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Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by bayesianbot »

I've been collecting data from my phone and some different "sensors" (food delivery orders, bank payments, Activity Watch statistics, I'm adding a video camera soon. For phone about every sensor I have in my phone like ambient light, wifi APs, GPS, rotation, steps, when it was last unlocked, what app is in use, what app / artist is playing media etc.) and I'm using ML to predict activities I'm currently doing. I guess the end goal is to automate my diary writing to GPT as a joke..

Started as a small project on wanting to learn C# better and being interested about how much sensors collect information about us and how we could analyze that, but it really got out of hand. I've been working on it for a ~month (with some breaks), sometimes all day, built a lot of tooling (like webassembly & android app to tag current activities for ML training data) and analysis things for it and am nearing a burnout point :P but been fun and I've definitely learned a lot about C# and ML.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by kashunstva »

codingclaws wrote: post #4

Piano. I am doing Czerny op 599.

School of Velocity next!

The wealth of Czerny exercises is so much more engaging than the Hanon that have been inflicted unthinkingly on students for generations. Check out the Dohnanyi exercises for something wild and different; the later ones, not the first ones that focus on (potentially harmful) finger isolation.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by dilawar »

solardev wrote: post #7

There is a new show on HBO called Scavengers Reign, and it's become my favorite scifi story ever. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21056886/ It's kinda like watching Planet Earth about another ecosystem, with a strong focus on judgment-free ecology (ie there isn't good and evil, just different flora and fauna and otherwise interacting both with their normal food webs and with human outsiders). It really tickles the envir…

It is surprising very creative. Somehow it reminds me of manga mushishi through there is hardly any obvious overlap

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by abakker »

user_7832 wrote: post #3

I’ve been reading up on diy speakers, with the eventual goal to make an excellent sounding pair myself. Ever heard a pair of speakers that didn’t sound like hearing a recording of an instrument, but rather hearing the instrument itself ? Me neither, but it’s apparently possible. The DIY speaker/audio hobby is highly specific but also fortunately has a lot of informative available online. I’d recommend diyaudio.com an…

when you make them, be sure to post here about what you find out. It feels to me like that community does a lot of Q&A, but not a lot of build logs (Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places?)

Also, if near Boulder, CO, I've got some CNCs if that helps you build stuff.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by mandmandam »

gwnywg wrote: post #8

I'm recently passionate about motivation. I'm on the lookout for ways to keep me motivated. I always thought burnout is not my problem, until it hit me and now I'm looking for cure.

If you're open to it, I'd recommend trying the Wim Hof technique. The combination of controlled hyperventilation followed by cold water exposure is something like a reset button.

Here's a link [0] - just don't do the breathing exercises anywhere that passing out could cause problems; like when driving, in water, etc.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybOi4hjZFQ

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by politelemon »

Games. I've been forcing myself into productivity for too long because that is the thing to do. I recently built a gaming pc, picked some jrpgs, and I'm having a blast. There are entire franchises and worlds for the exploring. There are amazing rich stories and history and beautiful soundtracks that I'm living through right now. My wishlist grows by the day as I discover new tales.

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by surprisetalk »

Obsessed with quite a few things right now:

• diving into plant law; writing a series on plants and property

• research clamping mechanisms and jigs for woodworking with handtools

• sadly smitten with all the genai advancements

• plotting multiple "chaos for social good" projects

• trying to figure out therapists can be so attuned to feelings while staying neutral

• promoting tiny blogs and the "small web": https://blogs.hn

Re: Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?

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Post by politelemon »

bayesianbot wrote: post #11

I've been collecting data from my phone and some different "sensors" (food delivery orders, bank payments, Activity Watch statistics, I'm adding a video camera soon. For phone about every sensor I have in my phone like ambient light, wifi APs, GPS, rotation, steps, when it was last unlocked, what app is in use, what app / artist is playing media etc.) and I'm using ML to predict activities I'm currently doing. I gues…

That's quite interesting. What form is the collection being fed in to the ml, is it sentences that gpt would understand or more tabular
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