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Re:Ketamine for Depression: How It Works on Friday February 07, 2025 @02:09PM (#42976266)
Beautiful description of your experiences. The psilocybin experience sounds like it was guided by a professional? was it and if so, how did you find that person?
Re:Kai Fu Lee's New AI Company: Yi-Open Source on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:03AM (#38163526)
You inspire me.
Re:How Much Does It Take to Be the Top% in Each U.S. State? on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:41AM (#37654473)
Robert Reich, professor of economics at UC Berkeley, put a course online this year with all of the stats you seek. Yes, wealth inequality makes income inequality seem like an easy to measure proxy yet ultimately misguided metric.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOLArO56vjuoeaIPzKQibBDbx...

Re:NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:40AM (#37218762)
It’s in the word: news. It must be new.
Re:The Cuts at WVU on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @10:26AM (#37134400)
you’re tired of hearing people are irrational so your response is to assume they’re all rational and it’s simply beyond everyone else’s understanding?
Re:The Cuts at WVU on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @10:24AM (#37134380)
And yet this screed is representative of those West Virginians who make the state great. Hang in there.
Re:Meta Reports Second Quarter 2023 Results [pdf] on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @05:55PM (#36885677)
Fud. He discussed metaverse on the call, sees eventually 2 bln+ smart glasses market powering in-app monetization, essentially flipping APPL’s script of big margins from device and app sales / platform lock-in.
Hang out at noisebridge or something.
Re:Ask HN: Parents: Best screen-time limiting software? on Sunday December 11, 2022 @07:16PM (#33949164)
I should add that what makes it work so nicely with pihole is you can use regular expressions for the DNS allow/block lists. So the kids group has a deny rule of `.*` and those few explicit allowed sites I mentioned.
Re:Ask HN: Parents: Best screen-time limiting software? on Sunday December 11, 2022 @06:58PM (#33949030)
It's stock pihole functionality, just the basic groups management feature and default blocklist. Using the stock pihole docker container. There are some helpful blog posts [1, 2] in the top google search results for this setup but honestly very easy setup. I like simple setups.

[1] https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-pi-hole-on-your-syn... [2] https://www.wundertech.net/how-to-setup-pi-hole-on-a-synolog...

Re:Ask HN: Parents: Best screen-time limiting software? on Sunday December 11, 2022 @05:52PM (#33948489)
I use pihole running on our household synology nas. Kids devices are in a group, there’s a rule that blocks all DNS lookups. Kids are trained to set timers, and I set one too, and when the timer goes off, I pull out my phone and click the single button that turns off their DNS. There are exceptions for Kahn Academy, Wikipedia, Prodigy Software; maybe will add more as kids age. Been very happy with this setup. And I’ll be so proud when they learn to bypass it.
Re:Ask HN: Best beginner friendly linear algebra book? on Saturday June 11, 2022 @03:13PM (#31707314)
“Introduction to Linear Algebra” by Gilbert Strang is the book. Recommend getting a used older edition as not much has changed.

His course at MIT is legendary, completely available online https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010...

And there’s so much good linear algebra stuff on YouTube from 3brown1blue.

If you can do one thing now, watch this Veritasium video to disprove the myth that you’re a visual learner: https://youtu.be/rhgwIhB58PA.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2017) on Monday April 03, 2017 @05:17PM (#14027223)

  Location: San Francisco, CA
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Was with a small company in Tokyo doing natural-language processing for a year in 2006, then Google for the last nine years as an SRE. Now, I want to be a part of a scrappier, passionate team. I do backends, I do frontends, I do math and data science, I do arduino and raspbery pi. If you work in tech and you like your company, then please say hello!