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OP uses their calendar as a supplement for their the todo file. There is a lot of functionality implied in that decision:

- calendars have mobile apps which enable quick and precise entry

- calendars understand time spans

- calendars have many options to display events

- calendars have cloud syncing

- calendars are backed by a queryable data store

Not saying using a text file is good or bad, but I think a more accurate title would be “my productivity app is a never ending txt file and a calendar app”

I was looking at them and gave them my contact info. The aggressive sales techniques- many calls and texts within a week - really turned me off.

Mathacademy.com is pretty good for this. My kid used it in HS and liked it.

It has a system that can move you forward quicker for concepts that you know. It goes pretty far through a college math curriculum.

It also uses some spaced repetition as well to cement the ideas.

OP converted a Unicode file to an ascii file.

Isn’t the loss of precision what is “compressing” the file? The Shakespeare corpus probably doesn’t use any Unicode characters.

From https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.8451...

“ In general, anthropogenic activities pollute the coastal marine environment, altering the environment’s physiochemical properties and resulting in changes in marine communities. Physiochemical conditions can be altered by the presence of pollutants, hypoxia, organic enrichment, decreased hydrodynamic conditions, and, more recently, brine discharge (de-la-Ossa-Carretero et al., 2016). Salinity elevation in receiving soil and water bodies and the territorial consequences of brine with high total dissolved solids on benthic marine life close to the discharge site are the most important environmental challenges associated with brine disposal (Miri and Chouikhi, 2005; Panagopoulos et al., 2019).”

Lots more detail in the article on studies of specific populations as well as discussion of mitigations and alternatives.

I wonder if this problem could be addressed with immutable timestamps and a vector database with image embeddings.

Eg, someone builds a system that constructs a graph that points images back to the previous references, based on their distances.

The one with the earliest timestamp is considered the original.

Isn't this just the Halting problem? No software has the property of being "determinate".

I appreciate stories like this, they are the memento mori of startups.

Cool! Reminds me of Code Combat a bit.

You can also use "Mesh to Metahuman" to make stylized characters but with more interesting facial expressions

https://medium.com/locodrome/unreal-filmmaking-building-a-st...

I hope they don’t decide to make their own engine for Rust 2.

If they need custom stuff, build it for Godot instead.

If Godot can become the Blender of game engines, game developers will be in a much better place.

Tears of the Kingdom went through a similar year long testing and refinement phase

https://www.gamesradar.com/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-was-ba...

I found the writing of this piece to be very clear and accessible.

Whenever i read something like this, I marvel at the author who can be both fluent in Mathematics and have an ability to convey very complex ideas to a lay reader.

also free lunches in schools

https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/states-that-have-passed-univer...

I wish California would consider this for PGE

I found this to be a useful way to visualize the word2vec algorithm

This feels like a straw man to me. We are continuing to automate feeding, housing and clothing ourselves as well. These two things are not mutually exclusive.

I would like to make music, video games and movies, too, and AI lets me do that. I don’t need millions of dollars or years of training to make something creative anymore.

Wonder if they were too focused on solving the wrong problem. Reminds me of this article (featuring an innovative pizza box design from Zume)

Maybe if they just built pizza boxes instead of a delivery service they could have been successful.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/pizza...

What is the state of the art on evaluating the accuracy of these models? Is there some equivalent to an “end to end test”?

It feels somewhat recursive since the input and output are natural language and so you would need another LLM to evaluate whether the model answered a prompt correctly.

> The Stanford study points out that since charging electric vehicles takes time using conventional chargers, owners tend to leave their cars charging in the evenings and overnight, putting added pressure on the grid. Demand peaks between 5-9 pm as people return home from work and use electric appliances like televisions and kettles.

> If vehicle owners were to charge them during the day, this could cut costs and help the grid as the number of electric vehicles increase to meet sustainable goals, the authors say.

My EV (Tesla) already has a charging option for when rates are cheapest. I would assume that most EVs will have that feature if they don’t already?

Not sure I understand why this is considered a big problem.

I dislike people posting directly from chatGPT without attribution.

I wasn’t aware of the nuclear problems in France. Here is some explanation of the problems.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/why-nuclear-powered-...

Tldr: recruiters are trying to bait workers with contract work at the company they’ve just been laid off from, but then turn around and submit them to many other companies instead.

> Lawrence Dearth, the president of staffing company Insight Global, said the average recruiter is simply hoping to make contact with a talented individual. After the initial contact, they’ll ship the worker’s resume out to 10 to 15 different companies.

How have the returns been?

It doesn’t say in the article how this was implemented. Was all this simulation done in something like Houdini or is there a custom engine Weta uses?

Does this mean that SVB customers are going to lose deposits over the FDIC limit (250k?)

Wonder if someone would be willing to start an open source project where we could crowdsource donations for training, and people could possibly donate their GPU usage for it.

Banning or regulating AI wouldn’t impact scammers at all.

People like to talk about the weather.

Consider wearing a product hat as well; is doing undifferentiated work the best use of your very limited engineering resources?

There are less expensive alternatives to PagerDuty that might have fit your budget, and wouldn't have put your engineering team on the hook for managing this custom built service forever.