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It's possible to train your breathing patterns, look up Buteyko breathing.

Awareness of breathing does not mean controlling your breathing, it just means noticing the sensations associated with it. Breathing can be incredibly pleasant!

Location: SF Bay Area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Machine Learning, LLMs, Audio/DSP, Edge ML; Python, C/C++; PyTorch, TensorFlow, Lightning, ONNX, TensorRT, P…

Location: SF Bay Area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes to LA, NYC, or Berlin Technologies: Machine Learning, Audio/DSP, Edge ML; Python, C/C++; PyTorch, TensorFlow, Lightning, …

It's becoming more common in SF and LA too, although it's usually done by the promoter and not the venue.

> There are startups that deliver food to other startups, printing revenue numbers using the same VC’s entire portfolio of companies, therefore sloshing around the exact same dolla…

Adding to this, there is a specific kind of meditation you could try called metta (aka loving-kindness) where you focus on cultivating benevolence towards yourself and all things. …

What about the processing in the veggie salami/bologna turns you off? Their meat counterparts are also heavily processed and are known to be carcinogenic.

Are these conflicting interests? Better bike infrastructure would mean that those who can bike would be off the road, which would mean less congested streets and highways for those…

> Be more iterative, experimental, and user driven My heart has fallen at the thought of agile software development invading the creative process

> I dropped out, started a few companies, and made enough to pay for my education. Don't bother with GPA then, this sounds like something you could focus on instead. GPA is only re…

The troubling aspect of it aside, a policy like that would result in a net negative for everyone else. Global industries rely on poverty to guarantee an abundance of low-paid (or n…

> (b) There's one big difference between Facebook and generic advertising technology: the New York Times doesn't require you to sign up. > (c) Ad tracking knows which websites I vi…

Does the hardware do anything interesting, or does it only process midi input and provide an interface to mix between generated sounds? From their instructions on creating new soun…

Given the number of plugs for Google products/projects/research (especially near the end) it's probably intended to be more of an ad for Google.

I feel like this is related to the information bottleneck idea that's been floating around for some time [1]. I only really understand both of these at a superficial level, but fro…

The author mentions that they only analyzed the collection of C# repositories that they used in their study on Singletons, but I would expect the results to be different depending …

> A far better way to write tests is within your production code. Validate every parameter and every assumption. Raise errors when possible, log everything else. > It runs when you…

I feel it's pretty arrogant to think that you can contribute to research entirely on your own. You really need to be around other researchers who are smarter and more experienced t…

You could strike out on your own only to find out there's not enough of a market to support yourself with your skills and you have to get a job again. You could set a goal to save …

> I'd just be unhappy if I'd constantly be setting big life goals and not reaching them when planned, or at all. This is key, I think. You need to have some acceptance that you act…

I feel like maintaining the infrastructure for the mammoth amount of data they must serve each day would be quite a lot of work on its own. They can't really afford hiccups in serv…

How so? In San Francisco there are several local produce markets within walking distance of where I live. Whole Foods and Trader Joe's are pretty common major grocery chains here, …

This seems like a plausible theory, especially since the article notes that online dating is overwhelmingly popular among homosexual couples, but doesn't that theory start to fall …

That was kinda my point, it's not the be-all deep learning library because they made it for their own use case, but its towering popularity (as in 10x the number of stars of other …