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Same

gptel in emacs does this. You can run the same prompt against different models in separate emacs windows (local or via api w/ keys) at the same time to compare outputs. I highly recommended it. https://github.com/karthink/gptel

From earlier post (2018): https://www.uber.com/en-CA/blog/keplergl/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17181879

+1. Accessibility is in huge demand right now and setting up a consultancy could be very interesting for you as you get to see issues and patterns across companies. Most, if not all, Fortune 500 companies are interested accessibility.

In my experience it is not one or the other. You can experiment first and then document, or vice versa. The point of documentation is "writing is thinking". The act of writing forces you to think through your ideas in ways that other modes of thinking do not. This is especially important when you are working on a team and need to share your ideas.

I agree that sufficiently detailed design documents are indispensable from code and should be avoided. However, clearly documenting the why, what and how of your work helps align everyone clearly. It also helps an individual clarify their ideas to themselves. It is hard to write clearly & succinctly. It takes time & practice, but I find it essential.

The Beatles were obsessed with Pet Sounds. Sgt. Pepper was their response to it.

This. A big problem with office work is office cube design. I'm old enough to have had a closed door office in the 90s and it was the best. I also worked in large cubes which had moveable partitions as walls where you couldn't see your neighbours. They were also good, not great, but better than today's cubes. They even had large book shelves where you could keep your reference books!

At home, I can close my door and it is much superior for my personal productivity than an open office cube plan.

This.

That is amazing, thank you for sharing. Given you had experienced sound before your hearing deteriorated, is it possible to describe the difference in sound with a cochlear implant? I always thought with the limited number of electrodes in an implant, the sound would be "buzzy" (less rich), but the brain is quite malleable and maybe adapts to the new sounds.

I really enjoyed the article. Thank you for posting it.

Yes. Tim said the notch looks great in dark mode.

You forgot the reference video!! :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY&t=5s

This is so true and you can buy high quality gear for cheap on Craigslist, Kijiji, VarageSale or your local garage sale.

I also have kids, but where I live we have plenty of pine & maple trees and traditional grass doesn't grow well in the shade. But we are lucky and native moss filled in. Moss is great for balls, they bounce & roll better, especially for games like bocce & croquet. The kids love it and I rarely have to mow or water. Sometimes there is a native alternative to grass, sometimes not.

Alfredo Canziani is awesome and did a lot of the heavy lifting for this course. I agree with siddharthb_, it would be great to include his name in the title.

Respect!

What, no Turbo button??

Except he missed one major selling point. Our food/restaurant scene is second to none. If you consider moving here then negotiate a couple of months remote work per year and work from Costa Rica in Jan-Feb.

... you forgot luck.

Back in the late 90's and early 00's I did the same thing. We had an online record store, homebass, and we would give free records (mostly promos) to our best customers. I would also include a hand written note thanking them for their business.

They have horrible management, which is where the "layoffs" should happen. They have great engineers, skilled craftsmen, workers, etc., but the upper ranks and board of directors are full of patronage and incest.

you mean us-nord-1 :-)

Yeah, that's what I would do. First apply an IIR low pass filter (e.g. 200 Hz), downsample, apply a window function (e.g. Hamming, but there are probably better choices) and then autocorrelate the window. The peaks in the autocorrelation should give you the beat. If you use a higher frequency you can get the sub-beats. This should work with all music types ... kick drum or no kick drum.

I would love it if they could optimize it for specific use cases, such as removing the advertising on the ice & boards from a televised hockey game.

My advice is to apply his engineering skills to the job hunt itself. Send out CV's every day, network, hunt, analyze data, look for patterns, etc. As he is discovering, job hunting is a full time job.

In Canada, there are organizations for older job hunters that help with resume preparation and cover letters, job hunting techniques, how to network effectively, etc. Working with others in a similar situation is great for your morale. I wish him good luck.

They only axed Silicon Valley research. Microsoft Research is still strong, but in Redmond, Israel and other locations. The Microsoft executive team fully recognizes that research is key to their future success.

Why? This is not a troll, I'm very interested in your reasons.

Yes, plus the executives involved should be personally punished through financial loss and imprisonment.

Agreed. Even 3 decimal places wouldn't do justice to what they have done to us. Fuck those greedy bastards. If we were smart we would unionize ... err, sorry, I mean form a professional association to represent our interests. Like doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc.

But I can blame companies for conspiring to hire the best trained people to do a given job at the lowest possible price. H-1B visas, offshoring, anti-compete clauses and non-poaching agreements are their key tactics.