My Google Photos account ran out of storage recently (since 2021 June, Google has stopped providing free storage for photos in High Quality), and I was looking for a self-hosted, open source replacement, with similar features to Google Photos (fast gallery view, facial recognition, object detection).
I have been interested in nutrition from young, seeing as it affects not only weight, but clarity of thought, longevity and sleep among other things. Over here I have collated some of the research I have done over the years, which I have incorporated into my diet.
This page is continually updated as more studies and information develop.
I recently watched a discussion involving Donald Huffman, in which he argues that the world as we perceive it is not its true form - our senses are heavily colored by evolutionary adaptations to ensure our survival and reproduction. The analogy he provides is that what we perceive is akin to the icons on a computer desktop, bearing no resemblance to the actual forms which are magnetic charges on a spinning disk. This is similar to the argument he puts forth in his book, The Case Against Reality, as well as a summary online.
From the 20th to 31st of July 2022, I signed up for a 10-day meditation retreat at Saleng Eco Farm, Johor, conducted by a Vipassana Meditation Center following the teachings of S. N. Goenka (which are in turn derived from Buddhism1).
Running an Android VM in a web browser lets you run Android applications from any computer. This lets you test out apps, or even suspicious programs without compromising your actual device.
The setup:
virt-manager in Docker, which exposes virt-manager in a browser window, and also acts as the VNC server for the Android VMThis guide will let you use a NVIDIA GPU in a Docker container (e.g. for Tensorflow/Pytorch).
Prerequisites:
After completing this guide, you will have a Windows 11 headless virtual machine that can be accessed via:
Self-hosting your own services has been catching up in popularity: the selfhosted subreddit has over 180K members as of 21/5/22, and the number of self-hosted solutions has been growing exponentially (see a huge list here).
Few of us could live life without jotting down our thoughts somewhere. Throughout the years we have developed some sort of note-taking system, either cobbled together slowly by ourselves, or something off the shelf.
I use electronic notes primarily as they are more accessible compared to paper notes and can be backed up easily.
Previously I used a Word document synced on Google Drive. However, this came with several limitations:
Update: I discuss more on the measure of intelligence in this post.
Every decade, huge advancements are being made in the field of artificial intelligence, and each time we are amazed. In the 1960s we had ELIZA, a convincing human-like chatbot. In the 1980s, the world watched as Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov for the first time. In the 2010s, the resurgence of deep learning completely transformed prior approaches in nearly all domains, from images and video, to text and speech.