Theaetetus

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by Theaetetus 2mo ago
I'm guessing we agree about 95% of this, but re: "it doesn't take more time to display a string in Japanese than it does English": 1. It takes more time to detect a user's language than not to detect it. 2. It usual
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by Theaetetus 5mo ago
This is great. I often want a low-latency, minimal-feeling option for this sort of thing. (And I get to use my Vim muscle memory less and less often these days!) Really, thanks for making and sharing this; so far, I feel calm and happy when
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by Theaetetus 5mo ago
I don't think LLMs push us to use microservices as much as Borgers says they do. They don't avoid the problems microservices have always faced, and encapsulation is mostly independent from whether a boundary is a service-to-servic
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by Theaetetus 8mo ago
https://www.natemeyvis.com
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by Theaetetus 8mo ago
It's likely to be worth trying! Good luck.
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by Theaetetus 8mo ago
Basically, yes, but: 1. You probably only need a few pieces of the framework; 2. "Vibe code" can mean "get Claude (or whatever) to help you with some AWS (or whatever) service."
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by Theaetetus 8mo ago
I'm quite sure you're right and most quizzers are not doing 300k reviews a year. I'm an odd case in a few ways.
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by Theaetetus 8mo ago
I don't exactly think I have an algorithm better than FSRS yet, but I have an algorithm I like better. Hopefully I'll have more to say about this soon.
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by Theaetetus 8mo ago
Ha! The shame will make me remember this quite easily without any help. :)
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by Theaetetus 8mo ago
Looking at my phone. I do have exactly the plans you describe!
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by Theaetetus 8mo ago
I am many things, but not a bot.
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by Theaetetus 8mo ago
Oops! I haven’t read the guidelines in a while, and for a long time I only lurked. Thanks for setting me straight. I’m accustomed to forums where there’s no problem with posting your own stuff. Obviously I’ll correct my behavior. Thanks aga
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
Thanks to everyone for all the useful notes and questions here. I've compiled a follow-up post here: https://www.natemeyvis.com/22-reasons-i-did-301432-flashcard...
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Reasons I did 301,432 flashcard reviews in 2025(natemeyvis.com)
3 points by Theaetetus 9mo ago|6 comments
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
At this point there's just a reflex I have that says "ah, I'd like to remember that." It's the same feeling whether I'm learning something for trivia, for work, or for personal reasons.
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
See my other comments here for some of my motivations, but also: Even in the Internet age, getting the latency from "fast" to "effectively zero" has a lot of value for staying in flow, synethesizing information, etc. You
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
This is a really good question! 1. As others have said, the idea is to study something before you forget. 2. It's hard to predict when you're going to forget something, so you do wind up studying a bunch of stuff before you real
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
Yes, I can calculate that! I was a math major and have some basic literacy. I checked the LLMs' work. That said, I only did so with medium rigor, and I wanted to flag that I was speaking as someone who was assisted by AI, not someone w
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
Fascinatingly (to me), some top quizzers (e.g., Yogesh Raut) do not use flashcards. Different strokes...
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
Indeed! Thanks!
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
1. I enjoy it. 2. I like trivia competitions. 3. I like making and using my own software. 4. Memorizing facts is an underrated way to become a better software engineer. Not the best way or even close to the best way, but an underrated way!
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
1. My algorithm is probably inefficient, and a big Q1 2026 goal is to figure out where the inefficiencies are and (better) to get a better system for addressing and remediating them in an automated way. 2. A lot of my cards were also made
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
1. I have a long commute, and I have about 45 minutes of walking per day, during which I like to do my reviews. 2. I've put serious effort into reducing the friction in my software in order to reduce time per review. 3. You've got
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
I have done a lot of algorithmic experiments. I wouldn't say I noticed a big difference in recall, but my graphs say that there definitely is one!
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
I prune some, but less than I probably should, and less than most other serious SR people do. I'm more interested in techniques for (i) raising the quality of even my lower-value cards and (ii) figuring out how to actually learn the st
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
1. I have always loved learning things, both big and small. 2. I enjoy trivia competitions. 3. I'm interested in human memory more generally. 4. I think that spaced repetition software could be a lot better, and I'm trying to make
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Getting Metrics by Logging(natemeyvis.com)
2 points by Theaetetus 9mo ago|0 comments
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Yearly analytics on my spaced repetition results(natemeyvis.com)
51 points by Theaetetus 9mo ago|76 comments
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
Are you the poker Matt Maroon? If so, I've been enjoying your writing for a very long time. I definitely don't sit around doing nothing when I'm waiting for water to boil, but very often the water is still on the critical pat
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by Theaetetus 9mo ago
Indeed.

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