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Some good advice for new grad students and anyone who wants to read research papers. Some great advice on taking care of yourself and the Valley of Despair (which by(Continue Reading)

Well with tariffs coming, not a bad time to take a look and see what to get. Buying electronics for the next few years seems like a good idea 🙂(Continue Reading)

Wow, what a great resource, Andrew Ng’s CS229A is available for free on Coursera. It reminds me that to really learn something, you do have to code it and try(Continue Reading)

OK have had the camera for a bit now and of course various things have broken so some notes on accessories and other stuff that you will need: The screen(Continue Reading)

If you are doing a podcast or a YouTube channel, you oftentimes want to take a short clip (which is a free use for editorial purposes), but what’s the easiest(Continue Reading)

Well if you have a project, you are inevitably going to have some external software. Whereas most folks just say, copy in a file into your own project, this works(Continue Reading)

Wow what a strange application SONY has written. I’m not sure why they did it this way but it is sure confusing. First of all setup is really confusing: You(Continue Reading)

I had not realized it, but while pathogen is pretty awesome for managing bundles, it doesn’t have any update mechanism, so you have to recurl the ~/vim/autoload/plug.vim and also do a(Continue Reading)

Well trying to get (finally!) through the CS223 class on Coursera and actually do the homework, etc. One of the nice things is that Coursera let’s you run the entire(Continue Reading)

Well time once again to update how to process photos and videos. Life is a little more complicated when the inputs are: iPhone X. For most daily shots and really(Continue Reading)