jlelonm

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by jlelonm 7y ago
You might benefit from a tool called Roam Research: https://www.nateliason.com/blog/roam
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by jlelonm 7y ago
I use it (Anki), but this is the 3rd time I got started using it (I dropped off twice). For me, personally, these are the reasons: - It was kind of annoying to do Anki every day at first. Cards always seemed either blindingly obvious (and s
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by jlelonm 7y ago
I have zero credibility to make this statement, but: I feel like we might run into a Mythical Man Month dilemma if we toss TONS of money at it.
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by jlelonm 7y ago
Oooh, neat! Reminds me of this addon: LaTeX Note Importer: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1199027445 I'm almost sold on downloading this, but I have a question. Let's say I create notes.md with 2 cards:
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by jlelonm 7y ago
Why are you against uploading your ID?
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by jlelonm 7y ago
And even then, I'm guessing you didn't have to update it, right? The code (classes I'm guessing?) probably still worked. In any case, thanks for the feedback!
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by jlelonm 7y ago
You think so? I figured maybe 10-20% of it was out of date, but that it was still probably worth buying. Still looking for alternatives, but considering it.
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by jlelonm 7y ago
VERY interested in "Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications" I noticed that it was released Sept 2018. That's not too old, but I'm curious if there's a more up-to-date version.
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Ask HN: Has anyone taken Google's course on how to use Google?
7 points by jlelonm 7y ago|1 comments
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by jlelonm 7y ago
What % of Learning How To Learn is covered by Ultra Learning?
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Ask HN: What do you physically bring to and from work?
1 points by jlelonm 7y ago|2 comments
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by jlelonm 7y ago
What resources do you recommend for learning relational databases and key value stores really well?
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by jlelonm 7y ago
> a successful educational product needs to deeply and intimately understand pedagogy and materials Do you have any resource suggestions for moving the needle towards the goal of learning pedagogy and materials deeply and intimately?
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by jlelonm 7y ago
Do it! Perhaps give us a preview?
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Ask HN: Resources to study the UI/UX of explanations for complex subjects?
1 points by jlelonm 7y ago|0 comments
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by jlelonm 7y ago
> It is for this reason that the absolute vast majority of systematic trading relies more on intimate market knowledge Aside from reading books about market segments and biographies of companies, what are some things you can do to gain &
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Ask HN: Best practice for diagraming the output/side effects of complex scripts?
2 points by jlelonm 7y ago|0 comments
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by jlelonm 7y ago
What is the better way to figure out what clients want? Conversations?
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by jlelonm 7y ago
It's hard to from the outside, but I would guess the biggest factor that correlates with easy is amount of red tape. The more bureaucratic, the more non-work is done in place of actual work, the easier the job. So I'd say large co
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by jlelonm 7y ago
You should write a blog post / do a podcast / similar! I'm very interested, but I'm betting that lots of people are as well.
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by jlelonm 7y ago
Do you know of any resources I can use to learn more about 1) why deflation is bad, and 2) why it's happening?
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by jlelonm 8y ago
> every last feature of my IDE to make sure I don't have to alt tab all over the place. Terminal, database, docs and code is all in my IDE Which IDE is this?
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by jlelonm 8y ago
> You can go all the way from adding some lightweight formal specifications a posteriori with e.g. a fancy type system, to developing all your code formally by starting with some axioms. This statement particularly interested me. If I wa
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by jlelonm 8y ago
> Having gone through this myself it has taught me to ask very probing questions, as a candidate, during the interview. Like what questions? I'm assuming the work you're looking for is more along the lines of "wonderful so
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by jlelonm 8y ago
> If I had to constantly revise my cards, that would seem to defeat the purpose of using SRS anyway. There's actually an addon to help out with that - one I'm personally really satisfied with. https://ankiweb.net&#x2
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by jlelonm 8y ago
Interesting - I replied to your twitter post about this but I’ll go ahead and say it here as well: If you were starting a PhD in CS/ML right now, and you wanted to be as useful as possible primarily to industry (while still being impac
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by jlelonm 8y ago
As someone who uses matplotlib to make plots pretty frequently (but also struggles getting it to do the right thing often, most likely due to accumulation of bad habits), can you recommend a good resource to learn the good habits? It seems
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Ask HN: Favorite “Adam Ruins Everything”-esque media? (blogs, podcasts, etc)
7 points by jlelonm 8y ago|2 comments
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by jlelonm 8y ago
> So here is another source of interesting heresies. Diff present ideas against those of various past cultures, and see what you get. [4] Some will be shocking by present standards. Ok, fine; but which might also be true? Has anyone actu
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Ask HN: The difference between “overvalued” and “that's how much it is now”?
66 points by jlelonm 8y ago|71 comments

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