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There are 4 effective methods for taking notes:

1. The Cornell note-taking system

First, divide the page into three parts: one narrow column on the left side, one wide column on the right side, and one section at the bottom part of the page.

Write your notes in the right column of the page. That’s your note-taking column.

As soon as possible after the lecture is over, use the left column to create questions for every part of the notes. That’s your cue column.

When this task is completed, write a short summary in the bottom section of each page.

That’s it! Congratulations!

2. T-notes method

Just divide a page into 2 parts. One part is for writing down terms, equations, formulas and theories. The other part is for definitions, examples, evidence and proof.

3. Mind map method

Write down the main idea in the center of the page. Then draw “branches” every time you need to add a sub-topic or a detail to your scheme. At the end of the lecture you’ll have a detailed flow chart of the content you listened to.

4. Flow note-taking method

A flow-based note-taking method is the most effective way to take notes if you are a fast learner.

The principle of the flow note-taking technique is to represent the ideas you hear using textual and visual information recorded on the page.

The flow note-taking method includes a lot of tables, schemes, arrows, points, offshoots – anything that helps you to represent your “mental model.”

More details and examples are here https://ivypanda.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-...
My concern is not whether the nastika schools had valuable contributions to the advancement of Indian philosophy. The question was one of defining Hinduism. Within the ambit of that question, casting the net wide enough to include Ajivika and Charvaka is too broad, and one the Ancient Indians wouldn't likely have made either. For example, the Hindu acharyas were pretty clear that Buddhism and Jainism were heresies and beyond the pale, and their opinion of Charvakaism is well known. Therefore I suggest that the question is best answered by restricting to the Astika schools, a categorization the ancient commentators would likely agree with.
It's ironic that you listed the Wikipedia entry as evidence the 50 cent army is engaging in disinformation at an international scale. The only cited source for this describes a Huffington Post commenter disagreeing with an article and the author claiming that the commenter is a paid Chinese shill.
Don't let the domain name fool you, this is not a calculus textbook. It's a topology textbook. It looks like an awesome topology textbook and I think I'll buy it, but I don't think it's what you're looking for.

I don't really have a suggestion for a good calculus textbook. My school used Stewart and it's okay. I'm also, apparently, a huge math nerd and sailed through those classes; thus I don't think my opinions are terribly general.

But in my experience, learning calculus must come hand in hand with tons of exercise. Worked solutions are really crucial for a good book for self-directed study.
The server needs to store the IP of the user for extended periods of time to offer the speed benefit. Some providers have workarounds though and of course they could still log access with openvpn too.
I find the chemical imbalance metaphor for mental illness the opposite of empowering and an easy well to sell pharmaceuticals.

There is some truth to the metaphor, but I wonder if it’s doing more harm than good.
My experience with Azure and O365/M365 especially, is that the human readable errors are often very misleading.

They'll point you in a direction that is irrelevant to the error. I just wish the references were better.
Terry Childs...
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro. Enormous and incredibly informative about politics, city planning and public relations.
Conspiracy Theory: I can't help but wonder if these two stories are related?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23662241

Could Fessenheim 2 be leaking nuclear particles?
I'd probably heard about it but I'd never had it really hit me like that before.
>Ah yes substring search, the hallmark of artificial intelligence.

I'm guessing they used AI to detect potential code words, or categorize potential crimes (whether by type, or timing, whatever). Seems like a pretty good use case to me.
How do you propose that UBI be tested? If you give it to a small number of people, or to everyone for a limited time, it's argued it isn't UBI.

Various services are funded out of taxation at present.
The higher gross tax rate would be offset by UBI (those in work would get it too), so the mean net tax rate shouldn't change much.

What would happen to the government employees currently working in social welfare if they'd lose their job is that they'd get UBI until they were given or found more productive work.
The Tao Te Ching.
I've looked around abit and pseudorandomness is not an accessible subject, if you have any links for something then please share. I can not judge this, at least it seems thorough, but too much math but it feels like it at least is a good starting point.
Something I’ve never really got about refresh tokens is how they improve that situation - I have difficulty seeing a situation where the access token can be compromised but the refresh token can’t, and with a refresh token you’re free to request new access tokens indefinitely.
Why? Isn't the better question "how would you solve <the actual thing they are being hired to solve>"?

