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Re:The State of Context Engineering
on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:21PM (#50249497)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial-position_effect
This is also how human memory works
Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @09:47PM (#50081401)
Need for cognition
Re:Show HN: I made an open source directory of where to showoff your p...
on Friday January 17, 2025 @04:15AM (#42735558)
It's called UX Research.
Re:Introducing Voice Isolator and Background Noise Remover
on Thursday July 04, 2024 @09:03AM (#40874625)
I would try, for 10 minutes, the following solution: you listen to the lecture and repeat every word the lecturer said. Then use the record of your voice for the voice 2 text process.
If it works, do it for the whole talk.
Re:How to lose two jobs in one year
on Saturday February 24, 2024 @09:46AM (#39491815)
I asked gpt about the STAR format.
The answer:
The STAR format is a structured manner of responding to a behavioral-based interview question by discussing the specific situation, task, action, and result of the situation you are describing. Here's what each component stands for:
1. *Situation*: Set the context for your story. Describe the event or situation that you were in. This could be from a previous job, from a volunteer experience, or any relevant event.
2. *Task*: After describing the situation, you talk about the actual task or challenge that was involved. This is the problem or issue that you were confronted with.
3. *Action*: Explain the actions you took to address the situation or task. This should be a detailed account of how you tackled the problem.
4. *Result*: Share the outcomes or results of the actions you took. Ideally, this should be a positive outcome that demonstrates how you effectively handled the situation.
Using the STAR format in a career document helps to clearly and effectively convey your accomplishments in a way that highlights your problem-solving and task management skills.
Re:Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half...
on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @09:27AM (#36600145)
An e-bike would be the solution (not when it rains or snows, of course).
Re:Apple tells employees to work at the office three times per week st...
on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @08:43AM (#32482036)
You are not alone in believing creative work and collaboration are much more difficult in a remote environment.
But yesterday I watched the movie "A dangerous method" about Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein. Well, at the time, collaboration was via paper mail. And my feeling is that they were more creative than we are.
I'm not suggesting to go paper mail, but I couldn't help but observe this fact.
Re:Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease
on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @05:16AM (#31905728)
It's a little more nuanced. Causation can be inferred in an experimental design. If the researchers can manipulate the independent variable (the vaccine) using an experimental and a placebo group, and then they can measure a statistically (and clinically) significant difference, then we can assume that this is not just correlation.
Re:Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages...
on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @09:36AM (#31581619)
> I don't think using intuitive associations with words helps clarify things
Sincere question: do you think that "think using intuitive associations with words" can be safely translated to "compute using intuitive associations with words"?
I don't think so. Therefore, even if thinking is also computing, reducing thinking to boolean algebra is a form of reductionism that ignores a number of emergent properties of (human) thinking.
Re:Things I don’t want to do to grow my side project
on Monday May 02, 2022 @03:27PM (#31239673)
Ux design is about doing research with the users, not about graphic design.
Re:Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants?
on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:21AM (#30933072)
As a chartered psychotherapist, I would suggest you go to a psychotherapist. Furthermore, I suggest you have some "aerobic therapy" (that is, exercise) and, if you can, interact with some people.
A couple of resources may help you gather some information and make a more informed decision:
[0] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression
[1] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression
Re:Acute aerobic exercise to recover from mental exhaustion
on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @12:19PM (#30362687)
you just won the internet :D
Re:Inkscape 1.1.2
on Sunday February 06, 2022 @08:00AM (#30232116)
I've been an inskape user for many years now. So I just decided to donate 20 USD. I hope somebody here will do the same.
Re:Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Li...
on Sunday November 07, 2021 @12:38PM (#29141572)
The literature I know defines social presence as something that has only partially to do with technology (and Virtual Reality) [0].
The advantage of VR is that it can enhance the sense of immersivity in some circumstances [1].
[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01587919.2017.13...
[1] https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/50061
Re:Curiosity Is Better Than Being Smart?
on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @08:28AM (#28772306)
I would define curiosity as a fundamental biological (and human) need. It's what drives the mouses in Tolman's experiments to explore the labyrinth even when satiated.
It is a need because - from an evolutionary point of view - being curious increases the odds to gain useful knowledge and survive and thrive.
Therefore, curiosity, in this perspective, is the intrinsically motivated drive to gain knowledge.
Re:Limits on Toilet Paper and Cleaning Supplies Are Back at Costco
on Saturday September 25, 2021 @04:19AM (#28651458)
Or you can come in Italy. Here we use the toilet paper and the bidet ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet
Re:Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virule...
on Sunday August 08, 2021 @02:48PM (#28109089)
Am I wrong if I think that the most transmissible mutations tend to win the competition towards the less contagious ones in any case?
Re:Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?
on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:16PM (#27644921)
As a UX designer: too few companies understand the importance of UX and the difference between UX and UI. It is still too difficult to convince the stakeholders of the importance of user research, adherence to usability and accessibility guidelines, and user testing. Those activities have a cost, both in terms of money and time. But they can save a project, strongly reducing the risks of failure.
Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be r...
on Friday June 25, 2021 @08:46AM (#27630065)
Your point is interesting. Can you cite some literature that supports it?
Re:Your product is a joke: lessons from improv to build better product
on Friday June 18, 2021 @08:54AM (#27549778)
Re:The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC
on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @02:42AM (#26803738)
I would consider PageRank as a quite successful example of machine learning. Am I wrong?
Re:UK to depart from GDPR
on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:01AM (#26435884)
It is interesting to see that european countries, who have national health systems, tend to have an higher life expectancy than the U.S. [0]
Maybe the opportunity to live longer and healthier can be considered a sort of socialist anachronism.
[0] https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/
Re:Need advice or assistance for son who is in prison
on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:25AM (#25904200)
I don't suggest you to go to psychotherapy (I imagine you can not afford one), but some bibliotherapy could help.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=it&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Cogn... for some information
Re:Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration
on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:42AM (#25611539)
Can I ask a very naive question? Isn't it viable to use solar energy to make the water evaporate and use the vapor as the desalined water?
I'm sure there should be some big issue, otherwise someone would use it. But I'm curious to understand what is wrong with such an approach.
Re:I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language
on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @04:09AM (#24636609)
I'd love to learn Latin <3
Re:Ask HN: Favourite blogs?
on Monday September 21, 2020 @05:47AM (#24541496)
the links would be much more useful if you provide a short description of the topics covered
Re:Product Marketing for Engineers
on Sunday May 24, 2020 @10:12AM (#23291639)
well, no. They are different jobs, that require skills that an engineer is not required to have.
It's not just mindest, it's about methods and skills and theoretical backgrounds.
UX is about eliciting the needs, the knowledge, the mental models of the users and to contribute to create (digital) representations that help them (the users) to accomplish their goals. This is not what an engineer is asked to do, and not what (s)he has been trained to.
Re:The World Is Still Producing More Oil Than It Needs
on Saturday May 02, 2020 @11:37AM (#23052331)
it comes from greek ὀλιγαρχία [0]: from ὀλίγος (olígos), meaning 'few', and ἄρχω (arkho), meaning 'to rule or to command')[1]
[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BD%80%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B3%C... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
Re:Nicomachean Ethics
on Friday April 24, 2020 @09:15AM (#22967601)
Aristotle is difficult to read, for a number of reasons. The main one in my opinion is that it is so dense of inestimable content that I am overwhelmed at every paragraph.