I'm working on product search in Zalando, a fashion and beauty e-commerce company.
I'm interested in learning to structure and retrieve information, multi-modal data representations, hyperbolic graph embeddings and managing research teams.
I'm learning to be patient, but it's going slower than expected.
For me, right to to repair isn't just about ewaste, and preventing corporate gouging.
It's about mental health. Being able to fix your gadgets is therapeutic. Empowering. Good for the soul.
In a world full of complex technology it's easy to feel small and helpless. And maybe I'm too much of an idealist, but I think that if everyone could experience the joy of fixing or modifying a gadget now and then we'd all be a little more open minded, a little more daring. A little harder to push around.
Judith Love Cohen was the engineer who made Apollo's Abort Guidance System, which was crucial to saving the ill-fated Apollo 13. She finished it while in labor, then (the same day) delivered her younger son -- the actor Jack Black.
This is one of those utterly remarkable #space stories that I stumble over once in a while and it blows my mind afresh every single time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Love_Cohen
Discovered during the week I was unable to access a Kindle book purchased in 2013. Reason? The order was “too old”, and refund issued to buy again. Which was pointless as the book is now more expensive than when I bought it.
Subsequently discovered 66(!!) other ebooks no longer available for download.
Currently 40 minutes in to a support chat with Amazon.
About to learn, I think, whether we purchase ebooks, or rent them…
[Edit: documenting progress in this thread https://mastodon.online/@monro/109812445178130161]
Attached: 1 image The problem first appeared last week, when I attempted to open a book on my Kindle. The book cover appeared in my Library as normal. When I tapped on it, the following message appeared:
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Max Woolf
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Timothy Wolodzko
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf