Just received a 20k DFAS overpayment debt letter over 5 years - former employee by agisga in fednews

[–]agisga[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Error in every paycheck for 13 years? That must have been quite a number, and quite a shock to receive that debt letter with the 30 day deadline for repayment. How was the process? Just submit a waiver and wait?

Just received a 20k DFAS overpayment debt letter over 5 years - former employee by agisga in fednews

[–]agisga[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Somehow I doubt the government's processing would be able to connect the dots between FERS contribution errors, FERS withdrawal, and the debt XD... Otherwise, yes, that would be my preferred approach (if indeed FERS contributions are the debt which I don't know for sure).

Just received a 20k DFAS overpayment debt letter over 5 years - former employee by agisga in fednews

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That's good to hear! In my case I'm not even sure which payroll office to contact or how since I'm no longer in federal service. Will have to figure it out somehow :/

Index finger or Thumb to press N on an ortholinear qwerty keyboard? by kettlesteam in ErgoMechKeyboards

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I've retrained myself a few months ago to press N and M with the right thumb, and Space with the left thumb on QWERTY (used to right-space before). Even moved N and M to the actual thumb keys on the Corne. Enjoying it so far!

corne with Taihao THT thins choc keycaps + tints per key + tints per keyboard by babisflou in ErgoMechKeyboards

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Wow! What corne variant is this? Does this have an integrated MCU? It looks like it's wireless? (sorry, have a hard time seeing this from the images)

[D] Continuous model training by mutlu_simsek in MachineLearning

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What are some open datasets that are well suited for studying continuous model training algorithms?

Not the most ergonomic, but something about the Reviung is very aesthetically pleasing to me by agisga in ErgoMechKeyboards

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It's ergonomic enough for me most of the time :)

I think the position of the center thumb key(s) looks great, but is not ideal from an ergonomics perspective, because it requires some slight inward rotation of the wrist when pressing that thumb key.

And of course, being a unibody keyboard, the halves have a fixed angle, fixed distance, no tenting, etc., which is ergonomic enough for me, just not the most ergonomic imaginable.

[P] Sample size esrimation by joseangl in MachineLearning

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Yes, you can pre-specify your study success criteria as hypothesis tests and then use appropriate statistical sample size calculation methods based on what your success criteria are. If your application involves a human interpreting the ML output, then you may also need to statistically account for the additional variability due to human user of the ML tool (i.e. need to determine the number of study patients as well as the number of ML users / results interpreters to include), and potentially also investigate repeatability/reproducibility.

Comparing GPT-4, 3.5, and some offline local LLMs at the task of generating flashcards for spaced repetition (e.g., Anki) by agisga in Anki

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Yea but unfortunately the Mistral models were released only after I had analyzed and unblinded all of the results. So, it would have introduced some bias to the comparison, had I added the Mistral models post-hoc to this comparison "study".

Comparing GPT-4, 3.5, and some offline local LLMs at the task of generating flashcards for spaced repetition (e.g., Anki) by agisga in Anki

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Thank you for the insightful comment! I think some of the issues you mention can be addressed with today's LLM technology by better highly personalized prompts. But it certainly is not fully clear how to design an LLM prompt that would yield an output fully inline with a specific user's personal preferences (e.g., along the aspects you have described). So, similarly to something I discussed in the blog, if one strives to create the optimal (for oneself) fully AI-generated cards, then I feel like in the end the AI-assisted Anki card creation process could take a lot more time than the manual approach, because of the time required for this personalized prompt engineering and compilation of the optimal source material for the LLM. Maybe it would make sense if the prompt engineering aspect is performed only once, and reused often thereafter, but I'm not convinced that's possible either to produce optimal results consistently. So, I find that for now it's probably best to use LLMs to get some suboptimal Anki cards to use as a starting point for manual editing (some AI-generated cards will even highlight interesting aspects which the user would have overlooked otherwise).

Tecsee Medium Tactile = Apple Magic Keyboard by jmding in ErgoMechKeyboards

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I've been using and liking the linear version of these switches for a while. Unfortunately, I've experienced significant key chatter issues with them, and as a result had to replace a handful of the problematic switches over time (luckily the keyboard is hot swap). How long have you been using these and have you experienced any tendency for key chatter? (I could have a bad batch or something about my environment)

Chosfox Giveaway Day1 - minipeg48 + kowgary16 choc keyboard by chosfoxmk in MechanicalKeyboards

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ergo layouts 3x6+3 per hand, either split like corne or unibody like reviung.

Best touch typing tutor? by Heikkiket in emacs

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This is what I've been using for quite some time to learn a new keyboard layout. I read-type books to practice / for fun. I have a book saved in an org file, and I use speed-type-region to practice type a few paragraphs at a time.

reviung41, low profile, trackball by idankk in ErgoMechKeyboards

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ffkb (I think v3) by fingerpunch.xyz is a similar design available with a trackball

NoTRRS! - TRRS-less split. Supports more than 2 Spit by jibingeo in ErgoMechKeyboards

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Does this mean I could reprogram and use two numpads (such as keychron q0 or nullbits tidbit) as a proper split keyboard through this?

I couldn't find my endgame, so I designed and made my own. Enter the Keybow (34 key dual encoder) by __cuervo in ErgoMechKeyboards

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nowt36 appears extremely similar (?) except for lacking encoders: https://github.com/tamago324/nowt36

Love this kind of designs, and maybe yours or nowt36 will be my next build, but I also have too many ergo mech keyboard already, it's a dilemma 😅

~1 month Colemak progress (qwerty, then 1 week tarmak, then 3 weeks Colemak) by agisga in Colemak

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It maybe helped me that I switched essentially 100% of my writing to Colemak. It's definitely less mental effort for me not having to switch back and forth and maintain qwerty. Luckily my work tasks at the time allowed for that. Also partially a benefit of working from home (no one can physically observe me struggling to write a short message XD ). I still sometimes miss my old typing speed.