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This just rose to the top of HN today :)

https://www.fractionaljobs.io/

Well I imagine this is a relatively new phenomena in the USA. Usually I hear about these "coincidences" in foreign countries... but here....? Maybe the older HN generation can shed some insight...

Reading is still the most efficient and quickest ways of obtaining a deep understanding of a subject. The emphasis on visual cues (namely movies and videos) in the new generations are quite alarming. I wouldn't be surprised if a partial reason why America ranks relatively low for standardized testing in younger children is the decline in reading

Police now say it's been ruled a suicide:

https://sfstandard.com/2024/12/13/key-openai-whistleblower-d...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2024/12/13/openai-...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/openai-whistleblower-dead_n_6...

Here is the link to the game: https://tiqtaqtoe.com/

Bro you're still trolling people lol

Would love to hear more about your thoughts on learning medicine! Why would you recommend an online program over textbooks?

[Mods: it might be helpful to tag this paper as written in 2007]

It seems to me this paper is bringing to light the idea of spaced repetition for learning and this has become quite popular in the productivity/learning culture of today (e.g. Ali Abdaal).

> Alternatively, mathematics textbooks could easily adopt a format that engenders spacing.

I tutor middle school students in mathematics and this is definitely being implemented in their textbooks! At the end of each chapter, there a is normal chapter review practice test followed by a "Cumulative Practice" which reviews topics from the previous chapters in the book. These are especially beneficial to my students as, like the paper highlights, it promotes long-term memory of those topics.

> For example, although computer-based instruction typically provides extensive retrieval practice and rapid feedback, it offers a currently unexploited opportunity to schedule study sessions in ways that optimize long-term retention.

There is an immensely popular software called Anki which implements exactly this "spaced repetition"-type protocol.

Been using Undermind for several months now and it's honestly been a lifesaver in getting a comprehensive understanding of a research topic.

This concept is known as "Echo Cancellation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_suppression_and_cancellat...

Is it me or is the website no longer loading?

Super cool! Maybe a bigger board would be cool too :D

Would also love to hear about how you designed the algorithm for generating puzzles!

This is pure garbage. Making an effort to live a better life does not always follow a linear trend. There will be times when some make progress and then revert. But it's entirely about your mindset and intense self-reflection. If one lives in a completely pleasure-inducing life, sure, eating every food under the sun seems better. Yet, a self-reflective person would realize the reasoning behind losing the weight in the first place and why they should continue to stay in that state. It's a paradigm shift in the mind that must happen to maintain the loss in weight. Not the reverse.

This blew my mind as well!! I never thought one of my favorite programmers would share a similar hobby haha

Just download the repo as a zip file and manually upload it as an extension to your browser.

Enter Elon Musk with Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, & Neuralink... he seems to have it figured out

Now that you've built a boat, who's gonna carry it? ;)

Given the nature of the tobacco business (to get people addicted on a pleasure-inducing drug), it's not surprising to see them ignore health risks !

For news websites, what about having them randomly rearrange among themselves for each search?

For example, if the top three results for a news story come from CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the next search would display MSNBC, Fox News, CNN.

Anyways, 4+ year user of DDG and still love it!

Awesome video tutorial by Hyperplexed here too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt3DavtVGVE

Very interesting point. It does make sense that Tesla who primarily worked in the field of electricity & magnetism would develop a faster intuition of inventions related the forces.

> ... and sleep helps!

I would have agreed with this statement every day of my life until yesterday because Nikola Tesla has pulled apart many of my presumptions.

For example, sleep. Tesla slept 4 hours/night in his first year in college and would sleep 2-3 hours in adulthood. (wikipedia). There are some explanations of short amounts of sleep for sustained periods as demonstrated by those that practice polyphasic sleep [1]. Yet these polyphasic sleepers, obtain "bodily rest" because of hours of sitting at a desk. Yet even this seems to defy Tesla's life where he would walk 8-10 miles PER DAY (wkipedia).

Despite very little brain rest or bodily rest, he was one of the brightest minds AND lived to age 86.

So yeah, I really don't know.

[1] https://polyphasic.net

Not at all! You can improve like any other faculty of the mind! Even Tesla described that initially the images he would see would be a big blur but after "practice" they became significantly sharper. He could then even visualize motion of objects.

He was indeed gifted with insane sensitivity to his senses. However, he describes his visualization process as somewhat learned, like a brain exercise.

In the beginning, he described, images in his mind would be blurred but after "practice", they became much sharper.

In what sense do you find this part of the article gibberish?

Ultimately, I think we will never know because funding for the project was pulled and the building demolished. Besides, Tesla made significant nonintuitive advances in his fields which does not make it easy to dismiss his ideas.

These are very interesting, thanks for sharing! This autobiography seems to illustrate the principles that went into coming up with such ideas for patents.

> Instead I seem to get by on intuition

This is also something Tesla would do! - "But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile."

I suppose, for me, I've never spent time working on physical problems until now. Most of my life I've worked on programming problems or mathematical problems or other abstract problems which didn't require the highest level of visualization.

I do clearly remember daydreaming in AP Spanish about projects too lol.

Interesting you say that about his ideas on earth science... because that's what I find most intriguing. I admit I don't completely understand him yet but I plan to further research it. In addition, there seem to be striking similarities with his Wardenclyffe Tower and the Great Pyramids of Giza (i.e. aquaphors) which all the more is curious for me.