Fucking finally! Now when will they let me transfer all the games I had to put on an alt account back to my main?
(Ok really it's just 1 game that I haven't played in ages. I'm not that horny. I just hate having multiple accounts as it eats up headspace)
But the comments below say they're not able to access the new page, even with the direct URL... It seems certain tiers of customers can't opt out. Possibly they can't be included in the first place (e.g. EU users), but it's a pretty big screw up to hide one's status on such an important privacy setting.
IPL is decent, but not a complete solution. It only stops pigmented hairs, so depending on area you might only see a 50-80% reduction in hairs, but the survivors will be less visible so at least you won't need to shave as often.
It has been great on my arms & legs, helpful on my chest, but has done almost nothing for my facial hair and I don't know why.
Citizen Kane and 2001: A Space Odyssey suck now.
There are old movies that have aged much better, like The Man in the White Suit and Colossus: The Forbin Project. These should be the ones we call classics.
Honestly, I don't think that there's room for a competitor until a whole new paradigm is found. PyTorch's community is the biggest and still growing. With their recent focus on compilation, not only are TF and Jax losing any chance at having an advantage, but the barrier to entry for new competitors is becoming much higher. Compilation takes a LOT of development time to implement, and it's hard to ignore 50-200% performance boosts.
Community size tends to ultimately drive open source software adoption. You can see the same with the web frameworks - in the end, most people didn't learn React because it was the best available library, they learned it because the massive community had published so many tutorials and driven so many job adverts that it was a no-brainer to choose it over Angular, Vue, etc. Only the paradigm-shift libraries like Svelte and Htmx have had a chance at chipping away at React's dominance.
The easiest way to get the basics is to search for articles, online courses, and youtube videos about the specific modules you're interested in. Papers are written for people who are already deep in the field. You'll get there, but they're not the most efficient way to get up to speed. I have no experience with textbooks.
It helps to think of PyTorch as just a fancy math library. It has some well-documented frameworky structure (nn.Module) and a few differentiation engines, but all the deep learning-specific classes/functions (Conv2d, BatchNorm1d, ReLU, etc.) are just optimized math under the hood.
You can see the math by looking for projects that reimplement everything in numpy, e.g. picoGPT or ConvNet in NumPy.
If you can't get your head around the tensor operations, I suggest searching for "explainers". Basically for every impactful module there will be a bunch of "(module) Explained" articles or videos out there, e.g. Grouped Convolution, What are Residual Connections. There are also ones for entire models, e.g. The Illustrated Transformer. Once you start googling specific modules' explainers, you'll find people who have made mountains of them - I suggest going through their guides and learning everything that seems relevant to what you're working on.
If you're not getting an explanation of something, just google and find another one. People have done an incredible job of making this information freely accessible in many different formats. I basically learned my way from webdev to an AI career with a couple years of casually watching YouTube videos.
I could just be further down the path due to lucky opportunities. 20 years ago I had no ambitions beyond game programming. It was only when I got a biology-related job that learning in my free time started displacing mindless entertainment. The whole field is one big nerd snipe - there are endless opportunities where you can advance the frontier of knowledge by combining a few existing ideas and working out the kinks. The more you read, the more opportunities you see. It's thrilling. I don't think I can go back to non-science work.
I think the dopamine from constant learning also helps to keep my ADHD in check. If I start the weekend with some study, I'll usually also get the housework done. If I start with a video game or TV show, I'll probably spend the rest of the weekend stressing about my todo list and not getting anything done.
I've used a cheaper Braun Silk Epil model. It was a bit slow but was thorough. I'm currently using a mid range Panasonic cordless epilator with 2 rollers. It's much faster but misses quite a few hairs. The battery has run out on me on a few longer sessions, but usually it's fine for arms and lower legs.
Epilation hurts my upper legs too much though. I have to go to an electric shaver above my knees.
IPL may be worth a look if you have the right skin and hair color. It stops most colored hairs from growing. You still get transparent hairs, but I found they can grow longer before getting ugly, and cause me much less dysphoria because they're less visible.
I honestly don't know what that silence would be like. I've spent my programming career jumping between domains, becoming an expert then moving on to find a new challenge. Now I'm building AI stuff for medicine.
In my down time I learn languages, watch videos about physics and math, and play puzzle games.
My brain actually won't let me stop. Boredom = pain.
I've had those "some little wrinkle and the whole thing falls apart" moments. The worst thing is googling them and finding huge threads of complaints from years ago. Apple is a powerhouse at building high quality new software, but they never listen to user feedback and fix the old stuff. Sometimes things even gets worse! e.g. the AirPods Gen 1 let you change the double-tap action between Next Track, Previous Track, Play/Pause and Siri. Obviously people have asked for more customization options like Rewind 5s. Of course, AirPods Pro Gen 2 removed options and now you can only choose between Noise Cancellation and Siri. At this rate the next gen will remove touch controls completely and force me to talk Siri 😱.
The TV might be the problem if Samsung cheaped out on the CPU, or has too much bloatware running in the background. It's infeasible for app makers to test on every TV model and every OS update. It's easy to see how an update could cause a new type of system lag that hadn't appeared during testing... That said, I remember Apple TV also didn't have good options for selecting quality. It's also pretty plausible that Apple didn't code it to fall back to a lower quality if the CPU couldn't keep up.
It's not you. The experience on computer also sucks. I haven't had those video playback & CC issues, but the interface is awful:
Also, the desktop app on macOS is unusable for me without playback speed controls. At least I can hack them in with userscripts on browser.
It hurts me, but I gave up and went back to piracy. I really like Foundation and want to financially support it, but I was taking psychic damage every time I tried to watch it through Apple TV. If I kept paying Apple TV without watching it there, they wouldn't know I was subscribing for Foundation so my money wouldn't be going to the right place.
Plural? How many idle games are we talking here?