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It always amazes me that people forget that companies = group of people! And you would think people who have learned about sets and subsets would get it

Considering that anki can always be forked if development goes being hostile towards users I think this is a net positive. The most common complaint among new users is the learning curve and the UI. Both can be solved and Anki can flourish to the bigger level. I say this as someone who does 300+ cards every day.

Duolingo effect, people will forget to do the learning if they are not reminded

It was a crazy year. Spent half of it living in my college building (Read about huge nationwide student protests in Serbia where students blocked all colleges because of the government corruption for almost 9 months).

Spaced repetitions only work if you use them every day with minimal or no breaks. If the algorithm actually does the recall probability very well like FSRS does, you will keep failing the cards if you don't do them consistently. I learned the hard way where I almost forgot like 80% of my spanish deck that I was certain that I will be able to retire and recall it. But nope, even that word that you felt was rock solid in your memory is gonna fade, so just trust the algorithm.

The problem is, most Americans don't drink coffee, they drink sugary mix with coffee flavor

That's why you should cite Grokipedia instead /s

I would assume many consumers are gonna have to switch to more of DIY approach for many tasks that required some domain expertise. For example, most of my friends completely stopped buying useless skincare products because chatgpt would make them a table of INCI list and explain them the benefit of the ingredient. Turns out most of products are BS. Vitamin C doesn't even penetrate the deeper skin layer, it just evaporates on your skin. My bet is that many companies will have hard time marketing on customer's naivety.

This is the second time someone has recommended this book on HN so for sure it can't be a bad read. I will be starting it tonight

Or just use notebookLM to convert your books into an hour long podcasts /s

https://archive.is/ZqfQU

Seems like "Uber for X" turned into "Cursor for X".

Using AI to develop novel drugs. Imagine the world without or with minimal diseases. Only one can hope.

While tools like NotebookLM and Perplexity are impressive and highly effective for conducting research on any topic/query, SurfSense elevates this capability by integrating with your personal knowledge base. It is a highly customizable AI research agent, connected to external sources such as search engines (Tavily, LinkUp), Slack, Linear, Notion, YouTube, GitHub, Discord and more to come.

Here in the Balkans and most of European countries always have public squares or similar gathering place for each neighborhood. I was shocked when I visited some USA states that absolutely have nothing of that sort. Not even a park that is tailored for a few hours hangout sessions. Even some public spaces like parks and library gardens are filled with corporate interests like Starbucks. You absolutely are expected to spend money whenever you go out which is depressing af.

This is a few days worth of materials to read. If anyone finds it overwhelming, I recommend you read this comic that teaches you the basics of idea behind spaced repetition https://ncase.me/remember/

Yes I use tags and then I display the tag using CSS at the bottom of each question. You can find out how to do this from anki manual. EDIT: this is useful because sometimes different chapters will contain similar questions but with the focus on different answer (for example: when studying trigonometry and when studying derivative of a function, similar questions will be present so you will need tags to guide you towards the answer).

Well I can give you an output example. This was generated based on chapter from textbook about Vitamin (Vitamin D in this example)

"Which nutrient can be synthesized by the body using sunlight?","Vitamin D" "What is the primary role of vitamin D in calcium regulation?","Raises blood calcium by enhancing absorption, mobilizing bone stores, and reducing kidney excretion" "How does vitamin D affect bones?","Supports bone mineralization and integrity" "What form does vitamin D take before activation?","Inactive precursor synthesized in the skin or consumed in diet" "Which organs activate vitamin D?","Liver and kidneys" "What are signs of vitamin D deficiency in children?","Bowed legs and bone deformities (rickets)" "What is osteomalacia?","Soft, weak bones in adults due to vitamin D deficiency" "What disease is caused by long-term vitamin D deficiency in adults?","Osteoporosis" "How does vitamin D deficiency affect older people?","Increases risk of fractures and joint pain" "What is the toxic effect of too much vitamin D?","Calcification of soft tissues"

You get the idea. How would you rate it's usefulness is subjective but it gets the job done.

My personal workflow with memorizing with Anki using LLMs is as follows: Read textbook material first. It's important that you understand what you are learning.You cannot just breakdown information into atoms and expect to understand how it works together (for example: you can learn that there are monounsaturated fats, polyunsaturated fats, saturated fats and trans fats. But without reading beforehand about them from a textbook or other source, you will not understand how they differ (in chemical structure, biological function etc). After I understand the material, I feed LLM the documents (textbooks etc) and give it the following prompt: >I want to generate flashcards from the provided textbook document using the attached PDF. Each flashcard should contain a question and a corresponding answer formatted as pairs in plaintext code block. The structure should be: "Question","Answer" >Extract key concepts, definitions, and explanations from the textbook. If in the text imperial unit system is used, convert it to metric. For mathematical symbols and equations, format them using inline MathJax syntax because I will be importing the copied text to Anki. Ensure questions are clear and concise while answers provide a direct yet comprehensive response.

After the text is generated, I check out the accuracy (in 95% of cases the cards are accurate) and I import them into my decks. The rest is good old school Anki memorizing.

Even Katy Perry started using AI for her tour backdrop visuals and it looks... well, horrendous https://twitter.com/bklynb4by/status/1915514396421337171

Will this allow for more bluetooth options? For example connecting with bluetooth page turner would be a killer feature, but so far Kindle only allows for audio transfers via bluetooth.

https://www.notboring.co/ Probably not new for most of people here but it's a breath of fresh air

Unless you don't mind round the clock air pollution, violation of human rights, hybrid political regimen (not a democracy) and coruptation in every public instutiton, then yeah it can be pretty okay place for a family

My dumb ass was trying to figure out what each dimension meant

I only have time to listen to audiobooks so I hope this list is not too basic.

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver

The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto by Jonathan Taplin

The Value of Others by Orion Taraban

Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks by Geoff White

Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan

Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter by Zoe Schiffer

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC by Roger Ver

Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America by Charles Gasparino

The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets by Thomas R Cech

and my book of the year

Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health by Casey Means M D

I have still not graduated and this is my sixth year at university (in Europe). I find math too difficult and I still have calculus, linear algebra and probability. Discrete structures is the only math class I managed to pass and it took me too long to realize it's because the other classes have a long list of prerequisites. I have passed all of my software/IT classes aside from the maths and it's because they virtually are built from the ground up. On the other hand, strong math foundations are required even for the introductory math in my college. What I did was get great algebra and precalculus textbooks and went through them with great detail. After that I found the classes were not that hard to grasp.

I'd recommend you read these two books "Ultraprocessed people" and "Metabolical". They go into depth of how and why processing of food at industrial scale is bad for your mental and psychical health and the environment as well.

Finally I have discovered where my university moodle servers are located!

It's known that record labels pay Spotify to promote certain artists more (known as industry plants if they are not already established). They found a loophole so that it's not considered payola (which is illegal) https://twitter.com/AbelowRob/status/1641455112345493506

So is this like craigslist email censor?