u/sheketsilencio

https://reddit.com/link/1vnykmm/video/lcd5wgpnj8gh1/player

Here is the linkedin demo, where I'll be leaving the github link!!

Air Write is an accessibility tool I developed that classifies and recognizes letters and words written in the air with your phone, like a wand (yes, like in Harry Potter... shouting expecto patronum is optional). I built it with limited fine motor control in mind. It's a web app that runs in the phone's browser on accelerometer and gyroscope data alone.

A touch keyboard requires you to hit small fixed targets accurately, and a stylus requires precise tiny movements and limits by screen size. Air-writing only requires gross motion at whatever size is comfortable for the user, calculating the path travelled through air so the same letters and words are read whether drawn with the wrist or whole arm.

It detects when to start and stop recording from the motion itself, and works at any grip angle. Trained on 1,645 letter recordings and 1,008 word recordings, the convolutional network reads isolated letters and words written as one connected stroke by classifying candidate letter regions and evaluating the most probable combination of letters (fitting to dictionary spellings if all letters aren't recognized with high confidence).

Since I had limited time this semester to collect and tag data to perfect the model, I will be releasing this project open source with the hope that others can further improve it!

״השיר האחרון״. למה בארץ משתמשים כל הזמן בבינה מלאכותית כדי ליצור ״אומנות״?

אני אשכרה מהנדס נתונים ועובד עם בינה מלאכותית כל יום אז אני מבין היטב שהיא שימושית. אני מדבר על מוזיקה ואומנות. זה פשוט מגעיל אותי

שומעים את המלאכותיות בצעקות בסוף השיר חח

Hello! Go easy on me, I am (or was) p o o r

I got cheap soft mouthguard kits to make impressions of your teeth at home to get a softer mouthguard. My teeth naturally are almost perfectly aligned (never needed braces). And while the soft mouth guards did prevent further physical grinding of the teeth, I notice my front top teeth (canines and everything between) no longer align perfectly with the bottom ones. As in, now there's a few-millimeter gap between the top and bottom. It's still symmetrical. I moved to Mexico from the US (half Mexican lol) and can afford the healthcare services here finally (yes, a privilege)

What am I supposed to do? Do I stop using the soft mouthguard for a few months and hope it settles back? Do I get a hard mouthguard professionally done now using an impression of my now-slightly-misaligned teeth and switch immediately? Do I use some more minimal solution temporarily and then switch? My bottom central teeth are a bit worn down, I was considering extending them a millimeter with bonding anyway. But I'd need to ask a dentist. I've gotten botox for my TMJ in the past and it's helped a bunch too

What would yall do? I will ask a professional, but I want to know if yall went through anything similar.

https://reddit.com/link/1va9fag/video/lcd5wgpnj8gh1/player

Here is the linkedin demo, where I'll be leaving the github link!!

Air Write is an accessibility tool I developed that classifies and recognizes letters and words written in the air with your phone, like a wand (yes, like in Harry Potter... shouting expecto patronum is optional). I built it with limited fine motor control in mind. It's a web app that runs in the phone's browser on accelerometer and gyroscope data alone.

A touch keyboard requires you to hit small fixed targets accurately, and a stylus requires precise tiny movements and limits by screen size. Air-writing only requires gross motion at whatever size is comfortable for the user, calculating the path travelled through air so the same letters and words are read whether drawn with the wrist or whole arm.

It starts and stops recording from the motion itself, and works at any grip angle. Trained on 1,645 letter recordings and 1,008 word recordings, the convolutional network reads isolated letters with, and words written as one connected stroke are read by classifying candidate letter regions and evaluating the most probable combination of letters (fitting to dictionary spellings if all letters aren't recognized with high confidence).

Since I had limited time this semester to collect and tag data to perfect the model, I will be releasing this project open source with the hope that others can further improve it!

Greetings. Doing medical residency in Germany.

Please reread my title carefully! I have way more than enough money but I keep at least €12,000 of my €150,000 in a savings account that accumulates interest and the rest in mutual funds (stable long term investments). I do not want to put my money in some foreign blocked account where my money will depreciate, when I have better options. I've also heard of plenty of people having issues withdrawing their money and customer service issues (unacceptable). I trust my current financial institutions more.

I'm sure it might depend on specific situations but are there *any* alternatives or exceptions allowed? Like can I provide extensive proof of my savings in other accounts? I've seen people mention being sponsored or something, curious about that or ANY alternatives. I will research myself the topic further but wanted to ask here as well.

Thank you.

Been on the platform for months, consistently high scores, never had a flag or warning of any kind. Got assigned a new audio evaluation task with 10+ minute clips. Next thing I know I'm locked out entirely with status changed to "unapproved annotator" and I can't log in.

I did not break any rules. Zero. There is no violation because I did not commit one. I am literally a goverment data engineering consultant and obviously hold myself to a high standard of work.

