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   by ivansavz 5y ago

   Have you looked at jupyter-book? The "native" format is MyST, which is markdown with extra things added in to customize behaviour of code blocks: https://jupyterbook.org/reference/cheatsheet.html I've be
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   by ivansavz 5y ago

   This is fascinating. Something like 80% or 90% by volume of this person's brain is "missing" but they are still able to function normally in society. This goes to show the insane levels of plasticity that our brain has, and
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   by ivansavz 5y ago

   Thx. That helps a lot. I agree re-contextualizing and smooth-starting each section in a textbook seems like a very good idea. This will probably make the textbook more amenable to "random access" learning too.
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   by ivansavz 5y ago

   RE concept of cognitive load in education, I recently read an interesting review paper Cognitive load theory, educational research, and instructional design: some food for thought by Ton de Jong[1] that did a good job at criticizing the
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   by ivansavz 5y ago

   That is very interesting, I would have never thought of using a "duty cycle" as low as 20% in a math/science textbooks. I agree that every chapter should start by connecting the material to past knowledge, and briefly reviewi
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   by ivansavz 5y ago

   The "knowledge units" mentioned in this article are similar to the concept of a "learning object" in the digital education space. There is a well known tension between making chunks that can be easily reusable in multipl
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   by ivansavz 5y ago

   Here is with images from the archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20161005194531/https://norman.wa...
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   by ivansavz 5y ago

   Here is a direct link to the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcUM9US4XdMROZ57-OIR... Prof. McElreath has been adding two new videos every week. Also, for anyone who prefers to use the pythons for the cod
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   by ivansavz 5y ago

   Thanks for the plug and I'm glad the book worked out for you. I've been keeping the book up to date and "maintaining" by fixing typos and improving certain explanations. If anyone else is interested, you can see a extend
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    For reference, here is the placement exam from the front of the book preview: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmathphys_v5_pr...
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    There is a similar chrome extension you can setup to show up every time you open a new tab: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mortality-death-cl... Friendly reminder not to waste some time, but work on imp
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    I'm guessing Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor . I've seen friends on it and it has a weird effect of being extra optimistic and helpful toward others. I can see how if you're feeling in a low energy state pairing up with someone
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    In my (limited) research into linked data, I saw that many newer projects now use https://w3id.org identifiers, which are managed via github pull requests to this repo: https://github.com/perma-id/w3id.org
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    FYI, the second video in the series "Statistical Rethinking 2022 Lecture 02" was posted, and you can check out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guTdrfycW2Q Here is the playlist for 2022 videos you can bookmar
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    I was just looking into this today, and I found that https://elementary.io/ is the most popular Mac OS lookalike. It's based on Ubuntu under the hood, but I need the look and feel to be similar to what the users are fa
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    See my comment, sibling to yours, for first-year university-level books. For high school math specifically, I have a shorter book that covers only high school topics, with exercises, and applications (and a SymPy tutorial). See book preview
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    I've written two (nonfree) books that might be useful for re-learning the topics you listed. Links in profile. Here are the concept maps to give you an idea of the concepts (round boxes) and topics (rect. boxes) covered in the books:
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    > Do you know if this idea/theory has a common name? Maybe panpsychism ? I've only heard the term used in recent physics discussions, but apparently it has a longer history of usage in philosophy, see https://plato.
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    Would it be possible to share the macro for highlighting topic sentences? I'd love to try that out on a recent draft I'm working on.
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    Direct link to PDF of research article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/acp.3899?cas... (obtained from PDF link on scholar.google.com)
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    True that — I can only combine the "speech input channel" in my brain with very low cognitive load tasks like data entry or doing the dishes. Interestingly, I've noticed that "can you understand the article while doing
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    I'd like to share two hacks that have made a big difference for me: /1/ black-hole certain websites in /etc/hosts, see here for details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29217297 /2/ ma
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    This is really well done! A summary of the best practices for organizing research code, with lots of hands-on examples (Python). Here is a copy-paste of the TOC: LESSONS: - Set up your project - Keep things tidy - Write decoup
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    The Good Research Code Handbook(goodresearch.dev)

    4 points by ivansavz 5y ago|1 comments
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    If they have showed any interest in math and/or physics, you should consider getting them my MATH&PHYS book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0992001005/noBSmathphys it's very popular for programmers. I als
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    Aeropress for example is quite cheap and makes good coffee.
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    What stats do people want to learn?(minireference.com)

    2 points by ivansavz 5y ago|0 comments
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    https://minireference.com/ = product page for math textbooks (currently single page for both books, but OK to split into listing page + product detail pages if that makes more sense)
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    > complete the square AND provide a geometric interpretation of the expression that results. +1 for this. This is the approach I would recommend too, see Figure 2.2 for the picture behind the completing the square trick: https:/&#x
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    by ivansavz 5y ago

    As a starting point you can check out the notation appendices from my books: https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSmathphys_v5_pr... https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBS