Treegarden

I appreciate the nice feedback!

Happy you like it! Thanks for the feedback

Thanks! Yeah, good point

Thanks for the really nice feedback!

This is a language learning tool that I hope you will enjoy! You can train your Spanish and German vocabulary with it.

I documented my journey of building this on youtube, check it out here: https://youtu.be/1OOIW7ZWITg

Currently I'm working on multiplayer and after that probably a leaderboard.

Because you carry those bad emotions with you then as baggage instead of getting over them. And then they will bias your character and the decisions you do. So your life wont be run by you, but by the hidden subconscious emotional baggage that you carry. Its like with fears, you have to face them to overcome them and then the rest is easy

The whole point of vim is normal mode, not insert mode. Insert mode is just typing, but normal mode is code or file navigation. Its not about typing speed but deliberate action and precision - with vim you need only a couple of keystrokes. In this context speed refers not to typing code but to doing what you mentioned quicker (at least for code search, jump to definition, go back in cursor history) but there is vimium for the web which helps with research. My hands are slowly failing me and vim is a god send.

Appreciate the feedback! My biggest challenge is to polish features. I have taken out a few features from the app because they where buggy and would break. I always had some ideas and prototyped them in the app but then after trying it out and getting a feel for it, I would jump to another idea instead of polishing the prototype. I'm definitely gonna improve the youtube feature, especially the ui. Also, showing the previous subtitles in smaller font somewhere is a great idea! Thanks for that.

In reality the problem is more complicated and the issue is that the current media of teaching via worksheets and teachers is lacking and insufficient, which renders this debate obsolete. What you have is different parts, learning new stuff, practicing it, but also spaced repetition. Those need to be in balance with each other but also rely on cognitive overload, tiredness and motivation (among others) of the learner. So what you really need for a solution is software that replaces those work sheets and does a good job (as opposed to many of the current cheap learning apps) of giving you the right task at the right time. Eg. it knows that you have been drilling stuff and gotten good at it and so now its time for some more mixed stuff that could be paired with srs (stuff that needs refreshment). I think apps like kahn academy are good but could be improved and personally tried to build my own language learning flashcards app[0] after becoming frustrated with duolingo where I have a 2000 day streak.

0 - https://ling-academy.com/ It's a bit of a mess. I found that its pretty hard to build a language app.

Have been reading reddit since 5 or so years now, but pretty much only the frontpage. I like reddit but it has gotten so political and toxic. Many posts boil down to "haha look how stupid this person is". I sometimes skim the controversial comments to see what the hive mind disapproves of. Recently, on the mega threat of Trump being covid positive, the controversial comments were along the lines of "I don't like Trump but I hope he gets better, nobody deserves covid". So not wishing someone death is bad? Overall reddit is pretty toxic.

Im not sure I agree. These things are relative, and I would argue that "Capitalism" is an environment that is beneficial to "competition, innovation, refinement, transformation, and others" relative to other things. Im not sure about what the "thing" is. Rule system? Laws? Societal norms? But I hope you get the idea. Things are obviously not universally perfect, but what are they in relation to other comparable things?

Also, from my econ classes, isn't capitalism fundamentally just property rights and freedom of trade? Some argue that capitalism is more specifically about gaining rent (money) through capital alone, and they criticize that this is undeserved and to the cost of others. But in my view, such criticism ignores risk of loss and potential long term changes.

Steven Pinkers the "blank slate" deals with this question in depth. From what I recall is that genes do determine a lot. Evidence for this are studies with twins that grow up separate. The crux however is that only because genes shape a lot of your behavior, that dosent mean they force you. You are not a marionette of you genes, you still have free will. There was also an interesting study where the correlation in behavior between parents and children weakens the older the children become. Meaning there is almost no nurture influence left if your 30. There was a lot more interesting stuff in the book but I dont remember it. I really recommend it though.

Thats why I value ranking words by their frequency. That way, the most used words are learned first.

I second this. I lived for a semester in shanghai and one of my Chinese friends owned a small restaurant (not a proper fancy one, but also no fast food, idk how to call it) in the shopping mall on the peoples square.

Besides the occasional customer, almost everyone ordered by app, resulting in a constant flow of delivery scooter drivers coming and going. She told me that restaurant owners lower prices on the app because app orders are more convenient to them.

This is all made possible by the low wage costs of those delivery drivers, which, as a side effect, also 'pollute' scooter lanes in shanghai (something locals complain about).

I hope this will be more widespread globally in the future, and then probably done by delivery robots

I also used kahn academy for similar reason and I think their quality changes depending on the subjects. For me the real value came from their exercises. You get a problem, you don't know the answer, you open all the hints, after a couple of exercises of doing that you see the pattern, and then you have learned that specific thing. When I got stuck was when I watched the videos. It also helps the watch them at 1.5 and 2x respectively, depending on your need.

