nebulosa

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by nebulosa 1y ago
Some of these observations aren't particularly surprising, but this line really took me out of it: > Yes, I know some texts, especially in the sciences, are expensive. However, the books I assign are low-priced. All texts combined f
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by nebulosa 2y ago
Using the scheduler estimates from the FSRS simulator [1], for desired retention held equal at 85%, I received approximately 20-30% improvements in workload upon switching to FSRS from SM-2. Even disregarding the "internal" improv
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by nebulosa 3y ago
It definitely is! It's unfortunate that what seems to have developed to be the consensus view on SRS within most language learning/high-load traditional academic circles (>90% of the userbase, I'd imagine) that it is, at b
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by nebulosa 3y ago
Pleased to see this posted here again. Nielsen's writing on Anki and memory systems more broadly has been nothing short of incisive, inspiring and paradigm-shifting in contributing to the ongoing "hermeneutic turn" within the
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by nebulosa 6y ago
Anecdotes don't make data. I'm keen to see any significant study that demonstrates the existence of so-called cancel culture, but for now it seems to be making a big fuss over a few overzealous institutions and some well-meaning b
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by nebulosa 6y ago
I'd argue that the trend can come from two places, the less rational type you mentioned which appears to occur to enhance compatibility with an in-group, and the type which is based on having a set of base moral values which then affec
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by nebulosa 6y ago
Whilst this may be too critical, I find that if you wish to use Anki for proper "learning" rather than simple memorisation, cloze deletions are the wrong way to go about it. They suffer from being too easy to get wrong and too har
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by nebulosa 6y ago
If I'm interpreting this correctly, it seems that the author falls victim to the same fallacies he mentioned in his post. By assuming that all discussion of politics inherently devolves into tribalism, he invokes the all-or-nothing att
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The Singularity Prophets(currentaffairs.org)
3 points by nebulosa 6y ago|0 comments
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by nebulosa 6y ago
Fairly simple, use my brain as well as the methods listed in https://nabeelqu.co/understanding to understand the material, then use Anki for any details that are useful to remember. There are lots of techniques out there on
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by nebulosa 6y ago
To anyone's who's used LibreOffice recently - is it still as buggy and terribly performing as a few years ago? I remember trying to open a 10 page document with a few images and it took in excess of two minutes to open it. At that
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Ask HN: Books for domain-specific mental models?
1 points by nebulosa 6y ago|0 comments
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by nebulosa 6y ago
As usual with anything that isn't open source, I have significant doubts about the longevity of this. Making a few questions on each article and putting them in Anki is probably more effective and also pretty much certain to still work
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by nebulosa 6y ago
> This is a misdirection. Yes there are a very small minority of people who do call for this but it is what I'm talk about is simple opposition to others political beliefs. If I say that there are only two sexes and you cannot chang
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by nebulosa 6y ago
> Maybe I'm naive, but it seems pretty obvious that it's because technology is mostly full of leftists, so they tolerate their own extremists and ban their opponents. Deplatforming has been a tactic of the left for a while now.
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by nebulosa 6y ago
I'd assume another reason is that given that a small number of far-right threads/communities exist, you're going to have people leaving simply because people who are against, or at least frustrated with, your existence isn&#x
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by nebulosa 6y ago
I'm curious, can you point me towards some examples of the data you suggest? I personally haven't seen anything of the kind, although perhaps newer data may suggest slightly lower rates of overall satisfaction given that increasin
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by nebulosa 6y ago
I think the core of a lot of these issues is the distinction between universal findings which almost always are in favour of "progressive" worldviews and anecdotes which aren't necessarily. The example of trans people detrans
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Ask HN: Efficient methods for understanding complex material?
3 points by nebulosa 6y ago|0 comments