Hated by everyone he meets. Raises son in hope of creating a potentional liver donor for the decades of alcohol abuse he’s about to experience.

Dad, trying to find jokes to bring light into his miserable live.

Not necessarily, sometimes dimensionality reduction (the more common terminology used, for what is basically compression) is the explicit goal.

Can be used for outlier detection, similarity search, etc.

During training, you find a projection of the input, for example an image, to a smaller space, and then back to the original image. This is referred to as encoding and decoding. The error fuction would be a measure of how similar the in- and output images are.

AI does work like that.

With (variational) auto-encoders, it’s very explicit.

With shallow convolutional neural networks, it’s fun to visualize the trained kernel weights, as they often return an abstract, to me dreamlike, representations of the thing being trained for. Although derived through a different method, search for “eigenfaces” as an example of what I mean.

In the recent hype model architecture, attention and transformers, the encoded state can be thought of as a compressed version of it’s input. But human interpretation of those values is challenging.

I’m self employed.

Found out I’m depressed, decided to reduce work to 3 days a week.

Raised prices to reduce clients. Turns out I now make more, doing less work. It is what it is.

I like Xubuntu. But I’ve no experience on how well it does with touch screens.

I’ve met people who don’t know what a URL is.

The kind of people that google “facebook” when they want to visit facebook.

Completely flabbergasted that we run internal services not indexable by google.

March 2023

Had the same issue with outlook last weeks. 60% CPU usage, doing nothing.

I wonder what the secret baltic/polish/sauce is that they improved so fast after the fall of the wall?

Why are moldova/ukraine/belarus struggling.

As you mention, the balkans haven’t experienced the same rate of improvement after the fall of the ottomans.

For self hosting?

Looks like the author is still active and looking for funding: https://github.com/TachibanaGeneralLaboratories/download-navi

But development seems to have stopped indeed. There is a fork, with new developers, that is actively being worked on: https://github.com/Davilarek/download-navi

GIMP is such a workhorse and a pleasure to work with.