I noticed when reading through user reviews for the remarkable 2 that I can find several that are pretty critical of the product, but the rating of the reviewer is apparently 5 stars. https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2#user-reviews
IMO English only is better than nothing, support can always be added later. I live in Finland and guess the probability of translation to Finnish is somewhere on the order of 0.1%. It’s also not really needed since a large majority of people here under the age of 50 speak English pretty well.
I discovered Langton ants and Turmites a couple of months ago, I guess these are a subset of cellular automata. I was talking with a friend about using them somehow for art somehow (music generation came to mind), is this a topic you might know about and could recommend some resources to get started?
Langton's Ant is one of many, many CA rules that run for a while, seeming to be "predictably unpredictable" -- creating lots of blobby chaos -- but then produce a highly recognizable emergent phenomenon (the final "highway", in this case).
For music generation you'd want to somehow avoid ending up with the music "going boring" when the highway appears... As with a lot of math-inspired art (I guess I'm thinking about Mandelbrot-set colorizations here) the key is going to be in very specific presentation choices -- color choices for still frames or videos, or the specific method of mapping sounds to frames in a Langton's Ant evolution. So you'll just need to have (or develop) tools to try a lot of options and see what looks the most compelling.
Still frames are probably not going to be that interesting -- the fun part about CAs is the predictable-yet-surprising motion, which can be either the usual visual form or converted to sound somehow.
A recent version of Golly ( https://golly.sourceforge.io ) added support for listening to evolving patterns -- see pop-sounds.py / pop-sounds.lua in the Scripts directory. That reduces patterns to a single dimension in an obvious way (just looking at population), ignoring a lot of the 2D complexity. No doubt there are a lot of other possible avenues to explore there.
This is pretty interesting, I've noticed I find it easier to recall information if I've written it down by hand instead of typing it on a computer. I wonder if it's a similar mechanism to what Neil and Neal find with writing - it means the thing you want to express spends longer in the brain's buffer and this leads to several benefits at the cost of it being slower.
Probably goes without saying I might be talking out of my arse here but it's interesting to think about.
Quite enjoyed the writing and it’s a fun topic to think about.
Would doing a daily “submarine shower” [0] be the best strategy here for maximising cleanliness? This would be use fifteen seconds with water on to get as wet as possible all over, turn water off and apply soap and shampoo, then water on for the last 15 seconds. (Note I’ve never actually tried this so ymmv)
Those are generally known as "Navy showers," as opposed to "Hollywood showers."
(In one scene in The Hunt for Red October the sonarman Jones aboard the USS Dallas was told to take a Hollywood shower when he went off-watch as a reward for having detected and tracked the Red October.)
We used to do that as a way to conserve our minimal hot water, and while I can't say I enjoyed it per se, it was more satisfying to have a real blast of water when you could, than just dribbling it out at a paltry rate. And you were able to get clean.
Took Andrew Ng’s machine learning course on Coursera back around 2015 as my first taste of machine learning.
I was studying for my PhD in Physics at the time and didn’t know what to do with myself with graduation only a year or so away. I was fascinated by the whole machine learning topic and got me interested in learning more - looking back it was the gateway to my data scientist career, which I’m still doing 8 years and 3 countries later.
I think I got quite lucky that this was around the time that data science was becoming a hot topic in industry, but there were very few qualifications in it (sorry statisticians) so people like me with STEM PhDs and relatively little training could go straight into a job from graduation (with varying results)
I made a bot last summer to generate and update weekly Spotify playlists from 100 or so music subreddits based on the top submissions of that week. Update operates entirely through a GitHub action so no resource spending.
I don’t often finish my side projects so was pretty happy to have something finally usable and shareable, it’s been fun showing friends!
This is awesome, I'm already using it. Thanks so much!
A few years ago a friend and I listened to one album a week from r/hiphopheads' Essential Albums List. It got me thinking about having an "Album club" like a book club. Each week the club's playlist would get updated with a new album or songs to listen to that week.
I see in the repo you mention wanting to add support for archiving. I'd really like to see a sort of master playlist for a genre. Just keep adding the songs from each weekly playlist to the master genre playlist, then the "date added" field could be used for looking at the playlist historically. You lose duplicates this way, so maybe not the best archival strategy, but with the master playlist you could have hours of music instead of an hour.
Similar story here in Finland, real meat is just so much cheaper than the fake veggie stuff. My theory was this was supply chains (being physically far away from the rest of Europe) and a relatively small market size, but interesting you have the same price discrepancy in France which I guess has neither of these issues.
Just speculating here but do you think it is because of the strong food culture and links to identity in France?
I don't mind food sovereinty per se, but do we need to subsidize meat?
Lately, in the supermarket, there would usually be some meat at about 2€/kg, which I could not comprehend, as most other groceries have gone up. Pricewise it's competitive with carrots, potatoes and bananas.
How can meat end up cheaper than ordinary pastry? Measured per kg and yes, meat has a lot of water, but still..
I find people around me very averse to "fake"/replacement of a real product, there is no way it will replace meat in cooking. What I don't get is why it's not more successful in fast foods. In that setting you are already forgetting yourself for eating not healthy, and French paradoxically love fast food (McDonald's has a strong presence here for example). At Burger King I find it's nearly indistinguishable from real meat, so it should be a no brainer.
Half the battle at least is most likely in your head. If you bite into a sandwich with very negative thoughts (e.g. it's probably horrible/bad/diseased) then you'll most likely taste something much more different than if you had thought it was a normal delicious meal.
I would guess that it is because real meat is a commodity, and fake meat is not. That means that fake meat companies do not enjoy the same economies of scale, nor do they experience the same kinds of market forces that help keep prices down.
The obvious answer is that animals are very efficient because they use self-replicating biological means to construct the flesh, and industrial animal operations are extremely efficient particularly when they dont have to care about animal welfare, consumer safety, or the environment.
Tax policy is also very favorable, and public infrastructure usage and pollution costs are not internalized.
Biotechnology, taxation, and regulation would be the answers.
I think we're not yet at the point where supermarket-bought products are on par with price, but we are on par when it comes to restaurant/fast food chains.
Every vegan/vegetarian food that I try from the likes of McDonalds is surprisingly good and costs about the same as the meat equivalent. In London there is also a fast food chain dedicated to vegan food (Neat Burger), it is fairly cheap for what it is and tastes amazing.
All sorts of things. Therapy. Psilocibin. A girlfriend (now wife) with a wildly different worldview than my own. Retreats. Meditation. ‘Conscious community”. Workshops. Yoga.
