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by jeffshek 7y ago
YOU'RE ALIVE! I spent a few hours two years ago wondering what had happened to you (your blog and twitter went quiet). I had presumed the worst. Thought rs.io is/was really well done, great curated stuff. Added a reference link to
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by jeffshek 7y ago
If anyone's interested, I've compiled a lot of strategies and tips around spaced repetition and Anki that I've learned over five years and ~11k cards. https://senrigan.io/blog/everything-i-know-strategies
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Everything I Know: A Guide of Strategies, Tips, and Tricks for Anki(senrigan.io)
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by jeffshek 7y ago
Author here: This event happened two weeks ago, and I was a little surprised about the subdued reactions (minus the usual AI fear mongering). I'm reposting this writeup. OpenAI's accomplishment illustrates scaled hardware and DRL
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Takeaways from OpenAI Five (2019)(senrigan.io)
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Takeaways from OpenAI Five at the International 2019 (Dota 2)(senrigan.io)
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by jeffshek 8y ago
1. CloudFlare. That's like the first thing I normally do for any new project. (which he then switched to). 2. Your clients should not be the first one to alert your site is down. Pingdom does a great job to alert you before your custom
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by jeffshek 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYt5yuiGk9E&feature=youtu.be... Minor frustration: Someone in the <5 employee count deserves more equity. Yes that % is pretty common, but I think that's wrong.
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by jeffshek 8y ago
This is a hilarious and amazing tip. Another way I've tried to tackle this is on day 1 of a job - I've blocked out a huge chunk (4 hours) of my daily calendar of "Coding Time - No Meetings, No Slack, No Email" before any
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by jeffshek 8y ago
This is a great list on what it means to correctly leverage engineering resources. (I would recommend doing a blog post). Point 2 (and 5) is probably one of the biggest things I think about a lot these days. Most of my tech stacks are relat
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Leveraging A Poor Memory In Engineering(senrigan.io)
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by jeffshek 8y ago
I just published my first blog piece about memory and engineering! It took me a few years to get the systems in place, but I came out as a much better engineer. Spaced repetition is my savior. https://senrigan.io/blog/c
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by jeffshek 8y ago
Blogs -- http://paulgraham.com/articles.html http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ https://www.fast.ai/topics https://blog.codinghorror.com/ https://www.gwern.net&
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by jeffshek 8y ago
I've been following TinySeed for a few weeks now, it's such an interesting idea! Another great book that I'd recommend is Lost and Founder (TinySeed's terms are based on the Rand Fishkin's most recent startup terms)
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by jeffshek 8y ago
Ironically, this book brings up how it disagrees with the most upvoted comment's book "Getting To Yes". This book (Never Split the Difference) was also pretty helpful to me, but it's easy to forget to apply in scenarios.
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by jeffshek 9y ago
Everyone that posts in r/cryptocurrency has an agenda (including myself). Most of the posts there are ways of confirmation biases - it's very difficult to get someone to see what they don't want to see in his/her cryptoc
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by jeffshek 9y ago
Obviously, you guys are all super talented! But just be careful with the crypto space and any place you allow anything to be uploaded from anyone (even if your customers) ...
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by jeffshek 9y ago
Just as an FYI - exporting from Binance doesn't always include everything (even though you're hitting export all). There's an obvious bug somewhere in their code that sometimes forgets pairs. I found this after pulling my hai
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GitHub Commit Histories of 615 Cryptocurrencies(cryptomiso.com)
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by jeffshek 9y ago
I post this whenever HN brings up a comment about supplements -- but I created a site to help track people trying out a lot of supplements and how it impacted health and sleep. HN and QuantifiedSelfers find this as a niche site to record co
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by jeffshek 9y ago
You can sell Bitcoin futures.
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by jeffshek 9y ago
This is awesome! I haven't heard about this before. Thanks!
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by jeffshek 9y ago
1. LastPass / 1Password 2. AdBlocker Extension 3. Modify your /etc/hosts to block a lot of malicious sites. 4. Signup for https://haveibeenpwned.com/ 5. VPNs on all wifis not your own. 6. 2-factor wherever yo
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by jeffshek 9y ago
I always shrill about my passion project whenever I see this, but I suffered a lot of issues of quantifying supplements and habits to improvement so I wrote https://betterself.io (open-sourced) It proxies a lot of improvement to
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by jeffshek 9y ago
Most articles are saved to pocket. If I really like it, you can "favorite it". When I'm bored from time to time, I'll scroll through what I've favorited. A good chunk of the time I'll prune stuff I no longer ap
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by jeffshek 9y ago
I wrote https://betterself.io (open-sourced) to figure this out for myself. After analyzing a year's worth of supplements and habits -- meditation at the start of my day had the highest correlation of productivity beating o
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by jeffshek 9y ago
Created a passion of mine and finally overcame the fear of launching! BetterSelf is a side-project that's used to track supplements and medications and how it impacts your sleep and productivity. Site : https://betterself.io
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by jeffshek 9y ago
Disclaimer - I wrote this https://betterself.io to help me out here. It's helped me get much better, but certainly isn't perfect. It's open-sourced at https://github.com/jeffshek/betterself&#x
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by jeffshek 9y ago
The "placebo" used in some psychedelic experiments include niacin (creates this flush feeling) and methylphenidate.
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by jeffshek 9y ago
Same. I was then expecting the first comment to be "If you have to ask ..."

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