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mcovalt

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About mcovalt

I like making computers crunch numbers.

https://github.com/mcovalt

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    https://archive.is/QwONO

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    If you own a Kobo e-reader, check out the Plato reader [0], an unofficial document reader of Kobo devices. I find it interesting that it's written by the same person that wrote the…

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    PostgreSQL also has built-in support for exact (as opposed to approximate) vector similarity search for some problems with the following constraints: - you have smaller vectors (no…

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    Totally agree. I’d also say it paints yourself in a bad way since you’re showing you aren’t willing to work through your differences with Alice. No free lunch, but if you’re alread…

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    There's actually a right way to do this: pad it. The blog post gives an example response to being paired with a coworker you dislike working with: > "I'd prefer not to work with Al…

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    Is this the product that tree-sitter-graph [0] is being used for? [0] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-graph

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    Note that the version of Firefox this article references was released on July 26, 2022.

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    The article specifically compares McMaster-Carr’s website to Amazon.com to demonstrate a superior UX.

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    Thanks for sharing this! I recently went through the process of generating vector tiles for the world at all zoom levels using OpenMapTiles. Seemed like a fun way to make my comput…

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    The poor auto exposure and white balance touched on by this article really affected my webcam’s quality. A lamp in the background of my office caused my webcam to choose some setti…

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    The intersection of graphs, FSMs, and linear algebra is really wild. I touched a very tiny bit on this topic a few weeks ago [0]. I highly recommend the book "Mathematics of Big Da…

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    Congrats on making a decision sooner rather than later. I also dropped out of graduate school and remembered having some similar thoughts as you. I remembered feeling a bit lonely,…

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    I noticed this on https://hndex.org . So many searches for hair loss products. Like thousands... daily.