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by kd5bjo 6y ago
A key insight for me was when I realized that spaced repetition isn't really about memorization, it's about skill maintenance. The skill most people use formal spaced-repetition methods for is factual recall, to be sure, but the u
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
I find that writing spaced-repetition prompts in the way the article describes to have too small of a return on investment: Reviewing them is quick, but it takes a lot of effort to craft good ones from a text. Good authors take care with th
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
For a counterpoint, we can look to the Stoics who want us to focus on the present rather than dwell on the past: "For although in regard of that which is already past there may be some inequality, yet that time which is now present and
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> Imagine you give two people the same task and ask them to complete it in one week. One person works on it four hours a day, the other six. They both get it done on time, at the same level of quality. The first person was actually _more
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> Where does the idea come that you're only "working" when you're coding? When performance review time rolls around, it can be very hard to get credit for all of those other things. Coding, on the other hand, has pro
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Not really; the consensus view within the company was that the justin.tv website wasn’t long-term sustainable and the company needed a narrower focus. There were three segments with sizeable viewer counts at the time: sports, video games, a
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Polyglot: How I Learn Languages [pdf](tesl-ej.org)
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
These are per-city rules in much of the US, but the limo companies that Uber was originally subcontracting to had to meet similar requirements in San Francisco as what tou describe. Booking is just the test that was used to determine which
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> Uber bypassed it by saying "we're a tech company" and left it to the drivers, making the enforcement of the law a lot harder. The original loophole that Uber used was San Francisco’s different regulations between taxis a
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
The standard advice is to make sure you understand something before you make a card about it, but I've never seen an adequate description of what people mean by "understand" in this context. If a card fails (but follows the
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
“Spaced repetition” is a family of algorithms to determine what and when you should review. They’re optimized to minimize the amount of review time necessary to maintain a particular strength of memory over the long term.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
I think “more efficient” is probably better phrasing: The amount of calendar time required to reach a given recall level will be longer, but the time spent actively developing that memory will be less and it will fade more slowly over time
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> Is there even a single benefit to using PEG? In a formal sense, there are some non-context-free languages that PEG can recognize ( A^n B^n C^n is the classic example ). It’s an open question whether there are any context-free language
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Sure, but it's pretty rough; the cards are normal Anki cloze cards with a couple of extra fields. The script will ask you for a text file to process and the pop up a Tkinter window with a single button. Each time you press the button,
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
It’s closely related, but I suspect that Dr. Wozniak would consider my implementation to not be “true” incremental reading: There’s no attempt to progressively distill passages down into more traditional flashcards, and a fixed rate of new
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Semi-automated: I have a hacky Python script that will break up the main text and pick the cloze words, but the other metadata on my cards has to be entered manually (Title, Author, Chapter) I did the first one manually. In addition to bei
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
This is still in the experimental phase, and I want to wait on a full writeup until it’s had sufficient time to prove itself and get the kinks worked out. I’m happy to ramble on about it here for a bit, though. This idea was actually born
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Right; each book is a subdeck of my main one with a new card limit of 1/day and a lengthened repetition schedule. Because paragraphs are so variable, my Project Gutenberg import script makes 25-line cards with a 5-line overlap between
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Yes. At the moment, I’m working through Frankenstein, Alice in Wonderland, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and the Rust book. This is still a fairly new strategy for me, so I don’t yet know how many parallel
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
The only thing I’ve found to help here is to make sure the act of reviewing the cards is inherently fun— then you’re less likely to get behind. My strategy for this was to dump the entire text of some good literature into Anki decks that gi
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
> If `mod foo;` is the only way to make sure a file's code gets compiled, then at some point every file gets its own module, right? There’s also the `include!` macro which can read a source file without making it a module and the `#
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
I fail to see how you draw your conclusion from that statement. It warns about the macro’s potentially surprising behavior, but doesn’t speak to the designers’ intent at all. `include!` is analogous to C’s `#include`: it textually pastes t
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Rust modules are primarily about namespacing, which is why the book only mentions the inclusion behavior in one short section at the end of the relevant chapter. For a non-namespacing include, there’s the `include!` macro.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
If you want a base-10 scale, I think you only need to calculate the logarithms of 1/5 and 1/2 by hand, and the rest can be done by scaling those ratios (not to scale): | 10 | => divide by log10(1/2) : 1
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
It sounds like people who invest the time to properly learn finance can make a pretty good living at it. If that’s you, I wish you the best of luck. But I’m a retail investor, and will almost certainly remain one— Not only do I not have th
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Those numbers sound too good to be true. I’d stay as far away as possible, smelling a con. I certainly wouldn’t invest money I can’t afford to lose.
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
No. If a margin call came in a down market, it would wipe out my emergency fund; that’s the exact opposite of “saving like a pessimist.” If I have $90 to invest, then I have $90 to invest; I’m not going to gamble with someone else’s money
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
I personally don’t invest on margin. It just feels weird to take a short-term loan (whatever the interest rate) when I have the cash to cover the loan. And if I don’t have the cash to cover the margin loan, I should be working on increasi
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
Traditionally, “X-graph” refers to the device which produces an “X-gram,” a physical record of some sort (e.g. telegraph/-gram, electrocardiograph/-gram, etc.)
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by kd5bjo 6y ago
That would be a negotiation between the library maintainer, who is running a business selling commercial licenses, and the potential contributor, who wants to be a paid supplier to said business. If the negotiations fail, the contributor’s

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