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Ask HN: dual n-back or single n-back improving programming?

Posted by aoeuaue on Thursday May 22, 2014 @06:14PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Does anyone here have personal experience in which doing dual n-back or single n-back tasks have improved programming ability?If so, did you notice a difference between the results of a single n-back task versus dual n-back? Or did both work equally well?

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Re:Poll: Do you use marijuana on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @01:39AM (#7776853)

I used to smoke every night because I literally cannot sleep without drugs. But then I started taking seroquel instead. You should try it. Arguably more healthy. (and works better than weed too)

Re:Ask HN: I feel like an 'expert beginner' and I don't know how to ge... on Saturday May 17, 2014 @07:00PM (#7761394)

Off-topic but I tried ceramics and found it to be the hardest thing I ever had to learn. Ceramics seems to be unique in that your creations literally get destroyed right in front of you with no way to go back. (I'm told ceramics people dream of VCS' in their sleep :)

Re:Ask HN: I feel like an 'expert beginner' and I don't know how to ge... on Saturday May 17, 2014 @06:03PM (#7761249)

PS: I guess what I'm looking for is a 'work-out' type procedure. Like practicing to run a marathon, you work out and run a lot (I assume). What should I do in order to 'work-out' my CS skills? Musicians practice, athletes work-out, what do computer scientists do in order to improve problem solving skills and knowledge?

Unlike for athletes or musicians, practice in a knowledge field (like CS), seems a little ill defined..

Ask HN: I feel like an 'expert beginner' and I don't know how to get better

Posted by aoeuaue on Saturday May 17, 2014 @05:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I really want to improve at programming but I feel I'm kinda of stuck in this 'expert beginner' phase. I'm familiar with basic data structures and their complexity (linked lists, arrays, hash tables, queues, trees), some basic theory (DFA, NFA, CFGs, TMs, lambda calculus etc), and elementary math (calc I, II, III, linear algebra, ODEs, discrete).I don't feel particularly confident in any of...

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Re:AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:20AM (#7094071)

Are you serious? You never talk to police. I thought everyone knew that..

Re:Elite Hacker Barnaby Jack 'overdosed on drugs' on Saturday January 04, 2014 @10:57PM (#7014455)

You obviously haven't done drugs or been around drug users before.

The only people who think this is murder are clueless.

Re:Elite Hacker Barnaby Jack 'overdosed on drugs' on Saturday January 04, 2014 @10:54PM (#7014448)

What are you talking about? Cheese is not a drug. As a heroin user, I can tell you that the APAP is only mixed in as to make black tar heroin snortable, as black tar is the only kind of heroin commonly found outside of the east coast.

Moreover, APAP is not mentioned in the article at all.

Re:Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors on Thursday December 26, 2013 @08:25PM (#6968963)

Prelude[1] is a great way to start with emacs. I don't have any experience with evil, though.

http://batsov.com/prelude/

Re:The Anti-Addiction Pill That's Big Business For Drug Dealers on Saturday October 26, 2013 @09:38PM (#6620406)

Yes I still take it and have not lowered my dose since going on it. I've noticed that my mood on it is much higher than it was before I started doing the heroin (which I started in the first place because I was depressed and suicidal), leading me to believe that it has significant anti-depressant potential even in opiate-tolerant individuals. Also, there's some history in the literature of it being an effective anti-depressant[1]. I haven't lowered the dose or stopped it because I am afraid I will end up in the same situation as I was before and start using again.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suboxone#Antidepressant_potenti...

Re:The Anti-Addiction Pill That's Big Business For Drug Dealers on Saturday October 26, 2013 @09:30PM (#6620365)

Yes, the addiction is still present. If I stop taking suboxone I will start feeling a little bad (depression, etc) by day 2 and will start withdrawing (feels like a really bad cold) on day 3. By day 4, I would be throwing up and unable to move/function.

The only downside of suboxone is that due to its long half-life, the withdrawals last a long, long time. With heroin you are out of the woods by day 4 or 5, but with suboxone, withdrawels last weeks/months.

Re:The Anti-Addiction Pill That's Big Business For Drug Dealers on Saturday October 26, 2013 @09:09PM (#6620272)

I started taking suboxone 5 months ago and it (almost literally) saved my life. Before finding out about it, I thought I was going to be stuck in a hell-hole of heroin dependence forever. You wake up one day and realize that you are completely fucked, and that there's nothing in the world to help you. Suboxone changed that. I started taking it, with no/minimal side-effects, and immediately stopped doing heroin, stopped craving heroin, stopped everything. Finally, I can live in peace without there being a short-fused time bomb just waiting to blow up inside of me.

Thanks to suboxone, I can program and think and live again.