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by fsavard 8y ago
It's quite funny I made a very similar lament a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16230668 I only post when I think I can somehow add value to the discussion, at least value for some people who might read
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by fsavard 8y ago
I confess I haven't read the whole thing but that figure 4 looks more like a set of approaches, rather than a continuum as in the periodic table. Their figure 1, which appears to describe fundamental design tradeoffs, makes me think of
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by fsavard 8y ago
Regarding specifically the creation of 3D models for usage in games, this is particularly relevant: Avatar Digitization From a Single Image For Real-Time Rendering http://www.hao-li.com/publications/papers/siggraph
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by fsavard 8y ago
It's a theme I like to read about (I mean "practical issues around ML in production settings"). I find company blogs and some research publications are great resources. Examples: - https://eng.uber.com/ - ht
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by fsavard 9y ago
When I saw what you were doing I thought "oh so you point your phone at the sky and it shows commercial planes around you as dots over the horizon" (or something). Then I saw the living room visualization and I realized that'
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by fsavard 9y ago
I just tried this and Alt-l seems to move to the line above (equiv. to Esc+l), Alt-J the line below, and in gvim it produces some accented characters for me. It would have been a good combination for finger movement though.
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by fsavard 9y ago
I too hated the need to press <Esc> all the time when I started with vi. It sounded as bad for wrists as the Ctrl key for Emacs. The trick I've found (I don't remember where) and used ever since is to map the "kj"
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by fsavard 9y ago
I'm glad that odd recollection can find a use :) In my case it's just discomfort but I'm curious as to why constraints around the waist don't get discussed more in articles about posture. For me it's one of those th
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by fsavard 9y ago
You jest but I tend to think it'd be much better for posture and breathing if pants with more flexibility and wiggle room were in fashion for men. E.g. sweatpants. I had a teacher at uni who wore those and I thought he looked rather fu
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by fsavard 9y ago
I have a very similar experience with sit-stand setups. I have one at home and had one at work. I stand up for routine tasks (email etc.) and sit down for deeper work. I find standing unconsciously restricts breathing (core muscles contract
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by fsavard 9y ago
You're right about that. It might be that I suffer from a "person B" problem :) However I still think that the "short-lived" nature of discussions here is a relatively independent problem. I think integrating a way
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by fsavard 9y ago
I don't often comment on HN and this (the short-timed nature of discussions) is one of the main reasons. The other main reason is that I have a high threshold for considering my participation is worthy of other people's attention.
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by fsavard 9y ago
That's what I don't get. Publishers have all the incentive to get behind a solution like this, but somehow I never see a "send a tip" or Flattr button anywhere (maybe I'm not looking?). I just wish a bunch of well-k
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by fsavard 9y ago
Concerning the contribution of startups, I don't have much hard numbers, but my comment was motivated by this article I recalled reading: http://affaires.lapresse.ca/economie/201611/10/01-5039742-le... w
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by fsavard 9y ago
Well to me it does seem, at least , as though the recent surge in public and private AI investments (Microsoft, Google, now Facebook) would have a positive local impact for AI researchers here. I mean with enough momentum it becomes self-s
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by fsavard 9y ago
That article is pretty light on details. I wonder if he pointed towards a specific form of unsupervised learning. Anyway it's pretty funny in light of an intro I remembered from one of his old papers: "It would be truly wonderful
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by fsavard 9y ago
I built something very similar too. My setup is to have two screens, one for standing, one for sitting (and two set of input devices). I close one screen when I'm using the other and I mirror the image on both screens. I have another s
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by fsavard 9y ago
There certainly is, I coded one myself, but I never made any effort to publicize it. http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2012/12/diff-revision/ Basically you take notes like you normally would and the "diff
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by fsavard 10y ago
Or some clearly visible icon at the end of the URL bar saying "2832 more characters ->".
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by fsavard 10y ago
That's interesting. Are you aware of other teams using video chat like this, ie. all day long? Do you know what the Google monthly fees are? Is the bandwidth consumed a concern?
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by fsavard 10y ago
There was an episode of the american version of the "modern Sherlock Holmes" TV series, "Elementary", where the plot revolved around a company akin to Uber (called Zooss in the show). It was particularly illustrative of
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by fsavard 10y ago
Some time ago I saw this similar project posted on HN: http://lapface.com/ Here's the thread I saw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764241
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by fsavard 13y ago
Reminds me of this (not yet released?) concept, the GEAK ring: http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/17/geak-ring-nfc-finger/ The "unlock your smartphone" use case is underlined here, too. Manufactur
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by fsavard 14y ago
I feel similar about the omnipresent blog format: why should everything be final once posted, and everything have to be temporally organized? Old-fashioned "websites" felt better when you don't update often, and you post about more timeless
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by fsavard 14y ago
If you want your wiki to be public, or accessible from multiple computers, MediaWiki (along with dozens of other web-based wikis) is a good alternative, sure. I like WikidPad because it's _fast_ in Edit mode (on-the-fly text formatting, lik
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by fsavard 14y ago
About managing ideas and hundreds of text files: I've been doing something similar with a personal wiki (with WikidPad) for a few years. Prior to that I used text files but, like you mention, it was unmanageable. My wiki has about 1,500 pag