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by jpking 4y ago
An animal does not choose to live a wild or farm life. I assume that fewer farmed animals does not increase the number of wild animals.
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by jpking 4y ago
I’ve done this recently for similar reasons. It’s easy to set up and seems to work well so far. DKIM signing of emails doesn’t work yet when sending emails from the Apple Mail apps. But it does work in Thunderbird. Paying less than £1 a mo
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by jpking 4y ago
Hawthorn Effect is right although it is disputed [1]. Interestingly, the interpretation that I remember is that productivity increased because the subjects were part of an experiment and being observed. [1] https://en.wikipedia.o
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by jpking 7y ago
Spaced repetition in form of testing yourself. Anki and other software help with this.
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by jpking 7y ago
This used to be me. Now I don’t care, I follow the text set by the lecturer. Look up a uni you respect and see if they have a course on the topic you are interested in, then find their recommended reading. In addition, if you don’t like the
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by jpking 7y ago
I found by going back to uni I have been forced to learn a lot of things which I wouldn’t have taken the time to look at before. And they are actually really interesting and useful!
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by jpking 7y ago
Excellent points. For more established fields this is where textbooks are really useful. Plus, university course syllabi/recommended reading can be a nice way to find useful content in the field. For less established fields I’d be look
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by jpking 7y ago
I find practicing is key to truly understanding the content. When I find the practicing difficult, it means I don’t fully appreciate what I read. The process of practice and reading other sources to try and wrap my head around a concept is
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by jpking 7y ago
Practice. That means both doing problem sets and teaching others (or thinking through the content as if you are teaching, so ask lots of questions and think about how the concepts fit into other ideas). At the moment I’m working through CLR
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by jpking 7y ago
In addition this is potentially a good sign for optimisation of both CAC (better quality marketing) and LTV (better quality product).
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by jpking 7y ago
I do think "everyone" was hyperbole, yes. However, I'm unsure why clickbait has to be dishonest. In the example the headline was clearly written to attract people with (or susceptible to) a preconceived belief (which the arti
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by jpking 7y ago
Context is essential in headline writing. You must consider your audience and the goal. Here, the title of paper plays a very different role to the title of a blog post. The blog post example is designed to attract a specific audience. Clea
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by jpking 7y ago
Polar sounds interesting. I've got experience in helping the tech-focused sell their visions, so I might be able to help. Despite that I'm probably not co-founder material. I'm heading back to Uni in September to study comp s
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by jpking 7y ago
The thing which worries me about OnePlus and similar cheaper options is the security patches. They seem to be very slow/non-existent and the devices aren't supported for very long.
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by jpking 7y ago
>> bundled My iPhone bought direct from Apple didn't have anything like that. Nor did my friends who buy on contract with carriers (UK). What carrier did you buy from and did you restore from a backup/iCloud?
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by jpking 7y ago
The redoing my partner saw was often because an experiment didn't result in what the researcher expected. Rather than try to figure out what went wrong (or why their expectations were wrong), they'd spend lots of time repeating ex
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by jpking 7y ago
You could look at it that way. Hours of time would be spent like this toward the end of the day so why not just go home? In addition, mindlessly repeating experiments isn't a break.
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by jpking 7y ago
I don't think that these 12 hour days are full of productivity. My partner spent some time in the summer as a researcher at a key lab in Shanghai. She observed that researchers put in long hours (if the boss was around) but often spent
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Know What You're Pitching – Don't Kill Them with Confusion(medium.com)
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by jpking 8y ago
I consulted with a great company in this field and they also use a mix of OCR and humans. Difference is they have trained in-house staff, rather than farming it out to just anyone for the cheapest they can get.