NN were already a casual topic in my high school computer science class more than 20 years ago. I've always assumed they were already fairly common by that point. (~2000)
They were known in the field but had a reputation for being too slow. I remember a couple of early 2000s NIPS (now NeurIPS) people commenting about what a shame it was that NN were computationally infeasible, which was true in the era before GPUs took off.
Neural networks weren't the best models for character recognition, their breakout success was when they started being the best at recognize characters and other images which happened in the late 00's. OCR before then was really bad.
Might be hard to imagine today but back then OCR and image recognition was typically done with normal statistical regression models, and the neural networks they had then were worse than those.
I sit in front of my work laptop which is signed into my work apple account. My iPhone is signed into my personal Apple account. I cannot iMessage from the keyboard because they won't play together. I've been using Cloud Beeper since early summer, and it makes the two apple systems play nice together. I also have a Windows machine signed in to it, but that's a nice to have.
Wait, how does this work? Is it using Handoff and sending from your phone, or Beeper is just a GUI and you've extracted a token from your personal phone to use with Beeper on your work device?
Btw, this is mostly unrelated, but do you work for a large company? I'd assume most security teams would have a problem with a setup like this.
Ah I see. I thought I remembered reading about that on Twitter (in the context of people criticizing it as false advertising). So basically this Beeper mini is the "proper" implementation of full e2e encryption, while the cloud service was the bridge to get them here?
The keystroke issue is such a big thing. It's not just a matter of remapping either. Like Control+C in the terminal is Control+C in the terminal, but Command+C is Control+C sometimes and Control+Shift+C other times.
Frontpage Express was an IE activeX control with contentEditable set to true. There was plenty of functionality around building <table> or whatever but comparing it to TinyMCE is absolutely right. Just 6 years before FckEditor was a thing.
In 7th grade, my class had Boeing surplus computers at each student's desk. Most were 386SX with 4MB. I remember getting a chance to harvest parts from a broken machine and mine went up to 8MB. That was enough to install and run Windows 95.*
* On paper
It was awful and while that CPU did no favors, it was swapping that made it awful.
Surface Laptop 4 here. Great keyboard. Great screen. Great trackpad. Surface Dock is great. And WSL gets the job done too. It's lighter than the Mac. Dunno that battery is better, but it's certainly good enough. And it was relatively cheap!
But I still try to copy & paste like it's a Mac. And it's not a question of remapping. I want Alt+C and Alt+V to copy and paste system wide.
I'd get into BBQ. Buy a pickup, a tow-behind smoker, park on the side of the road and sell meats to people for lunch. Gets me envious of myself just thinking about it.
I've personally done both Sandia (2004-05) and LANL (2006-10). I'd do LANL again, but Sandia was very political with dull work. Interesting ideas, but dull work. So much bikeshedding. So slow moving.
I did workflow management systems, environmental controls in labs, and lightning prediction software.