I raised a support ticket and got a closure response in literally under 3 minutes claiming a "multi-layered review" and "secondary human review" had taken place. No specific violation named, just generic boilerplate about platform integrity.

I take quality seriously, and my record on this platform reflects that. I have a near perfect score, in fact. Has anyone successfully gotten reinstated after something like this? Would appreciate a real look at my history. Thank you!

Hey y'all. I have sensory processing issues and like many Deaf and hard of hearing people, rely on captions to understand YouTube.

As discussed here and here, YouTube's auto-captions are inaccessible as they appear word by word, forcing deaf people to fix their gaze on the ever-changing words in the caption bar instead of scanning the fully rendered sentence quickly and reverting their gaze to the actual content. I made a forever-free extension that rerenders into customizable full phrase/sentence-style captions (showing the full phrase(s) all at once).

It works on Chrome, Brave, and Firefox. You can adjust font, size, position, lines, and background. It's open source and doesn't collect data.

Link to Demo, Chrome+Firefox Extensions, and Github

Built it for myself, but r/deaf gave tons of feedback and feature recommendations that helped shape the current version. It's great for autistic people and those with ADHD as it's less distracting and easier to read quickly

Demo of extension, showing how you can customize every aspect of the captions

The hardest part (after figuring out how to hook into youtube's caption API) was balancing readability guidelines from DCMP with full customization: showing full sentences when possible, splitting at natural clause boundaries (punctuation) when needed, and timing captions so they appear early enough to scan without lingering forever. I eventually figured out how to make it do the immense amount of calculations/rendering almost instant, even on 5+ hour videos, so it should be lightweight and convenient to use.

Some of the really nice feedback I got, among some suggestions that I've since implemented <3

I think the extension works pretty quick and intuitively now. I hope y'all find it useful too 😄

Hey y'all. I have severe sensory processing issues and rely on subtitles to understand audio well. As discussed here and here on r/deaf, Youtube's word-by-word auto-captions have a very inaccessible design, seemingly made more with keeping people's eyes glued on the screen than being readable at a glance.

I figured out that you can intercept the response from Youtube's autocaption API and reorganize the data to display it more reasonably.

So here's an accessibility extnsion I made for my own use due to my own reliance on good subtitles. r/deaf found it pretty useful, hope y'all like it as well. It will always be free obviously.

The mods keep deleting the post without explanation and don't respond to DMs lol. Clearly actual Deaf people are finding it useful!  It's already tested extensively and has been iteratively improved based on the feedback of myself and other Deaf users. It collects absolutely zero data from you. It is does not break rule 1.

Demo showing corrected subtitles with toolbar customization settings

​Check it out here!
(has the demo, link to github, chrome and firefox webstore)

Hey y'all. I have severe sensory processing issues and rely on subtitles to understand audio well. As discussed here and here on r/deaf, Youtube's word-by-word auto-captions have a very inaccessible design, seemingly made more with keeping people's eyes glued on the screen than being readable at a glance.

I figured out that you can intercept the response from Youtube's autocaption API and reorganize the data to display it more reasonably.

So here's an accessibility extnsion I made for my own use due to my own reliance on good subtitles. r/deaf found it pretty useful, hope y'all like it as well. It will always be free obviously.

Mods please let me know if the post doesn't belong here and why, I saw my last attempt at posting was deleted but didn't see a comment. Clearly actual Deaf people are finding it useful! It's a bit shocking that my post gets repeatedly removed without a single explanation. Wouldn't it be less work to explain why? I've already read the rules for the sub.

​Check it out here!
(has the demo, link to github, chrome and firefox webstore)

https://preview.redd.it/xkytp7ikgr0h1.png?width=1362&format=png&auto=webp&s=2641ad506be113de00ba4efcf6f253322443ae21

Hey y'all. I have severe sensory processing issues and rely on subtitles to understand audio well. As discussed here and here on r/deaf, Youtube's word-by-word auto-captions have a very inaccessible design, seemingly made more with keeping people's eyes glued on the screen than being readable at a glance.

I figured out that you can intercept the response from Youtube's autocaption API and reorganize the data to display it more reasonably.

So here's an accessibility extnsion I made for my own use due to my own reliance on good subtitles. r/deaf found it pretty useful, hope y'all like it as well. It will always be free obviously.

I'd appreciate if the moderators stopped deleting my post, or would at least ensure to leave comments on deleting posts saying why it was deleted. Clearly actual Deaf people are finding it useful

Demo snapshot

Check it out here!
(has the demo, link to github, chrome and firefox webstore)

Hey y'all. I have severe sensory processing issues and rely on subtitles to understand audio well. As discussed here and here on r/deaf, Youtube's word-by-word auto-captions are HORRIBLE. It's the most inaccessible design possible, seemingly made more with keeping people's eyes glued on the screen than actually being readable at a glance.

