Would rather have my chicken vat grown. Will try any cloned meat up to by not including "Wendy Meat" (as per Rudy Rucker's novel Freeware)
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I wonder if the OP observations of "(box-ticking, arse-covering, fatuous self-exculpating emails, the collection of ever more stupid metrics)" occurs more often in the advertising business? I searched for a chart that broke down stupid metrics by industry, but the closest one I could find is this: http://www.infosecisland.com/uploads/remoteimg/aa043ae12a097...
A friend mentioned his son is a bit "Aspy" - he said it with a bit of pride in his voice. Both father and son are brilliant coders.
Meanwhile, there's Modafinil. Originally intended as a treatment for narcolepsy, others use it to improve concentration.
I wonder if neuro-configurability will lead to less or more diversity?
I forwarded the OP to my friend from Global Manna. His opinion about the effects of cane on the Island biome were less fond.
I missed the reply from Bose: "We apologize for the information you received from our support team as it is not accurate. The Quietcontrol 30 headphones should offer a comparable level of noise cancellation to the previous QC20 model. Although the level of noise cancellation is adjustable on the QC30, they should perform just as well as the QC20."
My guess is that the new buds will allow the iPhone as a 3rd microphone, with Apple's "Live Listen"
A friend has worn the simple noise cancelling version of the Hear One to a loud concert. She loves them.
Another friend has the Bragi Dash earbuds and was complaining of some Bluetooth drop-out.
IMO, would rather have a neck band sending out RF than something sitting inside my head. Maybe the new passive WiFi solves that concern at 1/10,000 the power?
I am the ideal customer: some hearing loss from my VJ days, but still appreciate frequency response. I render all my music at 192Khz.
Basic hearing aids suck at frequency response. Most drop off at around 8KHz Meanwhile, Apple has created a pipeline for hearing aid. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201466 I haven't used it.
I often work out of noisy cafes. So, I wear Bose Quiet Comfort 20 earbuds. If I forget, I will go back home to fetch them. Have even taken the QC 20's to public concerts to use the noise cancellation feature instead of earplugs.
Well, am new to the subject, so not sure what this means. Am curious if there is any relationship between Fermat's principle of least time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_principle) and Quantum FFTs (https://www.quora.com/How-does-Shors-algorithm-work-in-layma...)
I wonder: given that a Photon travels at the speed of light, then everything happens instantaneously, from its point of view. So, is choosing the path that takes the shortest time like a standing wave?
PRO: My muscle memory is solidly in the MacOS+Xcode camp. Switching from ctrl key to command key for basic operations resulted in my RSI injury going away. Why? My guess: because the thumb is now the pivot point for commands, instead of the pinky. As a result, my hands splay inwards instead of outwards. Back during my MS-Win days, the solution was to get a split keyboard for the desktop. No longer need that.
CON: The main problem a dynamic set of keys is that you have to look at them. Each eye saccade wastes 200 milliseconds. I also assign app shortcuts with cmd-option-fn and use divvy + cmd-option-fn to assign reorganize window placement.
Plus, I wanna play with ML using CUDA. Am missing the Nvidia GPU that came with my 2013 MBP.
Intestinal flora tweak?
When I switched to a modified ketogenic diet, it took a few days to adjust. I now start the morning with coffee mixed with butter and caprylic acid (refined MCT oil).
Advice was: ease into it; too much, too soon, can lead to disaster pants.
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With this in mind, I wonder what you could do with a 3D printer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5Elbvvr1M
Moved to California would sell it, but ran out of money. So, I got a gig selling computers. Wrote code in my spare time. Then I got a gig selling software. Designed a better version in my spare time. And then my Boss invested in it. And then we failed at selling it. And then got a new gig writing software. And then another and another.
Then, at one gig I stumbled upon how to make a tool cheaper and better. That turned into a startup. Became a CTO. Had a little success. And then onto the next thing. My old Boss became a friend. So, he invested in the next thing.
In the midst of all that, there were some dry periods. I remember not eating. I remember flunking a job interview after spending my last $100 for a cab ride to get there on time. It felt like: what's the point?
Making a product is not the same as solving a puzzle. I'm an entrepreneur. That is very different from being a software engineer. An engineer is usually forward chaining from tools and patterns. An entrepreneur is usually backward chaining from goals.
I learned a lot from my Dad. I'm glad I worked for him. And I'm glad I moved away.
Wrote a tool to take a single font sheet bitmap and parse out each letter. Each letter had 4 shades of grey. So, would create 4 fonts that would render in 4 passes.
To make a master bitmap, we'd scan a font sheet into a PCX file hand it over to an artist with the instructions: "make it smooth". Hours upon hours of: zoom-in-click-click-click-zoom-out-review-repeat. Poor artist.
I wonder what kind of lament a vector artist will have, decades from now. And what will take its place.
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Michael Fogus, author of “Functional JavaScript”, suggests in his blog post “FP vs OO, from the trenches” (http://blog.fogus.me/2013/07/22/fp-vs-oo-from-the-trenches/) that when he deals with data about people, FP works well, but when he tries to simulate people, OOP works well.
I wonder about shape of the data as it moves from domain -> range? How would they map to machine and biological models for learning? First guess is the that ML maps well onto FP; for CNNs, the data progresses synchronously from one layer to the next. For Bio, state is asynchronous; neurons, after firing have an efficacy period. Maybe super-fine-grain objects? Petri nets are interesting in that they can feedforward state asynchronously.
I really admire the focus and patience. Back in the 70's, my inspiration was Royal Robins. I like the idea of leaving no trace on the rock. Not sure what modern bolts are like.
I used to do free-climbing. The first time that I climbed with ropes was with friends. It was also their first time with ropes. They didn't know how to tie a knot. The first time I repelled off a cliff was with a gold line with partner feeding from below. The knot slipped. I felt a vibration and hands instinctively grasped. I was 4 stories up and hanging on literally at the end of my rope. I was 22.
I started to look at my body as a resource. Climbing helped to fine tune a sense of balance. Kept the mind sharp. Then read that Chris Langton (an A-Life pioneer) had a hang gliding accident. Started to make risk-reward assessments. Changed sports.
Meanwhile, my Dad bought $1000 worth of quarters. Then he had us sort out all the quarters that were dated 1964 and before into a separate pile, as those quarters were 100% silver. After that, we sold the all silver quarters by weight. Forgot what the price was, but was worth the time.
I've been spending much of the last year developing some open source code (a data flow ontology). Was thinking of using GPLv3. But, now leaning towards MIT. The first app to use it will be a visual music synth for iOS.
Ironically, Stallman just reminded me about GPL's philosophical baggage.
One possibility is the taxi/uber/lyft hailing problem. Instead of stations, you have rider and car locations. Time and distance is the ticket cost.