mtts

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by mtts 5mo ago
Ah, didn't know about that one. Twice as expensive as the ones I mentioned, though.
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by mtts 5mo ago
If a lever machine is too finicky for you, consider an espresso machine that is actually made for home use. Now I don't mean things like Rancilio Silva and other mini machines that are actually fairly crippled because they don't a
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by mtts 6mo ago
> they were terrible musicians Not only are the songs they wrote really good and catchy, Ramones are one of those bands where it sounds so easy anyone can do it but if you give it a try, you quickly find out it’s difficult to get the nua
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A Eulogy for Vim(drewdevault.com)
138 points by mtts 6mo ago|143 comments
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by mtts 10mo ago
I'm as bearish as anyone on the current AI hype, but this particular ship has sailed. Research is revealing these humongous neural networks of weights for next token prediction to exhibit underlying structures that seem to map in some
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by mtts 1y ago
I stand corrected. Can’t edit my original post, though. Khan hides it well, though - it’s listed smack in the middle of sixth grade math and high school math courses. I skimmed through the list (again) and found some college math but not
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by mtts 1y ago
Yeah, that’s my thinking now as well. It’s going to take an incredibly long time but truly understanding each problem is probably the only way to go. Which is where this beats self study using books, I think. With a book, I can sort of wing
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by mtts 1y ago
Khan Academy last I checked went up to High School. MathAcademy goes up to undergrad math.
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by mtts 1y ago
Not sure I’d want to use it as my only resource, but as supplementary material it’s excellent. He really explains concepts well (some better than others though, though this is likely a ymmv issue).
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by mtts 1y ago
Depends on what you need, I suppose. This resource is said to be pretty good: https://www.susanrigetti.com/math I decided start with Calculus I on MathAcademy because that was the last thing I did in High School. MathAcadem
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by mtts 1y ago
Right, and then you’re expending mental energy on figuring out how to teach math (to yourself) instead of on the math itself. This is not wrong, and will likely even teach you a thing or two (and in fact it was how self-teaching math work
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by mtts 1y ago
I’m currently doing the Calculus I course and while there are explanations interspersed throughout the problems, these mostly seem to be the bare minimum you need to work the problems. When I compare it to the calculus textbook I keep along
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by mtts 1y ago
FWIW my experiences with MathAcademy roughly overlap OP’s: it’s really hard work and adult life seriously interferes with making speedy progress (notice their own success stories are with teenagers who can devote hours upon hours on racing
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by mtts 1y ago
But if you self study using the OU books, you yourself will not be accredited.
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by mtts 1y ago
They’re not a private tutor, though. They don’t explain very much and there certainly isn’t a way to ask questions. As I said elsewhere, to me they’re about twice as expensive as they should be.
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by mtts 1y ago
You can, but you will spend a lot of time figuring out what it is that you need to study and where your weak points are. MathAcademy does that for you so you can spend your precious studying time on, well, what you need to study. I think it
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by mtts 1y ago
Interestingly, this is what the EU is. After WW2 it was decided to set things up so that European countries no longer could wage war against each other. Hence starting out with coal and steel (no war without those). In such a setup, lack of
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by mtts 1y ago
Everybody needs a 303.
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by mtts 1y ago
Of course if you store “7000 notes” in a PKM you should expect most of them to be useless, unless you’re doing science and most of them are literature notes or something (remember the guy who “invented” zettelkasten worked as a researcher)
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Atom-thin tech replaces silicon in the first 2D computer(sciencedaily.com)
5 points by mtts 1y ago|0 comments
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by mtts 1y ago
Yes. If you can afford it (around 100 $€ will get you a basic one) and you expect to use it more than once, it'll save you a lot of grief.
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by mtts 1y ago
Super cool! Where did you get the problems from?
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AI overconfidence mirrors human brain condition(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by mtts 1y ago|0 comments
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by mtts 1y ago
The paper in question: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.07682
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Humans likely the natural outcome of evolution on Earth like planets(sciencedaily.com)
5 points by mtts 2y ago|0 comments
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by mtts 2y ago
Regular shifter cables can and are also routed through the frame. Expensive road bikes (as well as the ones professionals ride) use e-shifters without any problems. These are made by companies that have some expertise in manufacturing shift
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by mtts 2y ago
For sight and hearing, yes, but is "language use" a sense?
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by mtts 2y ago
The interesting thing here is that the human brain also seems to use pretrained ... things. For vision, use the visual subsystem. For hearing, use the auditory subsystem. For movement ... you get the point. Plus you can combine these pretra
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by mtts 2y ago
Sort of. According to the text they can use multiple z-vectors (sets of weights that select for parts of the system to be used to answer a specific question) simultaneously, using a "simple optimization algorithm" to determine the
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by mtts 2y ago
Haven’t experienced Shanghai personally but ten years ago in Xi’an and Chengdu, yes, this sometimes was the only way to cross roads. In Jakarta and Bangkok, however, this always is the only way. Compared to those cities, however, the traf

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