sinus/migraine issues growing up and my breathing has dramatically improved after moving out of Midwest, even compared on the worst wildfire weeks out here.

Coming from NWI, I know the mills had a lot to do with subpar air quality, but I had similar issues when I lived on the far Northside of Chicago so it seems to be more regionally affecting.

It's a similar top reason on my list to not living there long term again

Always liked the ssb protocol and had an account but am just not much of a poster to ever add much value. Appreciate the design and open build process. Been following for a long time, hope you are doing well

My guess is they are still accepting keys signed with the old 512 key but are currently generating new tokens with a 4096 key.

This is an important distinction between whether we are preserving structures on rings or on a group. An example would be mapping positive to negative numbers which is a group level transformation but not structure preserving for order while still being invertible

It's interesting, especially given the way that I read, when I start to try to spell out the word. It's like zooming into an artifacted picture. The picture starts out very clear but as I zoom in it gets fuzzy. What ordering the letters go in or what sounds come out of specific lettering combinations get "fuzzy" in my head when I go through the process of reproducing the entire word. It really bit me in college studying German with the "ie" "ei" letter combinations. I overcome it with intense memorization or eventual mnemonic recollection buts it's always fuzzy.

I didn't realize I was dyslexic until about 15 years ago (post college) due to my girlfriend at the time suggesting I get tested as I just assumed this was an area I was "stupid". This gets back into the upbringing where I was fostering interpersonal behaviors as weaknesses or personal failures due to my relationship with my father.