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Comment · 1 year ago
Per the blog post

>Those codes let you quickly reference notes in your vault from other places such as hand-written notes.

Comment · 1 year ago
Could probably be done by using the path of your note. You could manually specify the code for directories (such as M5 for math-5) and subsequent codes could be based on that. Your code would then be {dir code}-{random letters original to the note}.

Directory codes could also be nested with this

Comment · 1 year ago
Better still, the chats between Danish PM Mette Frederiksen and other members of government concerning the (possibly illegal) culling of all mink in Denmark. The chats were coincidentally deleted for security reasons as the press were catching on - security reasons that apparently do not apply to regular people simply texting their dad, girlfriend or anyone
Comment · 1 year ago
I used to read paperbacks a lot. Now, I almost exclusively read on my Boox Tab Ultra, which I got used for ~300€. It's rather expensive when compared to regular eInk devices, but I feel that it is worth it for me to be able to take notes in the margin with the physical pencil that comes with it - just as I used to do in physical books.

That being said, given that high quality eInk readers can last for many years, it has come out cheaper for me to get this rather expensive device when factoring in the price of ebooks vs physical books. Also, I read a lot of literature in the public domain, which is of course entirely free to download.

If you read frequently, get a reader.

Comment · 3 years ago
I think what you're saying is warranted, but you should be very careful putting machine learning architectures in the context of the human mind. They are inherently different, although their output may be similar at some points. What you're saying addressed this directly.

Machine learning is optimizing mathematical weights and biases, and the human mind is messy wetware. One of the first things you will read in any machine learning textbook is to throw away the notion of AI trying to simulate the human mind.

Comment · 3 years ago
An excellent gauge for how good a book is can be found in how many times you catch yourself thinking back on it even after some time has passed. Through this, my favorite this entire year is The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank's diary). Without a doubt one of the best books I have ever read, just through how supremely human it is.

Other books are:

-The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

-Sapiens by Yuval Yuval Noah Harari

-21 Lessons for the 21st Century

-Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feyn man!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman

-Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

-Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

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