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On Bloom's two sigma problem: A systematic review(nintil.com)
50 points by bschne 6y ago|10 comments
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by bschne 6y ago
Not necessarily limited to development roles, I feel like in every team/company, there are these pesky sources of friction that everyone has sort of learnt to live with because in the short run, taking the few extra steps to work aroun
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Ask HN: Real-World, complex demos/tutorials for frontend architecture?
6 points by bschne 6y ago|2 comments
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by bschne 6y ago
Reading this reminded me of part of Bret Victor's 2006 "Magic Inc" [1]. The utopia Victor envisions is somewhat related to this post, but taken further and extended to all kinds of data - not just notes. The idea is fairly fu
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by bschne 6y ago
> Do you have any examples of this? Personally I've been surprised how well setting up contexts for intended outcomes ahead of time works - e.g. if I want to study X, I close everything else on my computer the night before and only
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by bschne 6y ago
See also Ben Kuhn's "Make your habits zero-effort" - https://www.benkuhn.net/zero/ "Life hacks abound: Tell your friends about your plan so you’ll be embarrassed if you fail! Make sure you keep an u
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by bschne 6y ago
I know it's silly, but this just reminded me of Magnetic Poetry, and the hilarious/delightful unexpected creations it leads to sometimes. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_Poetry
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by bschne 6y ago
> Kids should be made aware of the psychological help they can receive if they have personal issues. We had a psychologist at school, but I don't think anyone consulted them. Do you think this was an issue of not being aware of the
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by bschne 6y ago
Isn't this sort of still the case in HFT, where some firms try building e.g. their own microwave radio tower networks to beat others by a few milliseconds?
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by bschne 6y ago
Maybe, but I think it's important to distinguish what your routine covers and what it doesn't. I agree with gp when whole days are all the same and optimized to death for more productive time. But I'd agree with you if you op
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by bschne 6y ago
I just read a chapter in Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain", which goes into exactly this - boredom or uneventfulness drags out time in the present, because nothing keeps your mind occupied, but contracts it in hindsight, because
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by bschne 6y ago
Somewhat related, from Andy Matuschak whose notes were on here earlier today, on the feeling of progress when doing open-ended work: https://blog.andymatuschak.org/post/159979927467/satisfactio...
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by bschne 6y ago
If you check out the livestream on youtube, you'll see that he does the writing in Bear (Mac/iOS only app). Presumably there's some custom code to export everything and build the HTML with backlinks, but as mentioned in the l
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by bschne 6y ago
> I really enjoy listening to people's anger ranting why its not really art (...) This reminds me of Barnett Newman's "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III" which has elicited its fair share of visceral react
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by bschne 6y ago
Isn't this sort of loss at this scale usually justified, for "product" companies, by saying they'll either run into economies of scale or drive everyone else out of the market, thus becoming profitable eventually? Not ev
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by bschne 6y ago
Do you happen to remember the title? I am very curious to see how they implemented this
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by bschne 6y ago
> helping students specifically when they are stuck and need more personalized help. This is where most learning resources fall short of ideal - if you work on a problem without human guidance, you can often either work through it in who
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by bschne 6y ago
Do you happen to know a good introduction to that? I‘d love to read up more on it!
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by bschne 6y ago
It increases your financial stability under the assumption that your life situation evolves in a predictable way. Say you need to cover unforeseen medical expenses, or you develop an allergy to one of the foods you bought in bulk (sorry, th
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by bschne 6y ago
I've found "efficiency as the opposite of stability" a very powerful concept to think about - even though it's fairly simple, it seems to be almost a fundamental law. Whether it's about the economy at large, your ow
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by bschne 6y ago
For an interesting vision of how software could potentially be constructed to give users more agency/ownership and longevity without ditching the benefits of SaaS, see Kleppmann et al's "Local-First Software: You Own Your Dat
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by bschne 6y ago
Wait, so you mean places like the Museum of Ice Cream and the likes, with installations somewhat obviously targeted at people who want to photograph and post them, want to have this available on-site? I wonder if the people don't reali
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Optimal Kickstarter – Buterin, Hitzig, and Weyl's proposal to fund public goods(mattsclancy.substack.com)
1 points by bschne 6y ago|0 comments
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by bschne 6y ago
> (...) and then expect users to engage with it because it exists. This is indeed a troubling trend, so many annoying popups, banners, and notifications only seem to serve to forcefully try and push a small percentage of users towards so
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by bschne 6y ago
Yes, but I'd argue that the "HN brand of discourse control" is more about keeping nasty impulsive human tendencies in check, like a forcing function preventing you from not thinking before you speak - while other kinds of &qu
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by bschne 6y ago
I'm starting to despise UI patterns that discourage any sort of meaningful discourse. This includes stuff like hiding comment threads and only showing one or two comments by people you follow on LinkedIn, or features like "canned
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by bschne 6y ago
This is pretty cool to get an overview of sub-fields and publications to read as a starting point - something I'd love to see for other fields as well!
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by bschne 6y ago
In Roberto Saviano's 2006 Book "Gomorrah", there's a section outlining how the Camorra makes a lot of money from collecting waste (IIRC mostly industrial) and dumping it into illegal landfills that pollute large areas. T
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by bschne 6y ago
> I have trouble seeing how I would "get better" at predicting stuff solely through this, but perhaps forcing myself to think it through would be sufficient. I think the approach would work well in the "false positive&quot
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by bschne 6y ago
The prediction book site mentioned in the article is free to sign up for (with no unusual info requested), and its code is open source (published on GitHub). The article explains how the author uses said website within his productivity-&#x2

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