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A few months ago I switched to gnome since it supports hidpi and fractional scaling, and it's snappy enough but somehow feels bloated in everyday use (ubuntu 20.04). I tried to switch back to xfce with a recent fix for fractional scaling, but it looked fuzzy on my screen no matter the resolution, so I had to abandon that for the time being. KDE was the default at my work and I've used it for many years, probably over a decade. The article says gnome is lighter, but that's not my impression, or maybe I'm missing something with gnome?

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off topic, but I'm curious what would've been a typical workday there.

Variety has an in depth look into Roger Ailes,

Film Review: ‘Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes’

https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/divide-and-conquer-the...

> use containers/virtualization for anything where ones hacking around might be dodgy - i.e. keep the work part of workstation in mind with all system updates/installations, etc.

Care to elaborate? this might be useful to try. I have a similar setup macbook and ubuntu system, but I find that the LTS 18/20 versions often need reboot, and I didn't have the issue with centos. Still, I would probably continue using ubuntu because it usually needs less hacking time in my experience.

> Still, the sheer scale of the problem is daunting. “Any reasonable search engine has to have 20 billion-50 billion pages in its active index,” Mr Ramaswamy said. When a user runs a query, the retrieval system must sift through vast troves of data then rank them in milliseconds.

this sounds interesting but as an outsider to these topics I have many questions.

how is the search achieved in milliseconds (hardware/software), for possibly millions of users simultaneously across the world

what is so difficult about creating an index of 20-50 billion entries? I'd imagine faang etc have resources to do these things with little effort

I own an JBL charge 2. These are probably aimed for people who prefer high bass over a balanced sound (balanced they are not). Worst- the bluetooth connection is unstable even in direct sight, within 5-20 cm, with android/mac/raspberry. I realize everyone has different tastes but I would not recommend JBL.

FTA: "... any wavelet can be reconstructed by adding together a finite series of identical wavelets squashed to fractions of its initial width: a half, then a fourth, then an eighth and so on."

I may not follow or there's a typo above. Should the first 'wavelet' be replaced with function/signal/distribution/etc? this sounds a lot like a taylor or fourier analysis

yes that was my conclusion after some research on this. there is an open issue on github for AMD support on pytorch, and looks like something works on arch linux, but really sounds like support is still in the hacking stage and far from production mode.

https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/10657

I commented earlier, but figured to add some more:

I'm rooting for AMD and also looking to replace a 2012 MBP with an AMD laptop. The defacto cards for ML work seem to be NVDIA (eg their RTX line, https://timdettmers.com/2020/09/07/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...)

Does anyone know if pytorch/sci-kit might offer more support to AMD cards?

anyone have some experience on this? I'm in the market for an AMD laptop capable of running standard sci-kit/pytorch/etc but these seem optimized for NVIDIA cards. I'm curious about the outlook for these trending AMD cards.

I recently started using garmin products, is there a way to opt out?

I recently found out about Jam Handy Organization and their documentaries for Chevrolet (how the differential steering works.

Documentaries at the Internet archive site https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Handy+%28J...

The former Fox News executive Roger E. Ailes is the subject of the documentary “Divide and Conquer.”

This article goes into some more details about the documentary (javascript heavy)

https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/divide-and-conquer-the...

The sugar industry has a history of lobbying public attention away from sugar and towards cholesterol. It has even enlisted places like Harvard School of Public Health on this task:

http://time.com/4485710/sugar-industry-heart-disease-researc...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-co...

From the article:

the newest tracking technology the researchers discovered is the one that leverages the AudioContext API. Third-party trackers use it to send low-frequency sounds to a user's PC and measure how the PC processes the data, creating a unique fingerprint based on the user's hardware and software capabilities.

At $150 the Mv88 seems a little steep. may be worth it judging by amazon reviews. TASCAM makes some affordable microphones for ios systems.

:( no mention of JM Jarre. Here are some oldies but goodies

Oxygene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE9jShG9sD0

Magnetic fields https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyzXZ_NFVrg

One amazon review for The Society of Mind says "The book has nothing to do with artificial intelligence. It has everything to do with speculation. And since no one has builty the society of mind from this blueprint in over 15 years, what does that tell us about the usefulness of the idea??" A"Marvin Minsky" replied: "It tells us that most AI researchers are still looking for oversimplistic solutions to problems. This reviewer does not understand that new ideas often take 2 decades to spread, because most practitioners in most fields don't oftenmake changes in their careers. The ideas in my 1961 "Steps toward Artificial Intelligence" became general practice aroun 1980, and those in "The Society of Mind," are only now (2007) becoming widely adopted."

from another related article[1], "A working hypothesis is that socio-economic circumstances leave their mark on the epigenome leading to stable changes in expression of genes critical for human health, such as those involved in cardiovascular, immune, stress response and behavioural pathologies"

[1] Associations with early-life socio-economic position in adult DNA methylation. Int J Epidemiol. 2012 Feb; 41(1): 62–74.

Someone posted a somewhat toxic but somewhat valid point, and the project responded with more details about their 'source'. I add their response but it may be best to read the original post.

To be sure to keep our source safe, we're not providing more details quite yet.

But actually, we don't know many more details than the ones we posted. And as for your 'why', that's an excellent question, and one we've been wrestling with too. There are nine directory authorities, spread around the US and Europe. If they're trying to hunt down particular Tor users, most possible attacks on directory authorities would be unproductive, since those relays don't know anything about what particular Tor users are doing.

Our previous plan had been to sit tight and hope nothing happens. Then we realized that was a silly plan when we could do this one [post the warning] instead.

According to wikipedia "The onboard guidance software used a Kalman filter to merge new data with past position measurements to produce an optimal position estimate for the spacecraft." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_PGNCS

In turn the main source of navigation information came from mission control using least squares. A source on that would be nice too!

> coca-leaf which comes from South America and is processed in a unique US government authorized factory in New Jersey to remove its addictive stimulant cocaine

According to Wikipedia "The Stepan Company is the only manufacturing plant authorized by the Federal Government to import and process the coca plant, which it obtains mainly from Peru and, to a lesser extent, Bolivia. Besides producing the coca flavoring agent for Coca-Cola, the Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it sells to Mallinckrodt, a St. Louis, Missouri, pharmaceutical manufacturer that is the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use."