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Comment · 2 years ago

worth bearing in mind that the thing we call exercise now used to be more like: building shelters, finding food with our tribe, constant movement/walking... a lot of stuff that was highly socially situated and meaningful. also playful often, I bet. very different than from today

Comment · 2 years ago

Awesome, thank you!

It does look like SV3D is not a part of the API currently, but only a matter of time I imagine.

Comment · 2 years ago

I'd like to play around with something like this, but from my understanding my machine (Macbook, 2021 M1) isn't nearly powerful enough (right?). Are there remote/cloud environments where I can run models like this?

Comment · 2 years ago

SEEKING VOLUNTEER/TAKEOVER: WaybackHN

A number of years ago I made https://waybackhn.com. It was a top HN post, and perhaps some of you remember it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9746188

As of recently I have not had the time/energy to maintain it, or to make improvements here and there (not that much needs to change for it to satisfy it's purpose). As you can see it's not currently working (although it was up to a couple weeks ago!).

It's a Python/Flask app. Hosting costs are $5/mo via PythonAnywhere.

Feel free to email me at [email protected] if you are interested.

Comment · 6 years ago

Oh really? That’s good to know. Thanks!

Comment · 7 years ago

+1. I think Anki is a very underrated/underused tool for programming interviews.

Comment · 7 years ago

http://www.waybackhn.com/

Comment · 8 years ago

I second this and will add a recommendation for Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, which is legally and freely available here http://integrateddaniel.info/book/ It really has the flavor of "meditation for hackers," whereas The Mind Illuminated's flavor seems more "meditation for engineers."

Comment · 8 years ago

Yes! I also use Complice and think very highly of it. Coworking rooms with friends are incredibly useful at turning nights I otherwise would be slacking off into productive nights. Another feature that I find useful (aside from the core feature set) is the Beeminder integration, which lets me update all the things I Beemind w/ little effort.

I do use Complice in tandem with Omnifocus. I use Omnifocus to store big picture planning and all the tasks I want to do in the future. Then on a daily basis I set intentions for the tasks I want to do that day in Complice.

Comment · 8 years ago

Heh, thank you! Any suggestions welcome :)

Comment · 8 years ago

To add a data point, a friend and I made one of these over the weekend (with Trump and Michael Scott https://youtu.be/0Rexuh-VY6E)

It was shockingly easy to do. We're technical, but neither of us know a lick about machine learning. It took a couple hours to collect training data (we turned speeches/interviews from each of them into thousands of photos), and 20 hours to train the model.

In the future you could automate the data collection for a person even more, to the point where they just need to film a selfie of themselves for a couple of minutes in a couple of different lightnings, and boom, after you train their decoder, you could put them on any celebrity.

EDIT: This is what we used https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap Would be happy to walk anyone through how to do this

Comment · 8 years ago

“How can Bitcoin be a good store of value if its price is so volatile?” http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/12/can...

Comment · 9 years ago

Thanks for clarifying! Sounds good to me

Comment · 9 years ago

Awesome! Just installed. I saw in the privacy policy that you only collect domains, not full urls. Do you also only collect/store domains of sites we're opting into track, or do you store all visited domains?

Comment · 9 years ago

Anyone who's interested in more ideas along these lines should look at Tyler Cowen's list of how to be less complacent: http://tylercowen.com/complacent-class-quiz/