I finally migrated my blog (https://diego.codes) to Hetzner, a German green hosting provider (...and away from GitHub). It was quite smooth overall: I placed the order, migrated the contents from GH Pages to the SFTP server and configured the certificates and DNS all while watching a football match - roughly an hour.
For my fellow data scientist out there, I am using Optuna to perform hyperparameter search in a project and it's giving great results so far, in case you want to check it out https://optuna.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html #datascience #machinelearning
Turns out that @darktable has now a Mastodon account! One of the most ambitious open source projects I use regularly
I am building for the first time a PC and I am coming to the realization that if I want to game, I have sometimes no other choice than to buy gaming parts to get the desired performance. Which makes me think: aren't like, a lot of adults into gaming? Why does everything feel so childish? Everything has colorful flashy lights, tribal decals a la 2002, military-related names (Ballistix, Predator, Tomahawk)... It feel just that, childish.
First impressions on No Man's Sky
Also, if you have any interest at all in the evolution, there is this great video by The Internet Historian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ
First impressions on No Man's Sky
I have been playing No Man's Sky for a week now and I think it is a pretty good game. I love exploration games, and even though it was a bumpy ride for Hello Games I think they have redeemed themselves. It is great to be able to roam a huge universe with a sutpidly wide range of activities to do: a main campaign, secondary missions, base building, mining (at all scales), biology... even archaelogy, and who knows what else that I have yet to discover!
You should probably be listening to Idles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLcM3fq6Quk #NowPlaying
The only good thing that Hacktoberfest is going to yield this year is the coinage of the term "nontribution"
23 Years ago, #Radiohead released OK Computer
Part of the marketing included a screensaver on floppy for both Windows 3.1 and 95 (which was only a couple of years old at the time)
The new design of the #NixOS website https://nixos.org/ is online! It is made by a professional designer and implemented by the NixOS marketing team. The landingpage is ready, the other pages will be redesigned in the next days.
You can follow the progress here: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/new-nixos-org-design/9080?u=davidak
Minimal is a browser extension to experience a minimal, less attention grabbing internet experience. Internet should be a tool, not a trap.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/minimal-internet-experience/
Pragmatic data scientist, romantic tinkerer, and music nerd. I am proficient in Spanish and pop culture references.