I hire people to track objects via computer vision. I ask them "hey, here's a system I want, what approaches would you take", and explain that this is a 3 year research project, of course they will be giving simplistic and wrong answers and there is knowledge asymmetry here, but I'll inform you as you go as to what works and not. "Optical flow". Okay, why? What's the general algorithm? Okay, so it turns out it doesn't work in our situation because X,Y,Z. Any ideas on what you'd look at next. And so on. Because that is exactly how my day-to-day conversations and work goes. Bounce ideas off of co-workers, latch onto something that seems promising, explore, maybe it works, maybe it fails. If it fails, what does that tell you about what to try next. Along the way you can have them code a tiny piece of something they mentioned if you want to see some code. But basically you are seeing if they understand the domain you are working in (which is not golf balls on airplanes), if they have some (not comprehensive) knowledge of the domain, and if they understand book solutions don't necessarily deal with the messiness of the real world and can adapt approaches to appropriately (i.e. a 20sec/frame algorithm is not going to cut it when I need 180fps).

It bothers me that this is still somewhat unfair due to the vast information asymmetry, but I try to deal with that. And my own biases can creep in. Are they mostly using 1980s style image processing techniques? Do they understand Bayes? Do they throw ML at problems that aren't tractable that way? It's unlikely that their past experience & preferences reflect exactly what we need. What is important - can they adapt, or even better, communicate why my choices are wrong and theirs are right (I don't need a robot to grind out code reflecting my ideas, I need them to figure things out and solve things in a fairly scientific manner).

So those are the questions I try to ask. I have no evidence that I get it right, but I haven't been disappointed with the hires.
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Shouldn’t that be “Trends Denylist”?
What about when a post isn’t breaking the rules but is factually incorrect?

If I comment that the earth is flat or that the sun revolves around the moon I would expect that comment to be filtered out by the community rather than something to bother the mods about.
15% is quite outdated. There have been major updates to nanopores and software. Typical single read error rate is less than 5% these days.

Single read accuracy is not as important for such projects. As coverage gets to 50-60X, expected assembly accuracy is Q30 on human.
> My impression is that it's just dumb dance videos

you'd be wrong. it's a very important platform. besides dance videos there are also hilarious and cute dog videos.
Russian state-sponsored hackers target Covid-19 vaccine researchers
That's what he did. You should watch the video, it's pretty entertaining!
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This guy is a legend. Awesome videos. A few of them seem productizable in a way most DIY-er videos don't, albeit in a limited run capacity.

He made a iPad lidar to "braille" converter that was really impressive, and I'm hopeful someone picks up the work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Au47gnXs0w
> Consider the standard MSE loss in x-space with the popular l2-regularization on the weights (aka weight decay)...

Am I missing something? I thought weight decay and l2 regularization could be equivalent when using SGD[1], but are not in adaptive gradient scenarios(the paper mentions using Adam later on).

[1] - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.05101.pdf
Lots of comments here, none about the core of the issue as I see it.

OP and OP's manager allowed "Alpha" to design the UI, and then to state that the mocks were the specification.

There's no shorter road to frustration than allowing UI mocks as a specification. UI mocks as a talking point are great; UI mocks as a spec are cancer mixed with broken glass. See [0] for some discussion from yesterday.

Words in a spec are abstract, but pictures are concrete. People get fixated on pictures. People also fall in love with their own creation. Allowing the customer to create the mocks almost guarantees that they will not be reasonable about them. Not only are they in love with their ideas, they're also in love with their imagined implementation.

I get it! Imagining the implementation is my favorite part of software! For someone with lower introspection and empathy it can feel like an attack when someone wants to change the thing you've fallen in love with.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23837406
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By this logic we should never ever make any new policies lest they evolve into something undesirable.
Amen, how many times to we need to tell people, look production and consumption first, and then think about finance?

I'm not saying finance is all bad, I'm saying when the financial situation is harder to understand than the so-called "real economy"...don't!
Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker

(Also Sapiens :)

Range - David Epstein
As you say, it would probably not work on foreign governments, but would be very effective on the general population. They could have used that to cause political turmoil (hopefully not enough to change something like elections results?) or influence stock prices etc. This just looks so uninspired...
Great post. It's good to see thoughts on productivity from a manager's perspective.
Haha. I worked at a place that did not start out as a software company but now had a software team (they built industrial machinery). The director of the electrical and software department was completely clueless of course. He insisted that since we are an engineering company, an engineering degree was required to work here. And that meant any candidate for a software engineering position was automatically rejected if they only had a computer science degree since it didn't have the word "engineering" in the title.
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I mean, that's the Economist, literally the publication this article is from.

