When making (visual) changes on my blog, I used to make a commit and wait until GitHub pages rebuilt and published the site again, before I could verify that I liked the change or if I should modify it further. A single iteration often took several minutes. It worked, but...
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Seminar Report: PointNet
Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation
Abstract Point cloud is a crucial geometric data type. Due to its peculiar format, most researchers transform such data. This, however, tends to cause issues. PointNet (2017) is a novel type of neural network that directly consumes point cloud data while respecting input permutation invariance, an important characteristic of point...
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Book: Stillness is the Key
An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life
Review of Ryan Holidays book that ‘teaches us all how to maintain our focus and presence of mind amid the sometimes overwhelming conflicts and troubles of twenty-first century life’, according to Robert Greene. I got this book sometime in the end of September 2020, and read it from late November...
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Book: Project Hail Mary
Science Fiction from the Author of 'The Martian'
Review of Andy Weir’s third book, “an epic story of redemption, discovery and cool speculative sci-fi”, according to USA Today. Several people recommended it in a larger ratonalist group, so I bought and read it sometime last month. I can only recommend it to everyone interested in ‘hard’ science fiction,...
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Book: Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs
what you need to know about the numbers
Review of Karen Berman and Joe Knight’s book that helps you ‘understand what your income statement and balance sheet are telling you’. I recognized that I had to work on my financial literacy in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, this was one of the books highly recommended in Personal MBA, which...
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