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Falcorian
·há 3 anos·discuss
My favorite quote on the subject is:

> Every great open source math library is built on the ashes of someone’s academic career.

From William Stein, lead developer of the computer algebra system, Sage: http://wstein.org/talks/2016-06-sage-bp/bp.pdf
Falcorian
·há 3 anos·discuss
Yeah, working from home for four years now and I only have one office and desk. It's used for work, of course, but also when I'm writing for my self, or playing video games with my friends.

I don't have any problem disconnecting from work, but it probably helps that I have a different computer for work that goes in a drawer at the end of the day.

I do follow points 2 and 3 though and I think those are essential.
Falcorian
·há 3 anos·discuss
It's definitely a culture thing, probably more at the company level but certainly country level culture matters as well.

At my San Francisco based fintech, the culture that's developed is:

For one-on-ones and small meetings where everybody is expected to participate, cameras are on.

For large one to many broadcasts (like an all hands) generally people turn the camera off.

But I would say probably 95% my meetings have cameras on, so I'm constantly "seeing people".
Falcorian
·há 3 anos·discuss
Yes, the models are not constantly learning. They only update their knowledge when they are retrained, which is pretty infrequently (I think the base GPT models have not been retrained, but the chat laters on top might).
Falcorian
·há 3 anos·discuss
False. Every time you transfer money from an account at one bank to another you're using ACH. Same with moving funds from banks to stock brokers or brokers to banks.

The real reason it doesn't compete is its slow, and many banks have terms of service that say something like "You can only set it up between accounts you own" so sending to other people is often technically a violation of your agreement with a bank.
Falcorian
·há 4 anos·discuss
I trust Vacuum Wars for technical reviews of vacuums and vacuum robots: https://youtube.com/c/VacuumWars

Looks like their big robot round up is about 9 months old, but they have single model reviews as well.

Edit: A little bit on why I like this review channel:

A lot of gadget reviews I read nowadays about household products are like "I like this robot it did a good job cleaning. Sometimes got stuck but not too bad."

Vacuum wars is like: "I worked 500 g of fine sand into our test carpet and ran the robot for 5 minutes. It picked up 362 g of sand which is 32% better than the average for this category and the best of the current robots that I've tried. Now, on the artificial hair test, the rotors tangled after just 50g which is a poor result for this category... "

He's set up a testing suite. He runs all of the vacuums through it. You can compare the results. It's how reviews should be.