kobenni

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by kobenni 11mo ago
I think what you're saying is both besides the point and incorrect. Firstly, not studying, ignoring safety rules, or half-assing a task at work are behaviors, they don't necessarily reflect understanding or intelligence. Sometimes
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by kobenni 1y ago
Maybe those are two sides of the same coin, question-askers are treated harshly because the priority of the site isn't to help them, the priority is to help the people who are searching up similar questions and browsing the threads. It
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by kobenni 1y ago
Most false information was on the hardware description language VHDL that I'm currently learning.
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by kobenni 1y ago
In my experience asking questions to Claude, the amount of incorrect information it gives is on a completely different scale in comparison to traditional sources. And the information often sounds completely plausible too. When using a text
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by kobenni 1y ago
This post reminds me of myself in the past. One thing I found very helpful was to regularly practice mindfulness meditation, as it reduces my desire for entertainment and generally seems to improve my executive function a lot. It also cause
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by kobenni 1y ago
You are correct that working on underlying issues is very important, but there is a huge practical value to blocking out distractions. First of all, it gets you started on scrolling a lot less immediately. Secondly, it makes concentrating o
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by kobenni 1y ago
I think you are making a very important point here, but unfortunately getting downvoted for stating it so cynically. A more productive way to phrase it would be that people's self-report on a drug's effect (beyond the pure subject
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by kobenni 1y ago
Thank you for the suggestions. Regarding NextDNS, can it be setup in a way that is difficult to disable? Or could I just disable the user application on my phone and use my unfiltered mobile internet? Same for accountability softwares, are
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How do you block addictive websites in a way that can't be easily undone?
1 points by kobenni 1y ago|3 comments
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by kobenni 1y ago
Could you give a description of how you block social media? All methods I found so far can be undone within seconds.
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by kobenni 1y ago
For mathematics, there are the Princeton Companion to Mathematics and the Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics.
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by kobenni 1y ago
Yes, they were wrong. Many young kids who are bad at mental calculations are later competent at higher mathematics and able to use it. I don't understand what patterns and tricks you're referring to, but if they are important for
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by kobenni 1y ago
Home gyms are great. I also recommend adjustable dumbbells, they are very versatile.
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by kobenni 2y ago
Interesting, this sounds like my normal state. I cope by only eating tasty calorie-dense meals and snacks, never skipping meals or snacks, and weight lifting to increase my appetite. Otherwise I become significantly underweight.
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by kobenni 2y ago
Seeing this type of argument always bothers me. It's basically saying that, because people in the past were often overly critical of new technologies or trends, we can dismiss criticisms of new technologies or trends in general. Makes
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by kobenni 2y ago
The distribution of the data is also the main problem with MBTI, AFAIK. Intra-/extraversion for example have a unimodal distribution with most people being somewhere in the middle. And exactly that middle is where MBTI makes the cut on
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by kobenni 2y ago
It may seem this way from an outsiders perspective, but I think the intersection between people who work on the development of state-of-the-art LLMs and people who get replaced is practically zero. Nobody is making themselves redundant, jus
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by kobenni 2y ago
I don't understand why you would draw this conclusion. The deep search you describe is an algorithm that humans can understand perfectly fine. Humans just can't solve it in their heads and need to let a computer handle the number
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by kobenni 3y ago
Maybe we should even generalize further to "mentally-passive sedentary activities".