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by btilly 10mo ago
I have no idea when I'll go on a cruise next. But if I do and make friends on the cruise, I'm going to call them afterwards on a spaced repetition schedule. I think that this should turn some of those temporary friendships into li
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The fact that we went with access control lists instead of true capabilities has long been a disappointment to me. For people who understand OO, capabilities are the simplest model in the world. You hand out objects. You can call methods on
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One of the reasons of my version is that it points my attention at the actual decision - would I prefer to be right, or to cut this person off? The answer isn't always to please others.
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The entire idea behind "grading" doesn't work. I simply space on a Fibonacci sequence, and the fact that it is overkill for being able to answer is a feature. Because my goal is to react the right way in similar situations, n
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To add color, this is an interaction that started with one person being stressed. Expecting ideal behavior out of a stressed person is unreasonable.
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This attitude reminds me of another phrase that I've internalized. Choosing to be right, is choosing to be alone. Whatever you choose to put above trying to get along with others, limits who can be part of your group. In the extreme,
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You may enjoy, It's not about the nail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg What I was doing is very common. Trying to engage logically with what logic can engage with, while failing to recognize that the emo
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My prompt for that is, When did I last dramatically fail Kate at decision support? Recalling the scene and the details is part of the exercise. I do the visualization while journaling about it. Here is an example of what that written reco
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I think that the real power of spaced repetition is not in flashcard applications like this. It is in behavior modification. Let's take a real example to show how this works. August 19, 2025. My wife called me in to help her decide wha
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His list is a list of reasons why he was motivated to do something. It does not matter how subjective the list is, since its purpose is not to convince others. It just matters that it connects with him. If you're potentially interested
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Mind-body techniques provide a good solution to this. First exercise. Breathe out. Take a full breath in for a mental count of 2. Hold for a mental count of 4. Breathe out for a mental count of 6. How do you feel? It sounds ridiculous that
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This kind of reminds me of my brother's first trip to Taiwan. This was in the 1980s. (Before cellphones.) The guy who was supposed to pick him up didn't show up because his motorcycle broke down. And couldn't get it fixed bec
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Let's see. I could believe you, an internet stranger. And believe that this problem was effectively solved 20 years ago. Or I could read Terry Tao's https://terrytao.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024&
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You appear to be deliberately ignoring the point. Currently, in 2025, it is not possible in most fields for a random expert to produce a machine checked proof. The work of everyone in the field coming together to create a machine checked pr
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With all due respect, I disagree. You are providing the standard excuse. It is our job to advance knowledge. It is someone else's job to communicate it to a broader audience. It's just too bad that nobody is stepping up and doing
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Yes, many things can cause dementia. Repeated traumatic brain injuries can cause dementia. But the leading form of dementia is Alzheimer's. Somewhere in the order of 40% of us are expected to get Alzheimer's before we die. The lis
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I have to wonder how much better you'd do if they made pypy an option.
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This is a general problem in many technical fields. People in a technical field, learn to "chunk" complex phrases. Their natural communication style becomes complex. Which makes them hard to understand to those outside of the fiel
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I was not addressing the size of the market. But the share. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers , Netscape had 60-70% market share. According to https://firstpagesage.com&#x
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You can change "might not" to "have not". The Game of Life is Turing complete. And therefore a complete analysis of how to write programs in it would imply a solution to the Halting problem. Which is impossible.
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As Mark Twain also said, "A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on." Of course he didn't say that one either: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/tr
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Yes, over-utilization is a natural response to being undercharged. And being undercharged is a natural result when investors are throwing money at you. During bubbles, Silicon Valley often goes to "lose money, make it up with scale&quo
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While minority technically means what you said, in practice people only care about those identifiable nonwhite groups who are doing poorly. The result is that Academia is broadly in support of discriminating against certain identifiable min
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The court regarded the test as unrelated to the demands of the job, despite a large body of research showing that the test is generally predictive of performance on a wide class of jobs, which that job is in. The bar was set to, "You m
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I agree with your point. My point was a "don't shoot the messenger". A politically powerful minority calls ability tests racist because they make minorities look bad. An opposing offensive minority uses those same ability tes
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When you break down how budgets have changed, the two biggest drivers of tuition increases are the growth of administration, and fancy amenities like sports facilities. The cost of the person in front of the blackboard has not been increasi
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This one case isn't the full story, but I firmly believe that it is a big deal. See https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/401/424/ for the case. The problem is that any hiring test that b
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When I saw it was for computer scientists, I briefly hoped that it would take the Big-O, little-o approach as Knuth recommended in 1998. See https://micromath.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/donald-knuth-calc... for
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I have explained the Pythagorean Theorem to many people. It is part of an explanation that I give that simple does not mean easy. Math is simple in a way that we are not wired for. And so a key to not being frustrated is to realize that the
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Honestly, he's struggled with it at times. But he does a lot better when he goes back to creating positive self-reinforcement for why he wants to accomplish the goals that he has set for himself. He's now doing fairly well in coll

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