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For anyone confused what "RAG" is: it stands for "Retrieval Augmented Generation", which is where the LLM model is paired with some sort of "database" (often a vector database) where LLM looks up additional data when performing the task.

I was looking at this recently. Although duct tape doesn't always win vs cryotherapy, it's definitely a valid treatment:

* Silver duct tape occlusion in treatment of plantar warts in adults: Is it effective? (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dth.13342) found that cryotherapy outperformed duct tape over a 8-week treatment period.

* Duct Tape Occlusion Therapy in the Treatment of Plantar Warts (https://conservancy.umn.edu/items/4e958e09-839b-4496-972f-cf...) is a case study of treating one one patient with large plantar wart.

* Successful treatment of refractory plantar wart with duct tape (https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(21)01507-3/abstract) is another similar case of treating a refractory (treatment-resistant) wart with a duct tape.

Yeah, this was pretty fun!

Here's rap about a duck trying to get chicken nuggets at McDonalds: https://app.suno.ai/song/27476a1c-ab35-4dbd-bf71-a9fa0aaa4de...

I don't see a way to make anything longer than 20-30 seconds though.. or is that limited by the lyrics?

Edit: with help of ChatGPT I got some more lyrics, but looks like this is as far as Suno.ai is willing to take it: https://app.suno.ai/song/1694f2a9-1375-4dc9-b523-33528aa308a...

OP here - Thanks! I'll put back the optics courses I deleted then

These are awesome recommendations - thanks!

That's a good point. The project-first approach worked very well for me when learning new software frameworks/libs/etc.

My main concern with EE is that once I'll get to the brain-computer interfaces, I'll be in a situation where there aren't many off-the-shelf components/solutions available, and at the same time I'll likely need to know how I can push physics closer to the edge. I suspect I may need a better theoretical foundation to do that.

That said, I definitely like the idea of focusing a lot on hands-on projects.

About 1/2 of the textbooks came from the old course outlines (e.g. https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~ece207/) and class shopping lists on UWaterloo book store. About 1/4 were guesses, and the other 1/4 I don't know where to even start looking.

The higher the course the lower the confidence of having the right book.

OP here. Nice, thanks! I didn't put math down because my undergrad was in applied math and I got to use it a lot early in my career. But sounds like I'll definitely need a refresher.

Yeah, my first guess is the movement of that faint inner line triggers the Parasol cells or some other movement detection cells in our retina (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasol_cell).

Possible underlying circuit: https://www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S0896-627318%2930105-3.pdf

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I don't think it's feasible to have a satellite orbit at 100 km and not fall out of the sky in a few days due to atmospheric drag.

Even ISS at 300-400 km orbit has to be regularly reboosted because it's continuously losing altitude.

What's "BS" and "MS" here?

11/18: Started going through the French Duolingo tree

3/19: Reached the end of the Duolingo tree (level 1 in all skills, but most were level 3+)

This is pretty impressive. I've started French Duolingo around the same time and have been doing 30 min per day every day; 14 months later I'm about 1/2-way down.

This must have taken ~3h/day of Duolingo.

I've been using an Excel file (https://i-kh.net/2019/10/20/how-i-keep-the-side-project-movi...) for week-to-week goals and tracking how I do.

I find it's a bit more structured, and easier to review afterwards. Though I still use text file for organizing a day's work.

Yeah, from personal experience (and from watching others), a lot of the habits like the ones the author cites last a few months and then you end up dropping them for whatever reason.

That said, I did manage to stick to an explicit system for a bit over a year now which produced some imperfect but adequate results: https://blog.maesure.com/2020/02/01/anti-procrastination-sys... (disclaimer: my product blog)

I have a bunch of side-projects that I've been working on for a while.

To be honest, I prefer sticking with major cloud vendors (currently on GCP) because:

1. They already have reasonably straightforward ways to publish apps, e.g. I use GCP App Engine + managed Postgres DB + storage buckets.

2. If my project grows or pivots, I like having an option to use other cloud provider services like queues, BigQuery, VPC networking, etc.

I recently quit coffee and was also surprised to get more energy (after the headache was gone), especially in the late afternoon and evening.

That's really unfortunate since I really enjoy the taste of coffee.

That's pretty cool! This is pretty simple and minimalistic.

I've been working on my own different take on time tracking too (https://maesure.com) which asks you periodically what you're doing and builds a picture of the day from that.

Pretty cool - but the music is rather distracting.

My company (a large-ish pension plan, ~10 dev teams, most applications are internal) was on AWS Beanstalk and switched to Kubernetes (EKS). Once we moved in and cleared the initial hurdles, the overall impression is that K8s is very pleasant to work with: solid, stable, fast, no bad surprises. Everything just works. We probably spend 0.1 FTE taking care of Kubernetes now. Definitely was worth the cost.

All AWS tech I've tried before (ECS, Beanstalk, plain EC2, Cloud Formation) is slower, has random quirks, and needs an extra layer of duct tape.

Fullstory basically lets me sit behind the shoulder of every user and e.g. watch them use the app in a way I didn't think of, or stumble over the features that I thought were obvious but turns out are very counter-intuitive.

It's totally a game changer for UX design.

Heap, Google Analytics, etc are actually not as useful; I find the app's DB and server logs provide more relevant data. So I don't think I'll add them back.

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Creator here - that's a fair point, disabled both. That's what I get for taking a lazy shortcut.

Won't put them back without adding consent.

There's also a first-party cookie called "visitor", though that will require a bit more work because there's actual functionality that depends on it.

Yeah, absolutely no enterprise version. If my manager asks me to use this, I'll start updating my resume.

Creator here - surprisingly, it's less annoying than you'd think, (at least for me).

I built this mostly from the point of view of personal productivity/improvement.

The idea is that it will keep asking you what you're doing even when you don't feel like putting an effort into tracking your time that day. Even when you didn't sleep enough or feel lazy, it'll still keep asking you, collecting the stats, and reminding you that it's watching.