weisnobody

I'm working on a couple of things:

1. Created OC Renegades (https://ocrenegades.com), including creating the designs and writing the code to integrate internal databases with Shopify and Printufl's APIs. We make graphic tees, hoodies, and other apparel for with designs that range from dry humor and self-deprecation to unapologetic nonconformity and the occasional dose of optimism. Use discount code HN611 for a 15% discount during November of 2026. Example designs:

  o "I Am Completely Normal" (https://ocrenegades.com/collections/completely_normal)
  o "Having Imposter Syndrome does not mean you are competent" (https://ocrenegades.com/collections/imposter)
  o "Be Your Own Hero" (https://ocrenegades.com/collections/own_hero)

2. Using AI to build a Facial identification / recognition system (https://github.com/weisnobody/WhoThatFace) that will allow families / groups to share the training data to make it easier to assign faces to known people. Single location is currently working but it sometimes has trouble differentiating related family member during the clustering stage. High level roadmap:

  o Phase 0: Assigns faces to people is mostly complete
  o Phase 1: Make it easy for non technical people to review and assign faces to people.  
  o Phase 3: Split things so there's a clear distinction between the client and server 
  o Phase 4: Make it so that the client can be run on other operating systems

> Also there was a little outcry that the original artist just received the royalty free platform usual ridiculously small one time payment.

Reminds me of Carolyn Davidson, Nike’s swoosh logo creator, who was paid $185 for the original design but was later given shares in Nike that ended up being worth a bit more. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Davidson_(graphic_desi...

Well, someone once tried to get happiness classified as a psychiatric disorder:

* https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1376114/ (1992)

The abstract: “ It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type. In a review of the relevant literature it is shown that happiness is statistically abnormal, consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated with a range of cognitive abnormalities, and probably reflects the abnormal functioning of the central nervous system. One possible objection to this proposal remains--that happiness is not negatively valued. However, this objection is dismissed as scientifically irrelevant.”

Using AI for coding (or anything) is like being a manager. Successes get passed on to the team (with some to the manager) but the blame stops at the manager

Yes the stats don't make sense. It appears to be an issue with StatsCounter.

The Search Engine wikipedia article [1] has a section on Russia and East Asia market share, which confirms that the roll up used for world wide counts is off, unless the number of people using the Internet is drastically different in some of the countries.

Russia

  * Yandex: 70.7%
  * Google: 23.3%

China:

  * Baidu: 59.3%
  * Other domestic engines: "smaller shares"
  * Bing: 13.6%

South Korea:

  * Naver: 59.8%
  * Google: 35.4%

Japan: * Google: 76.2% * Yahoo! Japan: 15.8%

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine#Market_share

I think the crawled data should have to be shared, but I'm not convinced that Google should have to share their index.

It may be impracticable to share the crawled data, but from the stand point of content providers, having a single entity collecting the information (rather than a bunch of people doing) would seem to be better for everyone. Likely need to have some form of robots.txt which would allow the content provider to indicate how their content could be used (i.e research, web search, AI, etc.).

The people accessing the crawled data would end up paying (reasonable) fees to access the level of data they want, and some portion of that fee would go to the content provider (30% to the crawler and 70% to the crawler? :P maybe).

Maybe even go so far as to allow the Paywalled content providers to set a price on accessing their data for the different purposes. Should they be allowed to pick and choose who within those types should be allowed (or have it be based on violations of the terms of access)

It seems in part the content providers have the following complaints:

  * Too many crawlers (see note below re crawlers)
  * Crawlers not being friendly
  * Improper use of the crawled data
  * Not getting compensated for their content

Why not the index? The index, to me, is where a bunch of the "magic" happens and where individual companies could differentiate themselves from everyone else.

Why can't Microsoft retain Bing traffic when it's the default on stock Windows installs?

  * Do they not have enough crawled data?  
  * Their index isn't very good?
  * Their searching their index isn't good
  * The way they present the data is bad?
  * Google is too entrenched?
  * Combination of the above?

There are several entities intending to crawl all / large portions of the Internet: Baidu, Bing, Brave, Google, DuckDuckGo, Gigablast, Mojeek, Sogou and Yandex [1]. That does not include any of the smaller entities, research projects, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine#2000s–present:_P... (2019)

Grass! You have grass on your side?

Lucky you. :P

I found this interesting because of how it compares with:

* discussions regarding if the glass is half full or half empty (it is of course, neither; it's full... part with liquid and part with air... unless of course it's in a vacuum.)

* what appears to be the (what appears to be common) tendency to look at / dwell on the negative things.

More science fiction than just fiction:

* Spider series by W. Michael Gear

* Forbidden Borders series by W. Michael Gear

* The Change series (aka Emberverse) by S.M. Stirling (first 6)

* The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey

* Dream Park by Larry Niven and Stephen Barnes

* In The Country of the Blind by Michael Flynn

* Me by Thomas T. Thomas

* A State of Disobedience by Tom Kratman

* Merchant Princess series by Charles Stross

* Daughter of the Empire series by Raymond E. Fiest and Janny Wurts

* Ecolitan series by L.E. Modesitt Jr

* Freehold by Michael Z. Williamson

* The Game is Life series by Terry Schott

* The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jum Butcher

I have different experience with v 7.

Vault for Saving in preferences is set to Primary.

If I select a specific vault to view in 1 password, then end up on a website and create a password, 1Password mini has the viewed vault as selected when it asks to save the password, not the vault I've specified as where to save new passwords.

This has been long standing behavior in 1 Password.

Still on 7 because I'm using a mix of vault locations and while I'm using both teams and personal 1password, I have other vaults in other locations.