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I believe they were responding to your "confirmation bias, how?" question, rather than the narrative around thermometers. So from that lens, the confirmation bias is choosing to show temperature (objectively measured with assumed-reliable instruments / thermometers), but arguably choosing to hide other kinds/categories of data.

Fwiw, I am not backing them up, since I do not know what other data they might be referring to (and I am not very knowledgeable in topics within climate science).

Fwiw--it's not digitally removed, it is just behind her sleeve. In the video she starts in the same pose and you can't see the text, but you can once she moves her arm.

It seems it's a 3 state system already, with exit code 2 being the "not vouched / neutral" state.

https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch?tab=readme-ov-file#local-...

Local Commands

Check a user's vouch status:

vouch check <username>

Exit codes: 0 = vouched, 1 = denounced, 2 = unknown.

Bit of an aside, but I just checked them out and TIL that Immich (which I use as my primary photos solution) is also a FUTO product (the website says "powered by FUTO").

I'd be giving the keyboard a try!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY

Video description, from the Velcro brand YouTube channel:

Our Velcro Brand Companies legal team decided to clear a few things up about using the VELCRO® trademark correctly – because they’re lawyers and that’s what they do. When you use “velcro” as a noun or a verb (e.g., velcro shoes), you diminish the importance of our brand and our lawyers lose their insert fastening sound. So please, do not say “velcro shoes” (or “velcro wallet” or “velcro gloves”) - we repeat “velcro” is not a noun or a verb. VELCRO® is our brand. #dontsayvelcro

Fwiw--Joe is also the creator of Leaving Earth:

https://joefatula.com/#leavingearth

I'm glad we've stopped drawing dead fish (beautiful talk by Bret Victor, 12 years ago): https://vimeo.com/64895205

Also inspired by that: https://drawdeadfish.com/

I think their point is pocket as opposed to against wrist the whole time.

Unsure how you are intending to use it for 1:1s and meetings--I don't believe this has a camera, so it can't be your primary device you are taking the call on. Of course, as a note-taking device during a meeting, this would shine! :)

Tangential, but if your table doesn't break in the next few days then you won't be able to report back, since editing and replying to comments get disabled after some days. I don't know what the exact time frame is like though.

This reminds me of an internet phenomenon I learnt about recently: the Backrooms [1]. The concept instantly reminded me of some psychedelic horrors from the 80s in terms of emotional response. I think this game might trigger a similar response.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms

If you're in the US, then I can recommend privacy.com

My current bank (Wise) also offers virtual debit cards. I am in the UK now and Wise works well. I still use both since I still have my American bank account though.

This is absolutely fascinating and I love how this experience leads to an interesting idea for a solution to a different problem.

As an aside, what audio interface was this? Sounds fascinating (as an amateur audio-interested person).

I agree, and this is one of the things that are problematic with academia. Not that scientific rigor / work / dissemination shouldn't be rewarded--it should. But so should work like OP's.

My read of it is that's exactly what they were saying. The software replaced "ass" with "*", which made it even worse because now it read like the software was correcting the n-word (and in turn suggesting the person was using the n word).

Ironic, to some degree. I agree with the overall sentiment,but:

There's no benefit gained, whatsoever, from moving content to the title bar.

But also: > Chesterton's Fence >>The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, 'I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away.' To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: 'If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.'

There are always pros and cons to every design decision. As technology develops, we create new tools to interact with an ever-expanding content base. By moving things to the title bar, you gain back some real estate that you can dedicate to this ever expanding set of other tools and content.

There are other design paradigms that can be used for this, but it's a fairly simple (and naive) implementation / solution to this problem to move some of the stuff to the title bar which (visually) appears to be wasted space. But visual space != interactive space, so

infer that the model which has seen all of the data will be better than the model which has seen only some of the data.

It really depends upon the data. A smaller set of data that mostly consists of "truth" might be better than a larger dataset that also has many "lies".

Perhaps what you mean is that the model might be more representative, rather than _better_.

