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by trane_project 1y ago
I'll keep the self-promotion to a minimum, but I have been spending lots of time reading on the science consensus on how children actually become fluent readers as part of my upcoming product Pictures Are For Babies ( https:/&#x2F
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by trane_project 1y ago
> Nonetheless, Bloom was on to something: Tutoring and mastery learning do have a degree of experimental support, and fortunately it seems that carefully designed software systems can completely replace the instructional side of traditio
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by trane_project 1y ago
I've never had an Intel laptop work well in the efficiency and thermal department, Apple or not. I used to blame Apple too, but seeing the difference, it's hard to argue who the main culprit was. Can't design around a bad fou
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by trane_project 1y ago
The thermals were all Intel’s fault. My 2019 MacBook from work is an oven. I can’t tell whether my smaller m4 max is turned on by touching it.
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by trane_project 1y ago
I have been mostly working on a set of courses based around backing tracks I got from a course called “improvise for real”. So I only had to make the structure of those backing tracks explicit, which only required knowing the circle of fift
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by trane_project 1y ago
I am the creator of Trane ( https://github.com/trane-project/trane/ ) which can replace Anki and similar systems for domains that have a well-defined hierarchy between subskills (turns out that's most of them,
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by trane_project 2y ago
Mexico City is great for this because it points you to the central square. You can see the avenues spiraling out of the square, some of which follow the same routes as the avenues that lead to the city-island of prehispanic times (Calzada d
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by trane_project 2y ago
The company got nearly 2B of dollars in investment, was acquired for half the price, and the founders somehow managed to make a profit. No wonder he's a fan. Which other system would allocate resources so effectively?
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by trane_project 2y ago
Serious question, but how exactly does Atlassian hope to recoup that billion dollars? Loom is useful, but given that Atlassian's investors are expecting a large return, do they really hope a screen recorder to eventually add 2B+ dollar
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by trane_project 2y ago
Thanks for pointing me out to this. This is a proposed definition of intelligence. Is it the same as the real thing, though? Even assuming that it was: > Like Solomonoff induction, AIXI is incomputable. That would mean that computers can
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by trane_project 2y ago
My point is that if you use biological cells to drive the system, which already exhibit intelligent behaviors, you don't have to worry about any of these questions. The basic unit you are using is already intelligent, so it's a gi
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by trane_project 2y ago
I think most AI research up to this day is a dead end. Assuming that intelligence is a problem solvable by computers implies that intelligence is a computable function. Nobody up to this day has been able to give a formal mathematical defin
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by trane_project 2y ago
They wanted me to roll out a fix first. Apparently rolling back first was not moving fast enough for the interviewer’s liking.
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by trane_project 2y ago
I interviewed there once and they asked me what I would do if a service broke after a deployment. I said the first step was to revert to the last known good version and then investigate. Color me surprised when that was not the answer they
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by trane_project 3y ago
The mongols sacked Baghdad, killed everyone, and destroyed all institutions of higher learning and the people working in them. Then the age of exploration permanently shifted the center of world power away from the Middle East and the Silk
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by trane_project 3y ago
Yes, but not the kind of engineering mentioned in this article. Recently I went in a bit of a Youtube fueled permaculture/afforestation binge. Reforesting without planting trees by encouraging shrubs to grow by pruning them (which are
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by trane_project 3y ago
I looked this up and found this report: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019179.pdf Only 12.5% of the population scores in the levels 4 or 5 (they had to group them together because there were so few is my guess). This is
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by trane_project 3y ago
My implementation of mastery learning (along with other related ideas): https://github.com/trane-project/trane/ It bothered me enough that there was not something like this already available, when the idea seemed
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by trane_project 3y ago
I think they meant incest. If we already did our share of it in the distant past, then fun with your cousin leads to a baby with a pig's tail. Or at least it did for the Buendía family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by trane_project 3y ago
The whole thing about how GPL propagates to unrelated works that happen to use a GPL licensed software is a misunderstanding. One that the FSF foundation is happy to propagate, but not one that would hold in court. The concept of derived wo
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by trane_project 3y ago
See my example. I am trying to extract the value of an optional field in the enum. That's where the unwrap comes in.
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by trane_project 3y ago
Not sure if I disagree but your example is terrible. Let patterns in if statements greatly simplify things. The alternatives are a lot more convoluted. See example from code I wrote this week: https://github.com/trane-projec
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by trane_project 3y ago
My bad. It's the music lesson. The spirit of music is supposed to be the sequel but I haven't read it yet.
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by trane_project 3y ago
I don't disagree that this type of transcription leads to good results, and in fact, it's what you should eventually do, but I've found a different approach to transcription that to me is easier, more fun, and more powerful.
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by trane_project 3y ago
That's pretty much what I've been trying to do with https://github.com/trane-project/trane/ I wanted something like you describe, but as far as I know nothing existed. So I've been hacking at this a
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by trane_project 3y ago
GNU Typist was good enough when I had to learn to type on a similar keyboard. Ironically, I am now very slow to work with normal keyboards.
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by trane_project 3y ago
I'd love to work full time on my open source project (see profile) but I'll have to keep working for the man for now. It works and is useful for me already, but without the time needed to polish it and add more content, won't
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by trane_project 3y ago
And the pay is about the same as my current job. I was thinking of applying again now that I have more rust experience just to see but then I remembered how off putting the process was.
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by trane_project 3y ago
Rob Pike once told me I was a moron (not those exact words) but that intent when I asked a question in some performance Golang slack about how big a Golang map is in memory (as in the total bytes used by it internally). He went to a previou
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by trane_project 3y ago
I paid for it for a month or so but thinking of going back now that Google is getting increasingly shittier. I'll put it this way: It's not a lot better than 2013 Google, but it's looking a lot better than 2023 google. And th

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