Month: July 2021

Interesting fact: Moths do not have a mouth. They don’t eat. I showed her what she needs to evolve into in a million years. And set her free.

Check out what I made on the 3D printer today!

It would be logical to implement autocomplete in messengers based on message analysis – in your chats, your friends’ chats, and people with similar profiles (same language, interests, etc.), and to train swipe keyboards, autocorrect, and auto-replies to use this analysis data in making decisions on which word or phrase to insert in autocomplete, autocorrect, or auto-reply. It seems not too complicated, yet somehow no one is doing it. Only Google in their email and LinkedIn in their quasi-messenger are trying with autocomplete. With such training, voice recognition for entering text messages could be made much better than it is now. It would understand slang and a mix of English and Russian words. Translators could do better, as they could be trained on users’ messages. We are generating megabytes of data by typing to each other.

Unfortunately, all the major players in this market consider users’ messages only as raw information for tailoring relevant ads. The messengers themselves don’t seem to change at all.

No messenger supports plugins – the way it’s done in Atom or IntelliJ Idea, or even as in Chrome. It should have a catalogue where you choose, click install, and some useful function gets enabled. But plugins don’t have access to the entire message database, whereas messenger owners do – and they do nothing.

Does Kinopoisk still belong to Yandex, or has someone hijacked and ruined it? It’s been a while since I last visited. In the mobile app, the top-rated movies list starts with “Lords of the Locker Room”, and in fourth place is “He is not Dimon”. The Kinopoisk website is the only one that, upon loading, completely reloads a second after rendering the first page, to load again with me already authorized through Yandex SSO. The mobile app lacks a top 250 and other undoubtedly popular ratings, which, for some reason, have escaped the attention of the product owner of the app. If you ever clicked “I want to watch this movie” or “I watched this movie,” you can’t see what I’ve selected. Apparently, the list of movies selected this way is only available to admins and bots, to build recommendations. Among the top 250 best films of the world, there are a handful of Russian cinema films which look genuinely odd in that company. Really, “Doctor Liza” stands between “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and “The Devil’s Advocate”.

Looking for pen pals 🙂 I occasionally encounter minor issues with various technology topics, and there’s no one to ask (certainly not posting on Facebook).

1. Could you perhaps introduce me to some experienced digital artists who professionally use a Wacom tablet? I have a few questions regarding its settings. I own a Wacom Intuos Pro Medium.

2. Does anyone have friends (or maybe you yourself) who professionally use Blender for 3D modeling (including sculpting, UV filters, etc.)? I would love to learn from this person 🙂 Also, if there’s anyone skilled in Meshlab…

3. Is there anyone – friends or friends’ friends, who actively use their photopolymer printer? I have a Creality LD-002R.

It’s curious when at the checkout they ask for a normal ticket price of 26 dollars, “how much should I charge?” – you just name any number.

Celebrating Independence Day at the Philadelphia Museum of Art