I made a totally free Chrome extension (works on Brave and other Chromium browsers as well) that fixes the issue. It intercepts the response from Youtube's autocaption API and reorganizes the data and displays it more reasonably. It's still in early development (as mentioned in the post below, I am working on a more stable and customizable version), but I already use it myself due to how much better it feels

I know no self-promo is allowed, but this will ALWAYS be a free extension. More than anything, it's a tool I wrote for my own use due to my own reliance on good subtitles. If it's usefull for y'all, that's even better. 😄 I'm always open to feedback.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7458555604941406208/
(has the demo, link to github and extension. Note that Chrome web store lags a day to accept a new version, so the GitHub version is more up to date at the moment)

Soy mitad mexicano y no crecí ni bailando ni asistiendo a fiestas o bailes familiares... me gustaría aprender a bailar cumbia de forma natural, o sea no memorizando unos pasitos nomás sino también pudiendo fluir e interactuar con otros bailando, si me explico

Soy medio torpe pero hoy me puse a ver unos videos de instrucción y pienso practicar en casa. Vi la película "ya no estoy aquí" y me inspiró mucho jajs supuestamente el actor tuvo que hacer clases de baile también

Tengo 27 años y sé que sigo "joven" pero no bailé NADA en mi niñez, siento no tengo ese ritmo en mi sangre pero me gustaría aprender

Ustedes han aprendido de forma intencional? O será que todos crecen bailando naturalmente imitando a familia

Another person with same screen module and same issue

https://preview.redd.it/vsmapsabqyxg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=0833108af209e1b7e9120d8a06f0cb510fb2d0f7

I ordered a P16s Gen 4 with a 4k Oled screen. It arrived with some dead pixels. I got a replacement screen sent from them as a "one time exception". The replacement screen had horrible brightness and color spotchiness/lack of uniformity. I asked a technician to come and check it out, he confirmed it was a defective screen, and replaced it... and the new screen is even worse. anywhere from 20-80% brightness, dark gray, brown, and blue backgrounds show the characteristic splotchy banding of defective OLED screens.

now you might think "most OLED screens look strange at low brightness". I am not new to computers lol. This is FAR out of the range of normality... half the screen looks black, half the screen looks medium brightness with splotchess.

Here are some photos. I'd say it looks even worse in real life, and shows across all dark colors, again anywhere from 20-80% brightness. So bad that even some youtube videos with backgrounds show it, not just 100% monochromatic backgrounds.

Lenovo at first was helpful, but quickly became antagonistic and saying they already made exceptions and that I can upgrade my repair plan (it's a 1 month old laptop under their warranty) or send in my entire laptop in for repair (which we all know can take months and sometimes results in the laptop being lost or damaged in transit, which they would blame the client for).

https://preview.redd.it/hd0nusfaqyxg1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=aaa767f045a1b552c74524ba896ca4d34684799c

I wanted to warn y'all against buying the OLED models. There seems to be a recent batch of defective screens that they're pumping out in their factories in China without any serious quality control. I was told that their quality control teams "currently aren't aware of any issues", but every screen they've replaced has issues so severe that even tiny UI elements like buttons appear as gradients sometimes instead of dark gray. It shouldn't be this obvious. I've purchaesd 4k OLED monitors before that look near perfect.

Another person with same screen module and same issue

https://preview.redd.it/r2z6ycz3qyxg1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=09701cbdf3d95212536304888eae7a0c302f7dc4

https://preview.redd.it/b4dj44a5qyxg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=ea89a43042646fe28e0da1833f651e0c45c36007

I ordered a P16s Gen 4 with a 4k Oled screen. It arrived with some dead pixels. I got a replacement screen sent from them as a "one time exception". The replacement screen had horrible brightness and color spotchiness/lack of uniformity. I asked a technician to come and check it out, he confirmed it was a defective screen, and replaced it... and the new screen is even worse. anywhere from 20-80% brightness, dark gray, brown, and blue backgrounds show the characteristic splotchy banding of defective OLED screens.

now you might think "most OLED screens look strange at low brightness". I am not new to computers lol. This is FAR out of the range of normality... half the screen looks black, half the screen looks medium brightness with splotchess.

Here are some photos. I'd say it looks even worse in real life, and shows across all dark colors, again anywhere from 20-80% brightness. So bad that even some youtube videos with backgrounds show it, not just 100% monochromatic backgrounds.

Lenovo at first was helpful, but quickly became antagonistic and saying they already made exceptions and that I can always send in my entire laptop in for repair (which we all know can take months and sometimes results in the laptop being lost or damaged in transit, which they would blame the client for).

