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I had the same problem. I think a lot of people reading this will have weak hamstrings. I think it's a natural consequence of desk work.

Adding in some Romanian Deadlifts really forced me to focus on my hamstrings when doing lifts. It helped me breakthrough some plateaus with the conventional deadlift.

3) Whisper really needs to be paired with Silero VAD, otherwise the hallucination problem makes it almost unusable.

I have a question about Mistral OCR. If I give the model a PDF that is 90% text, is it actually performing OCR on an image representation of the text? Or is it smart enough to extract the text directly and only use OCR on images?

I really like this concept, and am working on a similar product for my own self-study.

I would like to see more language support. For me, I'd like to study Korean

The UX around card navigation needs some work. It took me a long time to figure out that after I chose a smiley face, that I was moving to a new card. This was especially true if the next card is similar to a previous card.

Interesting choice of a 24kHz sample rate for PCM audio. I wonder if the model was trained on 24kHz audio, rather than the usual 8/16kHz for ML models.

Righty tighty, lefty loosey

This looks interesting.

Most devices have noise suppression built in. Do you use RNNoise in tandem with the hardware noise suppression, or do you disable it?

Also, are there any plans to implement this with react-native on mobile? And if so, how would you implement this, since audio worklets and WebAudio aren't available.

Yes! I’ve had the same experience with spaced-repetition. I’ve used Memrise.com to learn a large set of Korean vocab words.

I’ve found it’s improved my general recall ability, not just for things I’ve scheduled into a spaced-repetition program.

It’s like the program trains my brain on how to recall things, and then I can use that skill on anything.

I’ve also found that if I slack off my training schedule, my general recall ability gets worse too.

Also, alcohol for sure impacts my memory. I find even one drink will make it harder to recall things

I know this is theoretically true, but I've never found this to be the case in practice.

Coinbase, in fact, has made it a rule that all things must be put in useMemo. https://attardi.org/why-we-memo-all-the-things/

Facebook is working on an experimental compiler called React Forget that will transparently memoize everything for you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/rcn5ks/react_forge...

I've been using react native heavily for the past 18 months.

Because there's no JIT, Javascript is slow on mobile, especially on Android. I spend a lot of my creative energy trying to optimize the render function. I often times wonder if I should have chosen Flutter instead.

Each framework has its bullshit you don't discover until it's too late. So, I'm sure if I had chosen Flutter I'd be complaining about something else.. but boy am I tired of stuffing things into useMemo, useCallback, and stressing about the identity of things in dependency arrays.

There's some exciting stuff coming up this year with React/React Native: Hermes, React Native "New architecture", react concurrency mode (although I still don't 100% understand what this is). I hope one of these things improves the current situation.

Yeah. And with the soft-launch system, they can be hidden away in any house or enclosed space.

From the useMemo docs: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#usememo

You may rely on useMemo as a performance optimization, not as a semantic guarantee. In the future, React may choose to “forget” some previously memoized values and recalculate them on next render, e.g. to free memory for offscreen components. Write your code so that it still works without useMemo — and then add it to optimize performance.

I think about this section a lot. If they actually changed useMemo to sometimes "forget" values, it would break so many useEffect dependency arrays (including my own).

The situation is much more severe with react-native, which doesn’t have a JIT compiler available.

So, is this thing going to fall over and kill everyone or what? Someone with engineering experience, please explain why this is hyperbolic and downvote me away.

I don't know anything about construction. But I do know that bureaucrats love to kick the can down the road, rather than deal with things directly. In this case, that would mean forcing some of San Francisco's wealthiest, and most-influential to demolish their luxury homes.

Imposing taxes on a legal entity always seemed fishy to me.

Politically, it sounds great to say, "Make the corporations pay their share!", but who exactly are we targeting with these taxes? Is it the rich executives? Why not just raise taxes on the rich directly?

I suspect in most cases the tax burden is just shifted onto the lower-income workers or the customers somehow.

Came here to say this. I trained for about 7 months before Covid shut everything down. I figured maybe I would just focus on lifting from here on out.

Then, 6 weeks ago someone stole my laptop from me while sitting in a cafe in San Francisco. Without thinking, I chased him down and was able to wrestle my laptop back from him. Without the BJJ, I probably would have just yelled at him. Anyway, I'm back at the BJJ studio!

No worries! I enjoyed checkout out your implementation!

I think such a tool would be complicated to implemented. I was thinking maybe of integrating with tagged template literals somehow. Maybe something like:

  db.query(sql`SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users`)

I really like the idea of building TypeScript off of SQL types. But my ideal tool would be able to infer types from queries, not schemas. For example.. if I did:

   await db.query("SELECT user_id, COUNT(*) AS count FROM comments GROUP BY user_id");

  Array<{ user_id: number, count: number }>

At first pass, this seems to be using the same `shc:/` system that is being used in Quebec. This was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27354815

I have no idea if this is a good idea or not. I think we'll probably end up fighting about this for a year and then it won't matter anymore. But, the nerd in me is very excited to get a QR code with a JWT with my vaccination records.

This is really cool! I was looking at all the supported modals, and it looks like they are all either to or from English. Does this mean that if I go from say, Korean to Japanese, it must use English as an intermediary? https://www.argosopentech.com/argospm/index/

Is this real or parody? I could believe either way. Somehow I feel like we deserve this to be real.

I highly recommend MediaSoup for this. It’s all node based and is great for creating “rooms” from WebRTC connections.

I use MediaSoup to bridge between ffmpeg and WebRTC. It works pretty well, and I like that it’s all node based.

I use Papago from Naver. It doesn’t support as many languages, but it’s Korean translations are far superior to Google’s.

I also struggle with this issue, but I've never heard the term "the curse of knowledge." I'm happy I have a name for it now. When you try to explain to people that it's difficult to understand that other people don't know something that you know, you sound a little crazy.

Yes, that makes sense. I was just wondering if the target virus is already RNA encoded, if that provides any shortcuts. It sounds like maybe not.

I see, thanks for the reply!

I was thinking that maybe because Covid is an RNA virus, there would be a shortcut to getting the mRNA sequence for creating the spike protein. The scientists could peek at the RNA in the actual virus, recognize the spike protein, and put that in the vaccine. Whereas with a DNA virus, it would require extra work.

But from your answer, it sounds like that's not what they do? Or, maybe they could do that but it's not any easier than working backwards from the amino acid sequence.

This stuff is all very interesting!

Does the fact that Covid-19 is an RNA virus make it easier to target with an mRNA-vaccine? Could this technology also be used to target a DNA virus as well?

This particular incident happened in 2009, when HFT was still relatively new and very profitable. These days, it's much more competitive and I doubt you could justify such an investment.

Thank you! That’s good advice