Short daily sessions really compound much better than binge studying, largely because fatigue drops retrieval efficiency so fast after the 40-minute mark. When reviewing technical material or complex notes, breaking down concepts into quick active recall prompts works wonders for retention without burning out. I do something similar with MemoNote to turn dense notes into quick bite-sized quizzes, and keeping the feedback loop short makes consistency way easier to maintain.
> “ive me your tired, your poor,
> Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
> The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
> Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
> I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
The U.S. was founded as a nation of immigrants, and has a cultural history of being exceptionally immigrant-friendly (compared to other nations), especially with regard to immigrants without much means.
I don't believe other nations have any obligation to follow this example. On the contrary, they should be able to set whatever immigration policies make sense for them. But this model of letting in poor immigrants, letting them do the work that nobody else wants to do, and letting their kids become net contributors, does seem to have benefited the U.S. greatly over the past few centuries.
The guillotine is probably the only time I physically cringe as it gets romanticized due to people only remembering the 1st part:off with the king's head and not the countless innocent people beheaded equally due to one man's paranoia which was his own downfall and he too was guillotine'd.
If anything it should symbolize the cautionary tale of the how to have the power to exact punishment can and will come back to you.
I just listened to the this American Life on this today and came to two conclusions.
One - it is sad that Nikole Hannah-Jones was proven wrong. It felt like on some level, her greatest sin was not playing to her caste. We don’t send our kids to those kind of schools. That being said the problem is incredibly hard. Maybe it is rich progressive values removing homework from schools. Maybe not.
2. Her daughter will be fine. Not even - one of the moral oddities of parenting and this parenting story. I want a normal happy life for my kid but normal happy lives aren’t often good defining stories. The strange thing is, if her daughter does well in high school, and goes to Howard and start sharing this story with her peers.
There’s a decent chance this story becomes a defining contradiction in her life. It’s too simple to say “she’ll realize her mother was right”. I wouldn’t go that far. But Having lived through this experience will likely be a powerful motivator and lens with which she looks at the world. The strange morality of it is - it could be good, great even, but it doesn’t mean her mom was right to do it.
When I was first learning to program, I started using the free Borland Turbo C++ compiler [1]. I had managed to get subscribed to their newsletter that seemed very insistent that Delphi was going to be the future for desktop software. Awhile later, I found out that "Spybot – Search & Destroy" was written in Delphi, so I figured it might be fun to play with.
So play with it I did. I hadn't used Visual Basic at the time, so the entire idea of "drag and drop" GUIs was kind of amazing, and I even kind of ended up liking the language.
I wasn't able to get any kind of OpenGL stuff working with it, so I ended up going back to C and I really haven't touched the language since, but I kind of feel like I should at some point just to finish off that loose thread in my education.
[1] I actually don't remember if that was proper freeware or if I had gotten it cough unofficially free...
LLM's are trained on human code though. Converting the code to its ast tree and training ai on that would be trivial of course, but I imagine there would be information that explains why something exists that would be missed.
They can go anywhere they want to. If they can't handle it, they can leave.
And no, we don't negotiate with terrorists. If people try violence, they go to prison. We don't want antisocial people in our society. They're not valuable citizens.
> I've met a number of young western Europeans while traveling there who are jealous of the ability of Americans to afford cross-ocean/different-continent multi-week trips to tier-1-hotel-cost cities, while feeling like it's more out of reach to them to find a job that would let them.
Anecdotally, I think it’s out of reach for many young Americans in my cohort (26) but we’re insulated from that in tech
Be careful with the goals you give for writing tests. Telling it that you want 100% coverage can often lead to performative tests that don't validate anything meaningful.
I don't find ads tedious at all. In fact, since I grew up with ads on tv, I miss them. The commercial break was a scheduled time to get a snack, go to the bathroom, get a snack, etc. Today's platforms put the ad breaks in such awkward spots that doing those things is a lot less natural. IMO, it's not the ads that after the problem; it's the way they are used.
If we're talking higher ed., expell students that use LLMs to do their assignments for them. They obviously aren't there to learn and don't belong there.
Of all the places to judge people for taking an escalator, you pick an airport? Where you have people with heavy luggage, people traveling in groups of mixed mobility, people who spent the entirety of the preceding days walking around looking at sights, people who didn't sleep well on an unfamiliar hotel bed?
Or given a non-airport station, I've found myself standing on the escalator during my morning commute ever since I ramped up my exercise routine. So when you see me, I'm standing because I hit a PR on my squats earlier that morning, or because I finished a 14k run less than an hour ago.
For me: Primary level, Ancient eastern wisdom(Hinduism, Buddhism, Yogic texts) to attain calmness during storm/failures.
Then on secondary level, modern tech people like steve jobs, engineers who build open source etc.
> AI negates language specific ecosystems ... Pick whatever your favourite programming language is and its ecosystem
I think this is only true when it comes to LLM raw output. There's also the concern of checking its work. A compiler that can check many aspects of correctness (static types, null) is a huge boost to AI. It can use the compiler directly to check its own work.
I feel there is enough happening in the brain that we need to understand it further beyond classical physics can allow. I suspect especially that a mother and child share a strong lifelong subspace bond, whereby they can sense one another's state, in a way that logic or physics cannot explain. This sensing bond probably exists with others too but at an exponentially weaker level.
