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This is the only meditation all I've been able to reasonably stick to using.

I setup Home Assistant with the Raspberry Pi Bluetooth module to detect when my fiance and I were home or away (to turn on/off lights, turn off WeMo switches to the curling iron that my fiance always forgets). After a few weeks of forgetting I had it running, I logged back into the Home Assistant dashboard to notice that it was tracking nearly all of my neighbors Android phones, iPhones, headphones, TVs - when they were home, when they were away. Entirely passively. Most devices had names that could very easily be linked back to the user - i.e. "Joe's iPhone".

Just to reiterate - this was _entirely passive_. I did nothing but enable the Bluetooth presence detection module in Home Assistant on my Raspberry Pi, and over time it built up a detailed log of when nearly all of my neighbors were home or away.

Luckily I was able to quickly turn off tracking of devices that weren't explicitly enabled.

What confuses me, is that I thought iPhones had randomized MAC addresses? In the Home Assistant known_devices.yaml file, you can give aliases to phones based on their MAC address. And my iPhone has never changed it's MAC address, because Home Assistant continues to track it with ease. Not entirely sure how that works.

This disappointes me.

I finally got my home backup system setup to my liking, and it's super simple and requires little to no effort on upkeep:

1. Google Photos synced to Google Drive. 2. Google Backup & Sync installed on the computer. 3. Backblaze Personal Backup software installed on the computer.

Every time I take a picture, edit a document, etc., it's automatically and effortlessly synced to Backblaze.

I had a Linux Box with Restic installed, but required more effort than I wanted to put in.

Now I'm going to have to rethink how I backup my 40k+ photos.

Where do you live now?

I've been considering a move to Japan. My pay would likely be several tens of thousands of dollars less (still very good, relative to the market but less than what I could command in a Western market), but it's also an opportunity to have a very different life experience.

Money vs. experience, it's really tough for me to figure out what's more important.

This is fantastic stuff, thank you.

I'm in the same boat. Just switched away from Gmail and Chrome. Love my Pixel 2 XL for its astonishing camera, but very seriously considering a switch to the iPhone.

I've been wanting to switch from Gmail for a while, just to try something new.

I like the concept of ProtonMail (that my email is supposedly encrypted at rest and accessible only by me) but honestly the conversation here steers me away from it. Also the interface is fairly slow.

The top recommendation here seems to be FastMail, which I'm doing a trial run of now.

Ok I've got to ask - can you PM me any of my old or alternative usernames across the web?

Are you objecting to the article because you feel the title is misleading (i.e. it actually does contain math), or because you don't think MCMC can be explained without math?

I actually felt it was a halfway decent description of MCMC, but I could see criticisms from both perspectives above.

I ran into this issue today. Frustratingly low limits ($1000) for my bank.

I can agree on the privacy concerns front, but for what it's worth, I've found my Google Home to be quite helpful. So if we're solely talking about how it can be helpful:

- When I'm cooking and my hands are dirty and I want to set a timer

- When I'm cooking and my hands are dirty and I want to change music/lower volume/raise volume/call someone (or do a measurement conversion)

- Turning off all the lights in my house when I'm already in bed and forgot whether I left some on

- Laying in bed with the gf and asking random questions out of curiosity

- Asking how long it will take to get somewhere if my gf and I are pondering some place to eat but are at the dinner table without our phones

- Get home after having a few beers and dive into the messy chicken wings with both my hands, and then realize I want to turn on the TV, play a show or change the current one on my Shield.. perfect use for the GH

- Since I already look at my phone way too much (potentially straining muscles in my neck), I can leave my phone in another room and still get quick answers to deep life questions without tilting my neck downwards

They're all __super__ minor of course, but honestly, I'm so used to the convenience now it actually feels weird to have to do some of these things 'manually'. I do understand there are serious concerns about privacy that may or may not offset the benefits, definitely plenty of room for discussion on that.

Sure! My screen name @protonmail.com

Can you expand a bit more on this? How do you find content on these decentralized services?

You have to wipe the phone to upgrade to the release version? Might change my mind about installing the beta.

I always felt it was the other way around - using MOOCs or online tutorials makes applying machine learning to business problems in practice a whole lot easier. But in terms of inventing new algorithms, deeply understanding the theory and origin of things, and doing active ML/AI research, that still seems to be in the realm of requiring a PhD (i.e. the difference between a "data scientist" and an ML/AI researcher).

It's actually become somewhat hilarious to me. Like you said, the data science label is being applied quite liberally (no judgment, I'm not the world's authority on how it should be applied), so here you have companies paying $100k or more to have people do Excel work or Tableau visualizations.

I'm many years out from my PhD, but still get impostor syndrome even working in the corporate world. Like a constant nagging feeling that I have no idea what I'm doing, and other people definitely know what they're doing. As long as I'm able to portray on the outside that I know what I'm doing, I'm able to achieve most of the objective measures of "success", but I still have the impending fear that at some point, I'm going to be found out...

I just started using Feedly again, but it looks like adding sub-Reddits is broken - they don't get updated. Anybody know of a way to side-step this? Use IFTTT to shoot new Reddit articles to an RSS feed that Feedly picks up?

So if one were to try taking NMN as a supplement but had no idea which brands were legitimate, what should they do? Go off Amazon reviews? Recommendations anybody?

Does etherscan let you search the "Input Data" of a transaction? I can see somebody building a script to parse the blockchain for image headers and convert the hex to a file now that this 'idea' has hit the mainstream. Going to be interesting to see what happens with this.

I've been wanting to create something like this for a long time. A recreation of your life using all the services from the web that have a 'takeout' option. Google emails, photos, messages, location data, Facebook messages and posts, Mint transactions, SMS, etc.

This is fascinating to think about, and easy to understand. Thanks. I'd like to read a book on this subject written a similar manner. I remember trying to read The Fabric of the Cosmos as a leisure reading book (I like nonfiction) but it got super tedious halfway through and I had to put it down.

Other than the visa-related benefits, what type of monetary benefits do foreigners get for moving to China?

We've been getting something similar - data analysts with solely Excel and SQL experience who've been in the industry for < 6 months, looking for $120k starting salaries as data scientists in non-SF/NYC/Seattle locales. I'm sure they're not that interested in the position and just fishing to see if some company will pick them up (and maybe some will, but there's not even close to a shortage of analysts/data scientists to command that type of salary for that experience).

The start menu searching bugs me to no end. I have a hard time understanding why something like that isn't fixed/improved. It's so terrible, it's impossible to miss.

I have a 1080 GTX. With my electricity costs, NiceHash says I'd generate $100/month in profit. Not too shabby.

What's the best Windows build for this?

As a data scientist, I have the lingering fears of job automation. At least for applications-oriented work (as opposed to research). There's no reason Auto ML software couldn't take away most of the difficulty of model building in simpler scenarios. I mean, the software is already here. Just not widely used. And as computing power increases, no reason they can't tackle more of the complex problems where you might need to call in an expert. Feature generation based on the context of the industry, etc. Translation of findings into business-understandable language. One new algorithm or software package can automate much of what a data scientist might do. I mean, the unofficial slogan for some of the data science positions I've found were to "automate myself out of a job."

That's why, although I LOVE what I do, part of me thinks I need to make sure I'm in a position to move into management at some point - because I see a lot less ability for automation in areas that require "people" skills over the next few decades. On the other hand, I LOVE what I do. What's that French phrase? C'est la vie? I think it translates into "you're screwed, one way or another."

Very cool. How do you switch to a particular subreddit?