I think this is great, but on first glance https://www.khanacademy.org/ seems to be significantly better. What makes mathigon different?

I dont really see your problem - and would counter with "we cant understand the world without data, but we also cant understand the world with data alone"[1]. With your firstly and secondly you are basically just making the normative-positive statement distinction: Sure, you cant prove normative statements, that's the point! But you can learn more about them with positive statements, which you can falsify, verify etc.

People not accepting evidence is kind of not really a problem of science, but of science communication. But yeah, its also becoming an increasingly severe problem with examples such as climate change denial and anit-vaxxers on the rise

[1] hans rosling - factfullness

I had the same thought and my idea would be to buy the pimax 8k (or 5k). I read that the resolution is high enough to do desktop stuff with it. I dont have the money to buy it and the problem doesent bother me too much, but you could try it.

Man, as a native German I hate this obsession with german naming english words. Disruptive becomes "erschütternd" which is a bad translation, or how do you translate "tech-stack"? Technologie Haufen? I solve this by speaking denglish, but sometimes my fellow Germans who are less into the tech lingo complain about that. I really hate it when germans try to germanize international english words.

I dont know too much about McKinsey (besides from the obvious) but I would like to know what why they might be a horrible company.

Before they where slaving in rice fields and starving. Factory labor actually gave them a lot of freedom and self determination - even with all that suicide going on, but the point is that its far more nuanced then you make it out to be.

Edit: this article gives a fairly nuanced perspective on this topic, and its even more against my comment and for your comment.

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1219/empowering-wom...

maybe double freedom is better then starving of famine in the rice fields working 16 hour days?

"Posting solutions to Coursera assignments goes against the Coursera honor code." I just dont get that mentality in general.

I have (had) a hard time understanding math and programming (and logic in general) from whatever resources. What I need is a problem (or task) and then the solution. At the start I will have no clue so I just check the solution. Then after some exercises I see the pattern and I "blindly" use that to solve the problems without peaking. After doing that for some time I suddenly understand the whole thing.

I dont quite understand this reoccurring sentiment about the poor book shops.

Here in Germany the bookshops mainly feature fear mongering books and are mostly in German. Then there is a tiny section of english books (which often happen to be better then the German books displayed).

Maybe this dos not apply to all German book shops but I feel like they haven't gotten with the times yet.

Why cant things be more flexible, eg. you have a 7 day workweek but personally you only work 4 days?

This seems like a good idea especially given more automation and more higher level jobs.

Posted a Prototype on reddit, and I plan on posting it on HN in a month or two. I learned programming to build that platform, I have a job and I had to do it in parallel to my university. I hope some day I can work full time for it.

But to respond to you, I already showed it to real people, who took a dump on it, and the redesigns are partly what I am working on right now. After that is finished I will try to do a cooperation with my universities language department and do a test roll out.

There is a woman who did multiple Kickstarter campaigns for a language learning app and she raised like 100k, but 5 years later the app is horrible. My goal is not the money but to build a perfect learning platform, so critique is welcome.

Im gonna guess here that shes not the founder of "easy german" so shes just part of that format, she didnt come up with it. The "easy langauge" is simply a bigger brand/ org and they offer many languages with many "teachers".

I checked out you app and its pretty generic flashcard learning and video lectures which is what every language learning app is doing (zero innovation on your part). And you demand 12 or 15 eur for "advanced features". Makes me depressed if you earn any money on that.

I am 90% done developing a really good language app which is better then duolingo (which is the Marktleader) and my goal is to integrate it with actual language classes by cooperating with language schools.

The work is hard but I believe in increasing efficiency of learning by a factor of 10x - then people like you pump out these apps that dont even do anything new and demand 12 eur for it.

Straight from the Wikipedia article:

Pinker identifies five "historical forces" that have favored "our peaceable motives" and "have driven the multiple declines in violence." They are:

The Leviathan – the rise of the modern nation-state and judiciary "with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force," which "can defuse the [individual] temptation of exploitative attack, inhibit the impulse for revenge, and circumvent ... self-serving biases."

Commerce – the rise of "technological progress [allowing] the exchange of goods and services over longer distances and larger groups of trading partners," so that "other people become more valuable alive than dead" and "are less likely to become targets of demonization and dehumanization."

Feminization – increasing respect for "the interests and values of women."

Cosmopolitanism – the rise of forces such as literacy, mobility, and mass media, which "can prompt people to take the perspectives of people unlike themselves and to expand their circle of sympathy to embrace them."

The Escalator of Reason – an "intensifying application of knowledge and rationality to human affairs," which "can force people to recognize the futility of cycles of violence, to ramp down the privileging of their own interests over others', and to reframe violence as a problem to be solved rather than a contest to be won."

Also humanity in the past was far more violent and gruesome. So if being tame means not slaughtering each other it seems like a good thing.

This book from Steven Pinker talks about this topic and its one of the best books I have read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...

And yet I think that is much more interesting and valuable then the article.