I wanted to warn y'all against buying the OLED models. There seems to be a recent batch of defective screens that they're pumping out in their factories in China without any serious quality control. I was told that their quality control teams "currently aren't aware of any issues", but every screen they've replaced has issues so severe that even tiny UI elements like buttons appear as gradients sometimes instead of dark gray. It shouldn't be this obvious. I've purchaesd 4k OLED monitors before that look near perfect.

Another person with same screen module and same issue

I ordered a P16s Gen 4 with a 4k Oled screen. It arrived with some dead pixels. I got a replacement screen sent from them as a "one time exception". The replacement screen had horrible brightness and color spotchiness/lack of uniformity. I asked a technician to come and check it out, he confirmed it was a defective screen, and replaced it... and the new screen is even worse. anywhere from 20-80% brightness, dark gray, brown, and blue backgrounds show the characteristic splotchy banding of defective OLED screens.

now you might think "most OLED screens look strange at low brightness". I am not new to computers lol. This is FAR out of the range of normality... half the screen looks black, half the screen looks medium brightness with splotchess.

Here are some photos. I'd say it looks even worse in real life, and shows across all dark colors, again anywhere from 20-80% brightness. So bad that even some youtube videos with backgrounds show it, not just 100% monochromatic backgrounds.

Lenovo at first was helpful, but quickly became antagonistic and saying they already made exceptions and that I can always send in my entire laptop in for repair (which we all know can take months and sometimes results in the laptop being lost or damaged in transit, which they would blame the client for).

https://preview.redd.it/uvyzrnuupyxg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=d2a988d63c61f26aa80a4c41b6dd296f313e4c05

https://preview.redd.it/pxe2hdnxpyxg1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=267e465c22eb5e581ca09f6b2b326805821d2467

I wanted to warn y'all against buying the OLED models. There seems to be a recent batch of defective screens that they're pumping out in their factories in China without any serious quality control. I was told that their quality control teams "currently aren't aware of any issues", but every screen they've replaced has issues so severe that even tiny UI elements like buttons appear as gradients sometimes instead of dark gray. It shouldn't be this obvious. I've purchaesd 4k OLED monitors before that look near perfect.

Celebrating my journey, I think a lot of fellow educated but unlucky folk will relate to some of it.

I was born outside the US, moved here as a kid with my immigrant parents. Family was quite poor but highly educated (post docs, masters) but between me and my two brothers and generally not being a rich family, my parents really struggled, so I grew up pretty poor (not having money for paper and pens for school). My parents were also very neglectful, and when I was 18 I was kicked out of my then divorced parents' home while studying full-time and working part time.

I rented the cheapest rooms possible in short term contracts (which always ended up being shared houses with violent people and drug addicts), as it was all I could afford. One housemate even overdosed and died. I was very frugal, but began running out of funds around 19. I spent two years slowly starving (losing 50 pounds, becoming underweight) while desperately finding/maintaining full-time remote contracts that I did alongside my full-time studies (stupidly decided to do Bachelor's in Genetics). I eventually saved 10k around 21 years old and was overjoyed.

I graduated and got a better job (30k to 65k a year), but hadn't learned about Boglehead savings methods or FIRE, am autistic, and had zero financial education from my family. I did intense research for months (thought I was smart but was stupid) into stocks, invested into a specific market (weed) just before it collapsed, kept buying the dip, and lost a lot of money before I accepted my stupidity. I switched to a better paying remote job (80k a year) and learned about diversified mutual funds/etfs, began putting money in my Roth IRA, and got my shit together.

I moved to Mexico to live with my partner while maintaining my American job... it was a horribly chaotic move despite being half-Mexican, much harder than I anticipating. I eventually acclimated, but was supporting both myself and my partner financially. I got my shit further together, made a strict budget, got my partner a part time job while he prepares for doing medical residency in Germany... I already have two citizenships, and finished my application for French citizenship as well (my adoptive dad is French lol).

Fast forward to this year, I have saved 125k in VT/VTI mutual funds. My partner and I live VERY comfy in a nice apartment in a nice area in Mexico, have lots of friends, travel plenty. I am finishing my self-funded Master's in Computer science. My partner and I have already spent a few months in Germany where he took intensive language courses, and finished his paperwork, so soon his paid German residency will begin!! The plan is for him to work in Germany, then for us to move to Switzerland where he will continue working as a doctor.

We plan to retire in Latin America, as we both feel most at home here despite my growing up in the Middle East and USA lol. We are on a very good trajectory towards very early retirement, my job is very comfy and chill, and we are saving a lot (about 70k a year, soon expected to save double, then triple that yearly because of my partner become a doctor and me eventually getting a more senior developer position) because of our relatively frugal lifestyle :)

Life is really good, I love every day. I love where I live, I love where my hardwork and education have brought me. I eat delicious food now and starvation feels like a distant memory, I have friends that I treasure, I run frequently... I make sure to remind myself daily to not take anything for granted.