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I predicted those features weeks ago [1], but I still feel they could do so much more. If anything, their implementation feels like a rushed afterthought. In their demos, they use …

CS7637 was a fun course! One can get pretty far (80% accuracy) by using xor masks and comparing centroids.

How is this better than a custom launcher?

I highly resonate with this. In fact, I spent over a year buildng it [1]. My thesis is that the calendar will play a significant role in the next OS UI paradigm, replacing the old …

I've been using this one: https://github.com/markwk/awesome-biomarkers#biomarker-track...

Startup idea: Use stable diffusion to automate corporate headshots and security badge photos. Charge $X to remove watermark.

"Notice of unemployment" (personal email address)

I would be surprised if we did not already have AIs that could invent calculus from first principles. LLMs solve natural langage and common sense, which are not necessary for disco…

I'm extremely bullish on Large Language Models (e.g., GPT-3, ChatGPT) and Stable Diffusion (e.g., DALL-E). This year, I will use them to double my productivity at work. I also plan…

Here's a 24/7 background audio recorder app I made for Android. The impact on battery and storage is surprisingly reasonable. https://github.com/miguelrochefort/eardrum

I wonder what will happen when browsers start supporting Handshake (HNS) top-level domains such as “.1”

In contrast, Western Governors University allows students to test out of any course. For example, I completed my CS degree in 3 months: https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/cs-degree/

Thanks for putting this together. webOS was way ahead of its time, and I really liked the HP Veer at the time.

Microsoft's approach: https://adaptivecards.io/

I would tend to agree, but two things still bother me: 1. My saved items live in 100+ different silos. If they all lived in one place, say some kind of self-hosted personal data st…

I probably have over 10,000 items in Pocket. I say probably because I never actually open the app.

I have thousands of online accounts, hundreds of thousands of saved items (likes, bookmarks, papers, books, movies, videos, photos, files, open tabs, tasks), hundreds of inbox and …