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Classes to learn technique - NYC

I realized I quite like Barry's (even though their music choices suck), but the problem is that it's just too fast and I can't keep up. My previous classes were basically me trying to look around and imitate, which I don't think is a good approach. The pace of the class is such that instructors don't really have time to stop by one person and correct. I'm not really a beginner, but I don't usually do deadlifts or many other exercises because I feel like I need to learn good technique first.
What are some recs for classes that allow learning good technique, where instructors actually have some time to correct your form, etc.?

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u/soid — 11 days ago
▲ 84 r/WashingtonHeights

Riverbank amphitheater

They’re playing house music above riverbank amphitheater today, but why don’t they play it at the amphitheater?

u/soid — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/NYCapartments

Lease starts on the day when moving is not allowed in the building

I signed a lease in a larger building that won’t allow moving on weekends. I don’t know why they made me sign the lease starting on the weekend then. Now the lease is signed I can’t reach out to the person I was working with - they seem to avoid me and not replying to my voicemail and email. Is there I can realistically do about this?

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u/soid — 3 months ago
▲ 0 r/NYCapartments

Financing renovation

I'm considering buying an apartment in a Coop on Manhattan that will require quite some renovation. Aside for the work itself, how do I finance the renovations? My mortgage lender said I can't use part of the mortgage towards renovation. Is there anything better than getting a personal loan? Maybe the city runs programs that help with renovating costs? Borrowing from 401k?

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u/soid — 4 months ago
▲ 12 r/macapps

PDF Owl now supports hierarchical ToC generation

It’s been over two years since we first introduced PDF Owl — a tool that generates tables of contents using on-device AI models.

With the new 1.4 release, PDF Owl can now detect the hierarchy of chapters, sections, and subsections, automatically building a structured, hierarchical table of contents. As always, everything runs entirely on your device, and no data is ever sent to the cloud. It does not rely on the OCR layer, font size; everything is done using computer vision. Hence, it works for many languages and for poorly scanned PDFs as well.

Download from the Mac AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-owl/id6450437117

Read more on the app's website: https://138street.com/pdf-owl/

Problem

PDF files do not always include a table of contents (TOC, also known as bookmarks or an outline in different PDF apps). This is particularly common with scanned documents, where the TOC is often missing or of poor quality. A well-structured TOC is essential for navigating large files (e.g. books), as manually scrolling through hundreds of pages can be tedious. While many PDF applications allow users to create a TOC manually, few provide a reliable way to generate one automatically.

Comparison

For ToC generation feature for PDF files:

  • Python scripts like pdf.tocgen and tocPDF: the scripts use font attributes to deduce headings, which is not very reliable in practice, especially for poor scans. PDF Owl uses computer vision and modern transformers models for analyzing page layout.
  • You can use LLMs like Claude, but there is no end-to-end solution, so performance will be varied; also the tokens might be expensive for large files. PDF Owl runs everything on your device and hence, unlimited in usage.

As for PDF reading comparison, there are too many and the best reference is PDF Readers comparison sheet from r/macapps. PDF Owl's character in this large selection of apps is being reader focused (not pretending to be editor because PDFs are made for reading and inherently hard to edit), minimalism, and providing essential reading features without being overblown.

Price

The app is free of charge for reading & annotating, and the ToC generation function is $2/month or $30 for a lifetime license.

We hope the PDF community enjoys this update. Happy PDF reading!

u/soid — 4 months ago