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Yes. I keep a five year journal [1] after it was given to me as a gift at a wedding I attended two years ago.

I had tried journaling before but a full, blank page was too much in terms of time commitment and stress I put on myself around it. This format gives 6 lines per day and feels easily doable.

Each page has 5 entries on it so you can read what you were doing on that day in previous years. Its nice to have a direct comparison to remember what you were doing last year and see how you have improved, fallen short, or stayed the same as well as remembering what you were doing then. More than once I have been reminded of a friend's wedding anniversary through this.

Totally recommend it, but keep it short and don't judge yourself if you miss a day.

[1] http://a.co/d3j0Pcj

I came here to say this, what do you like to bake?

I am a becoming a bit of a sourdough fanatic and am starting to see some results [1]. Thinking about building a wood-fired oven and baking a little for the farmers market this year to see if it could be a sideline I enjoy (in gradschool).

[1]https://imgur.com/a/skH9O

I see several thoughts about that interesting proposal(offhand and only related to USA):

1) Those that have participated in government/military have less say than when they served. This could be a positive, but I feel some objection to a POW (my grandfather for instance) having less say than someone who didn't serve. 2) Do _really_ we want the least experienced citizens having the most say? The US already has age limits for certain offices so that sort of reduces my concerns about this, but... 3) Phase in plan? Currently voting is dominated by older voters. I don't see those people rushing to their polling places to vote to have the value of their vote lessened. Could be interesting to see the reasoning that happens for people to vote for or against it from a game theory perspective.

Still, I am interested.

I was working for the leading print marketing company that was starting to have serious competitors and post-IPO we were really concerned that people were going to order business cards from us all the time (since they were almost free) to track our daily internal sales via order number. I can't say that we ever had hard evidence that this was happening but we thought we had suspicious activity once so we changed it.

An aside, changing order number to a hash value can be a huge pain in a manufacturing environment when people have (mis)used it to for a variety of purposes beyond order identification.

Thanks Tyler.

The most recent is Liquid Intelligence by Dave Arnold[1]

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Liquid-Intelligence-Science-Perfect-C...

As this thread is filled with people that know way, way more about CUDA and OpenCL than myself I hope that you will indulge me a serious question: I get that graphics cards are great for floating point operations and that bitwise binary operations are supported by these libraries, but are they similarly efficient at it?

Some background: I occasionally find myself doing FPGA design for my doctoral work and am realizing that the job market for when I get done may be better for me if I was fluent in GPGPU programming as it is easier to build, manage, and deploy a cluster of such machines than the same for FPGAs.

My current problem has huge numbers of XOR operations on large vectors and if OpenCL or CUDA could be learned and spun up quickly (I have a CS background) I may be inclined to jump aboard this train vs buying another FPGA for my problem.

There is something similar in the US at Dartmouth (yes it has a slightly goofy name): http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/academics/graduate/innovati...

Basically they let you cross register with some Tuck Classes while doing research that is more self-directed than normal.

Source: I am in the program

You are thinking of tit for tat, right? I remember reading about generous T4T where in ~10% of the cases they were generous [CITATION NEEDED] it performed better that pure retaliation. Now there is a new paper in Nature[1] that I just stumbled onto in trying to answer your question. It seems like extortion is at least competitive with a generous strategy, though I need to give it a closer read.

[1] http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160412/ncomms11125/full/nc...

I have been doing them for a while. Yes they suck to start but then they start getting meditative.

As winter ended in New England I wanted to up the stakes a bit. Where my wife and I live there is a lovely little waterfall where we go swimming in the summer. Decided to start swimming in Mid March while taking the dog on a walk next to it while she was gone on a trip. Max time in the water at first was maybe 90 seconds but doing it almost everyday since (combined with the changing of the seasons) means now I can stay in as long as I want without discomfort: on the order of 5 minutes.[1]

Side bonus: it has reset my internal thermometer for what is "cold". Most cold snaps are now, by comparison, "ehh this isn't so bad."

[1] http://i.imgur.com/b9GHHQr.jpg

I lived with the author for several years so I am coming at the paper from a position of knowing how he approached the work. I also see it as typical of systems and EE/CS MEng work at MIT.

In my grad program a Dr. Jason Dahlstrom [1] just graduated and his work with FPGAs to provide a limited attack vector surface is some of the more interesting FPGA work I have seen. The 10k' overview is you put some of the core features of the operating system inside FPGA hardware and define a controlled interface to it. You leverage the mass parallelism of the FPGA to have multiple instances running simultaneously and use a consensus protocol for output. Further you enable kill of each of these processes in a pseudorandom fashion and restarts from PROM so in case any one of them gets corrupted it won't have an effect for a long. I can't speak to all of the details but that is what I gleaned from a couple talks I attended in the past 2-3 years. Cool stuff.

[1] https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/people/faculty/jason-dahls...

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