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jlelonm

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twitter.com 5y ago

Focus vs. Fixation

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twitter.com 5y ago

The classic engineering-product conflict

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lelon.io 5y ago

The Perils of Office Jobs

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Boosting Scientific Productivity Again

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Why To-Do lists don't work for me

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Using uBlock Origin to block the Twitter feed (but keeping the ability to tweet)

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Resource for learning the history of software dev best practices?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What's your company's @all usage/culture like for Slack/Hangouts?

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Ask HN: What made you abandon learning to draw?

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Ask HN: Most interesting trade-off phenomenons in your field?

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Ask HN: Tools or mental model for answering subjective questions quantitatively?

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Ask HN: Has anyone taken Google's course on how to use Google?

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Ask HN: What do you physically bring to and from work?

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Ask HN: Resources to study the UI/UX of explanations for complex subjects?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Best practice for diagraming the output/side effects of complex scripts?

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Ask HN: Favorite “Adam Ruins Everything”-esque media? (blogs, podcasts, etc)

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Ask HN: The difference between “overvalued” and “that's how much it is now”?

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Ask HN: What do you do if you're too future-focused?

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Fractal Learning 6 years ago

You missed my point (and the author’s it appears).

You’re claiming to understand learning. People do phds in learning from multiple domains (psych, neuro, ux, etc). You already know it all?

The rabbit hole is deep. Coming in here and saying yeah yeah we all get it already is a sign that you don’t.

Fractal Learning 6 years ago

Learning isn't coming up with new analogies for concepts you already completely understand over and over again.

You completely understand learning? :)

Fractal Learning 6 years ago

Oh my goodness, you literally wrote the ideas I was thinking about from a learning perspective.

I wrote about very similar things from a teaching perspective here: https://lelon.io/blog/how-to-teach-math

In fact, I've thought a lot about how to generalize these techniques to a data structure (i.e. knowledge graph) so that anyone can zoom in or out to whatever level of abstraction they please:

https://lelon.io/blog/boosting-scientific-productivity-again

Would love to chat sometime!

Which companies are you referring to?

None specifically - I'm just interested in pivot points where companies decided to switch from technology x to technology z, and what made them do it.

When did that happen? If everyone did "leave PHP", what will happen to all those websites:

Sorry, bad phrasing. I meant, "When did people stop deciding to greenlight new projects using PHP?"

Here's an article you may find interesting:

Thanks!

A chart like this does not exist.

Would you be interested in such a chart? or perhaps a tweaked version?

There is the old scientific method which was falsifiable, repeatable, frequentist, and it involved directly observable quantities.

...

There is now the new scientific method which involves models, paradigm shifts, bayesianism, and it may not require a control variable when measurements are constructed from multiple, indirect observations.

This doesn't make much sense to me. How can there be a new scientific method?

Shouldn't these somehow boil down to the same thing: hypothesis, experiment, evidence against the null?

For me, personally:

what motivated you to learn to draw

Half of me wanted to impress my friends. The other half of me wanted to make stories come to life.

what you were interested in drawing

Mostly animated characters. Faces. Portraits.

biggest roadblock/weakness

PROPORTIONS. I hated how I'd draw something and it would always look "slightly off" but I couldn't really put my finger on exactly why

how many times you've tried to learn

Probably about 3 times..

No offense, but are you joking? This is an extremely cynical take.

You don't see any benefit to having one mega amazing course?

You think there's no way to overcome the limitation you mentioned (bad information) at all? How about a peer review process?

FWIW I thought they were both pretty spot on. In fact, you mentioned this about DNS:

"As I read articles and tried stuff out (and broke my server config more than once) I started to grasp the system, to get glimpses into how it all worked, until eventually it “clicked” and I felt comfortable working with it."

Have you written about your mental models for DNS? Color me interested!

Not who you replied to, but you described me to a T.

Problem is - I have no idea what to do about it.

It's so hard to do anything fun in my free time because the moment I think about doing / starting something, goal oriented t thoughts follow, which means stress follows.

I wish I could just go into "kick the can" mode whenever I wanted and turn off the part of my brain that wants to see results, progress, and checkmarks.

I use it (Anki), but this is the 3rd time I got started using it (I dropped off twice).

For me, personally, these are the reasons:

- It was kind of annoying to do Anki every day at first. Cards always seemed either blindingly obvious (and seemingly a waste of time), or I just didn't know the content (in which case, it was frustrating knowing I'd have to memorize it right there since I knew it'd pop up again in a few cards). Not knowing the content tended to be caused by having too much info on the Anki card.

- I didn't see the benefit clearly until after a few weeks of doing it, when stuff EVENTUALLY sunk in.

- About 70% of the time, I discovered that the card I created was inadequate in some way.

    * Some I just deleted because they were discovered to be redundant (i.e. covered by another card)

    * Some I discovered to have to much info (so I had to break it into more cards)

    * Some were just awkwardly phrased

    * Some were good cards but displayed weirdly in the Anki mobile app.
I'd say the #1 thing that kept me from fully adopting it:

Not making cards as atomized as possible made things a pain.

I was lazy and made cards contain more info with the justification that I needed to see everything at once in context. This resulted in bloated cards and frustration.

Trust me: Every card should contain one idea. It will result in you making tons of cards, but it will make your daily Anki a lot less frustrating (and you'll be more likely to do it).

Oooh, neat! Reminds me of this addon:

LaTeX Note Importer: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1199027445

I'm almost sold on downloading this, but I have a question.

Let's say I create notes.md with 2 cards:

## hey

hi

## hello

howdy

But, then I modify card #2:

## hello modified

howdy modified

and recreate the deck.

Does the 2nd card that has now been modified get treated as a whole new card? (In other words, if I've been using card 2 to study, do I have to start all over?)

If this is NOT the case, I am absolutely sold.

a successful educational product needs to deeply and intimately understand pedagogy and materials

Do you have any resource suggestions for moving the needle towards the goal of learning pedagogy and materials deeply and intimately?