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25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to my computer
…and I still don’t talk to my computer.
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,933 posts.
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Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?
A while back I attended a Cloudflare board meeting and carried my laptop in a brown paper bag from a grocery store. This elicited a few com...
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The Melancholy of Subculture Society (2019)
Internet links small groups, helping dissolve big groups; good, bad? But a bit sad.
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Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide
In this post, I’m going to talk about suicide, and why I’m still on this planet. These are stories I’ve kept secret from my family, girlfriends, and closest friends for years. Recently, however, I had an experience that shook me—woke me up—and I decided that it was time to share it all. So, despite the shame I […]
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My first industry job: lies, deceptions, and layoffs
My first job was both a blessing and a nightmare. It taught me more about the world than about software development, but those lessons were invaluable.
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FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips
I'm sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the whole experience. Here are my notes, impressions and a lot of pictures about FOSDEM 2024.
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Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End
I am not angry, this is just the end of a love story, and i want to say goodbye.
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My $3.3M Mistake
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Stop Googling
Yesterday, one of my inter-web buddies IM’d me and asked if I had used Typhoeus before. I said yes, so he asked me if it was possible to follow redirects…
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On rebooting: the unreasonable effectiveness of turning computers off and on
Turn a misbehaving computer off and on, or stop a misbehaving program and then start it again. Often, the problem goes away.
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Should I Resign from My Full Professor Job to Work Fulltime on Cocalc?
News and updates about CoCalc
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Take pride or fuck it
The blank, unblemished untitled.txt shimmering in your code editor can mean only one thing. It’s new feature time.
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Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting
Every Frame a Painting is officially dead. Nothing sinister; we just decided to end it.
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I tracked everything I read on the internet for a year
Since early July 2021, I've been keeping a record of every article I read on the internet , which at the time of writing, is just a few months over a year's worth or articles. 1 Every article I read, I put on the list - and as it turns out, I read a fair amount. I thought I'd take a moment to do some stats, talk about…
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Brilliant or insane code?
I came upon a very interesting and cryptic snippet of code somewhere nameless , and I can’t decide if it is brilliant or completely insane. It is a very obscure way of accomplishing the required task, but it’s around four times faster than the alternatives I’ve tried, so I have to admit that it’s not completely…
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Building friend catchers
As a 13 year old, my dad’s advice on internet presence was: “Everything you post will be used against you in the future. So you should never associate your name with anything on the internet”. As a rebellious teenager my view was the opposite: “Everything you post on the internet will get lost. You should associate…
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Complete, stand alone Stanford machine learning course notes
The following notes represent a complete, stand alone interpretation of Stanford's machine learning course presented by Professor Andrew Ng and originally posted on the ml-class.org website during the fall 2011 semester. The topics covered are shown below, although for a more detailed summary see lecture 19. The code…
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Is Seattle a 15-minute city? It depends on where you want to walk
How many Seattleites can walk to fulfill their daily needs?
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I nearly lost the Lightroom catalog with of all my photos
This is what my photos looked like after I moved them to NAS With 50MB RAWs, hard drives fill up in no time. In the last five years I collected enough important photos to start thinking about a reliable storage solution that works well with Lightroom. I opted for Synology DS218 with two Seagate IronWolf drives.