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Notes Collecting some notes, reading Slow Productivity1 as I’m iterating on this2 post which is related. Disconnection From the Familiar The p160 - 163, daily rituals, going to some other other place , as a escape place to focus. I have stumbled upon this phenomenon too. Traveling has been a favorite way to collect my thoughts not otherwise accessible. Bonus relaxed low stakes environment. trail of broken urls Reading, p181, about this Jarvis, this quote resonates, ...

You don’t know what you don’t know. Filled in some gaps today. I don’t know if these particular gaps were used by pests found intruding into the home, but per my reading, these are typical likely entry ways, so going to attempt to rule these out for later.

Housing scarcity VC funds are buying up private properties, taking housing off the market, driving up housing costs through additional scarcity and pushing more people to renting. Also, shared algorithms for rent pricing are a proxy for collusion, possibly inadvertent, but raising prices. Loneliness Health insurance disconnect We have new transparency laws passed but perhaps people dont know about them yet. Not yet transitioned to vqlue based cqre, so many providers are incentivized to paper patients with mountqins of itemization paper cuts. Value based care would open up pay for outcomes. ...

Used sand paper , grade 80 , to get the following before after

Into my immich journey I tried out a way to upload videos to vimeo straight from immich, with the vimeo REST API. Added a small upload script here, https://github.com/namoopsoo/manage-my-photos/blob/main/vimeo/upload.py , which just requires a VIMEO_TOKEN defined as an env variable python vimeo/upload.py --local-path /path/to/file.mov References https://developer.vimeo.com/api/reference/videos#upload_video

Summary todo Raw notes 2024-12 genius makers book P33 Hinton not interested in mathematics, including in linear algebra. He would just get help from others to help solving the differential equations First chapter of the book is about how connectionism was apparently disproven by Marvin Minsky. But Hinton was nit convinced. Hearing initial issue was, they only tried singlw layer networks. Huh why. P37, back prop. Rumelhart P39 Boltzmann Machine ...