「この番組は、ご覧のスポンサーの提供でお送りします」Inference Labs

It's official, I have corporate sponsors now (which will hopefully be closer to strategic partnership soon, at least I'd like that). Thanks for the steaks and wine and equipment and all other resources for my distributed hacker team (I'm hoping for a cool demo for ETHOnline hackathon), and local Web3 meatup group I facilitate in Tbilisi (steaks and gas money for everyone participating in the ecosystem), and my Web3 community support army in training.

A large bag of kudos for our general sponsor: Inference Labs!

If anybody needs help onboarding into the decentralised world, reach me privately and we'll help you navigating the options, we have the expenses covered and good people for this (better points of contact are being established, things are being worked on, stay tuned).

I should probably tell a few words about what we actually do at Inference Labs but things change so often I hope we're still bringing decentralized AI to the Web3 world when you read this (maybe we'll be hyperscaling the world by then, who knows) and I don't update this blog often. Better check the official website that will surely be updated with all further developments: https://inferencelabs.com/

Huawei TalkBand B3 (active) review

Despite the fact that no manufacturer ever sent me any free gadget for review, I'm continuing doing it. Maybe I'll become a popular reviewer and they will change their mind. This post will be the first in this year's wearable gadget reviews. To put it into perspective for those who don't know me, I'm not a fitness person, like at all. I eat healthy, I walk kinda a lot, I do some aerobics and occasional cardio but that's it. I'm too lazy even for jogging. But, for some reason, I currently have not one, not too, but three fitness trackers on my wrists. Yeah, crazy, I know, but that was the only way to compare them properly. By the way, wearing TalkBand on the same wrist with anything else is super inconvenient, you can hardly take it out for calls. But more on that later. Why do I need any fitness tracker? Apart from knowing time, I like to know how active I'm during the day, and, more importantly, track my sleep. I have some issues in that department so

Using virtualenv for more than Python projects

Sorry, it's not a complete instruction, just a thought. It occurred to me (some time ago) that Python's virtualenv is, essentially, a simplified version of system "prefix", it has bin, lib, include, and can have more stuff when needed. If you're willing to experiment (you'll probably have to set a few additional environment variables and/or build flags but that's no big deal), you can install various other tools there up until you have a complete system with its own compiler and complete set of libraries although it's much simpler to keep using system compiler and libraries only complimenting them when needed. Granted, prefixes are nothing new, people were using /opt (and their home directory) this way since the beginning of time. But with little help of virtualenv-wrapper or pyenv you can easily switch between them and isolate environments better. Binaries and stuff installed in virtualenv would override system defaults but only when venv is activat

Ok, it seems I want X1 Yoga after all. But I'll probably wait for Gen 3

Generation 2 of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga was announced at this year's CES with both small and big improvements. They finally added Thunderbolt 3 ports with USB-PD charging support, which makes it slightly better deal than Yoga 910 (which is still visually more pleasing to me but no thunderbolt = muh). Anyway, the best part is it's virtually the only laptop with OLED display and I love OLED. I almost immediately decided that I'm gonna buy it eventually (not right now unless something happens, my Yoga 900 is not yet outdated, probably next year or whenever they make Gen 3) provided there are no deal breakers. Then I saw its keyboard: Apart from weird Home/End position (why not make it Fn-PgUp/Fn-PgDn like everyone does? F1-F12 keys are pretty small as a result. But maybe they could be used for some hotkeys with a little xmodmap magic?..) the obvious elephant in the room is swapped Fn-Ctrl keys: seriously, who does that? I even wrote it off as a dealbreaking thing and forgo

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