There's literally no other English-language news publication for a general educated readership that is higher quality, denser, and focused on the whole world rather than any single country.
If we don’t know then we don’t know. Calling it a chemical imbalance implies knowledge that does not exist.
they struggled against the dehumanising notion that their thoughts, feelings or behaviour were mechanistically caused.

Finally, a thread where I can point out my own experiences.

Around four years ago, it would be fair to call me slightly crazy. It was a harmless sort of crazy, but it was quite self-destructive. I used to wake up wishing to die, genuinely, and not knowing why.

All of that changed after going on Prozac. I don't know why, and I've heard from many others that Prozac was harmful to them. But from my point of view, it was nothing short of a lifechanging miracle. I can't remember the last time I've had suicidal ideation.

Most people keep this sort of thing quiet, and I think silence is part of the problem. When I was younger, I might have looked down on someone for saying what I just said. When you have a broken leg, everyone notices and can relate; when you have a broken mind, no one can see it, and so no one can feel sympathy, let alone empathy.

So what's the takeaway here? One: do not lose hope. I came very close to losing hope, and it would have denied me so much. Two: make a doctor's appointment. There's a chance that you'll wind up on something that makes the situation worse; you need to make a followup appointment ahead of time.

Support networks only got me so far.
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The book "Lost Connections" by Johann Hari (which I discovered through HN) has helped me a lot in understanding so much of the context of what makes so many of us feel depression and anxiety at many points in our lives. A big part of the narrative is that we are too quick to diagnose and provide ourselves with medication without really understanding environmental variables that have impacted our overall well-being.

While I do believe our understanding of how the brain functions still has a long way to go, which includes treatments for mental illness, there is something to be said about acknowledging more the external factors of our modern day lives that fill us with so many problems.

Personally, realizing where I have "disconnected" from people, values, and truly human experiences has been a large step forward in improving my mental health. I hope it's something that others who feel so many emotional challenges can try as well to see if they can make progress with their own mental health.
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I find it interesting that everyone so far has suggested JSON as a pickle alternative. Depending on why you are serializing and deserializing the data, a lot of times the true replacement for pickle is a full-fledged database.
Nice introductory TED talk on "How to find black holes" by one of the co-authors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idsj47D719E
Liability seems like a show stopper. This thing could hurt someone if something goes wrong, which seems likely if in use by the general population. I also think a lot of people tend to like their barber.
See NYTimes as an example of someone doing everything here, and more.
I'm actually kind of interested in exactly what sort of overlap that would be.
> The concept of civility and politeness once existed

When? Where? How? What old debates on youtube? I've seen people throw out this line since the W Bush administration and as far as I can tell it just means most of them have never actually delved into the media they think they're exposed to.

US political officials used to fight each other, physically all the time -- senators bludgeoning each other into comas with canes, the VP of the US shooting and killing the head of the opposing political party in a dual. Andrew Jackson got shot something like 4 times. Dig up some of the terrible things Lincoln used to say about his political rivals -- The Great Emancapator used to spit fire at people. Before we had Rupert Murdoch we had Hearst, who literally caused a war, and is one of the inspirations for the term Yellow Journalism.

There may have been 5 minutes where youtube wasn't complete garbage but I recall Newgrounds being big then and seeing more than a few blatantly pro-nazi vids then.
The point is that instead of looking to reduce the population of the West and East Asia, which will have an impact on humanity's economic, cultural, scientific output, we should look at reducing populations (though education and family planning for women) in less-productive areas.
Again, the smart insider doesn’t have to write the vulnerability, they just have to (with much greater access to code and infra than an outsider) notice it and not say anything (except to the outsider they sell it to). Selling such a vulnerability is a lot easier and safer than other ways of illegally monetizing a “hack”—your biggest risk is that you won’t get paid and will have no recourse, if you don’t get the money up-front, or that you do get paid but then someone else fixes the vulnerability before it can be used (that’s probably the worst likely outcome)

[edit] before it can be used to claim the bounty, that is—part of why this is relatively safe and so fairly tempting if the pot is big enough is that the money looks legitimate without some serious digging, so if some of it goes in a crypto wallet and sits there for a couple years then quietly gets siphoned off and laundered until it becomes fiat in the insider’s pocket, well, that’s probably gonna fly under everyone’s radar.
Came here to make a similar comment. Scientists are not supposed to be activists - focusing on eliminating words that carry stigma from popular (or scientific) use makes me question not just objectivity but qualifications as a scientist.

