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There is a feeling I search for: being in good hands. It is the feeling I look to give and the feeling I look to receive.
Aug 7, 2023
Before motors there were muscles. People, horses, oxen. Anything that needed to be moved required food to be consumed, digested, converted to caloric energy.
Jul 26, 2023
The most reliable way to create motivation is to start doing the thing. Actions precede feelings, not the other way around.
Jul 20, 2023
If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you...
Jul 1, 2023
The most important things I learned from competing in science fairs had nothing to do with physics or even academics. My main takeaways were actually related to business – in particular, sales and marketing.
Jun 19, 2023
Until now, computers have been designed to enhance what your brain can do: think and remember. New kinds of computers will enhance what your senses can do: s...
Jun 7, 2023
One of the most valuable tips I ingrained from an old mentor: document *everything* in a project. Every command run, with notes and its context. Especially valuable in ML where silent failures are ev…
Without black pixels augmented reality is limited. Pass-through allows for black text, black backgrounds, virtual shadows, and environmental dimming.
Jun 6, 2023
Type I pairs with the variable that runs vertically in the usual representation of the coordinate system. The remaining types are paired with the rest of the variables in ascending order.
May 27, 2023
Every week I create a weekly note, and write my to-dos for the week. If any items didn’t get done I roll them over to the next weekly note or drop them.
May 20, 2023
What is the best way to Sync remote-Postgres DB into local-SQLite DB on mobile apps ? I am currently working on a Flutter mobile project that supports offline-first. On every opening of the app (or
May 4, 2023
During its operation from 2020 to 2023, Eurisko was the most advanced high school math/CS track in the USA. It culminated in high school students doing masters/PhD-level coursework (reproducing academic research papers in artificial intelligence, building everything from scratch in Python).
May 1, 2023
Minor changes to increase workout intensity and caloric surplus.
Apr 30, 2023
Speaking as someone who had to suffer through a teacher credentialing program… it’s actually an anti-signal when someone references their teaching credential as a qualification to speak about how learning happens. It’s centered around political ideology rather than the science of learning.
Apr 29, 2023
Learn all about self-hosted Grist, both the enterprise version and the open source version. Own your data without compromise.
Mar 30, 2023
Grist is a relational spreadsheet-database that empowers you to organize your data, your way. Get started with a free trial.
Mar 1, 2023
In order to justify using a more complex model, the increase in performance has to be worth the cost of integrating and maintaining the complexity.
Jan 20, 2023
Good problem = intersection between your own interests/talents, the realm of what’s feasible, and the desires of the external world.
Jan 8, 2023
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Dec 20, 2022
Resist criticizing tools for what they are bad at. Resist designing tools that are well-rounded. Instead, choose to be bad at something.
Nov 27, 2022
Daily 20-30 minute bedroom workout with gymnastic rings hanging from pull-up bar – just as much challenge as weights, but inexpensive and easily portable.
Oct 31, 2022
Specialization is too heavily encouraged as a career path. The world needs more hybrid people.
Oct 31, 2022
Two subtypes of coders that I watched students grow into.
Oct 27, 2022
In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as commonplace as filtering images.
Oct 18, 2022
Stuff you don’t find in math textbooks.
Oct 13, 2022
Being calm is something that you can get good at, and is worthwhile to exercise.
Oct 9, 2022
Evergreen notes allow you to think about complex ideas by building them up from smaller composable ideas.
Sep 18, 2022
Effective learning strategies sometimes go against our human instincts about conversation.
Sep 4, 2022
A way to visualize some cognitive learning strategies.
Sep 3, 2022
… are summarized in the following table.
Aug 31, 2022
An aha moment with object-oriented programming.
Aug 1, 2022
A revolutionary new kind of camera was recently invented. Instead of turning light into pictures, it turns ideas into pictures. I call it synthography.
Jul 23, 2022
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Jan 31, 2022
40 questions that delve into your personal philosophy and traits, for you to reflect on now and revisit in 10 years.
Jan 5, 2022
Or Maybe It Is, Depending on What You're Thinking
Jan 5, 2022
Visual Studio Code user accessibility features. Learn here about the various ways VS Code aids user accessibility.
Nov 3, 2021
Use case or problem I use templates to create new knowledge or certain kinds of meetings. Then I add front matter to characterize the type of knowledge or meeting. In some cases the values for front matter are predefine…
Oct 6, 2021
In 9 months, these students went from initially not knowing how to write helper functions to building a machine learning library from scratch.
Feb 21, 2021
How to avoid some of the most common pitfalls leading to ugly LaTeX.
Sep 1, 2020
An open source movement for brands sharing their commitment to reduce packaging waste on the /packaging page of their site.
Apr 22, 2020
I imagine all my past and future selves filling a stadium. Today, I am the one on stage. What can I do today to make all my selves proud of this self?
Jan 1, 2020
The behavior of a multivariable function can be highly specific to the path taken.
Dec 4, 2019
An intuitive derivation.
Dec 3, 2019
Every inscribed triangle whose hypotenuse is a diameter is a right triangle.
Dec 3, 2019
If science fiction drive progress, we are missing stories about technologies that feel as natural as paper.
Dec 3, 2019
A simple mnemonic trick for quickly differentiating complicated functions.
Dec 2, 2019
Dadroit JSON Viewer is designed to efficiently handle big JSON. View and convert large JSON on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Simplify JSON tasks today!
Aug 9, 2019
A prototype web app to automatically assist students in self-correcting small errors and minor misconceptions.
May 28, 2019
A walkthrough of solving Tower of Hanoi using the approach of one of the earliest AI systems.
May 27, 2019
Compromise is neither good nor bad, it’s something we do every day. It’s decision making. Prioritizing. It’s finding the right balance between two competing ...
Dec 31, 2018