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Comment · 3 years ago

I agree with this. This is why every note I add must be repeated in spaced repetition style. This way I remember what is in my "mind palace" and keep ideas alive (or explicitly delete them / reduce their repetition period if they are bad). I use Obsidian with the repeat plugin.

Comment · 3 years ago

I prefer to stay in python, makefiles become very difficult to maintain. I use https://www.pyinvoke.org/

Comment · 3 years ago

Can anyone explain how is this different to ngrok?

Comment · 3 years ago

Very cool project, I bookmarked it as well and excited to try.

Comment · 4 years ago

That's a cool extension, I didn't know about it.

I built an entire app around the idea that every note participate sin the spaced repetition queue. For me it has made a lot of difference, as I have managed to internalize (as in put into a practice) a lot of the stuff that I put into my "second brain", for example insights from books I have read, videos I watched or blog posts, etc:

https://github.com/msipos/mind-palace

Comment · 5 years ago

I don't quite understand how this works in an unsupervised setting.

The only thing that comes to mind is embedding that preserves distance, such as MDS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional_scaling#Metri...)

Comment · 5 years ago

Like everyone else on this tread I built a note-taking system!

Mine is called MindPalace and its special feature is that it is focused on spaced repetition and remembering the notes after they were written.

For me, whenever I would take notes, they would become stale and forgotten. Despite Emerson's quote “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”, I felt that there is a lot more to be gained from remembering them.

For instance, I can remember meetings past and insights gained by following up on meeting notes, or insights I got from reading books. I have almost a 1000 notes in my personal notebook.

BTW, the app is self-hosted and avilable here if anyone is interested: https://github.com/msipos/mind-palace

I'd be curious if anyone else does "spaced repetition note taking" and if anyone can share cool tools for that (my tool is not particularly good)

Comment · 5 years ago

Why do you think it reduces coupling? You can use Django apps to have decoupled Django services that all run in the same gunicorn webserver

Comment · 5 years ago

Is there such a thing as true boostrapping? One always has to put some sweat/time in the pre-revenue phase. This time has a cost (opportunity cost + you could have had a job / did consulting)

Comment · 5 years ago

I meant to say block scoped. Variables in python have function or global scope but no global scope. E.g. you can say

   for x in ...:

and then use x outside of the loop.

Comment · 5 years ago

I would say proper variable scoping in general. It would be awesome to have let variables in python!

Comment · 5 years ago

I don't understand what you mean by arrays.

    if par is None: ...

As for accessing dicts with a struct syntax, I prefer keeping dicts and objects different things (unlike Javascript).

And for JIT, there's numba!

Agreed on the switch statement...

Comment · 5 years ago

I had the same problem which is why I made an app called MindPalace (https://github.com/msipos/mind-palace)

It's a note app where every note has a repetition schedule. The schedule can be dynamic (growing-shrinking) or fixed.

For example, my diary entries repeat every 365 days so I enjoy reading what my diary entries/thoughts were a year (or 2, or 3) years ago.

Comment · 6 years ago

Ever since Gmail has introduced "snoozing" functionality I have been using it for this type of prioritization. If I receive an email, I will snooze it to a later time in the day/week when I will be going over random stuff. Unless the email needs a response right away, in which case I will reply to it immediately. In this way, I can achieve "inbox zero" which I have found helps a lot emotionally!