During the various covid lockdowns I started a YT channel to talk about coding and programming, not necessarily only frontend. When technologies such as ChatGPT started to show me that this kind of education was becoming unused, I stopped creating new content because I felt cheated by those AI bros. This is a comment I posted over three years ago where I was expressing my frustration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35543668#35548305
The article explains that the payments are very low because the experiment is designed as a behavioral nudge rather than as a side hustle.
For a day of reading someone would only get 0.02SGD
Wow that's really cool! I'm actually trying to learn about woodworking and using those example as a base are really great!
You could consider having an option for metric users as well!
At first I thought they found something new, however it is known that exercise intensity should be of various types for the best health outcome. In my training regimen I already have a weekly session of high-intensity training, and other session at a lower intensity.
High intensity by far gives you the best gains for the time you put in, but there's only so much you can do without overtraining.
The way to really maximize your potential is to do high intensity 30 mins 3x/wk and then intersperse it with a great deal of low intensity cardio. Like 4x more if you can, per the 80/20 rule.
It works because it's starting to approach the most exercise your body can handle. (Although some athletes definitely fit in more.)
I built this HIIT timer tool www.hiitmeup.fit for exactly this reason as I try to squeeze in a compact exercise during my busy work days. I put this out on show HN a few weeks ago and hope others will find it just as useful as I do.
No fees for small transactions also means that merchants will be more willing to accept those form of payment, they have to accept but also not so happy to do so at the moment because of the fees eating on their margins.
I have been experimenting with more hand writing notes as well. What I have been finding is better retention and more focus on what is that I'm following, wether is a book or a meeting.
I recently also started to review flashcards by printing the cards due today and writing down the answer opposed to reviewing them on a screen, and I have noticed a much higher retention as I am not distracted by the mere presence of the device.
I have been using LLMs for this and they excel and understanding my very poor calligraphy. All I do I take photos of the pages I wrote by hand, and then ask the LLM to convert those notes to markdown and convert any diagrams that I might have to mermaidjs style, and worked wonders for me.
Hmmm - I guess all the "chatbot" web interfaces for LLMs have an option to upload images. And they're really good at this now you say? That's a really useful tip; thanks.
I recently read the book Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, a doctor. He emphasized how terminal care should focus on quality of life instead of attempting to prolong it and making it awful.
I find using flashcards very stimulating, however to reach this status it took me quite some time and some trial and error. So if you're new at using flashcards don't quit just yet! Keep using them. My morning ritual is now coffee and anki.
Like the author said, understanding the card you're writing in your deck is fundamental. In my case, I would add, this is even true of when you add language cards. For example, I once added the word `thwart`. This card doesn't "cleanly" translate to my native tongue, and I was failing it at all times, I was confusing it with other words such as stifle, stymie etc because have a close meaning but not quite the one in thwart. Only after I grasped the exact definition and usage of it I started to not block on it anymore. I now attempt to be better at it by trying to also recall or make up the antonym of a certain word.
Also I started to create decks for:
1. Emacs commands, including custom shortcut which I use daily, or trying to drill new commands or features that I leant.
2. passages from books I read, mostly for those I use cloze deletions.
3. simple arithmetic, in order to be quicker at doing those without having to use a calculator at all times with me
4. shell commands, for example less frequently used git commands, grep or rg options.
A final note on using LLMs for flashcard creation. Sometimes the LLM can come up with some useful examples, or memory hooks, which help in retaining the information. Yes, I agree here with the author: out of 10 cards created with the LLM you're probably going to retain just one, and even that one will need rewriting.
