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> when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing . I completely agree! Perhaps it's simply for one reason: slowness . Writing by han…

Yes, I do semantic chunk to better split the text into coherent chunks. I even use Llamaparse api (by Llamaindex) to parsing any type of documents, images or imported study materia…

After trying out various study tools, I decided to create my own. I wanted a quick and simple way to upload any study material, have the app generate questions, and then set up a d…

> Artificial intelligence can do more every day, but deciding what it should do is up to us > For artificial intelligence to benefit from distributed knowledge, it must itself be d…

> if you control the ideas of your software, looking at the code itself is suboptimal and often pointless. This requires developers to have absolute and unconditional Trust in the …

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Loving the homage to the Whole Earth Catalog . The pivot from "infinite growth and optimization" to "computing within limits" and permacomputing is becoming less of a fringe philos…

> “Children will be given back their childhoods,” As a parent, I completely agree. We need to protect children from the dangers of the completely uncontrolled "jungle" of social me…

> If you are a junior developer, “learn SQL properly” is the most valuable 40 hours you can spend. Not a tutorial. Not an ORM. Actual SQL: joins, subqueries, window functions, quer…

> ..idea anticipated centuries ago by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza: that our Soul could be a phenomenon of the same basic nature as any other phenomenon in nature. Even the curre…

What exactly is the "adaptive dynamic textbook approach" ? Examples? > Generation effect: Accepting generated code and decreasing generating one's own code can skip the active proc…

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> The lower the baseline trust, the more sensitive people become to reputation signals. This is the key: a person's reputation and the writer's responsibility. But how will we lear…

For most of human history, access to a great education has been a function of where you were born and how much money your family had, and of a parents social class. The best teache…