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This article is almost unreadable for me. The ads change in size and make the text jump. I'm adding it to NotebookLM now.


The article is extremely light on details anyway. The most important thing in it is the link to the repo at https://github.com/amd/MxGPU-Virtualization


Seems like using a sledge hammer to pound a nail. Why not just use an ad blocker like ublock origin?


For me weightloss worked over a long period of time with a couple of strategies.

1. One was not eating breakfast, this works well when I'm in the office. Then you have fasting built into your daily routine. This has many metabolic benefits.

2. Switching to a low carb diet (keto). I never thought I'd quit eating bread, but reducing carbonhydrates (esp. sugar) and eating more eggs & meat had the biggest effect on my weight. More so than doing sports. This is just a rough guideline, I don't follow this very strictly.

3. Sports + Fasting: Sometimes on the weekends I go on a hike or do some sports and only eat when I get home in the afternoon (e.g. steak). This forces my body to take the energy from the fat reserves.


This is pretty extreme. :-)

The magic is that just counting calories basically leads to the same outcome: less carbs and sugary stuff, less fatty meats, more lean meat, more veggies, etc.


I don't understand why I get downvotes for that. Those are the things I did in the past two years to get to my dream weight and hold it without yoyo effect.


because "this worked for me" is a poor premise, especially if you're talking about an extreme diet (keto)


I'm not an expert on this topic, so take it with a grain of salt. The reason a low carb diet works for many people (not necessarily extreme keto) is that it reduces the volatility of blood sugar levels, and this results in fewer cravings and being less tired over the day. So taking in fewer calories becomes easier. And then I learned about gluconeogenesis. The body can create glucose on its own and perfectly regulates glucose levels in the brain, etc., once it switches to that mode.

In the end, these tips help to get into a different lifestyle and then reinforce the habits to stay there because it feels better.


I turned this into a little audio book: https://www.pdftomp3.com/shared/67fcc7f933aa6c3115b114da


No, you didn't. This doesn't match the original text.

0:47 Added in text: "Okay, here's the text prepared for reading aloud."

0:58

Original: "Okay, yes, it's a dumb idea,"

Audio: "Okay, yes, it's a bit of a strange idea"

1:08

Original: "Or do you, say, list off to the left some? What I want to ask you is: Can you find out? Hell no. You can see that, sure."

Audio: "Or do you drift off to the left a bit? The question is, can you figure it out? No, you can't. You can see that."

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It appears you are using "Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE)" as the basis for your website[1], which might be good for simplifying more complex things but defeats the purpose here. It's using more than four letters in words, and censoring out "dumb" and "hell"?

Why don't you try pointing that another explanation of the theory of relativity without this limitation? Seems like that'd be a more interesting exercise.

[1a] https://www.pdftomp3.com/shared/67e178f428779824db2e06c6 [1b] https://pdf-reader-storage-f55b8c51173224-staging.s3.us-east...


Ah, I just want to clarify that I'm very unhappy about the censoring of "dumb" and "hell".

I allow the text to get slightly optimized for audio experiences, e.g. page numbers or mathematical notation gets replaced. But I have think about that again.


What I'm certain of is that the standard of living will increase. Because we can do more effective work in the same time. This means more output and things will become cheaper. What I'm not sure of, is where this effect will show in the stock market.


Standard of living for who? Productivity has not scaled appropriately with wages since the industrial revolution.


For almost everyone I think. Since the industrial revoultion we have availability of cheap electricity, cheap lighting, an abundance of food and clothing etc. How the wages developed is something I don't know.


This is assuming most white collar economically productive work is currently utilised to improve standard of lives and is a bottleneck which is at best questionable.


Speaking and pronouncing words feels like more effort and requires more attention than typing on my keyboard or moving the mouse.


During hiking, I realized that I’m more likely to tip over in my hiking boots compared to my sneakers. The center of pressure is much higher in hiking shoes than in sneakers. And the shape of my sneakers is roughly like a triangle, with the larger side on the bottom. It's a different stroy when its muddy though...


Recently I’ve learned that if you listen to audiobooks in your field of expertise every day on your commute, you might pick up a semster worth of education in a year.


I did some leisure research on how the Nazca Lines align with mountain shadows and made a publication. That was a nice weekend. https://zenodo.org/records/11422308


I find this fascinating; I do a lot of reading and writing (leisure work) outside my own specialization; Some I believe are possibly publishable, but I am reluctant so far to attempt to publish them. Is zenodo a good place for this in your opinion?


I would have published on arXiv, but to do that you need an endorsement from an established arXiv user in that specific category. And even then, you can only submit papers in that category. On Zenodo, I was able to publish quickly, and I like that I can see the number of views and downloads.


You can listen to an explanation of the paper here: https://www.pdftomp3.com/shared/67d8abf0ecf38326f8973e49

I created this tool last year to listen to a machine learning book, now I use it for ML papers. The explanations are still a bit repetitive, its not perfect yet.


How long will it take for people to realize, they are looking at a contradiction?


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