jlelonm
The classic engineering-product conflict
You’re claiming to understand learning. People do phds in learning from multiple domains (psych, neuro, ux, etc). You already know it all?
The rabbit hole is deep. Coming in here and saying yeah yeah we all get it already is a sign that you don’t.
You completely understand learning? :)
I wrote about very similar things from a teaching perspective here: https://lelon.io/blog/how-to-teach-math
In fact, I've thought a lot about how to generalize these techniques to a data structure (i.e. knowledge graph) so that anyone can zoom in or out to whatever level of abstraction they please:
https://lelon.io/blog/boosting-scientific-productivity-again
Would love to chat sometime!
The Perils of Office Jobs
Boosting Scientific Productivity Again
Why To-Do lists don't work for me
Using uBlock Origin to block the Twitter feed (but keeping the ability to tweet)
None specifically - I'm just interested in pivot points where companies decided to switch from technology x to technology z, and what made them do it.
> When did that happen? If everyone did "leave PHP", what will happen to all those websites:
Sorry, bad phrasing. I meant, "When did people stop deciding to greenlight new projects using PHP?"
> Here's an article you may find interesting:
Thanks!
> A chart like this does not exist.
Would you be interested in such a chart? or perhaps a tweaked version?
Ask HN: Resource for learning the history of software dev best practices?
I'm a young developer and I feel like I have such little context for where and why we are today.A few examples:- what tradeoffs did companies examine before concluding to move to microservices from monoliths? Which companies decided not to? Why?- When Angular.js first came out, what made companies adopt it? What were they using before?- Why did everyone leave PHP?- What made Postgres become...
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> There is now the new scientific method which involves models, paradigm shifts, bayesianism, and it may not require a control variable when measurements are constructed from multiple, indirect observations.
This doesn't make much sense to me. How can there be a new scientific method?
Shouldn't these somehow boil down to the same thing: hypothesis, experiment, evidence against the null?
Ask HN: What's your company's @all usage/culture like for Slack/Hangouts?
> what motivated you to learn to draw
Half of me wanted to impress my friends. The other half of me wanted to make stories come to life.
> what you were interested in drawing
Mostly animated characters. Faces. Portraits.
> biggest roadblock/weakness
PROPORTIONS. I hated how I'd draw something and it would always look "slightly off" but I couldn't really put my finger on exactly why
> how many times you've tried to learn
Probably about 3 times..
Ask HN: What made you abandon learning to draw?
I'd love to hear more about any/all of- what motivated you to learn to draw- what you were interested in drawing- what your biggest roadblock/weakness to getting better was- how many times you've tried to learn
You don't see any benefit to having one mega amazing course?
You think there's no way to overcome the limitation you mentioned (bad information) at all? How about a peer review process?
"As I read articles and tried stuff out (and broke my server config more than once) I started to grasp the system, to get glimpses into how it all worked, until eventually it “clicked” and I felt comfortable working with it."
Have you written about your mental models for DNS? Color me interested!
Ask HN: Most interesting trade-off phenomenons in your field?
As I talk to different folks from different domains, it's always interesting to me to learn what they're optimizing for and what the variables are.Usually there's a sweet spot between two extremes.Examples:- Bias-Variance trade off from statistics and machine learning- Freedom vs Security from philosophy- Explore vs Exploit from computer scienceI'd love to hear some other examples from e.g....
Ask HN: Tools or mental model for answering subjective questions quantitatively?
Hello HN!I'm interested in tricks, tools, or mental models to help answer subjective questions with accuracy and precision (and eliminate biases).For example, how do you turn the following questions into insightful, actionable data?- How much does this hurt?- How much do you like this product?- What are you feeling right now?Backstory:I'm 28 and I developed tinnitus out of nowhere a few months...
The docs told me I have ADHD. Maybe you do, too?
Problem is - I have no idea what to do about it.
It's so hard to do anything fun in my free time because the moment I think about doing / starting something, goal oriented t thoughts follow, which means stress follows.
I wish I could just go into "kick the can" mode whenever I wanted and turn off the part of my brain that wants to see results, progress, and checkmarks.
https://teachtogether.tech/ / Greg Wilson
I'm also very interested in tech education and edtech.