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by dnquark 2y ago
Yes, but I'll just speak to the part about dancing: it is true that (a) many people find it fun and rewarding and (b) many people don't find it easy and/or natural a priori. However, given the right style, music, AND a few (o
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by dnquark 6y ago
This hits home: "You must become your own health advocate" To this I will add, if there's an outstanding health issue, even if it seems minor, address it without delay. Pound the phones, demand specialist referrals, and for t
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by dnquark 6y ago
What really matters is not how "open" the device is, but the open-ness of its data format, which is where rM epically fails. It doesn't matter if a gadget is hackable if it locks you into a proprietary file format and doesn&#
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by dnquark 6y ago
Your first link is a months-long back-and-forth between a developer who finished the HSP functionality and PulseAudio maintainers. They aren't on the same page about how to best integrate the code and seem to be very upset at each oth
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by dnquark 6y ago
Hastie and Tibshirani teach a free course based on this book on Stanford's OpenEdX ( https://online.stanford.edu/courses/sohs-ystatslearning-stat... ). I highly recommend taking this course or reading the book befor
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by dnquark 6y ago
My first dance teacher used to refer to a similar study from 10 years ago in NEJM ( https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa022252); his commentary is at https://socialdance.stanford.edu/sy
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by dnquark 6y ago
Not only are GLMs there, this is far and beyond the clearest explanation of GLMs I've ever seen. If you've ever wanted to learn the theory behind logistic regression, the last 3 lectures are a must-watch.
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by dnquark 6y ago
The Russian and German sign-up page still reflects the old price. Story checks out! (Although I was slightly disappointed that it wasn't a fellow Slav discount.) But with a name like "five nines software" customer expectation
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by dnquark 6y ago
tl;dr: terminal -> vim == less context switching Even though I live in Emacs, I frequently use GP's workflow as well. For me, it's often the fact that I am already working in the terminal when I need to edit the config, so goin
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by dnquark 6y ago
SICP is my quarantine project, going through the whole thing taking my own notes in org-mode, doing the exercises, and checking with https://github.com/zv/SICP-guile as I go along. It's been fun! I'm on chapt
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by dnquark 6y ago
Yes, I am thinking mostly about the ease of porting the app to different platforms. This is particularly relevant to Xournal/Xournal++ as they are terrific tools, but the hardware that these tools are optimized for typically does not r
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by dnquark 6y ago
This is excellent. I've been searching for ways to use modern hardware with my Xournal/Xournal++ workflows, and this is a promising approach. I am, however, a little concerned about robustness of video streaming. In an ideal world
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by dnquark 6y ago
I was about to jump ship to VSCode, but lsp-mode (despite minor hiccups) has extended my Emacs' expiration date. So if I almost gave up, after having lived in Emacs for the last 12 years, can we really expect much popularity with those
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by dnquark 7y ago
What's their portability story? I don't want my personal knowledge store to be locked into a platform, particularly one that's not guaranteed to last. PDF exports don't cut it, my notes are living documents. I'm rea
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by dnquark 9y ago
I would say that quality is an abstract value judgement that requires context to be meaningful. That's why it escapes precise definition. Whenever Pirsig talks about quality, it seems that he is heavily overloading the term. What he
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by dnquark 9y ago
Is there a resource in the vein of the linked review, but that explains the book (and its philosophical content) on a more basic level, for someone with no background in the subject? I was hoping that Pirsig would help me understand philos
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by dnquark 10y ago
Do these accessibility requirements only concern public institutions? Stanford has been taking down course videos (notably, CS231n) for the same reason, which just does not make sense to me. I understand the argument that an institution i
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by dnquark 10y ago
All these years I assumed that the 'spiral rule' and 'right-left rule' (linked from the stephencanon comment above, and also described in my second link) are two ways to describe the same algorithm, but, reading closely,
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by dnquark 10y ago
The trick to reading crazy C declarations is learning the "spiral rule": http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html (here are more examples, with nicer formatting: http://www.unixwiz.net/techt
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by dnquark 11y ago
A well-architected monolith is better than a spaghetti of mis-designed microservices. Microservices don't reduce complexity, they /can/ help manage it better, but only past a certain scale, as the article points out. They do
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by dnquark 11y ago
The original question has perfectly satisfying explanations accessible to anyone who knows algebra and is willing to spend a few weeks studying special relativity. cynicalkane above provides a great intuitive summary. Likewise, generally s
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by dnquark 11y ago
I've been using Xournal for notes, problem sets, etc. for the last 5 years. It doesn't do handwriting recognition, etc., but I find that this is a good thing -- that way I don't ever have to go back and fix recognition error
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by dnquark 11y ago
OP makes me wonder what resolution _is_ enough for most people. Sure, I dig quality screens -- as an undergrad in 2003 I dropped almost all my savings on a Dell 19" 1280x1024 panel with zero regrets, and would always opt for the highes
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by dnquark 11y ago
This is a great project. There's no reason that any textbook, academic paper, or even a video lecture today shouldn't have a Medium-like comment/question/discussion layer. Academic papers are a natural place to start for
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by dnquark 11y ago
We've spent many millions broadcasting radio and TV to Cuba (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_y_Televisi%C3%B3n_Mart%C... ). I wonder what the obstacles are to providing internet access via something like P
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by dnquark 11y ago
I hope Project Fi has a side effect of improving existing Google Voice / Hangouts integration. While it's been slowly getting better, some of my texts sent via GV in Hangouts never get delivered, some arrive out of order. In addit
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by dnquark 11y ago
De Garis appears to have genuinely good intentions to educate the world and thereby free it from war and poverty. Unfortunately, he also comes across as self-important, cantankerous, elitist prick, which makes me think that he is unlikely
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by dnquark 11y ago
Does Xmonad work OOTB on recent Ubuntu versions? I remember that after the switch to Gnome 3 it was a huge PITA to get Xmonad, Xmobar, and trayer (to get indicator applets) all working; some indicator applets never displayed anyway. TBH, th
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by dnquark 12y ago
Phasing out cursive in favor of typing reflects an unfortunate reality in which the ability to bang out TPS reports is more important than writing a nice card to Grandma. But while I spend most waking hours at the keyboard, any creative pro
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by dnquark 14y ago
What finally made the curse of dimensionality "click" for me was recognizing that the volume of an n-sphere goes to zero as n grows large. In 2D, if I want to see which of my data points lie close to some reference point, I can draw a circ

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