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A bit challenging since none of the repositories I looked at actually compile. EA says that if you remove (or refactor!) the dependencies it might work but I don't know if that's h…

Today I built a service for learning languages via poems. Stores your progress in Dutch, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Attic Greek. Also Allows you to add new poems beyond…

One aspect of Buckminster Fuller that many people don't want you to know is that he had a number of politically incorrect opinions which are in the archives but would tarnish his p…

Mine is full of fitness instructors showing of their fitness challenges,dancers showing of their synchronized dance routines, and oddball humour. I had a moment where some BLM stuf…

I have a pretty extensive personal system partially based on OKRs but I find the key element is doing the exercise as a group and having accountability partners.

I started using privacy.com for this reason. You can spin up a separate card number for each transaction type with its own limit (e.g. $100/month or $200). You can also just turn t…

Having a forum where people discuss tech trends with an explicit commitment to reasoning from first principles would be very interesting, especially if it had cross over to physics…

The source is gone.

There were a few products prior to MakerDAO that failed when their collateralized peg collapsed, most notably BitUSD and NuShares. MakerDAO is somewhat more sophisticated and holds…

Location: Moscow Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Javascript, Solidity, Ruby, Enterprise Stack, Haskell, Java Résumé/CV: https://github.com/fractastical/distribut…

What online art communities do you think give critique as well as professional art schools?

Sometimes it has an easy explanation given typical information asymmetries and incentive structures. For example, you don't give away any of your external intel during a war (i.e. …

I track my time via 22 minute segments and typically do ~3 per day of vocab vs 9 per day of structured language learning and another 6 per day of reading and writing. So of the str…

Turns out Gwern has a very well researched article on SRS: https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition

Seems like you pretty much contrast: [1] SRS flashcard apps as an exclusive language learning system [2] Extensive reading While (2) is clearly better if those are your only choice…

> I'm not a huge fan of using SRS for learning vocabulary. Extensive reading (and listening once you can) is a far better strategy Can you explain your logic and how you measure su…

My sense is that the project started in its inner sanctum and has been iterating gradually towards something that can be understood and used. It actually can be explained simply: C…

All of the main social media platforms at this point have exactly the same set of skewed incentives (i.e. attention maximizing instead of value generating). I sense some sort of ma…

I know Virgil. I was at the lunch in Palo Alto where he suggested "GAS" should be the name of the internal accounting unit for smart contracts. As with many of the early Ethereum a…