johnsimer

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   by johnsimer 8y ago

   I remember reading somewhere that people prefer music they first heard around ages 13 - 21. Just curious, what age were you when you first heard those tracks?
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   by johnsimer 8y ago

   Ideally. According to fast.ai there's this (very simple) technique to automate optimizing the learning rate parameter for deep neural networks, that went unnoticed for a couple years, because it was discovered by a no-name researcher,
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   by johnsimer 8y ago

   Do you think that's just selection bias? I.e. no one remembers all the low quality songs from back then
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   by johnsimer 8y ago

   It would be ironic if an incredible invention like a cure to cancer went unoticed because everyone thought it was fake
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   by johnsimer 8y ago

   No Volvo XC90 is Teslas are safest for the NHTSA tests, but not the European tests, which, IIRC are better measures of safety
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   by johnsimer 8y ago

   This is fascinating to me. Do you have a link to the paper? I can't quickly wrap my mind around why HHT would be have a shorter wait time than HHH
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   by johnsimer 8y ago

   Pretty sure s/he means lower
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   by johnsimer 9y ago

   I use memory palaces for audio books, and can get 80% retention for the first few days, without review
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   by johnsimer 9y ago

   I (almost) met Patrick Collison at a conference a month ago where he gave a talk. He seemed extremely smart and interesting and I had no idea he was rich and famous. So after he gives his talk, I stand in line to get his phone number to see
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    by johnsimer 9y ago

    Fyi this probably violates LinkedIn ToS
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    by johnsimer 9y ago

    Sometimes i do cold showers at night, instead of the morning, and I still feel like I get the same benefits. interestingly enough cold showers in the morning wake me up, and cold showers at night relax me. Not exactly how it works, but it d
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    by johnsimer 9y ago

    Please keep this site up. Very encouraging, as someone who has 2 months runway left
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    by johnsimer 9y ago

    Hey, I have a friend working on a very similar app to the app you worked on, just messaged you on LinkedIn.would love to talk about it
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    by johnsimer 9y ago

    suggestions: -root url / Home should be where I can search audio, not that corporate/description page. when i go to podiumedu.com i want to be able to search for the audio right away. It took me a few seconds to figure out i had t
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    by johnsimer 9y ago

    Very cool! I've been thinking of building something similar but never got around to it. I've always wanted something like that for Youtube or Khan Academy videos where I can fastforward to the "tags" I want, and where th
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    by johnsimer 9y ago

    Innovator's dilemma & Innovator's solution- why big companies almost always get beaten by startups and how to overcome this 10x Rule by Grant Cardone - you must take 10x more action than you think to get success Awaken the Gia
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    by johnsimer 9y ago

    Some think decreasing poverty/disease actually decreases population growth. This is what Peter Diamandis argues in his book "Abundance: the future is better than you think". His reasoning (based on correlations and maybe caus
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    by johnsimer 9y ago

    I love this! I would love to integrate this with a deduplicated, taxonomized, and crowdsourced database of facts I am working on - branches-app.com/theplan. Would love to get in contact with you
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    How to Learn 10x Faster(branches-app.com)

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