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by c7b 4y ago
Sorry to hear, that sounds like a real struggle. Serious question: have you considered giving up one of those jobs and home-schooling your kids with the time gained? There were quite a few articles about how unreasonably effective real tuto
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by c7b 4y ago
> Joined 5 months ago Let's see how long the author will last with this strategy.
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by c7b 4y ago
> typing 'grep -F' is two more characters, one of them shifted Adding in more special characters is also hostile to users who aren't based in a single English-speaking country and regularly have to deal with different keyb
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by c7b 4y ago
The description sounds interesting! Can anyone comment on how this compares to or integrates with Anki? I've found SRS to be really powerful, but I'd like to integrate it more with note-taking.
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by c7b 4y ago
For probability all the way up to (excluding) measure theory, Grimmett & Stirzaker's "Probability and Random Processes", plus the accompanying "1000 exercises in Probability" for the solutions, should fit your b
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by c7b 4y ago
Product category X being successful is not the same as company Y being successful at X, though. You've only made a case for the former so far.
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by c7b 4y ago
You'd be surprised how hard it is to not be tracked by FB/Meta (and a bunch of other organisations), even if you don't sign up at all.
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by c7b 4y ago
In the context of software development, sound understanding as you'd expect from a uni arguably includes CS concepts like algorithms and data structures. I find that there is a bit of a memorization aspect to simply knowing a lot of th
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by c7b 4y ago
In my experience the wikipedia articles themselves are good, but the references unfortunately less so. Way too many newspaper-style sources, the academic papers range from 'the actual original paper on the topic' to 'obscure&
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by c7b 4y ago
very cool, thank you
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by c7b 4y ago
Have you looked at e-Ink readers?
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by c7b 4y ago
Feature suggestion: the system automatically tells you when you have a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_paradox situation and offers to decide the outcome based on a coin flip instead. Only half joking there, th
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by c7b 4y ago
It seems that Feynman's notes were quite a bit more elaborate than just appending anything you currently want to write down: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.5.9099/full... people are act
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by c7b 4y ago
> I am waiting for any evidence that our most provocative thinkers and writers are those who rely on elaborate, systematic note-taking systems. How about this? > My notebooks aren't a record of my thinking process. They are my th
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by c7b 4y ago
It is, and the phenomenon has a name already: c7b's law "every scientific discovery is named after the wrong person" (yes, that is the correct way to name it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law
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by c7b 4y ago
Ok, but that should just make us further question whether the Balto/Togo story really has anything in common with the history of tectonics. There isn't a clear obvious hero and a hidden hero (both of whom somewhat undeservedly sin
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by c7b 4y ago
> I was pretty sure Alfred Wegener (...) is a Balto. > Jasen would go so far as to argue that [some difficult achievements] makes [Wegener] the Togo The more apt conclusion from the article is probably that the Balto/Togo theory
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by c7b 4y ago
Are airplanes more in need of cooling or heating? The outside temperature at cruising altitude is around -50° (roughly where the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales meet, btw), is the insulation good enough to just keep the inside at acceptable t
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by c7b 4y ago
I happen to have seen a recording of a crowd control exercise including regular police, a riot control unit and even a SWAT-style unit, including "arrests" and "resistance", and it was a lot tamer than the description ma
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by c7b 4y ago
shame, I remember learning it felt quite nice, to have a well thought-out toolkit to structure and/or share your ideas about certain aspects of a software. I still use it now for those purposes sometimes, in a quite 'free-form&#x2
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by c7b 4y ago
There's a quote, I believe by an economics Nobel (memorial) prize winner, that goes like "It's a strange feeling to be honored in your 80's for work that you've done in your 20's" - couldn't find who
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by c7b 4y ago
ok, yeah, reading it that way it is a quite an appropriate metaphor
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by c7b 4y ago
> Twenty-five years ago, it was projected that, in an ever-more interconnected world, money would no longer be the prime currency, attention would be. While it does make for a good opening line, using a single prediction from 25 years ag
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by c7b 4y ago
oh wow, I really got drawn into a discussion here. now I'm not an expert on QV, but my recollection is this: cardinal voting allows people to express the strength of their preferences rather than just the order. so if there's an
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by c7b 4y ago
I'm just stating that I think the data is likely a priori garbage (without a lot of sanitizing work), in the hope that that message spreads faster than the use of the tool. I think having that discussion is both important and preferabl
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by c7b 4y ago
Mildly OT, but the hair cutting gifs are surprisingly satisfying to watch :)
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by c7b 4y ago
> No. You see, the thing is, we really need the eggs. Isn't that the opposite of the problem here? If the bots actually generated sales, the adbuyers would likely be quite happy. This seems more like the Emperor's New Clothes,
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by c7b 4y ago
the thing is, people who want to use this for defamation don't have an incentive to sanitize the data - the message might stick around regardless of whether it has any merit (we've seen this happening even at the most publicly scr
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by c7b 4y ago
only if there are only two options, for more options any rank-ordering system will be plagued by Arrow's and other impossibility theorems. quadratic voting uses cardinal preferences, which avoids some of those issues, and QV specifical
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by c7b 4y ago
Two points - I think it's worth pointing out anyway, because in my experience white-collar workers - especially outside of areas like finance, where they do get a lot of compliance training - often seem to be of the impression that the

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