Yes, but I'll just speak to the part about dancing: it is true that (a) many people find it fun and rewarding and (b) many people don't find it easy and/or natural a priori. However, given the right style, music, AND a…
This hits home: "You must become your own health advocate" To this I will add, if there's an outstanding health issue, even if it seems minor, address it without delay. Pound the phones, demand specialist referrals, and…
What really matters is not how "open" the device is, but the open-ness of its data format, which is where rM epically fails. It doesn't matter if a gadget is hackable if it locks you into a proprietary file format and…
Your first link is a months-long back-and-forth between a developer who finished the HSP functionality and PulseAudio maintainers. They aren't on the same page about how to best integrate the code and seem to be very…
Hastie and Tibshirani teach a free course based on this book on Stanford's OpenEdX (https://online.stanford.edu/courses/sohs-ystatslearning-stat...). I highly recommend taking this course or reading the book before…
My first dance teacher used to refer to a similar study from 10 years ago in NEJM (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa022252); his commentary is at https://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/smarter.htm But yeah,…
Not only are GLMs there, this is far and beyond the clearest explanation of GLMs I've ever seen. If you've ever wanted to learn the theory behind logistic regression, the last 3 lectures are a must-watch.
The Russian and German sign-up page still reflects the old price. Story checks out! (Although I was slightly disappointed that it wasn't a fellow Slav discount.) But with a name like "five nines software" customer…
tl;dr: terminal -> vim == less context switching Even though I live in Emacs, I frequently use GP's workflow as well. For me, it's often the fact that I am already working in the terminal when I need to edit the config,…
SICP is my quarantine project, going through the whole thing taking my own notes in org-mode, doing the exercises, and checking with https://github.com/zv/SICP-guile as I go along. It's been fun! I'm on chapter 2 now;…
Yes, I am thinking mostly about the ease of porting the app to different platforms. This is particularly relevant to Xournal/Xournal++ as they are terrific tools, but the hardware that these tools are optimized for…
This is excellent. I've been searching for ways to use modern hardware with my Xournal/Xournal++ workflows, and this is a promising approach. I am, however, a little concerned about robustness of video streaming. In an…
I was about to jump ship to VSCode, but lsp-mode (despite minor hiccups) has extended my Emacs' expiration date. So if I almost gave up, after having lived in Emacs for the last 12 years, can we really expect much…
What's their portability story? I don't want my personal knowledge store to be locked into a platform, particularly one that's not guaranteed to last. PDF exports don't cut it, my notes are living documents. I'm really…
I would say that quality is an abstract value judgement that requires context to be meaningful. That's why it escapes precise definition. Whenever Pirsig talks about quality, it seems that he is heavily overloading the…
Is there a resource in the vein of the linked review, but that explains the book (and its philosophical content) on a more basic level, for someone with no background in the subject? I was hoping that Pirsig would help…
Do these accessibility requirements only concern public institutions? Stanford has been taking down course videos (notably, CS231n) for the same reason, which just does not make sense to me. I understand the argument…
All these years I assumed that the 'spiral rule' and 'right-left rule' (linked from the stephencanon comment above, and also described in my second link) are two ways to describe the same algorithm, but, reading…
The trick to reading crazy C declarations is learning the "spiral rule": http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html (here are more examples, with nicer formatting: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/reading-cdecl.html)
A well-architected monolith is better than a spaghetti of mis-designed microservices. Microservices don't reduce complexity, they /can/ help manage it better, but only past a certain scale, as the article points out.…
The original question has perfectly satisfying explanations accessible to anyone who knows algebra and is willing to spend a few weeks studying special relativity. cynicalkane above provides a great intuitive summary.…
I've been using Xournal for notes, problem sets, etc. for the last 5 years. It doesn't do handwriting recognition, etc., but I find that this is a good thing -- that way I don't ever have to go back and fix recognition…
OP makes me wonder what resolution _is_ enough for most people. Sure, I dig quality screens -- as an undergrad in 2003 I dropped almost all my savings on a Dell 19" 1280x1024 panel with zero regrets, and would always…
This is a great project. There's no reason that any textbook, academic paper, or even a video lecture today shouldn't have a Medium-like comment/question/discussion layer. Academic papers are a natural place to start…
We've spent many millions broadcasting radio and TV to Cuba (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_y_Televisi%C3%B3n_Mart%C...). I wonder what the obstacles are to providing internet access via something like Project…
Yes, but I'll just speak to the part about dancing: it is true that (a) many people find it fun and rewarding and (b) many people don't find it easy and/or natural a priori. However, given the right style, music, AND a…
This hits home: "You must become your own health advocate" To this I will add, if there's an outstanding health issue, even if it seems minor, address it without delay. Pound the phones, demand specialist referrals, and…
What really matters is not how "open" the device is, but the open-ness of its data format, which is where rM epically fails. It doesn't matter if a gadget is hackable if it locks you into a proprietary file format and…
Your first link is a months-long back-and-forth between a developer who finished the HSP functionality and PulseAudio maintainers. They aren't on the same page about how to best integrate the code and seem to be very…
Hastie and Tibshirani teach a free course based on this book on Stanford's OpenEdX (https://online.stanford.edu/courses/sohs-ystatslearning-stat...). I highly recommend taking this course or reading the book before…
My first dance teacher used to refer to a similar study from 10 years ago in NEJM (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa022252); his commentary is at https://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/smarter.htm But yeah,…
Not only are GLMs there, this is far and beyond the clearest explanation of GLMs I've ever seen. If you've ever wanted to learn the theory behind logistic regression, the last 3 lectures are a must-watch.
