TrudeauCastroson [he/him]

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Cake day: October 6th, 2021

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  • I don’t really need the locally trained AI to recognize general handwriting, only my own.

    I could provide a few pages of my own training data (maybe write out a few pages of “quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” and other stuff like that), and then ideally it flags stuff it’s unsure about and I clarify some more. Maybe find garbled nonsensical sentences, realize it’s probably a mistake, and try and fix it.

    I assumed the leaps in AI would have taken care of this by now, since detecting handwritten letters from touch pen-strokes existed in the 90s. But I guess handing it a chunk of text is too different of a problem, instead of feeding it stroke by stroke?



  • This is actually a bigger deal than the headline suggests if the claims are to be believed. Hopefully the licensing isn’t too expensive for it to be widely adopted if manufacturing at scale is easy.

    They don’t say how it degrades in water, but if it can degrade in ~2months outdoors then that’s actually pretty good.

    Most biodegradable eco-plastic is a scam because it’s either only partially degradable, or only degradable in industrial facilities. If I can throw this packaging in my own compost bin then that would be a huge way to get rid of single-use plastic.
















  • I got back into running lately, hurt my knee and had to take a break, using the very cushioned Hoka Clifton 8.

    I think I increased mileage too quickly, but this video makes me think it might be the shoes since before my running hiatus, I used to cover more ground with very flexible Nike Freeruns and was fine although my feet hurt more. Probably only 10k/week back then though.

    Right now taking a break because the outside of one of my knees clicks when I bend it.

    Any specific vibram model recommendation for sidewalk/hard surfaces?


  • I have narrow feet at the middle, idk what shoe I’m supposed to buy because anything that’s wide at the toe is usually too wide midfoot and results in feeling like my shoes are going to role around my feet no matter how I tie them.

    Also what shoe are you supposed to buy if you’re running on road or sidewalk? Those barefoot shoes are too thin soled IMO, unless you run on dirt paths

    I guess my feet aren’t in too bad of shape since I can wiggle my toes sideway and grab stuff with my bigtoe and middle toe



  • My Brother laser printer/fax that looks like it came from the 90s is amazing and works with everything on default drivers. Mac, PC, Linux, Android, all of these work fine for me. The brother driver gives you more options if you care to install it, but you don’t have to.

    Inkjet is a different beast. Especially the ones that don’t let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink, or that check for “legit” ink refills.