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by padraigf 1y ago
I love it. I was introduced to it by Edward Tufte's book, ' https://www.amazon.co.uk/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Informa... '. And was just thinking about it the other day. I had a bug aggregating sleep-data fr
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by padraigf 1y ago
I hope they don't, I actually like it. I know it's overdone, but it still gives me a boost! :) It's kind of idiosyncratically charming to me as well.
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by padraigf 1y ago
Definitely seems to have exacerbated the anti-trust issue. Search was search, but now they can insert AI and short-circuit the route to other products.
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by padraigf 1y ago
Don't worry about impostor-syndrome (everyone has it). It seemed like around the time I was graduating college, there was this kind of culture of hotshot programmers, which looking back was kind of toxic. It was all this "he'
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Steve Jobs' cabinet(perfectdays23.substack.com)
95 points by padraigf 1y ago|73 comments
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by padraigf 1y ago
Thanks, I'll try it. I have a few things knocking around.
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by padraigf 2y ago
Yes, very memorable prologue: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder-ebook...
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by padraigf 2y ago
I meditate a good bit, an hour a day, and it doesn't stop thoughts arising, so I've had some time to think about this. My guess is, it's just an evolutionarily useful thing, for your brain to keep pinging you about various th
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by padraigf 2y ago
Some feedback: looks nice, but an instant turn-off for me is the requirement to sign up before I try it out. It meant I didn't try it out, and seems unnecessary.
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by padraigf 2y ago
I'm working on https://www.americanfootballinsights.com Its a hobby project, to play around with American Football statistics. I'm trying to do a few innovative things with it. e.g. I generate an excitement-rating per-
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by padraigf 2y ago
Working on an NFL stats & visualisation project, the working title is American Football Insights. It's a hobby project, I'm not planning to charge for. I did a bit of work on this a few years ago, and I found that analysing th
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by padraigf 2y ago
That's a good project.
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by padraigf 2y ago
A few thoughts (for context, senior developer, and use chat-gpt every day as an assistant)... In the short-term (5-10 years, I cant see them autonomously producing products), it will need an experienced programmer to interpret and use the o
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by padraigf 2y ago
I just got a new book on this subject: Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, by Kieran Setiya ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Midlife-Philosophical-Guide-Kieran-... ). Not got too far into it, but I like it so far.
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by padraigf 3y ago
I think it's more about not having excess calories. As for the science, my understanding is...excess calories = excess glucose = insulin-response, which is associated with inflammation. A good book I read on it recently is, The Intermi
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by padraigf 3y ago
That's great, thanks. I've been taking notes for a while on my reading, to try and remember it better (under the idea that if you summarise and write it down, just that process will help you remember it better). I suppose it'
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by padraigf 3y ago
Can you give a brief description of your process? I'm familiar with spaced-repetition, and have played around with Anki a bit. I'm just not sure how I would integrate it into my reading.
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by padraigf 4y ago
Yes, the recommendations page is awful. For me, the stupidest thing it does is recommend you the same video again and again, when you never click on it. 'Hey, you've recommended that same video to me 20 times now, and I haven&#x27
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by padraigf 5y ago
I'm not sure there's a silver bullet, it's a lot of small things that add up to a meaningful life. So my advice would be to look at the small things, and it takes time, you can't change everything at once. For me, physic
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by padraigf 5y ago
Yes, the causation is poorly disentangled. He says: "In our research, those who followed [a healthy, Mediterranean style diet] were 1.4 times more likely to have good night’s sleep and 35 percent less likely to have insomnia." One
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by padraigf 5y ago
+1, I do pretty much all these things. Sunlight in the morning, and regularity of times has made a big difference.
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by padraigf 5y ago
A few things... - Morning sunlight, I go for a 15 min walk right after breakfast, apparently the natural light helps reset your bodyclock (bright light triggers natural morning hormones like cortisol) - Regularity. This is key. Try and get
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by padraigf 6y ago
Yes, this is a good practice whether you're leaving for the day or not. See David Allen's book 'Getting Things Done'. A central principle of it is: the place for your todo list is on paper (or some repository), not in yo
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by padraigf 6y ago
I'd just started a hobby project to use the Goodreads API for book recommendations. That's not going to happen now. I feel bad for people who put more work than I did into using the API. It seems kind of short-sighted to me, I&#x2
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by padraigf 6y ago
Just got an email about this today, as I had an API key: Your Goodreads developer API key has been deactivated Goodreads has deactivated the Goodreads developer API key associated with your Goodreads account as it has not been used in more
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by padraigf 7y ago
^^^^ Derek's book 'Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur' was definitely up there for me.
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by padraigf 7y ago
My criterion is 'influential on me', they may not necessarily be the greatest works of literature. Mastery - Robert Greene The Talent Code - Daniel Coyle Peak - Anders Ericsson The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle A Guide to the Good
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by padraigf 7y ago
Wow, think I need to read that. (not that I'm in such a bad state, it's just a good recommendation)
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by padraigf 8y ago
Bit of a straw-man argument. Ericsson's original research didn't claim that 10,000 hours of practice made you an expert. It was that no-one became an expert (in his studied domain of violin playing) without about 10,000 hours of p
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by padraigf 8y ago
For me, I use the power of habit, and just keep at it every day. A few benefits to this: - The power of habit can be an impetus to overcome the initial fear. - The knowledge that you did it just yesterday, and it wasn't so bad. - Learn

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