saamm

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https://www.samueltaylor.org/

If you email hn at that domain, it'll get to me.

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Comment · 6 years ago

I wrote a bad Python script that I use to encode WAV files, upload to B2, and generate an RSS feed. I host my MP3 files on Backblaze B2 and the RSS feed on GitHub pages. With my usage, I stay in B2's free tier.

Comment · 6 years ago

If you happen to be on Firefox, you can use this extension to get around it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...

Comment · 6 years ago

While I agree that most technologies can be used in both ways that are good and those that are evil, some technologies "appear to require, or to be strongly compatible with, particular kinds of political relationships" [0]. I find it reasonable to say that a technology may be more or less moral/ethical depending on what it encourages.

0: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652

Comment · 6 years ago

Check out this paper for ideas: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05840.pdf

Comment · 7 years ago

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10811

There's some description in here you may find relevant.

Comment · 8 years ago

Poetry is great! To me, it seems like there should be more software folks interested in it. I definitely see a few parallels.

Comment · 8 years ago

For retention, I find making cards in Anki to be helpful.

Comment · 8 years ago

I know of at least one person who offers a code review service (specifically for Python).

Comment · 8 years ago

Small sample size, but in Austin I've seen 5k-10k.

Comment · 8 years ago

My ML professor used this book, and I loved it. Some presentations of ML make it seem like a bag of tricks; this feels like the opposite of that.

Comment · 8 years ago

Yes! I recently adapted a project of mine to be available as an Alexa skill, and it only took ~40 lines to get it working [0].

0: https://github.com/ssaamm/pun-generator/compare/24188aceb3da...

Comment · 8 years ago

Not exactly what you're talking about, but the most important tool I use for ingesting/remembering things is Anki: https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Comment · 8 years ago

This is interesting! It sounds like this v1 gets your local environment up and running in a Docker container. I maintain something similar for analysts on my team, and we've seen success in terms of decreasing time spent on environment setup.

As another interesting use of Docker in the data space, I'm excited about Pachyderm [0] (though I haven't had the chance to use it in production). In particular, the data provenance story seems compelling.

0: https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm

Comment · 8 years ago

Huh, TIL. Thanks!

Comment · 8 years ago

Thank you for this! I used it to make a little script to download audio from each lecture:

  youtube-dl --get-id https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyGKBDfnk-iAQx4Kw9JeVqspbg77sfAK0 -i > ids.txt
  while read id; do
      youtube-dl -f bestaudio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$id
  done < ids.txt