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Tokyo mechanical keyboard meetup photos
Last sunny Saturday, there was the biggest keyboard mee…
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,934 posts.
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You Just Reveived
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My Prime Factorization Sweater
I wore my Prime Factorization Sweater to KidlitCon09 , and it shows up in all my pictures, so I think it’s time for me to explain it.
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Variability, not repetition, is the key to mastery
The science behind how (and when) to mix things up in order to accelerate your improvement.
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Notes on Puzzles
1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is solving puzzles.
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Kakizome: Japanese way of new-years resolution
Kakizome, Japanese way of new-years resolution
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The Beauty of Bonsai Styles
The way in which a tree grows is often determined by their environment, and as a bonsai artist, I look to honor that environment, and the way in which that tree would grow in nature, when determining how to shape and style a bonsai.
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You Can’t Take It With You
If you’ve had a great career what happens to all your knowledge and experience when you retire?Great Suit My wife and I had dinner last night with a friend of hers from high school. Tom, her husban…
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Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing
Alan Kay — “father of personal computers" — is best known for his work on personal computing and for leading the team that developed Smalltalk.
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How things get done
I’ve heard a lot of different theories about how things get done. I’m interested in this topic, so I pay attention and see how the theories hold up. Here’s the best one: a combination of focus...
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Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
Paper: This blog post has been expanded into a full paper: Scalable and Personalized Oral Assessments Using Voice AI (Panos Ipeirotis and...
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My attempted cult recruitment
Dark patterns in social behavior
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Fun vs. Computer Science (2016)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Science of Fasting
Scientific explanation on benefits of Fasting/Caloric restriction.
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Dumb and Gets Things Done (2010)
Someone once asked Napoleon how he decided where to assign soldiers. Napoleon's reply was that it's simple: soldiers are either smart or dumb, lazy or energetic. The smart and energetic I make field commanders. They know what to do and can rally the troops to do it. The smart and lazy I make generals. They
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Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Masking and Passing (2017)
Autistic burnout is a state of physical and mental fatigue, heightened stress, and diminished capacity to manage life skills, sensory input, and/or social interactions, which comes from years of being severely overtaxed by the strain of trying to live up to demands that are out of sync with our needs.
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Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits
My experiment optimizing my sleep schedule around maximizing my Claude Pro subscription usage.
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Mental Liquidity
I recently heard a phrase I love: Mental liquidity.
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Administrative Purgatory
your case is still going through administrative processing and we don't know when that process will be completed. Last year I was denied to go to the US when I was about to travel to San Francisco. Me and my employer's legal team never got answers as to why this happened so I've personally tried … Continue reading…
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Tips I use to avoid burnout
Tips I use to avoid burnout:
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Websites people say have changed their lives
I asked Kottke.org readers if they had ever seen, heard, or read something on the web that literally changed their lives. Fourteen people said no. Sixteen said
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Advice gathered from people smarter than me
No advice is good for everyone, but these are at least worth considering