You're not supposed to wear a beard with an mask, but how bad is it if you do? With my rough DIY test setup on a P100, I got 80% filtration with a long beard, 92% with a short one, and 99.7% with stubble. https://www.jefftk.com/p/beards-and-masks
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Go is one of my favorite quick and casual party games. You just need to shrink the board down to 5x5.
I think the broader Go community is making a serious mistake in dismissing sizes below 9x9 as not worth playing, even as an introduction to the game.
https://www.jefftk.com/p/mini-go-gateway-game
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An incredibly productive way of working with the world is to reduce a complex question to something that can be modeled mathematically and then do the math. The most common way this can fail, however, is when your model is missing important properties of the real world.
Consider insurance: https://www.jefftk.com/p/non-obvious-benefits-of-insurance
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Many people who've used Tesla's "Full Self Driving" software are pretty excited about it, but if it were really as reliable as advocates claim I think Tesla would have a Level 3 system out (as Mercedes already does). https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-isnt-tesla-level-3
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I help organize a contra dance that requires N95s at half of our dances. Are there ways we could have a hall as safe as this but without the ways N95s make it harder to dance? I'm excited about supplementing ventilation and surgical masks with glycol vapor and 222-nm UVC: https://www.jefftk.com/p/alternatives-to-masks-for-infectious-aerosols
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One of the downsides of wearing a mask or respirator is that it makes it hard for people to understand you. I recently saw that 3M had updated their respirator line to include an option for a speaking diaphragm, and wanted to test it out. Seems to help less than I'd hoped: https://www.jefftk.com/p/mask-and-respirator-intelligibility-comparison
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How does the growth of Bluesky compare to Mastodon in 2022? What about Google Plus in 2011? I can't answer this globally, but I can look at it for my immediate social network by evaluating a proxy: how many of the replies people write to my posts are on each platform? https://www.jefftk.com/p/commenting-patterns-by-platform
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LLMs are getting much more capable, and progress is rapid. I don't see signs of capability increases stopping or slowing down, and if they do continue I expect the impact on society to start accelerating as they exceed what an increasing fraction of humans can do. I think we could see serious changes in the next 2-5 years.
In my professional life, working on pathogen detection I take this pretty seriously, but what should I be doing differently in my personal life? https://www.jefftk.com/p/personal-ai-planning
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Lily recently asked me to help them with a song they'd written. They'd written out the lyrics and had a melody, but they wanted me to play backup and help them make a music video. Here's what we ended up with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj1zgK-2wPo
Thoughts on making it: https://www.jefftk.com/p/moonlight
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Lily recently wrote a song, and I've been helping them record it. The problem is everything I can find assumes your takes are already time-aligned because you recorded to either a click or a scratch track: https://www.jefftk.com/p/editing-at-the-take-level
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BIDA is running a survey on what masking people would like to see at our dances: https://bidadance.org/covid-survey
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Every so often Julia and will track how we spend our time for a week. This is useful for seeing whether how we're spending our time matches how we think we're spending it (and how we would like to be spending it) while also avoiding a pattern where one of us ends up putting in substantially more hours on childcare or other shared responsibilities without us noticing.
We tracked one week, starting the morning of Saturday August 3rd: https://www.jefftk.com/p/august-2024-time-tracking
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