- Stanford Aero/Astro is starting an alumni newsletter now. There are 17 people in the new aero/astro undergraduate program already! Per Enge died 🙁
- I wonder how hard it would be to write a program that parses Ryan’s footage to extract stats like catches and hits. Amazon’s Rekognition tool can do action detection and pathing and such. That would work.
- Blogger is wayyyy less resource-consuming in chrome than Drive.
- Caught up on new season of Brooklyn 99. Didn’t know it started back up again!
- Talked to 24 yesterday (Luis). He said that I get a free month but you still have to pay for two months. I assumed that meant that the first month was free, then I could just cancel before paying anything. Sneakily, it meant that you pay for the first and last month, and the middle month is free. I should have pressed harder.
- Netflix has a heavy ML and experimentation platform. There’s a large team working on data science and research. I read their tech blog post about it.
- To discover private or hidden APIs on a website, just use the network tab of chrome devtools. It will tell you the url routes, the http method, and the data. Then just use it for you own purposes in whatever custom way you want! requests.post(url, data). It can get more complicated with cookies and auth, but you can copy that as well because devtools shows it!
- A shortcut – just right click the request in devtools and copy it as cURL, or convert it to python, or whatever you want. Very easy export method to repeat requests.
- sudo apt install gnome-tweaks to get more settings. Removed trash icon, added battery percentage, and a few more small improvements.