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by sn9 11mo ago
This only works if you actually check the Anki cards against the source material. So if you wanted to learn the contents of a book without reading it, you're doing it wrong. If you want to read a book and then test yourself on what you
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by sn9 11mo ago
You can't avoid those with NASA Power of 10 sorts of restrictions?
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by sn9 11mo ago
Rust's type system specifically facilitates more powerful tools: https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry
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by sn9 1y ago
Here's a fun book review: https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-the-variational-principl...
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by sn9 1y ago
Yeah they're great too! I think of Math Academy as ideal for efficiently mastering subjects at a level slightly deeper than a typical education in a shorter amount of time, and AoPS is for taking your time to go much deeper into the
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by sn9 1y ago
I had a systems programming course that was (I would later realize) basically Kernighan and Pike's Unix Programming Environment followed by Oreilly's Learning Perl .
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by sn9 1y ago
You should check out Math Academy. It'll give you as much math background as any engineering student and they aim to provide the equivalent of a full undergrad math degree in the next few years.
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by sn9 1y ago
You should be investing some fixed or growing percentage of your income into retirement. Ramit Sethi's book I Will Teach You To Be Rich is a great source for learning the basics of personal finance. You should be focusing on doing th
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by sn9 1y ago
For effectively and efficiently learning the calculus, linear algebra, and probability underpinning these fields, Math Academy is going to be your best resource.
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by sn9 1y ago
I've definitely done a version of this. Sometimes when my friends wanted to do something, I'd suggest asking someone who frequently declined and they'd ask what the point was. Well either our friend joins us for once or she d
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by sn9 1y ago
Get a food scale and use Macrofactor for tracking nutrition.
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by sn9 1y ago
With sites like Math Academy, anyone who can afford the monthly fee will be able to learn not just calculus, but linear algebra and discrete math and probability as well at whatever age they want so long as they're willing to put in t
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by sn9 1y ago
Oh sorry I wasn't pushing back against you specifically haha. Just those pushing the idea that learning calculus the traditional way is useless since we have computers. I've been going through Math Academy with a IPython REPL open
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by sn9 1y ago
I'm gonna push back and claim that learning calculus the traditional way is still worth doing. Not only will you be even more capable of picking up solving things numerically, but you'll also have the prerequisites for studying ph
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by sn9 1y ago
Both statistics and calculus are usually electives, not requirements.
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by sn9 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_under_the_curve_(pharmaco...
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by sn9 1y ago
I'd rather they be exposed to physics without calculus than never be exposed to it at all. Calculus is an elective course in most schools.
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by sn9 1y ago
There's really overwhelming evidence that exercise itself has a causal role, and it only gets more impactful the more effective it is at raising your fitness (i.e., given the logistical constraints of your life, the more that the exerc
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by sn9 1y ago
Your confusing the name of a thing with its nature.
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by sn9 1y ago
When anyone mentions the Rust book, they're talking about the recommended place to start in the Rust community: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ To find a shared deck, I usually go here: https://ankiweb.
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by sn9 1y ago
I think people underrate the utility of a premade deck when constructed well and used appropriately. A use case I've found is if you can find a deck that corresponds to a book you're reading. I found a deck for the Rust book and i
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by sn9 1y ago
Mara Bos' Rust Atomics and Locks has a section on futexes [0]. [0] https://marabos.nl/atomics/os-primitives.html#linux
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by sn9 1y ago
With judicious use of generators, and with itertools [0] when needed, they can be quite efficient for not much effort. And these are flexible tools that you can take with you across projects. [0] https://docs.python.org/3&#x
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by sn9 1y ago
What sort of compiler class were you looking for? You can work through a book that uses a more modern approach like Siek's Essentials of Compilation which comes in Racket [0] and Python flavors. Teach Yourself CS also has some more c
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by sn9 1y ago
Fair enough!
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by sn9 1y ago
Have you considered creating collaboratively written Anki decks for each chapter of each book as you read them?
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by sn9 1y ago
Actively causing harm is telling people things that are demonstrably untrue that will affect how successful they are in improving their health and wellbeing and using your mental illnesses as proof of your authority instead of decades of ac
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by sn9 1y ago
> I have lived alternating violently between bulimia and anorexia my entire life precisely because someone emphatically, and also utterly and destructively incorrectly, believed that to be true. Having a mental disorder does not change h
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by sn9 1y ago
They have a research summary on that too. [0] https://macrofactorapp.com/recomposition/
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by sn9 1y ago
Yeah the way the app works is you track what you eat and your weight and this is all you need to make actionable information on how to lose, gain, or maintain weight. Obviously you could do this on your own with spreadsheets, but the app ta

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