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axpy906··on DuckDuckGo's daily search queries surpassed 100M, a 47% increase
I switched to DDG after I got tired of Google’s too results being curated content. I just want to see what matches my search, not what Alphabet wants me to see.
axpy906··on Watching video twice at 2x can benefit learning better than once at normal speed
The confounding factor in this study strikes me as reviewing before the test. That should improve results regardless of speed.
axpy906··on SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an inflammatory response
This is an interesting paper because it shows how fat cell tissue worsens outcomes for Covid. We’ve known for awhile that obesity increases the risk of mortality, however, this gives a clue (the inflammatory response and fat cells amplify the virus) as to why that’s the case.
axpy906··on Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule
Suggest title change to include “and Affirmations”. The second picture is of daily affirmations.
axpy906··on Show HN: You.com, private search engine that summarizes the web – built for devs
Had no idea that Socher left SF.
axpy906··on Peter Norvig Joins Stanford HAI
I think they referred to him internally which makes sense. I follow him on LinkedIn and most of the posts are about GCS AI services, which is external facing.
axpy906··on New “Report a Problem” link on product pages
I wonder what percent of users actually believe that all the apps listed are legit?
axpy906··on Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked
Pretty much this. If they gain one email/username password combination - they can use it elsewhere.
axpy906··on Old video game advertisements
I distinctly remember doing that for Quake. Going into the store and getting the demo hard disk to take home and install on DOS. That started years of FPS playing…
axpy906··on Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane
That does not look like an eye due to darkness. Waves would be a bit calmer too as the wind would die.
axpy906··on After 3.5M-year hiatus, largest comet ever discovered is headed our way
Maybe change the title to “Heads toward our Solar System” or “Heads toward Saturn”?
axpy906··on Old video game advertisements
Wow, look at all this print! These either came in comics or magazines. Funny that gamers read so much back then. I know I did.
axpy906··on Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app
From the looks of it both Android and Apple have a great deal of power, even for Telegram.
axpy906··on Create, train and run Scikit-learn and TensorFlow models in Excel
I would be curious what deployment would look like here… Would it be uploading the model back to the cloud to run inference for other users - like a marketplace?
axpy906··on JupyterLab Desktop App now available
Nope but if it’s been improved, I will take a look. Would be nice to run with remote containers.
axpy906··on Book review: The Checklist Manifesto
I think we’ve lost the plot. The important thing is if you can recall and then use what’s in the book.

If it takes repetition or length to do it, so be it.

Some books even recommend you read them a second time for that purpose, like Getting Things Done and How To Win Friends and Influence People.

axpy906··on JupyterLab Desktop App now available
Based at on the comments it looks like it is Jupyter Lab just packaged in an electron app.

I am unsure of what problem this is trying to solve as common use is to use Jupyter Lab remotely and then tunnel in to run excitements on a large cloud instance.

axpy906··on JupyterLab Desktop App now available
I’ve tried vs code notebooks. For me, they don’t run as fast as jupyter.

That said the convert jupyter NB to Python in VS saves a lot of time.

axpy906··on That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job
Process is about HOW you do things. Product is about WHAT you make. I do think that both are necessary but taken to the extreme as you see in Japan and US doesn’t lead to any easy reconciliation.
axpy906··on Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud
I recently had an experience with a seller that kept sending me new tracking numbers as the shipment got “lost”. At first it seemed like great customer service because they would send me a brand new item because the shipment failed to come through or waive the shipping fee on my order. In the end, I got wise to what was going on and on the last day asked for a full refund from Amazon before the appeal time expired. Amazon gave me the refund but that was close.
axpy906··on North Korean missiles land in Japanese waters
China fought the UN in Korea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
axpy906··on North Korean missiles land in Japanese waters
Did anyone else click on this thinking the missle landed in Japan and not the “Sea of Japan”?
axpy906··on How percentile approximation works and why it's more useful than averages
You’re right I mistyped.
axpy906··on How percentile approximation works and why it's more useful than averages
There’s something called a five number summary in statistics: mean, median, standard deviation, 25th percentile and 75th percentile.

The bonus is that the 75th - 50th gives you the interquartile range.

Mean is not a robust measure and as such you need to look at variety to truly understand the spread of your data.

axpy906··on The effects of remote work on collaboration among information workers
How does it make it harder to get promoted?
axpy906··on A.I. can now write its own computer code – that’s good news for humans
On a side note, I saw this on the Gartner wave for 2021. It was under the hype cycle with 5 years, fwiw.
axpy906··on Spice.ai – Open-source, time series AI for developers
Yes, it needs a quick start somewhere.
axpy906··on TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK
Wonder what comparisons are possible for YT as MySpace and TikTok as Facebook? Seems like history is playing itself out again.
axpy906··on The moments that could have accidentally ended humanity
I was hoping for something more about asteroids hitting earth. There’s historical examples of this which makes it far more a likely event.
axpy906··on Why the U.S. once set off a nuclear bomb in space
Like the Carrington Event but with modern tech?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

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