I love these threads:
- Learning to use Emacs better
- Common Lisp
- Clojure
- Getting better at chess
- Rubiks cubes and solving them faster
- Indie gaming and fighting games at the moment
Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
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#52Home automation. I always had an Alexa and a couple of WiFi switches, but I just discovered the rabbit hole of Home Assistant, Zigbee devices, flashing devices to get rid of cloud capabilities and install your own firmware, and the whole ordeal. Haven't had this fun with tech in a while.
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#53There 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…
I'm really enjoying Scavengers Reign, but I can't help but feel like the local biology is a bit too absurdist. Or the amount of consistently lucky moves some of the characters would had to make to discover some weird quirk of that alien life. They had been there for maybe weeks or months, but somehow discovered that if you climb inside of the belly of this particular creature and twist some of his internal organs that it will release a light producing egg when you hit them against a hard surface? Or that if you attach this tentacle sac to your face that you won't inhale some fungus gas.
Very creative, but a bit hard to believe. Perhaps the timescale of how long they were stranded there could have been increased a little bit.
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#54I started skateboarding two years ago in my backyard and this year I started skating at my local skatepark. I'm all padded up for safety and even use hip pads. It's a very fun and cheap hobby. Seeing a lot of progression so it's very fun.
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#55I've been meaning to up my Mexican cooking game. For years I've been making the standard easy Tex-Mex stuff (tacos, burritos, etc). But my wife recently bought me "Mi Cocina"[1], which is a level up in both challenge and authenticity.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mi-Cocina-Recipes-Rapture-Cookbook/dp...
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#56I'm passionate about being thankful, and making sure that those I appreciate know the degree to which they matter to me.
For my fellow autic monkeys:
"How to write a letter to Cared-Abouts:"
1) Gratitude (solo)
2) What I'm working on / towards
3) Anything exciting / worrisome
4) Thoughts on wordly problems / solutions
5) Transactional / accounting stuff
6) Questions
7) Gratitude (together / partnerships)
Sometimes it's just "doing the dishes" or ceasing to be difficult, "because I can."
Grateful for your passion.
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#57I'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
It's just hundreds of variables of data and some calculated features - basically from current point in time and some configurable points in history + some aggregated history data, fed to ML.NET FastTree / FastForest. I think LSTM / some Python frameworks could have been better, but learning C# better was one of the main reasons so ML.NET algorithms it is. I get quite reasonable predictions, though I need to do some more to get better at predicting the end of an activity because of some limitations how I'm giving the data to avoid overfitting. GPT is just going to be last step of the process, being fed todays actions and we'll see if I can get it to blurt out anything interesting based on it.
I just checked my manual tags in the training database and I've been on this for 197 hours and 37 minutes since since 12th of October. No wonder I feel like I need a break..
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#58Wine. It’s fascinating, tastes good and a fun conversation with people.
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#59Mental health. I recently passed out in public and had to finally admit to myself that I’m severely burnt out. I had ignored the signs and mentally written off the concept of burnout as a bit of a wishy-washy mostly “emotional” concept and not as the very real psychological AND physiological condition that doesn’t just go away if you get a good nights sleep and a day off. It was emotional to actually read up on it and realize my disillusionment with work, deteriorating relationships and steady decline in my ability to carry out daily tasks weren’t signs of a personal lack of interest or effort, but an inevitability resulting from the position I had put myself in.
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#60Print media -- seriously. There are vanishingly few types of paper-based products left besides mass-market paperbacks and a handful of soulless conglomerate-owned magazines that may disappear tomorrow. Just like there are small farming collectives out there, I'd love for there to be micro-magazines and short stories on paper, made cheaply and distributed to small mailing lists with a single stamp (not an email newsle…
I've had the opposite experience. I'm amazed at the types of print magazines on niche topics that still exist. Are you aware of https://www.stackmagazines.com/ ?