This "amateur" programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
An interesting look at how an amateur built a free website which allowed uploads of mammograms and applied machine learning AI to detect early signs of breast cancer.
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Introducing the new and upgraded Framework Laptop
I'm excited to see they are updating the laptop and that this hopefully means continues sales and growth for the company. I don't need a new laptop, and probably won't for a few years (knock on wood,) but when I do - I will be seriously looking at Framework.
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Well, today is looking to be personally notable. After several years of trusty service, it looks like it might be time for me to replace my Note 9. I'm not sure exactly when I got it, I think it was 2018, but it's been my daily driver phone ever since and I have never seriously considered upgrading from it. Honestly, the only reason it's about to get replaced is because the screen began to show signs of impending failure yesterday.
As of now, I'm considering either the new S22 Ultra (which looks to just be a Note in disguise) or the much more divisive Surface Duo 2, which was panned at release, but seems to have finally gotten to a good place after further software updates. The form factor of the Duo 2 is really attractive to me.
We're planning to hit a local Best Buy which will hopefully have one on display that I can hold and mess with. We'll see.
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A byproduct of me watching the news around the Ukraine invasion, I found myself wondering about who handles the IT needs of the highest level of world politics. Like, who handles coordinating and managing the video calls for the G7 conference? How do they handle the tech needs at the UN?
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An old photo of a very large BBS
This is a big flashback for me. I was only on the tale end of BBSs as a kid. I only remember ever using one BBS, and that was one dad used for work. A local PC part wholesaler ran a BBS to allow customers to log in and place orders, etc. Otherwise mine was the world of MUDs and IRC.
The machines they show look very much like machines I grew up using and working on for my dad.
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As noted previously, it is time I replace Turk. Its replacement arrives tomorrow, and I have decided to name it Ted, after Ted Lasso. A fun merging of my naming conventions between TV characters (Marvin & Turk) and my server names after soccer coaches (Klopp & Schmetz.)
I have been running Lubuntu on Turk, largely to ensure it ran well on the older hardware. Ted will be a much newer and more powerful laptop. Not quite top tier, but definitely leagues ahead of Turk. Given that, I am planning to keep Ted as a dual boot system, with it running Windows as well as Linux. I have decided to give OpenSUSE a go, so we will see how I like it. Otherwise I might soon be replacing it with Ubuntu or one of its variants.
The new machine will arrive tomorrow, and with it I'll begin moving in.
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Replacing Turk
After a number of years, it is finally time to replace my long in the tooth Acer laptop. It's nearly four years old, but it was a budget purchase at the time and I had a number of issues with it. Only after replacing the hard drive and switching it over to boot on Linux, did I get it to work. Since then it's been my daily driver for non-work stuff. It is far from a beast of a machine, but it got the job done for my uses (internet, coding, Minecraft, etc.)
After doing some research I decided to go with a beefier machine that was on sale at Costco, an MSI gamer laptop. I don't plan to use it for gaming, but given that I spend 99% of the time I'm using it plugged in, I figured the beefier specs were good.
The real question is what to name the machine. Is it Turk2? Or is it something new?
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Interview with Nadella
A bit of a longread but I greatly enjoyed this interview with Satya Nadella. I didn't listen to the podcast and just read the transcription. Some great insights into how Microsoft, or perhaps Nadella, views Microsoft and its challenges. I particularly liked the insights that he gained during the pandemic.
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Two Important Tools with the Waning Days of RSS
Kill the Newsletter - Create a one-use email inbox where every email it receives is turned into an RSS feed.
FetchRSS - A website which allows you to create an RSS for a blog-esque website including a very easy to use picker to identify the different elements on the page that can build the RSS feed.
With these tools, I can turn so much more of the information I consume online into an RSS feed to be imported into my RSS reader.
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The Surface Duo is more than 50% off on Amazon. If I didn't still love my Note 9, I'd consider it. I know the phone got panned but I love the concept of the dual screen.
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Third Linux install in as many days. As it turns out, when I abandoned Bunsenlabs, I accidentally installed the 32-bit version of Lubuntu on the laptop. Oops. Finally got it figured out while triaging why I couldn't get Sublime Text to work on the machine. So, we're back set up and moving into the laptop all over again.
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12 Learnings of Claude Shannon
Written by the authors of the excellent biography of Claude Shannon, they distill learnings down into a list of 12 things and lessons for life. I greatly enjoyed the biography and learning about someone so important to the development of the modern computer and who possessed a keen intellect beyond what most possess.
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