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former project: OkToTalk, recommender and matching system to find you the right psychologist for your situation and personality
If you've ever wondered why everyone says "therapy is great, you should get a therapist" and yet it's ridiculously hard to actually do this, I can discuss it at length...
It's often said that to be outstanding, you should master two different fields then work at the intersection of those fields. For a lot of people the model of "real greatness" is Leonardo, who mastered about 7 fields.…
Closest name I can think of is "commitment and consistency". People tend to behave as they have behaved in the past, doing so is both a cognitive shortcut and a source of positive emotion. We go to great lengths to…
VB was probably the charmingest language I’ve ever used, especially for GUI. It takes the cake for “rather complex runtime” though. As I recall, they bundled the entire VB interpreter into every executable. This seemed…
Agree. Shimmer is currently in the "assume good faith" category and it would help everyone if commenters gave feedback and asked questions from this perspective. From what I've seen of Shimmer, the rapid-fire negativity…
I know a nuclear physicist who got paid to go through the scripts and turn "CHARACTER: [insert science thing here]" into dialogue
This looks excellent! It's a great interface for two things I'm struggling to make LlamaIndex do: explain and debug multi-step responses for agent flows, and cache queries aggressively. If I can work out how to hook it…
I think that's the wrong end of the stick. When you publish research, the software you used/built on is part of the methods and needs to be cited. The authors are doing you a courtesy by providing a pasteable citation.…
It's an alternative, does a similar job, depends on/abstracts over langchain for some things. It's easier to use than langchain and you'll probably get moving much faster. They've aimed to make a framework that starts…
My situation somewhat overlaps with yours. I ordered a "water flosser" from everyone's favourite ecommerce site, and use it daily in the shower. It seems to be doing something, and can't possibly be worse than my…
You do need to separate medium of exchange from store of value. Real estate is useless as a currency while being the primary store of value for most people. Most of your objections also apply to real estate: can't know…
From the study, in-person schooling increases teen suicides by 12-18%. Is this fatality rate acceptable on the basis that it's "very necessary" to socialize the remaining children in this way? Is there evidence that…
For sure it's too much to ask. Get started on Twitter: 1. go to twitter.com 2. enter your name and phone number Get started on Pleroma: https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/installation/debian_base... Get started on…
masto.host was an option yesterday, now it looks like it won't be an option for the next few days. I was about to install self-hosted Mastodon but the machine load and amount of admin chores seemed too high. I've…
That's such a strange piece of UX. As a typical user, who on average consumes content rather than produces it, what I care about is that my list of followed accounts migrates with me so that my feed stays relatively…
Thank you, against my better judgement I've set up a self-hosted Pleroma
It looks like the Mastodon instance host Simon is using, masto.host, closed for new sign-ups 8 hours ago. Is there another recommended alternative? I don't think I have the energy to maintain a self-hosted Mastodon…
Stability is how the aircraft reacts to disturbances (control inputs, turbulence, ...). Stable aircraft resist disturbances and settle into going where they're pointed at a predictable speed, so you can let go of the…
I'm familiar with the industry. Everyone involved knows that you don't move so much as a mobile phone's worth of lithium without following a procedure. In my experience small violations are wilful laziness, large…
I spent a bit of time trying to do it with flex sensors. Strap one to your hand, make a fist, take your nap, detect when muscle tone is lost and it unbends. I ran out of interest before I got it to work but I still…
I tried one of those, it didn't make a shred of difference. MBP 16" still throttled so hard it was frequently unusable.
If you're in Australia, find a therapist using the thing I built: https://www.oktotalk.com.au . If you fill out the questions, the site might be able to recommend you someone good straight off. Otherwise one of our…
I do the separate-email thing too and my spambox is chock full of emails to leaked addresses. The leaks seem mostly from large, upstanding companies that have had data breaches (Adobe, Myspace, ...), rather than from…
I find that Airpods Non-Pro will stay in when I'm on my side and when I roll over. I'm a terrible sleeper and change position a fair bit, but there's no problem falling asleep with them in. I often wake up with them…
> any resource recommendations or tips for writing a translation engine All the successful translation websites/apps you're familiar with use machine learning. ML stomped all over NLP approaches because it gives a rough…
In our case we've already got all the stuff for serving web pages out of Django... the data model, DRF, auto scaling, access control, CI/CD. If I can use the same infrastructure to serve predictions, without having to…