g-w1

I'm quite confused. In the article, the response from mathstral is also wrong???

My deeper beef with this method is the complete absence of emphasizing, discovering or forming connections between cohesive things. We're trying to learn, it's a super power to start seeing patterns in what we learn, it forms buckets that we can put new concepts and information in. Without it, the learning is ... shallow.

You can make connections that give you really deep intuition; it just takes practice making cards. I wrote about it here: https://jacobgw.com/blog/tft/2024/05/12/srs-intuit.html

The Recurse Center[1] is the opposite of this. They don't take any of your income, they just help you find jobs and companies pay them to find cool people. And there is no curriculum. They believe that if people work on cool things they will learn a lot. I can't recommend it enough!

[1] https://www.recurse.com/

Yes, it's great. As long as you can follow logic and a bit of programming, you'll do fine. Just go slow (I had to re-read it a bunch).

You can use incremental reading, which is built on top of spaced repetition. Lots of people have invented it independently [1] and it works amazingly! Once you get the hang of it, it changes the way you think about learning stuff.

[1] https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Michael_Nielsen_re-discovers_inc...

I'm not really sure what you mean? It's been empirically validated to predict how you remember better than alternatives (or equal to SM-17) (essentially when it predicts that your % recall is below a certain threshold, it just shows you the card)

Anki has literally changed the way I think. It's insane how I can just choose to remember anything and how I have gotten really good at creating flashcards to the point where I predict how I'm going to learn when making flashcards. It is the one thing that has easily changed my life.

With enough power, anything is renewable!

there are a bunch of pre-existing ones here: https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/ > Multiple Language Support: fsrs.js, go-fsrs, rs-fsrs, py-fsrs, cljc-fsrs, swift-fsrs and ex_fsrs

Here is a question I asked about concrete examples of doing agentic things, because I think that concrete examples are necessary to expand your horizons: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/umJmRfcJndY3Gsr36/concrete-e...

Yep! I got some old word files off a floppy disk from 1996 and LibreOffice was the only thing I could find that could read them.

There's a prediction market here about why he was fired: https://manifold.markets/sophiawisdom/why-was-sam-altman-fir...

Yes, the only way to truly learn that you should never write a database is to write a database. In fact, I bet that is what the author of the tweet did to learn that they should never write one.

I wrote a blog post about this: https://jacobgw.com/blog/observation/2023/07/08/shoot-yourse...

The shooting yourself in the foot part is doing memory unsafe things in C where you get a segmentation fault that Rust would have stopped you from doing.

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