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by npinsker 4y ago
Besides being an appeal to authority, this is directly addressed in the piece: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/#appendix-common-object... > ...it was read by hundreds of psychologists and neuroscientists w
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by npinsker 4y ago
I know people that love it, but my experience has been that it usually feels like an inefficient use of time. I mostly agree with https://matt-rickard.com/against-pair-programming/ on the same site, especially this bit
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by npinsker 4y ago
I haven't read the comments, but it's quite sad to imagine posting about a creative milestone on a personal blog, and having people go out of their way to come to it and express their displeasure. From a YouTube video on this topi
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by npinsker 4y ago
I've been on both ends of this. I was lean throughout college, gradually gained some weight after starting at Google and after a few years I was having trouble functioning after not having eaten for a while. I got some blood work done
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by npinsker 5y ago
This means that expressing changes in a tiny value relative to its baseline (e.g. "3x as likely") sounds more impactful than expressing the same changes in absolute terms (e.g. "from 0.01% to 0.03%").
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by npinsker 5y ago
You're right: the EV is 2.5 (my guess was pessimistic). For (almost all) 6-word sets, there's a single word you can use to delineate all six words, which gives an EV of 1.83 if that word is in the set and 2 if it isn't.
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by npinsker 5y ago
Yes, you can -- I believe the EV was around 3.47 for that. The "greedy" strategy (minimizing the worst-case size of the largest set) also ends up using at most 5 words. Perhaps unsurprisingly, you can't guarantee at most 4 wo
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by npinsker 5y ago
I don't think it works for easy mode either. The overwhelming majority of 6-word sets can be distinguished in two guesses in easy mode (their EV is either 11/6 or 2), while this set has an EV that's around 3.
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by npinsker 5y ago
> From an information-theoretic perspective, the optimal initial guess is the one which is maximally informative about the target, given the resulting pattern. This statement (which motivates the rest of the analysis) isn't correct,
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by npinsker 5y ago
I wrote a solver a few weeks ago that solves easy mode in 3.45 guesses and hard mode in 3.55 guesses. Rather than using heuristics, it explored a large portion of the game tree (with a little pruning) and I'm hopeful that it's opt
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by npinsker 5y ago
I wrote a brute-force minimax solver (minimizing expected guesses) which tracks with this information: SOARE 3.45 RAISE 3.46 ARISE 3.47 SERAI 3.52 Most 'reasonable' words seem within 0.1 or so of the optimal strategy.
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by npinsker 5y ago
Headspace (or similar apps? I haven't tried others) is great. If you're feeling up to it, the program I'd most strongly recommend is mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), which asks for 45 minutes from you every day for
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by npinsker 5y ago
In my experience, anxiety-induced insomnia is an entirely different beast. I went through CBT-i and had a strongly negative experience: its strict rules made bed and bedtime feel like a prison (now I can't even lie quietly in my bed?!)
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by npinsker 5y ago
This reads as very biased and judgmental. It treats streamers as kids who can't take care of themselves and don't understand the long-term impact of their lifestyle and career choice. It honestly makes me wonder if the author is j
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by npinsker 5y ago
I guess 'The Lord of the Rings' is a bad story then? After all it is exactly the kind of story this person is complaining about...
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by npinsker 5y ago
I wouldn't have personally said it -- saying he's looking to martyr himself could be read as insulting his judgment, as perhaps it was -- but I read it as a joke too.
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by npinsker 5y ago
It does change your odds -- you're now living in a world in which the car didn't get revealed, and by Bayesian reasoning that means it's more likely that you live in a world where you picked the correct door.
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by npinsker 6y ago
For what it's worth: I have an incredible ENT with 40 years of experience, and she's consistently recommended Q-tips for her patients and held that the AAO is overcautious here (though it's certainly possible to cause impacti
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by npinsker 7y ago
Unfortunately I can't cheer you up except to say that I sympathize. I enjoy many different facets of programming but trying to understand modern web development makes me want to tear my hair out, it feels like it's almost designed
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by npinsker 7y ago
This is a little harsh, but I totally agree -- IMO this is far from good pixel art. One of the main benefits of pixel art (as I see it; I'm not an expert) is that proper use of outlines can call your attention to important elements in
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by npinsker 7y ago
I recently wanted to do a small project in React and found this site: https://reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html . It was a painless, plug-and-play solution that got me coding within 3 minutes. I didn't n
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