hindsightRegret

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Comment · 1 year ago
Obviously no right answer, but personally I think worrying too much finding the perfect tool instead of just integrating more knowledge to your PKMS is a distraction.

Rolling your own solution is especially limiting in the context of the sheer amount of integrations the popular ones (like Notion for example) support.

You're basically saying you will quickly build something better than the X hundred engineers at PKMS company Y quickly and it will continue to be better than what X hundred engineers will iterate upon.

I think that time is just better spent learning and picking the subset of features that, for example, Notion offers that really improves your learning rate.

Comment · 1 year ago
If the expert has good T skill shape and beginner's mindset for new scenarios - this does not applly.
Comment · 1 year ago
One counterpoint I have to this article.

Considering expert vs. novice problem-solving: Within their domain, experts leverage highly efficient models. Outside? Rigidity often impedes adaptation. Their ingrained patterns, assets in familiar territory, become cognitive liabilities in the unfamiliar. The novice's counter-intuitive strength lies in a lack of assumptions, fostering the openness to explore without ego.

Comment · 1 year ago
I found that a nice compromise between self-hosting and publishing on a Medium / Substack is using Github pages + Notion published links:

- You get one free site per GitHub account

- I forked https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io and updated the blog posts to link to published Notion pages.

- This gives you a great WYSIWYG editor and all the nice features that Notion provides (collab edit, embeds, tables, LaTeX, view/edit anywhere).

- Notion handles the SEO too.

- See https://mikeshen.github.io/year-archive/ and an example post - https://mikeshen.notion.site/Deepnote-Embeds-Share-Your-Resu....

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
The cynic in me knows the real reason for them to be a carbon neutral company is so that you don't feel bad purchasing another one of their phones since it was produced "neutrally".
Comment · 4 years ago
...may not be loaned to, FTX Trading. They could lend it to any other entity though, like Alameda. LOL
Comment · 4 years ago
It's not so simple. Asians for example are genetically predisposed to being lean (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-46960-9), so we "seem" healthier. However, that can be deceptive because Asians tend to have less fat and more muscle than other ethnicities and are predisposed to higher rates of type 2 diabetes at lower body weight (https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/spotlights/diabetes-asi...).

So even though Asians might "look" healthier, it doesn't all come from a difference in diet and even BMI ratios can be a deceptive measure of health.

It's a multi-variable analysis and can have confounding factors.

Comment · 4 years ago
I agree with asking hard questions, but I think there's a limit to how much one can really expect an individual job applicant to determine the financial state of the company.

For one, the people that are answering their questions are by pre-condition already drinking the company kool-aid.

Comment · 4 years ago
The Great Resignation was a step in the right direction.
Comment · 4 years ago
I see this argument come up all the time. However, the job market in general and especially in America is terribly inefficient. The vast majority of Americans work paycheck-to-paycheck and are tied down to their geographic location (family, children, housing). There isn't really a social safety net (by design, I think) in America for employees who voluntarily quit their jobs. So lots of people are stuck in jobs they hate, getting paid less than they deserve, and are a poor match for their skills. There are still lots of jobs that don't have the luxury of entirely virtual interview processes. Over time, I do hope the job market gets more and more liquid for candidates.
Comment · 6 years ago
Tinder would seem to contradict you there. How often is an eloquence requirement given vs. height requirement? Sure, height is not something we should fixate on, but it doesn't mean that doesn't happen anyways.
Comment · 7 years ago
I think achieving superiority over humans is practically solving the problem though. Solving chess or go by going through a complete search space seems more like a hardware/computational goal than a practical ml/ai goal.
Comment · 7 years ago
Is this an article or a commercial? Psych, it's both!

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