1. I don't know what kind of world you live in to think that USD 3500 is "less than one week of a developer salary for most companies." I think you really just mean FAANG (or whatever the current acronym is) or potentially SV / offices in cities with very high COL.

2. The problem is scaling. To support billions of search queries you would have to invest in a lot more than a single GPU. You also wouldn't only need a single van, but once you take scaling into account even at $3500 the GPUs will be much more expensive.

That said, costs will come down eventually. The question in my mind is whether OpenAI (who already has the hardware resources and backed by Microsoft funding to boot) will be able to dominate the market to the extent that Google can't make a comeback by the time they're able to scale.

This is tangential to the software techniques, but have you tried using throat microphones? They're essentially the microphone counterpart to the bone conducting headphones. They're aimed at use cases where there's a lot of noise (originally created for paragliding but also used in biking scenarios), and low voice scenarios (eg covert operations and even to amplify voice from people having speech problems due to things like Parkinson's disease).

I'm using them to record multiple people in the same room but avoid cross-talk (for data collection in a research study). The audio isn't great, but I've used transcription services and they seem to be able to make the words out just fine.

(coming from the standpoint of a historically non-technical individual contributor who is leaning towards technical now, and asking because I want to learn):

But isn't that exactly why you as an interviewer would pose a problem, set up the context that is potentially similar to the work your project would require, and see how the interviewee navigates that?

This is cool. Have you tried Plex? They offer sonic similarity matching that's trained on a user's personal music library. I think it might be fun to do a comparison? This feature was added in 2021 though so I'm sure models have improved since then.

https://www.plex.tv/blog/super-sonic-get-closer-to-your-musi...

I love to see great usages of my work in the wild like this.

Out of curiosity and ignorance--what is the work you're referring to here which is being used for the project / website? The comment makes me feel it's the (dot)app TLD, in which case--fascinating! But also what does it even mean to work on something like that?

FWIW, they only call it "Github stars". The graph that says "adoption" is from a16z [0].

0: https://a16z.com/2022/11/16/creativity-as-an-app/

Pressure for (perceived) innovation is one of the things that drives bad patents. Removing this pressure has positive consequences (in addition to the negative consequence of potentially novel IP not being protected in time--but is that actually a bad thing? I don't know).

There's a parallel also in the world of academic paper publishing--the pressure for constantly innovating and publishing is a major reason for bad publications.

I am speaking anecdotally, from my experience as a past PhD student and a current young professional in the research industry.

I love Kanopy, and I'm glad to see it mentioned here. However, the content you get access to varies based on which library card you use for your account. For instance, I used my university library card, and got access to some content. However my roommate used his public (non-university) library card and he has access to even more content (including way more "Great Courses" lectures--my school library hardly had any)! Needless to say he is logged in on my device. :)

I'm in the UK and don't have to login to view.

This is also how I interpreted it, perhaps because I am also intrigued and want to know (my Steam Deck just shipped earlier today).

Recount _this_ story during the social / break between interviews if you ever get an onsite. :D

They can also one-on-one work with those few companies on deprecation and migration.

Basically a cost saving move.

Working 1-on-1 with companies to determine what to keep and what not is anything but cost saving, by my estimate.

Is the microphone embedded? If not:

Should be qualified by "since the mic is on the receiver, if you were to situate your head at the receiver's mic position and accounting for the mic's ADC circuit there is a chance that your human ears would hear something like a flat response."

But of course that can't be generalized across the room, different points in the room will have different acoustic response because of the unique positioning wrt other reflective surfaces.

The closest you can actually get is to use something like miniDSP and a umik, position the umik where you would usually sit, and then let the DSP run and calibrate.

Anyhow--I'm not knocking you. I'm all about better audio through such tricks as well. It's just we can't probably say absolute things having a flat response, because at the end of the day people hear different things (both physiologically but also psychologically). One of the things I do for fun sometimes is run a flat signal that sweeps through the frequency range and edit the equalizer until I _perceive it_ to be a flat response, then compare the EQ to the FR chart on audiosciencereview if they have reviewed it or if the product has included it in their marketing :)