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I love it. I was introduced to it by Edward Tufte's book, ' https://www.amazon.co.uk/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Informa... '. And was just thinking about it the other day. I had a…

I hope they don't, I actually like it. I know it's overdone, but it still gives me a boost! :) It's kind of idiosyncratically charming to me as well.

Definitely seems to have exacerbated the anti-trust issue. Search was search, but now they can insert AI and short-circuit the route to other products.

Don't worry about impostor-syndrome (everyone has it). It seemed like around the time I was graduating college, there was this kind of culture of hotshot programmers, which looking…

Thanks, I'll try it. I have a few things knocking around.

Yes, very memorable prologue: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder-ebook...

I meditate a good bit, an hour a day, and it doesn't stop thoughts arising, so I've had some time to think about this. My guess is, it's just an evolutionarily useful thing, for yo…

Some feedback: looks nice, but an instant turn-off for me is the requirement to sign up before I try it out. It meant I didn't try it out, and seems unnecessary.

I'm working on https://www.americanfootballinsights.com Its a hobby project, to play around with American Football statistics. I'm trying to do a few innovative things with it. e.g…

Working on an NFL stats & visualisation project, the working title is American Football Insights. It's a hobby project, I'm not planning to charge for. I did a bit of work on this …

That's a good project.

A few thoughts (for context, senior developer, and use chat-gpt every day as an assistant)... In the short-term (5-10 years, I cant see them autonomously producing products), it wi…

I just got a new book on this subject: Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, by Kieran Setiya ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Midlife-Philosophical-Guide-Kieran-... ). Not got too far into it…

I think it's more about not having excess calories. As for the science, my understanding is...excess calories = excess glucose = insulin-response, which is associated with inflamma…

That's great, thanks. I've been taking notes for a while on my reading, to try and remember it better (under the idea that if you summarise and write it down, just that process wil…

Can you give a brief description of your process? I'm familiar with spaced-repetition, and have played around with Anki a bit. I'm just not sure how I would integrate it into my re…

Yes, the recommendations page is awful. For me, the stupidest thing it does is recommend you the same video again and again, when you never click on it. 'Hey, you've recommended th…

I'm not sure there's a silver bullet, it's a lot of small things that add up to a meaningful life. So my advice would be to look at the small things, and it takes time, you can't c…

Yes, the causation is poorly disentangled. He says: "In our research, those who followed [a healthy, Mediterranean style diet] were 1.4 times more likely to have good night’s sleep…

+1, I do pretty much all these things. Sunlight in the morning, and regularity of times has made a big difference.

A few things... - Morning sunlight, I go for a 15 min walk right after breakfast, apparently the natural light helps reset your bodyclock (bright light triggers natural morning hor…

Yes, this is a good practice whether you're leaving for the day or not. See David Allen's book 'Getting Things Done'. A central principle of it is: the place for your todo list is …

I'd just started a hobby project to use the Goodreads API for book recommendations. That's not going to happen now. I feel bad for people who put more work than I did into using th…

Just got an email about this today, as I had an API key: Your Goodreads developer API key has been deactivated Goodreads has deactivated the Goodreads developer API key associated …