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?? Depending on the study, false positive rates range from “undetectable” to 2:10000. Or are you worried about false negatives?

The prose is, of course, LLM-generated. https://www.pangram.com/history/29a71663-e6b2-4db6-87bd-b943... I'd be curious to learn more about how/why executives come to sign their nam…

That text was written about the Media Lab-era prototype in 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20190102110930/https://www.media... I wonder how far they've gotten past it.

Fun fact: this lecture is (AFAIK) the first use of the phrase "tool of thought", which over the years became the now-familiar "tools for thought." A seminal work in more ways than …

Yes, that does help a bit—elaborative processing. But it’s not something I’d consistently spend more than a few seconds per question on, generally speaking.

> It'd take me over 10 minutes simply to add those 40 cards. > But if he's referring only to reviewing, it's believable. Yes, referring just to reviewing. Adding takes much more th…

> I did quantum country a while back and I sometimes needed more than an hour to get through all the questions in a single practice session. That's very interesting! The review ses…

Thanks for the kind words. I'm happy with the framing of this talk, and much less sure about my proposed solutions. :)

Yeah, that's more or less the math. My average is 6 seconds per question, so the mix is somewhat more older material.

Thank you for these very kind comments!

You might enjoy Ken Kocienda's "Creative Selection", which gives his first-person account of Apple's creative process.

Sorry. I built it in a weekend several years ago and haven't touched it since. Someday I'll give it some more attention…

That's very kind; thank you.

It’s custom.

Thanks for the kind note. Lots of problems, but my central criticism would be: this is an interface which modally interrupts the user and requests a blocking operation, exactly whe…

I have to say—it's a bit unsettling to me! I released it in 2006; I was a teenager. Obviously, it's evolved since then, and others have taken responsibility for it, but the interfa…

It's an interesting pattern with academic HCI work like this. For instance, Shneiderman (who did legitimately innovative design work!) often claims not only Hyperties's hyperlink s…

These are very interesting ideas. But I’d like to see to see credit given where it’s due. Many of the specific interface concepts here (retrospectively monitoring whether time was …