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pfd1986on Nbdev: Create delightful software with Jupyter Notebooks

Thanks Jeremy et al for a great piece of software.

I have used nbdev numerous times to introduce data scientists to good practices in software development.

Getting them to go from zero to a well tested, documented, CI/CD-ready code in an hour and seeing their faces light up always brings me joy. Keep up the great work.

pfd1986on The Principles of Deep Learning Theory

Mind sharing some titles?

pfd1986on Find anything fast with Google's vector search technology

More "Find _something_ fast with vector search". I was not successful in finding anything relevant. PageRank works because it _ranks_ pages by, among other features, number and quality of visitors.

E.g. searching for Huxley quote gives me silly blog posts about saving money.

Query: "The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful."

Answer: "How to trick your brain into saving money"

pfd1986on I created a video game for tired gamers. Now I have to find them

Don't they say the original pacman had no 'goal'? And that GTA was basically pacman where instead you drive a car aimlessly? I think there is a good market for brainless, exploratory games and IMO those are the best :) congrats on the launch

pfd1986on Artificial Cells That Mimic Living Cells’ Ability to Capture, Process and Expel

Paul Chaikin, Ned Seeman and other folks at NYU have made some interesting experiments towards self-replicating artificial building blocks, if you're interested...

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10500 https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2009/sm/b8176...

pfd1986on Show HN: Tool that turns your images into plotter-like line drawings

I wonder if the number of lines can be a measure of Kolmogorov complexity for an image...

Neat idea regardless.

pfd1986on Notion API – public beta

Same for my org. We'd have the entire team move, if self host was an option.

pfd1986on There's a simple solution for companies struggling to hire: Pay workers more

As someone who worked under horrible conditions because I couldn't leave (sponsored H1B), thank you.

pfd1986on RIP Google Reader

Is there (plan for) a "read it later" feature? Sometimes I find a good link that I just want to be able to find and read at a later time.

Thanks!

pfd1986on Dark Watchers have been spooking California hikers for centuries. What are they?

I believe this is the correct answer: https://twitter.com/DamascenoPF/status/1371861649011843073

pfd1986on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)

The Center for Intelligent Imaging at the University of California San Francisco focuses on applications of artificial intelligence and image analysis tools in medical imaging. The Center provides the internal UCSF community and external academic and industry partners (GE, Siemens, NVIDIA) a unique resource in which to discover, innovate, and translate artificial intelligence tools to improve patient care.

It is a great opportunity to work on impactful problems at the interface of AI, Healthcare, Digital Health, and Medical Imaging.

We have several open positions, from Machine Learning scientists to IT analysts and system admins. More details:

https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreL...

pfd1986on Ask HN: What are you working on?

Interesting concept and I think it’s definitely worth the experiment!

If I understand the premise, what you’re trying to avoid is a hub effect (the rich getting richer) becuase traditionally users see messages already curated (e.g. with highest upvotes) and the idea is to replace that with an incentive for discovering new content.

Unless you have a way to define new content, wont you run into the same problem but now with $ tokens? E.g. one of the most upvoted news from HN is “Steve Jobs has died”. I imagine even on your system users would assume this would raise to the top and would buy a lot of “shares”, so it becomes more of a game of “predicting what will be further upvoted / echo chambered”. Am I missing something?

Again, exciting project nevertheless.

pfd1986on Birds respond to a half-century soundscape reversion during the COVID19 shutdown

For more on this, see the extremely interesting book 'Noise Matters' by Haven Wiley: https://g.co/kgs/pTKgsd

pfd1986on Coronavirus: Why aren’t death rates rising with case numbers? A UK perspective

I must be missing something here: "It is likely that (...) an increasing proportion are young and a declining proportion are older"

Don't they have access to this data? How's that a speculation and not a plot?

pfd1986on Slaying Fake News

This event happening tomorrow might be of interest: https://www.usfca.edu/event/2020-04-29-1200/misinformation-a...

pfd1986on I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours

~1-10 billion neurons.

pfd1986on Music for Programming (2011)

Also:

https://coderadio.freecodecamp.org/

https://9128.live/

https://dewtone.com/

pfd1986on Feeling stuck? Write a poem

Wrong thread?!

pfd1986on Scientists pinpoint neural activity's role in human longevity

Once it gets published and then reproduced by others while discarding cofounding factors.

pfd1986on 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/set-rounding-precis...

pfd1986on Kubernetes Academy, a free product-agnostic education platform

Is it bad that the best part of the tutorial for me was to discover fzf? https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/fzf-a-command-line-fuzzy-f...

pfd1986on Telomere shortening rate predicts species life span

I believe the argume is valid for order of magnitude calculations (see Geoffrey West YouTube videos, for an explanation).

+-20 years wouldn't make a difference in a log plot

pfd1986on Origami-inspired materials could soften the blow for reusable spacecraft

I love the interplay between art and science. During my PhD I was lucky enough to work with an Origami artist (1) to help mathematicallly describe the folded structures he fabricated. One of such shapes was the one described in the article, I'm sure many more use cases will come, over the years.

(1) https://www.mattshlian.com/

pfd1986on What Happened to 'Miegakure,' the Game That Promised the 4th Dimension? (2018)

I met him at Dynamicland last year and he was pretty excited about developing the game, but I guess things slowed down? I hope it still gets developed, I love the idea of the game.

pfd1986on Blocking a protein curbs memory loss in old mice: study

Specially in light of recent correlations found between inflammation and all sorts of diseases including neurodegenerative ones, previously discussed on HN: https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/inflammation-disease-die...

pfd1986on The 'Future Book' Is Here, but It's Not What We Expected (2018)

This is great! Looking fwd to your book on graph database ML. In case you've been using Graph Convolutions, this might be interesting / useful for you: [https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00067] arxiv.org/abs/1905.00067

pfd1986on Graph Convolutional Networks (2016)

In a traditional CNN you use the same convolution kernel across an entire image. Here you do the same but you convolve the features of a person (pixel) with the feature of its neighbors, but those change depending on the network. Drawbacks are: I) you add one new person to the network, the whole thing has to be retrained; ii) convolutions are more complex and expensive

pfd1986on Xkcd-Style Plots in Matplotlib (2012)

Needs 2013 tag. Still fun tho.

pfd1986on The Water Computer (2016)

Microfluidics computation is an active area of research. See for instance Prakash et al

https://youtu.be/m5WodTppevo

pfd1986on At the Blackboard: Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories (2005)

Is that the same idea behind Campbell's "The Power of the Myth"?

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