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by pkoird 4y ago
Yep, it has recommendations for every single subject!
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by pkoird 4y ago
So I asked this same question to ChatGPT, here's its response. This thing really does have the potential to be a good recommendation tool for books/resources. "Here are a few books that may be helpful for improving your skill
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Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes is also guilty of an unusual kind of cleverness. I remember reading this one story (whose name I forgot) where Sherlock essentially concludes that a person he's looking for is pretty intellige
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Surely you're publishing, Mr. Feynman(praveshkoirala.com)
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Too bad the poet wasn't well versed in Zoology it seems.
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by pkoird 4y ago
There's a famous poem written by a Nepali poet Laxmi Prasad Devkota: O Lord, Please maketh me Sheep. It's too heavy to translate entirely but a succinct summary is that to not have intelligence is the only path towards happiness.
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by pkoird 4y ago
Wait till you meet Bureaucrats and Managers etc.
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by pkoird 4y ago
Any reviews on Remarkable/Remarkable2 tablets?
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Textbooks on Every Subject(lesswrong.com)
3 points by pkoird 4y ago|1 comments
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I've always felt incredibly at how trivially we take our ability to coherently sync our minds by using symbols and utterances. Language is so fascinating and unfortunately, there will always be people who are good at at and those who a
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by pkoird 4y ago
I understand what you're saying but if you look at the effects alone (and not the means), it seems well justified. Their increased revenue allowed them to provide more and more (than LibGen at least) books to the users free of charge.
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by pkoird 4y ago
Their free model was much more than enough for a regular user to use. I mean 10 books download per day? I'm not sure if I personally would have had to ever exceed that limit.
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Not just that, many mathematical advances have been made well before physical applications ever caught up. For example, Calculus was invented in the late seventeenth century while Maxwell only used it to discover EM equations in the 19th ce
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by pkoird 4y ago
A tangential question. What exactly does it feel to be like in Adderall? I'm intimately familiar with the 15-minutes venture into Reddit/HN etc so if I were to, say, take Adderall, just what exactly inside me would change?
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by pkoird 4y ago
As a grad student, it seems like a pipe-dream. I've come to acknowledge that maybe I'm not the multitasker I thought I was but sadly, with tens of deadlines to juggle around, no respite for me.
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But then, you can't really search youtube as efficiently as you can texts. That's the only downside for me, sieving through tens of videos just to find something that might be in the middle that's releavant to what i'm s
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The major thing that people overlook in note-taking is "habit". Doesn't matter if you use Notepad, Obsidian or just plain pen&paper, the single most thing that matters is that you do it consistently. And like you said, co
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Or, the way I do it: "do you want me to just listen, or do you want me to offer advice?"
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> worker who Twitter asked to return rejected the offer because they felt 'used, and think they will be fired again soon.' I mean, can you really blame them?
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The search for a unified theory of physics was not unique to Einstein and thousands after him have continued to look for it still. The only "failures", so to speak, of his would arguably be the Cosmological Constant or his denial
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I wouldn't know much about Politicians but I'm certainly curious about Einstein's inclusion in your examples. Just how do you think that the discoverer of Photoelectricity, Brownian Motion, Special & General Relativity, a
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Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't tenure something that's given to a professor , who, essentially, is a person that teaches? I should think that loving one's profession can only go so far when the profession doesn't
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by pkoird 5y ago
That making friends bit is proving to be a bit difficult for me at the moment.
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There's the famous Feynman method i.e. Study hard, Teach it to others, Identify the gaps in your own knowledge, and Simplify/Synthesize. But people often also forget that there is another method associated with Feynman aka The Fey
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by pkoird 5y ago
Can you even get that without a prescription?
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I'd like to expand on that large bit. I really used to have elevated heart rates / anxiety while sleeping. I used to get up with a startle and be unable to sleep afterwards. What I found worked for me was crowd noises. I think it
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I think this highlights the necessity of patience and compassion in everyday interactions. Sure I might be more experienced than my junior devs and sure, often times I have access to the broader picture and direction of the project but if t
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> Imagine you have bought two non-refundable tickets to different trips, one much more costly. You are then told that you must cancel one of them. In this case, many people will cancel the cheaper trip regardless of which one they would
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Combating disinformation with humility(praveshkoirala.com)
76 points by pkoird 5y ago|75 comments