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> if it doesn't hurt then you're not making optimal development this is almost certainly wrong - 100% balls to wall training will surely be suboptimal (on avg) to achieving most fi…

i really enjoyed this book as a kid, it approaches math from a less formal and more fun puzzle-based approach: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Brain-Games-Mathematics/dp/0...

on first glance it seems like an interesting take, but then you realize (as someone else already pointed out) that the fastest thing in the universe is not fast, and therefore noth…

I also hate Tableau for this reason. However, it's a bad pattern to be storing custom SQL in a BI tool IMO. Better to create tables or views which hold your report logic and are st…

current state - this easily generalizes to settings with multiple options.

Weird, not my experience. The Trader Joes version has no added sugars (see here https://traderjoesrants.com/2021/09/19/trader-joes-muesli-ce... ) and the Whole Foods brand I see is…

Most of my mornings involve runs, anywhere from 8-20 mi. I need breakfast, generally oats, fruit and peanut butter.

Yum. Interesting, wonder where you are that there is no muesli? I'm in CA and can get muesli at my local Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.

Possibly - but I could just claim that for me déja vu is exactly when two experiences are not differentiable from one another. And if someone claims to have experienced this moment…

How does déja vu, that is the re-experiencing an experience, fit into this theory? It appears that the Information axioms fails to be Essential when one considers déja vu.

Who are the trained professionals prescribing and dosing out smartphones and social media? Like, I get your analogy, but they are so dissimilar in practice that it just ends up rea…

I commented this elsewhere, but it's worth repeating because actually reading the author's arguments (granted, in other writings, not OP) will allow you to see he's considered this…

It's a fair point. But what explains the uptick in depression and mental health issues starting around 2012, disproportionately impacting pre-teen girls and not contained to any ge…

The author, Jonathan Haidt, has considered the global financial crisis but doesn't believe it explains the data [1], he writes "It’s not because of the Global Financial Crisis. Why…

I do like this type of reminder, it's a good and clearly communicated message. It's interesting to me because at some level what the author is communicating is metrics 101 - when c…

Agreed. It also reminded me of the book Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag. In the essay she talks about the social perception and behaviors around illness and how those create re…

Frankenstein is such a great story, jam packed with philosophical inquiry. Not having read the book since HS, this[1] episode of In Our Time was both nostalgic and interesting. [1]…

Love the style already. Here's a footnote from Chapter 1, and a reason while I'll continue to (very leisurely) read this book. > When I was an undergraduate, I attributed recursion…

Fair point, but this isn't a cheap bike, so maybe at least make the option available? I also am not certain on the exact reasons why internal gear hubs and belt drives are more exp…

Haha wasn't aware of this, but making note now.

Beautiful bike, but very disappointed to see a standard drivetrain. For a commuter I'm only interested in one with a belt drive and internal gearing. I'm not sure why these drivetr…

I remapped escape to caps lock to overcome this, it might work for others who don't use caps lock.

If you are looking for more of magical realism Murakami has become known for, I highly recommend Hard-Boiled Wonderland, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. But really anything 1Q84 and ea…

I'm skeptical of this person's ability to "know" what they don't want to read. E.g., they are recommended Shoe Dog and a King novel, which they claim they don't want to read. Howev…

The inability to simply import jupyter notebooks as python files has always been a point of friction for me, I’m glad to see this is a main feature for Pluto.