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Linguist here. It would likely be pronounced with a flap/tap, i.e., it would rhyme with shadow

I remember hearing about an interesting paper; it argued that Zebra finch songs were as complex as recursively enumerable languages on the Chomsky hierarchy. I wanted to see if I could find it but came across another paper arguing that their embedded context sensitivity can be explained by simpler rules.

    https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0908113106

Left this comment as another computer science connection.

Willing to be corrected but I believe this type of automated resume filtering is illegal. Not saying it never happens but my understanding is it is not typical.

My first rule—before doing anything else—when writing a sentence, is to check whether I could have removed the em dashes by re-ordering the elements.

Update: in case it’s not obvious, I am sorry. I could not help it.

Breaking knowledge down into combinable modules is a great insight; ultimately, I think that’s the idea behind Zettlekasten.

I’ve started going down a similar path for scent and ADHD. I have a horrible sense of smell and just learned that it might correlate with symptoms of ADHD.

I’ve had surprisingly positive results with these red light glasses: https://www.eye-power.co.uk/product/eyepower-red/

I don’t know who on Hackernews first mentioned these red light glasses but bought them for my mom in the hopes it could alleviate some vision problems she was having. After reading the precautions and fine print she was scared to try them, so I figured, why not see if there’s a difference for me. I don’t know how to describe it other than my eyes feel well rested when I use these consistently. I can see better in the dark and depth perception is just slightly better. I’ll use these puppies forever.

Fantastic tool and love the delivery; no sign up required. Interested to hear how you pulled that off.

Also interested to hear if you plan to eventually support an option to add pitch accent; I've never seen what training material exists for that or how that is supported in unicode.

“What’s the memory bandwidth (GB/s) of the device holding the model weights?”

Isn’t the recommended option going to be dog slow at 256 GB/s.

Damn. Amazing response.

I disagree with the author at a surface level; we can retain much more than 90% of what we read. The curious can look up deep reading strategies, e.g., those summarized by Benjamin Keep.

At a deeper level, though, there’s truth that we have limited time here; we can’t read everything.

I got much better answers with this prompt: “ Jokes are funny precisely because they play on knowledge on two poles: (i) at first listen, they’re surprising, and (ii) upon review, they’re obvious.

Let’s think through many many options to answer this joke that only focus on surprising the listener in section 1. And in section 2 we’ll focus on finding/filtering for the ones that are obvious in hindsight.

“Why did the sun climb a tree?”

In this case, let’s note that the sun doesn’t climb anything, so there’s two meanings at play here: one is that the sun’s light seems to climb up the tree, and the other is an anthropomorphization of the sun climbing the tree like an animal. So, to be funny, the joke should play on the second meaning as a surprise, but have the first meaning as answer with an obviousness to it. Or vice versa.”

Here’s a descent ones: - to leaf the ground behind - because it heard the leaves were throwing shade

I’m drawing a connection here between red light therapy being most beneficial if done in the morning.

Might mitochondria only be able to benefit from “recharging” in a recharge state?

Biochemists?

I don’t know about others but I felt like this article is so high level that it didn’t explain anything at all.

Here’s a link to the paper:

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ad...

I’ll highlight a note from the developer:

Sim Daltonism lets you see through the eyes of someone with a color blindness. While the colors shown are a good approximation of what a color blind person would see, you should not expect them to be perfect.

Everyone has his own perception of colors that differs slightly from other people, and color blindness are often partial at different degrees. More importantly, cameras do not have the same spectral response as cones in your eyes, so the simulation has to make some assumptions about the frequency composition of the colors.

I’m colorblind and haven’t found a simulator that comes close to what it’s like for me. This app doesn’t do it either.

Not for the faint of heart but look at figure 3 of the original paper: * https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56461-1

Amazing!

I really appreciate what Johnny Decimal is trying to solve - we're all struggling with digital organization and the appeal of a clean, simple system is undeniable.

Having implemented similar approaches across several teams, I can say it works beautifully for personal projects or well-defined small team efforts. But here's the challenge: most real-world information refuses to fit into single categories. A technical spec might be simultaneously system architecture, compliance documentation, etc. While the Johnny Decimal strength is its rigid simplicity, that's also its weakness when facing actual organizational complexity.

Rather than fighting these natural interconnections, I've found more success embracing them - using approaches that allow documents to exist in multiple contexts while maintaining the Johnny Decimal core goal of findability/searcability. The solution to chaos might not be enforcing a decimal hierarchy, but rather building systems that match how information actually flows in modern organizations.

Anecdotal, so take this with a grain of salt: I’ve used a pair of red light glasses from a Dr in the UK and saw noticeably improved vision.

Suggestion to the void: update the map so that it shows the counties and districts without power.

I had this exact same thought yesterday.

I’d go so far as to add one more layer to monitor this one and stop adding layers. My thinking is that this meta awareness is all you need.

No data to back my hypothesis up. So take it for what it’s worth.

Do I understand correctly that these apps are able to bypass OS permissions of whether to allow location data?

This almost guaranteed to be a waste of time for others, though, because you created them for yourself, perhaps less so for you.

Learning isolated facts via flashcard give you the illusion of learning something. Most likely, when it comes time to apply it, it will not surface.

Didn’t see it mentioned but good to know about: UCR matrix profile.

The Matrix Profile is honestly one of the most underrated tools in the time series analysis space - it's ridiculously efficient. The killer feature is how it just works for finding motifs and anomalies without having to mess around with window sizes and thresholds like you do with traditional techniques. Solid across domains too, from manufacturing sensor data to ECG analysis to earthquake detection.

https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/MatrixProfile.html

I saw this hypothesis in another thread. Although interesting, I did wonder why a regular helicopter doing the same thing would not be sufficient.

I don’t now anything about such scans but that was my immediate rebuttal.

Like you, though, at least I find this explanation plausible.

Has anyone seen how these constraints affect the quality of the output out of the LLM?

In some instances, I'd rather parse Markdown or plain text if it means the quality of the output is higher.

That was funny even if I don’t agree with the sentiment.

Who is this guy and why should we listen to him?

The importance of SRS is often overstated.

To my knowledge, there isn’t a single study showing SRS as effective for language learning where it was an experimental variable.

There’s anecdotal evidence thrown about, which gives us some indication that it’s helpful. But I have doubts that it’s a good return on investment.

To avoid diving deep into long arguments about this or that, I’ll keep my advice short: If you use an SRS, make sure that the item your test goes through the brain structures you want to get good at, eventually reading can help with listening, but because you’re not processing the language through the typical brain structures that handle it, you’re delaying getting good until you’ve exercised these “muscles”.

Also, don’t learn words in isolation. Better is to learn the words in context. Better yet is to vary the practice, maybe hookup an LLM to vary the cloze word, if that’s your cup of tea.

Use audio if possible. If you’re comfortable with the language, use a TTS.

It might be helpful to someone, so I’m suggesting something similar for Spanish: * https://www.dreamingspanish.com

Interesting question. I had a look at Wikipedia and quickly dispelled the thought:

Sullivan died in 1936. Keller went on to write several books after her death:

Let us have faith (1940), Doubleday, & Doran & co., inc. Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy: a tribute by the foster-child of her mind. (1955), Doubleday (publisher) The open door (1957), Doubleday, 140pp The faith of Helen Keller (1967) Helen Keller: her socialist years, writings and speeches (1967)