Is there any space that ideologues haven't infested yet?
Wrong! Pin is designed as legal shield against you - it was initially designed because children of parents, disgrunted employees and angry spouses would show up with a phone and wanted access or make changes on that phone account and mere possesion of said phone “authorize” them. Now the terms of service clearly state pin is extra layer to protect your data from oursiders, be it your child or spouse. Meanwhile employees have full or near full access. I know this because my sister is a store manager. They would daily print list of accounts overdue and prepare list for followuos - should would check everyone in computer, their history of payments even zip code where they live and make decision whether to bother them with phonecall now or push it for another day. The only access they dont have is your credit card info. They cant even see the last four, since its separate third party company responsible for payments.
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I agree that uncivil comments are down-voted more often, but there is clear "I don't agree with you even though you've made your point intelligently, so I will see if I can make it disappear" which is really unfortunate and not conducive to civil discourse.

Perhaps less than other platforms but certainly a thing - often with no counter comment to explain. All seems a bit small-minded.
The problem is that customers don't remember basically anything. I don't know my telephone banking password for any bank. When I call, I get asked to tell them what my last transaction was, or my mother's maiden name and DOB (public info), or what town I last used my card. I've been wrong about the recent usage questions more often than I've been right, and they say "close enough".

The technological measures have to account for human behaviour. Otherwise you just end up with almost everyone not being able to access almost everything almost all of the time. People are forgetful, irrational, stubborn and stupid. So are institutions. Put them together and you have a social engineering dream world (literally our current world).
I sometimes wonder what the authors of the U.S. constitution would think about the modern "press". I wonder whether in some alternate universe the constitution could have been interpreted in such a way that special protections for the "press" only apply to the LITERAL press, i.e., to those who physically print news onto paper with a printing press. The world could be a lot different today if that's how our interpretation of the constitution had turned out (such a world would be better in some ways, maybe worse in others).

A physical newspaper has a natural tendency to incentivize payment models where the reader pays for the paper; a physical newspaper is much harder to alter after-the-fact; and a physical newspaper lends itself to a daily news cycle which gives writers time to think more carefully about what they write (with "Extra" editions being reserved for truly rare occasions like war breaking out or presidential assassinations).
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I'm reading Sapiens right now. I wouldn't say "mind blown" as I was at least a little familiar with a lot of it before, but the way that Harari writes really makes you think about things differently.

Here are a couple of other books that have been pretty influential for me:

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

"Main Street" by Sinclair Lewis
'Chemical imbalance' is an oversimplification used to explain mental disorders to the layman, along with the fact that certain medications that effect neurotransmitters are effective treatments for said disorders.

I agree that, often, these disorders are a product of environment, along with economic, social and material conditions. However, medications can and do improve the quality of life for people who cannot change those conditions due to their station in life.
> Was the mainstream media ever objective or impartial?

With respect to the mainstream media, there was always some bias in terms of what was reported. What we are seeing today is something entirely different and very dangerous.

The original article pointed to a couple of the problems with the media today, things like there being disagreement over what the facts are and how balanced reporting has a tendency to misrepresent the facts. I would go a step further by suggesting that facts and context have been abandoned altogether.

The end result is that two media outlets can tell two very different stories about the same issue. Ignoring facts is how we end up with protests being described as riots, or being described as protests with undue emphasis upon violence (which is a clear case of balance misrepresenting the facts). At the opposite end of the spectrum, I have seen individual claims left unquestioned in the name of moral clarity. The sad part is that reporters could take a step back, look at what is happening at a societal level, and have damning evidence that backs their moral clarity with facts.

If you believe that this is nothing new, I would suggest pulling up a full newspaper from thirty years ago. You would find that news reporting is clearly separated from other content. You would also find that moral clarity is in there, but it would be clearly presented in forms such as the editorial or human interest story. Lines were drawn instead of blurred.
I'm not technical in this field. But "reductionism" shows up all over.

In solid state physics, where reductionism is definitely a powerful and useful tool, the following article seems to be interesting. It's a possible reminder of what you maybe can and can't get from reductionism.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/177/4047/393

No clue how much of that (if any) might apply to psychology.
They wouldn't know how much profit there'd be beforehand. If this was 2017-2018 I can imagine this being much more profitable. Plus it's lower risk compared to others.
Can that be avoided? Eventually any term loses its connection with the best available knowledge, and becomes a way to avoid thinking - an euphemism. We then need a new updated term. Eventually that term too will be outdated, but at least it was useful for a while.
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