 I'm doing 32 things |
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be consistent in keeping my magical diary
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1 person |
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improve my concentration
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175 people |
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reignite my imagination
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1 person |
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do research in machine learning
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5 people |
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fail harder
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1 person |
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learn more python
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1 person |
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blog more
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540 people |
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find a creative partner
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11 people |
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be better at math
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187 people |
| 10. |
explore altered states of consciousness
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6 people |
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learn hypnosis
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175 people |
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meet interesting people
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357 people |
| 13. |
write that unsaleable applied mathematics/statistics textbook that is still bothering me
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1 person |
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learn javascript
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414 people |
| 15. |
get in better shape
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926 people |
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Improve my sleeping habits
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23 people |
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choose a language to learn
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1 person |
| 18. |
create a website
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1,027 people |
| 19. |
get a passport
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1,687 people |
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get my internet personae organized
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1 person |
| 21. |
master the craft of coffee roasting
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1 person |
| 22. |
use speech recognition more and type less
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1 person |
| 23. |
make art
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536 people |
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learn electronics
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103 people |
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learn to draw
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2,405 people |
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study semiotics
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10 people |
| 27. |
write a novel
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11,370 people |
| 28. |
Learn Middle Egyptian
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6 people |
| 29. |
make a list of when all my friend's birthdays are so I stop missing them!
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1 person |
| 30. |
learn to remember peoples names
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16 people |
| 31. |
Find out what happened to me
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2 people |
| 32. |
read about data mining and machine learning techniques
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1 person |
How I did it: I went to a local hackerspace to take an Arduino class and one of the project options for the class was to build a "photovore" type robot using the Arduino to make it flexible in how it processed the data from its sensors. It was fun, but my first robot had a few design issues. To really get it right I would need to do another. Read how I did it…
How I did it: The first trick was to adjust the recipe/cups so that I could have the same number of cups, but get less coffee overall. I switched from big mugs (4 tablespoons grounds per cup) to smaller cups (3 per cup). So right off the bat, drinking four smaller cups per day saved me the equivalent of one larger cup. And it felt pretty much the same. Then I spaced things out more evenly to spread out the loss. Now I drin… Read how I did it…
How I did it: I made many small changes. You don't have to do anything big, just little bits. It all adds up.Editing and writing is an important part of the process. If you feel weak in content, re-writing is useful if you can do it and you have the writing and language skills. If you can translate from one language to another, that is a great contribution.If you like reading the articles, you can check references or look f… Read how I did it…
I am surprised that Dragon NaturallySpeaking is so bad. It can keep going for a little while, but it always loses it after a bit of dictation. For instance, today after about 40 minutes of dictation it stopped without warning due to lack of memory or something. WTF? I have 6-8 GB of memory and a basically empty 1 TB hard drive. How does anything run out of memory?
I want the system that Commander Adama used on the old Battlestar!
So far research in machine learning (for me anyway) is really writing utility programs for text file processing. :-/
I know what stemming is, it is making a computer recognize that ‘burp’, ‘burping’, and ‘burped’ are all really the same word ‘burp-’. But what the heck is lemmatization? (Off to Wikipedia!) :-)
So today I am spending the day learning about ways to make computers recognize that ‘sexy’ and ‘sexiness’ are the same concept (but ‘sex’ is not, so there may be a problem there!). That is my afternoon. Doing stuff like that. And python.
Doing stuff like that in python.
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ComicMedal wants to drink less alcohol
be a vegetarian for a week
stop being lazy
get up on time
Learn to cook
Do NaNoWriMo
play sims online
learn to pick a lock
Let go of the past
Design and build my own house
KatyLove wants to Grow in Christ
be a good daughter
go green
grow my own vegetables
Learn to play keyboard
run with the bulls in Pamplona
stop eating fast food
learn fencing
learn to sail a sailboat
do yoga
visit every MLB stadium
See Pearl Jam live
