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what_was_it

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    Comment #46875327

    I wish the prose discussion would use a more traditional notation. It's just annoying trying to reason about maths in typescript.

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    Comment #46719809

    I improved my doodling skills from that book, but I'm not sure I learned anything generalizable.

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    Comment #46648849

    > exercise-induced fatigue impairs complex cognitive tasks Apparently your study is strictly about cardio. Heavier compound lifts can surely knock me out for 30 minutes to 2 hours.…

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    Comment #45735186

    Counterpoint: woky ideology is irrelevant to most of Wikipedia's content.

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    Comment #45278250

    Yes! This is the real question. I wrote about this (as a tangent, but anyway) recently. https://asemic-horizon.com/2025/07/28/julian/ TL;DR "akrasia", procrastination etc. are all …