My notes for turning a Macbook Pro into a very nice Windows 10 machine for free using Bootcamp (not for everybody, I…

My notes for turning a Macbook Pro into a very nice Windows 10 machine for free using Bootcamp (not for everybody, I know). Thanks to Emlyn O’Regan for the original tip.

Download Windows 10 ISO file from

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10ISO

choose a Windows 10 Anniversary Edition

i.e. Win10_1607_English_x64.iso

You can upgrade from there later.

Run Bootcamp

Set Partition size. Don’t try to resize this later.

Select the Windows iso

Format the BOOTCAMP partition

Click next and let it do its thing

Windows will start, answer questions about preferred language etc

When asked answer “I don’t have a licence code”

Install Windows

Install Bootcamp inside windows

Tweaks:

To make the fonts look the right size:

Control Panel > Display: Turn off custom scaling

To reduce sensitivity of trackpad for two finger scrolling:

Control Panel > Mouse > choose how many lines to scroll = 1

Select “additional mouse options” and set lines to scroll to 1

To reverse the scrolling direction for “natural” trackpad scrolling:

Use Regedit to swap direction of track pad:

Under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumHIDVID_??????Device Parameters

(where ??? is different on every machine) search for properties named FlipFlopWheel and FlipFlopHScroll and set both of them to 1. They may appear a few times for different values of ???.

* Turn background to black *

(On an unregistered Windows, you are prevented from customising the wallpaper but they don’t stop you from blanking it out completely)

Control panel > ease of access > other options > show windows background = off

Connect to WiFi

Install Chrome

Login to Chrome

My setup for web development:

Install Git Bash for Windows

> Use git from windows command prompt

Install VS Code

Open command window Ctrl-`

On first run you’ll be asked if you want to customise command prompt

Choose your preferred terminal shell

Choose git bash

Install Node

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10ISO

Internet speed and cost by country.

Originally shared by ****

Internet speed and cost by country. This has to be the BS chart of the week. It’s what Akamai sees when stuff gets downloaded from their servers, but the problem is, the vast majority of stuff hosted on it has tiny file sizes. So what you’re basically seeing are speeds of downloads that last under a second anyway. The way TCP/IP connections work is that it starts slow implementing congestion control , tries to increase the window size and then ramps up the speed until it encounters packet loss or some QOS mechanism kicks in , and that takes a few seconds. This data is NOT representative of average broadband speeds. For example, there is no fucking way Romania has lower speeds than the US. I can have uncapped 1Gbps download and 500Mbps upload for 8.5 eur/month. And this is in a country with some of the fastest and cheapest internet connections in the world. The 20 meg average that shows here on the graph is only representative if you have a time machine and travel back to 1999.

AI is not a risk to humanity per se.

AI is not a risk to humanity per se. It is the system of concentrated private ownership of artificial intelligence which is the problem.

To tame AI we need to take it out of the hands of silicon valley plutocrats and put it into the service of humanity as a whole.

AI wants to be free.

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/ai-is-a-fundamental-risk-to-the-existence-of-human-civilization-musk-2326933.html

AI Photo Editing

Originally shared by Gideon Rosenblatt

AI Photo Editing

In other words, Google had one AI “photo editor” attempt to fix professional shots that had been randomly tampered with using an automated system that changed lighting and applied filters. Another model then tried to distinguish between the edited shot [and?] the original professional image. The end result is software that understands generalized qualities of good and bad photographs, which allows it to then be trained to edit raw images to improve them.

#MachinedAesthetic

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/14/15973712/google-ai-research-street-view-panorama-photo-editing