The Russian and German sign-up page still reflects the old price. Story checks out! (Although I was slightly disappointed that it wasn't a fellow Slav discount.) But with a name like "five nines software" customer…
tl;dr: terminal -> vim == less context switching Even though I live in Emacs, I frequently use GP's workflow as well. For me, it's often the fact that I am already working in the terminal when I need to edit the config,…
SICP is my quarantine project, going through the whole thing taking my own notes in org-mode, doing the exercises, and checking with https://github.com/zv/SICP-guile as I go along. It's been fun! I'm on chapter 2 now;…
Yes, I am thinking mostly about the ease of porting the app to different platforms. This is particularly relevant to Xournal/Xournal++ as they are terrific tools, but the hardware that these tools are optimized for…
This is excellent. I've been searching for ways to use modern hardware with my Xournal/Xournal++ workflows, and this is a promising approach. I am, however, a little concerned about robustness of video streaming. In an…
I was about to jump ship to VSCode, but lsp-mode (despite minor hiccups) has extended my Emacs' expiration date. So if I almost gave up, after having lived in Emacs for the last 12 years, can we really expect much…
What's their portability story? I don't want my personal knowledge store to be locked into a platform, particularly one that's not guaranteed to last. PDF exports don't cut it, my notes are living documents. I'm really…
I would say that quality is an abstract value judgement that requires context to be meaningful. That's why it escapes precise definition. Whenever Pirsig talks about quality, it seems that he is heavily overloading the…
Is there a resource in the vein of the linked review, but that explains the book (and its philosophical content) on a more basic level, for someone with no background in the subject? I was hoping that Pirsig would help…
Do these accessibility requirements only concern public institutions? Stanford has been taking down course videos (notably, CS231n) for the same reason, which just does not make sense to me. I understand the argument…
All these years I assumed that the 'spiral rule' and 'right-left rule' (linked from the stephencanon comment above, and also described in my second link) are two ways to describe the same algorithm, but, reading…
The trick to reading crazy C declarations is learning the "spiral rule": http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html (here are more examples, with nicer formatting: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/reading-cdecl.html)
A well-architected monolith is better than a spaghetti of mis-designed microservices. Microservices don't reduce complexity, they /can/ help manage it better, but only past a certain scale, as the article points out.…
The original question has perfectly satisfying explanations accessible to anyone who knows algebra and is willing to spend a few weeks studying special relativity. cynicalkane above provides a great intuitive summary.…
I've been using Xournal for notes, problem sets, etc. for the last 5 years. It doesn't do handwriting recognition, etc., but I find that this is a good thing -- that way I don't ever have to go back and fix recognition…
OP makes me wonder what resolution _is_ enough for most people. Sure, I dig quality screens -- as an undergrad in 2003 I dropped almost all my savings on a Dell 19" 1280x1024 panel with zero regrets, and would always…
This is a great project. There's no reason that any textbook, academic paper, or even a video lecture today shouldn't have a Medium-like comment/question/discussion layer. Academic papers are a natural place to start…
We've spent many millions broadcasting radio and TV to Cuba (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_y_Televisi%C3%B3n_Mart%C...). I wonder what the obstacles are to providing internet access via something like Project…