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by eltonlin 2y ago
I used Google Calendar for 6 years, but was frustrated by its design. A task must be >15 minutes, the todo-list is linear-only, the calendar always starts from Monday "jumps" to the next week etc. So I built intentions.life, my
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by eltonlin 2y ago
That feels like a Hackathon idea, so fun. It's inspiring to me.
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by eltonlin 2y ago
I would like to see a more in-depth, discussion about the pros and cons why you arrived at this solution, like a real written debate, where you give the best version of the arguments of people who don't want walkie-talkies to replace t
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Ask HN: How do you design your week routine?
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Just read Posterous/PostHaven, don’t need their ability to post to Twitter (I find writing to the audience diminishes the quality of my writing - I can’t write things that sound offensive, I can’t write things that matter just to me).
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by eltonlin 3y ago
I tried it straightaway, because I use the Dictate app to speech-to-text out essays during walks (next to river & wind etc.) rather than typing in enclosed office (a massive impact, I’ve “wrote” 3-4 essays this month vs 0-1 last month).
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Thanks for sharing this!
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Probably something simple to start with like upvotes and flags
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Ah I was trying to convey WHY it’s cheap A BECAUSE the videos are reused for other students
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by eltonlin 3y ago
>I wish It didn't happen here Sorry I don't quite understand - would you be willing to elaborate?
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Ah, so since you usually need to ask 5-6 clarifying questions, you'd rather it be done in short bursts synchronously! Right now with explanations.app, you can only follow-up with comments OR by posting new questions - asynchronously. I
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Maybe you're right, but I'd challenge your middle paragraph. When there are 10 students, they often have some common misundersetandings that can be addressed together e.g. they all want a review of Taylor's theorem needed to
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by eltonlin 3y ago
You're right, the blog talks about one thing, the product does another thing. The reason I conducted those interviews was that I wanted to understand the good intentions behind instructors who I disagreed with, especially instructors w
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Ah I'm sorry for that. That was a bug from an earlier version that saturated the javascript event loop and caused the microphone to not work properly. This should be fixed as of last month's version. Sorry again!
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Thanks for the concrete feedback - OK I will make the price more visible. As for pricing/purchase, it might not necessarily make sense to students - from what I understand, they want to look for the right subject, then the teacher, bef
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Ah I didn't realize the Piazza post isn't publicly viewable, thanks for telling me. I recreated it as a screenshot now https://imgur.com/gallery/GtuF78M This is a course 6 issue mainly. Course 8 and 18 I&#x27
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by eltonlin 3y ago
>The ability to communicate WHY we are doing what we are doing I really resonate with what you said. The Why and the contextual motivation is what I'm always so starved for in classes that I don't understand.
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by eltonlin 3y ago
This rings true "trying to be a good teacher in a university setting is extremely unrewarding". Thanks for sharing, and the students who make you feel bad despite you doing more than your fair share, can gtfo. BTW, I didn't m
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. 100% - one of the downsides of focusing on attendance and in-person interactions is - simply the time cost, inflexibility and inconvenience for students who already have saturated schedules. (I was first-exposed to this
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Hey sorry to hear your experience. First to clarify - it varies - the classes (usually required CS classes), usually had overcrowded Office Hours, but there were many classes in math & physics where OH was very available (and I did very
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful comments, I appreciate it. FF mobile: you're correct, this is not mobile responsive yet - I will work on a future version to fix this. >Different names with Google Login Is it that it shows "feynma
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Sounds great - I'm a huge fan of Georgia Tech's online masters. As for AI, I think if it solves all your problems, great. And it's real-time, and free. But! The reason I still work on explanations.app is that, I often strugg
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by eltonlin 3y ago
I couldn't convey the technicality across, but the bad experiences I had were mostly localized in course 6 classes - Intro to Algorithms, Design & Analysis of Algorithms, Intro to Machine Learning. I actually did very well in math
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Yes you guys are right. This "video-based Stack Exchange format" will have clear disadvantages. You can't observe the non-verbal queues in-person for example that helps you discover the root of their misunderstandings etc. &g
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by eltonlin 3y ago
>"All the debt is assumed to vanish when you start a new session. Nobody acknowledges that the kid has been collecting debt for a decade now" I think you articulate it really well. It speaks to me at a personal level because my
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Ah, which alternative icons would you recommend that wouldn't get blocked by strick unlock origin settings?
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Thank you for your kind remarks. As for the need for more videos on the "approach" of solving problems, that really resonates with me. I always wanted to learn how those mathematicians "see" matrices for example, how the
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Ah OK, so I better make the carousel pause when a video is playing then!
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by eltonlin 3y ago
This book looks absolutely riveting - just read the preview on Amazon. Which e-books platform did you buy it from?
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by eltonlin 3y ago
Ah thanks for your feedback. I was worried that if I put $10/week, then it's not immediately obvious that it's a magnitude less expensive. Would it perhaps work if I highlight/emphasize the $10/week in the descripti

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