Yes, I do think that "software companies" are aiming to make money off of software (by definition). That aside, I do not understand what point you're trying to make. Sure, software development is likely not the most expensive part of medical devices (although I wouldn't be so sure that's generally true). Free software could still speed up R&D and therefore help save lives.
Counterpoint: How many are dying because the software isn’t free? It’s possible that more could be saved if it was. Perhaps harm doesn’t rank highly for those seeking to make profits from medical equipment?
Causal inference is unfortunately not that simple. If you find differences in cancer rates, it could be due to alcohol consumption or any number of other factors that differ between Islamic societies and other societies. You can try to control those differences statistically but since the set of possible differences is pretty much open-ended, it’s incredibly difficult to say the least.
I send "fax" via https://epost.de which is incredibly useful public authorities. You upload a PDF and they print it and send it as snailmail. Since they verify your identity, it has the legal status of a fax (is my understanding).
I’ve used it for a while in German and in English and I was impressed, too, with its recognition performance. Even the small and therefore fast language models perform decently. However, a major downside is that it doesn’t do punctuation, new lines, capitalization, and similar. This means that you have to edit a lot of the recognized text by hand, which obviously spoils the fun. Having said that, the front end code is in python and you can easily hack it. With a small handful of lines of code I was able to address some of these issues somewhat.
It’s not, at least not everywhere. In my neighborhood everyone locks their cargo bikes on the street and it’s fine. That’s in the center of a bigger German city.
1. What's the evidence for the market dictating support for payments in messengers? 2. Privacy is exactly not a good selling point for most cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Arguably even Paypal and credits cards offer better privacy.
It’s great that you actually looked at the paper and you inspired me to do the same. But could you please explain why you think the correlations seem “really really small”? To me they actually seem surprisingly high. Some examples: 0.25 for safetyism, -0.47 for resilience, 0.45 for loneliness. Especially the latter two are almost shockingly high given what we see elsewhere in psychology. You can’t expect one multi-faceted construct like social cognitive distortions to fully or almost fully explain some other complex and multifaceted construct like safetyism. If the correlation was super high, that would just mean that we’re likely using two different names for the same thing. Plus it’s not just a single correlation that supports the hypothesis in this paper but the whole pattern of correlations is consistent with it as far as I can tell as a non-expert. I haven’t read the paper closely, and the conclusions may very well be entirely wrong, but I wouldn’t conclude that based on the correlations.
What did your check consist of? I’m asking because I know people who’ve been using both Word and LibreOffice for many years to write huge amounts of technical documentation and their experience is that LibreOffice is much more reliable with longer and more complex documents. When a certain document size or complexity is reached, Word apparently starts to behave erratically and even crashes occasionally. They’d prefer LibreOffice any day but some customers require Word.
DOIs are not URLs though. They are identifiers, as the name suggests. I don't think URLs were ever intended to be identifiers. At least that's not how they are used, as can be seen from the fact that there is a many-to-many relationship between URLs and pieces of content. Identifiers for published pieces that are independent from where that piece is currently published are useful. Just one example: An article can be published in many places and in many different formats (HTML, print, PDF, ...). The DOI allows us to establish that all these instantiations represent the same publication. You might say that we could use titles instead but these are not unique. We also can't use title + authors because authors change their names. And so on. DOIs therefore address a real need. That's why they've become so successful and omnipresent in academic publishing.
I love the vi approach to text editing and have been using it in my daily work for 20 years now -- 10 years in Vim, 10 in Emacs, thanks to evil-mode -- and I have no intention to switch to anything else. However, I tried Vimium and other vi-like UIs for web browsers on multiple occasions but surprisingly it never stuck even though it seems so logical to use it for that as well. Eventually I realized that I actually enjoy taking an occasional break from the vi system and using the mouse for a bit. It's relaxing. The other thing is that web browsing as a task is so different from text editing than many vi concepts do not translate 1-to-1 and there's just too much new stuff that one needs to learn to make it work for web browsing. As a result the cognitive and muscle memory savings are really not that big.
Mu4e can render HTML e-mails in Emacs (using Emacs’ shr render engine). Works well enough for most cases. When it doesn’t, there is a command for opening the message in your browser of choice. Re sending HTML: I personally think it’s a bad idea and don’t do it. But I think it‘s possible to write e-mails in org mode markup and them have them automatically converted to HTML. Probably easy to build something similar for Markdown, if it doesn’t exist yet.
Thank you. These keywords (Kaldi, Dragonfly) put me on the right track and I found nerd-dictation [1] which is easy to use and hackable. Perhaps not useful for your programming purposes, but I need something for writing prose and it's a decent start for that.
What speech recognition system did you use on Linux? I'm interested in using speech recognition more after getting used to it on iOS devices (where it works amazingly well).
> Linux has its conveniences but I think I definitely spend more times on updates.
That depends on which distro and hardware you're using. I use laptops that are known to work well with Linux and Ubuntu LTS releases. This way, I spend perhaps 3-5h a year on admin tasks and it's mostly easy stuff.
It's actually amazing how GNU/Linux allowed me to gradually transition from configuring everything (when I was a student: XFree86, custom kernels, ...) to using GNU/Linux productively with almost zero housekeeping effort.
Not sure what you're quoting because I didn't write that, but
> I think real-time factors smaller than 1 are faster than real-time (not slower) and use less than 100% of a resource's computational power to keep up.
Sure, but who has the necessary GPUs installed? And on CPUs it will apparently take longer to generate speech than the duration of that speech. Unusable for many UIs and it will also drain the batteries of any portable device.
I love org mode and use it for almost everything (note taking, agenda, to-do list, contacts, teaching materials, protocols, documentation, ...). The boost in productivity that it gives me is amazing and I do not expect to switch to another system in this life. However, I agree that org is not a great tool for writing serious documents intended for publication. First, the issue about collaboration that you mentioned. Just about 10% of my collaborators use Emacs, and even those people aren't serious users of org mode. But even when I'm writing alone, I really do need the power of LaTeX in the vast majority of cases. Org allows embedding LaTeX (behind the scenes LaTeX is a stepping stone on the path to PDF), but if I end up littering my org document with LaTeX macros anyway, I can just as well use straight LaTeX and org doesn't really buy me anything. It just adds another level of complexity to common authoring workflows. I also often use literate programming techniques in my articles, and Knitr (LaTeX' solution) is considerably more powerful and reliable than org's Babel system.
About their TTS system: "These models provide speech synthesis with ~0.12 real-time factor on a GPU and ~1.02 on a CPU." The quality of the samples is really impressive but, wow, but isn't this computationally too expensive for many applications?
Zettelkasten is just one incarnation of the hypertext idea. Wikis and the web being others. Calling it "Zettelkasten" is perhaps a fad, but the thing itself will never go out of fashion because it mirrors our thinking in a fundamental way.