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by borroka 1y ago
I have never heard of them, those are the mythical beings nobody has ever seen. If it were true, the opposite would be likely true as well (I don't like red wine, but I drink if because it is good for my health). The negative effects
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by borroka 1y ago
I don't think that the "I drink wine because it is healthy", is the main driver of people's drinking--not even the fifth. After all, I have yet to see a sober person picking up drinking wine because it is good for their
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by borroka 1y ago
In fact, I wrote about the selection effect, but that "it was better before" is not holding up in my example, at least the one I had in mind. Some decades in the past were not particularly good in terms of literary output (I am ve
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by borroka 1y ago
The comment is fairly condescending, and I don't think it is up to the standards of HN. Of course, you may like whatever you want, but if you compare Pink Floyd and Zeppelin to the current landscape, I don't think we find an equiv
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by borroka 1y ago
It is even more worrying that what is defined here as "growth", and in other contexts can be interpreted as "quality", when absent or reduced, leads to a vicious cycle of ever-decreasing quality over time. Contemporary n
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by borroka 1y ago
But since we don't know where those false negatives are, we want radiologists. I remember a funny question that my non-technical colleagues asked me during the presentation of some ML predictions. They asked me, “How wrong is this pred
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by borroka 1y ago
However, it is also because, in matters of life or death, as a diagnosis from a radiologist can be, we often seek a second opinion, perhaps even a third. But we don't ask a second opinion to an "algorithm", we want a person,
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by borroka 1y ago
It's not true that “you should build your own,” especially in the beginning. There's no need for complex customizations when the student knows little or nothing about the language. Start with excellent, generic decks already creat
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by borroka 1y ago
Lately, I've been listening to audiobooks of books I've read in the past, some of them several times. I've found it to be a great pastime and a useful exercise: the content is experienced differently; some parts have a differ
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by borroka 1y ago
We also live in a very negative society in which it seems that we get paid to criticize ourselves and others. Stuff that should be easy wraps itself in a thorny tangle of trauma, insecurity, and impossibility. I have a 50+% success in makin
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by borroka 1y ago
I appreciate the comment, but it is not what I said, and I would not be that dismissive. I am very familiar with the literature. As for the first part, yes, we sometimes get caught up in, like, the illusion of fluency, but you can also chec
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by borroka 1y ago
Most teachers have very little clue about pedagogy; let's be honest about it. And it does not mean they are incompetent at their subjects or lazy. The fact that, outside of the expected exceptions, a skill/subject/section is
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by borroka 1y ago
"IOW, there's often more latent memory than we realize or can easily retrieve." - I did not find it to be true almost at all, and I tested many other people on it. When I voiced my concerns, the usual answer was, "Yes, b
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by borroka 1y ago
It's a problem that goes beyond the United States, overworked staff, and constraints in general, although these are legitimate concerns. I studied in a non-US country, but the attention paid by teachers to pedagogy was virtually zero.
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by borroka 1y ago
I will probably write a book on this topic because there is not enough material in English. But the practice is fairly simple overall and only requires time and a positive attitude. Since there is a somatic response, it is always easy to te
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by borroka 1y ago
“You have to learn how to learn” has been a phrase often repeated by teachers, but I don’t remember any of them emphasizing, for example, retrieval practice: you learn a skill or subject, move on to the next one, and leave it up to fate whe
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by borroka 1y ago
One issue that is not discussed enough when talking about learning is mental preparation for learning. We have all had days when learning seemed easier than on other days, but we didn't pay too much attention to it, or we thought that
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by borroka 1y ago
If you say that diet did not fix it, but then you lost ~90 lbs, which is a massive weight loss [(1) congratulations, 2) we are becoming used to people losing 200 lbs and 90 is a victim of weight-loss inflation], it looks like the problem wa
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by borroka 1y ago
I don't understand the "chiseling" aspect referred to. The issue is quite simple. There is a certain budget that the company, person, or institution is willing to spend on a specific goal. If the money isn't spent on you
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by borroka 1y ago
"Criticize them perpetually" is far from endearing, though. And certainly not a dream of anybody. It makes much more sense in the context of politics or dreams or ideas. After all, we have already read of permanent revolutions, an
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by borroka 1y ago
It's like asking for less than you need or could get when negotiating pay for a job or position. One would think that the employer would recognize or remember this kind of “sacrifice.” Or that, somehow, asking for less money will lead
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by borroka 1y ago
Who knows who wanted what, but the leader of a nation at war showing up at any official event in casual clothes to show his solidarity with the troops and then posing for a glamorous photo shoot like any Hollywood celebrity is so ridiculous
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by borroka 1y ago
You may not like him (I have no opinion of him), but that is not the point I was making. The spiritually inclined tech founder is a common archetype/personality of the post-2000 tech boom, and I found the point the article was making,
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by borroka 1y ago
It's all about the situation and depends a lot on personality, the real one, not the facade, on intangibles (“aura”) and on never showing any weakness or offering apologies. Trump's strategy works because it/he has all the el
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by borroka 1y ago
In the context of high-status individuals, the reactive shameless strategy (so what?) has recently proven successful. It is more difficult to determine whether a shameless proactive strategy, such as Trump's (harshly criticizing others
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by borroka 1y ago
I tried to write a sentence in the same spirit. "I love my partner more than any other person in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize them perpetually". Why doesn't my sentence work, exce
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by borroka 1y ago
One problem is considering a solution effective only if it, at launch, completely solves the problem, for example, in the case of AI and LLMs, by coding an entire application without any human intervention, retiring radiologists, or driving
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by borroka 1y ago
The article is way off base. Dorsey's playbook, if it even exists, isn't something to be ashamed of, especially in the context of Silicon Valley culture. Has the author never heard of Burning Man (obviously, she has and might hav
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by borroka 1y ago
If I see where it is coming from, I am certainly shaming them for being disgusting, impolite, vulgar, and disrespectful to other people. I am not afraid of being confrontational. If the confrontation escalates, verbally, of course, so be it
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by borroka 1y ago
I'm sorry, but it seems like you're talking to a bot, some kind of artificial intelligence entity, or an alien who has never experienced the sensation of having gas in their stomach. After this attempt at gaslighting (how dare you

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