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Second this. Put off trying it for years because "why not just use a GUI" if I'm going to leave the console anyway. Turns out lazygit is kind of a happy middle ground and using it actually feels better than it looks.

I've been liking Explainable Boosting Machines lately (kind of a cross between a GAM and a tree). They also have decision trees. Haven't tested them in production yet but they're pretty to look at.

[0] https://interpret.ml/docs/ebm.html [1] https://interpret.ml/docs/dt.html

Seconding Obsidian for notes. Really happy with the editor, it's got nice formatting and all notes synced on desktop/laptop/phone. I just use their paid syncing though. I also ignore all the graph and mindmapping stuff.

With higher interest rates, I stopped paying the full balance and instead try squeezing a little extra interest out of the money (I buy USFR, which is giving around 5.3% right now). I still pay the statement balance of course.

Very fun watching this guy chat about probability.

Statistics 110 Probability: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/stat110/youtube

And this guy (Erik Demaine) is an absolute gem for introductory algorithms.

Introduction to Algorithms: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms...

Haven't tried this one, thanks. There's also Everything [0] which is usually my favorite search for Windows. Fast and supports regex.

[0] https://www.voidtools.com/

I love SpeedCrunch, especially for dealing with different bases. For back-of-the-napkin type math, OpalCalc is my favorite.

https://skytopia.com/software/opalcalc/

Nothing has impacted my writing more than that book. There are several versions now, the one I have is titled "Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace".

I chose it over White's book because of this passage from Clear and Simple as the Truth:

The best-known teachers of practical style are Strunk and White, in their ubiquitous Elements of Style. The best teachers of practical style are Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb, in Williams’s Style: Toward Clarity and Grace and a series of academic articles and technical reports. Williams and Colomb present an incomparably deeper and more orderly treatment of practical style. The style they present is consistent and mature; it makes decisions about all the major questions that define a style, and is fully developed.

I almost can’t overstate how much it’s changed how I read and write. Before that book, some writing just felt “clear” and other writing didn’t, but I couldn’t explain why. Now it’s much easier to see how that sense of clarity is created. Even though I don't write for a living and mainly do technical write ups, it was easily worth the time investment.

This video is also good. It has a ton of interesting points, but the part about creating instability in your writing I found particularly useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM&ab_channel=UChic...