Yield Thought

Stefano J Attardi’s excellent blog on using a neural network to split trendlines in his mechanical watch tracking app attracted many comments on hacker news suggesting a simpler algorithm might be more appropriate:
If I understand correctly, the reason a CNN is used here is because we want to find the splits that a human would visually agree “looks” the best?So rather than a regression it’s more like the “line simplification” problem in graphics....

I got very lucky - my final year project supervisor started a company and asked me to join him. Fifteen years later we were acquired by Arm! Taking the advice of people who got lucky is like taking the advice of lottery winners. “Everyone said I was...

These days I work on a company MacBook Pro - I don’t have the flexibility to do work on a Linode outside the company firewall now I’m part of a megacorp! I’m also playing around with mobile prototype boards and various Raspberry Pi versions, so the mobile...

I use UFW to firewall all the ports on my Linode and redirect SSH to a specific non-standard port. I also configured a service (I forget which) to blacklist repeated login / port-scan attempts. Hasn’t been a problem so far!