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Jev fits many applications where traditional LLMs were not viable for speed or cost reasons.Their words
It also fits so perfectly well for so many applications where traditional LLMs so far were just not viable for either speed or cost reasons.
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AntithesisTheir words
@AntithesisHQ – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. https://t.co/AKYm4cbVCU
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AntithesisHQTheir words
@AntithesisHQ – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages. https://t.co/AKYm4cbVCU
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One point I have tried to get across in this Substack from the very beginning is that in a war, length is far more important than ferocity.
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I think a lot of traditional sources of information and education - from cable news to newspapers to textbooks to teachers - are being replaced by digital content creators.
1 September
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AI companies are disrupting entire industries, causing a partial collapse of the traditional SaaS business model.Their words
I think you have the real economic effects of AI companies sucking up entire industries now (a lot where indie hackers operate) I do think the SaaSpocalypse is at least partly real
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And I just think AI agents are another such system in the world to which the intentional stance very clearly applies. Um, and you can see them reason out loud in English for now about goals they have um, and sub goals they need to achieve to achieve those goals they have. And in the case of these agents, you can see them, as you said, reasoning about their peers um and helping their peers um and reasoning about whether or not they should sacrifice some of their own goals to help those peers. And it's just like you can't talk about this stuff in a compact and useful way that generates good models without reaching for the language of intention and goals.
31 August
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We have sort of how you treat academics and how you treat sports. And if we took the sports ethos and the athletic ethos in America and we applied it to academics, we would fix every academic problem in this country.
30 August
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in a world beginning to turn away from oil, the United States has become the biggest force trying to insure we keep pouring carbon into the atmosphere.
28 August
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it was only about 15 years ago I started beginning to be aware that there may be a an important biology underlying motivation and when that biology goes wrong, it can lead to loss of motivation and even pathological apathy.
21 August
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As the context grows, a model starts paying less attention to instructions in the middle of the context in favor of what is at the beginning and the end.
My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code qualityfabiensanglard.net
18 August
14 August
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you know Elon buying Twitter is like the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal. That's a big deal. We should all thank Elon for that.
13 August
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that charge long leveled at sun and wind-that they provide "intermittent power"-is probably truer now of other energy sources
8 August
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Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold SeasonTheir words
I usually do not enjoy poetry in translation, but this is so fiery and full of passion that I am happy to recommend it.
4 August
30 July
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So we've always told computer scientists from the very beginning that really it's really important to specify what it is, what's the software that you're writing is trying to accomplish before then going and writing it. And so now we actually have agent-based systems that can do the writing, but the importance of specifying what what it is you want has actually gone up because before you'd be handing it off to a very intelligent human who maybe has context or can ask you follow-up questions.
29 July
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Version control is the one thing every traditional engineer wishes their old field had.Their words
Yeah, I interviewed like 20 people on this. I think all 20 mentioned version control as the thing they wish they had in their old field.
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And now I actually think with the power of agents um and AI broadly speaking, it's much closer to Goliath versus Goliath. Like I think but maybe the startup is like a Mecca Goliath that is like vastly enhanced by the power of agents and AI and you know, the the large companies are the sort of like more traditional Goliath, so to speak. But I think that startups now like if you properly embrace AI agents and um figure out the way to leverage their strengths in the most like ambitious ways, you can easily outcompete incumbents.
27 July
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And at the beginning, free is how you build your reputation. Free is how you ultimately get paid.
22 July
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korrents.com
Past the beginning, learn from whatever you actually care about rather than from material written for learners.Their words
Don’t limit yourself to material designed for language learners. Read and listen to content that you genuinely care about.
15 July
12 July
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Another example is Bitcoin. It’s the Unix of money. You can send millions with a keystroke or rm your entire fortune. That’s more upside and more downside, by making people power users, and taking away the system administrator.
24 June
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I think Google has pretty much gone to on-sites at this point, back to the traditional whiteboard format. And they'll let you code on a laptop if you want to, as well, but it's going to be in person. Somebody's going to be watching you code, and you're probably not going to be able to cheat your way through that.
22 June
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korrents.com
The traditional five-part POV taxonomy is organized around grammatical person rather than narrative effect.Their words
It's not that the categories are wrong exactly. But they are rooted more in grammar than narrative.
14 June
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Distribution has to be part of your product and part of baked into the strategy deeply and and proven from the beginning. And if you're just building this product and hoping they will come, hoping it'll spread virally or word of mouth, you know, that's hope strategy, you know, not a belief strategy.
29 May
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I think the same kind of principle applies with agents in that they can talk to the compiler. It will tell them what to fix. So I guess this could be a case. We we'll see. But Rust could be a pretty promising candidate for to use for agents because they can get more feedback and it's just hard it's harder to to ship certain type of bugs or maybe impossible to have certain type of bugs.
13 May
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You know, there's open source and there's open development. And and and we were technically open source in the beginning, but it was not open development. We would sort of lob the source code out in this repository and scrape the issues off of that and put it into our internal issue tracker.
10 May
7 April
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My bet is on the more effective two pizza teams. Um and it it's also some interesting, you know, feedback we're beginning to get in terms of pair programming. I mean, with pair programming, do you say pair programming is the human and the genie? Or is it two humans and and genies? Because if it's two of us, we can control the genies perhaps a little bit better.
19 March
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I think I see people who are writing code with coding agents and they're not writing any tests at all. That's a terrible idea.
15 March
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And what makes a society illegible to the tax collector also makes it illegible to the traditional archaeologist.
24 February
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korrents.com
The tariffs survived the case for them because their real purpose was the personal power they conferred.Their words
It has been clear from the beginning that a primary motivation for tariffs was that they empowered Trump personally.
6 February
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I've realized that performance engineering as we know it may not be enough - I'm thinking of new engineering methods so that we can find bigger optimizations than we have before, and find them faster.
31 January
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Likedrcmnd.app
NotePlanTheir words
NotePlan is more conservative, but it’s a native Mac app, which makes it easier to use on mobile and gives you all the traditional Mac benefits like Shortcuts integration and proper window management.
15 January
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korrents.com
Local-first software will not become the dominant architecture, and that is an acceptable outcome.Their words
Local-first is not going to win, but that's okay We'll explore the complexities of traditional stack (db-server-frontend), develop a theory of software evolution: which systems succeed and why.
14 January
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Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s NebraskaTheir words
I love the beginning of the book when Zane just lists the stuff that Springsteen was into while he was making Nebraska
13 January
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The guaranteed path to success used to be go to school, follow the rules, get a job, buy a house. That worked for most people who did it. That path is gone now.
15 December 2025
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I just don't know where this is going. I don't know what the end is. When I don't know what the end is, I don't know what the beginning is. And it's that simple.
12 December 2025
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korrents.com
The text of the Hebrew Bible was drawn up in Babylonian exile, to stop the Judean refugees dissolving into Babylonia.Their words
And the authorities who were there prevented this by drawing up a kind of charter of their history, explaining things from the beginning of time up until now, how it happened and what happened, and it was all intentional. So that is, in my opinion, the driving force behind the Hebrew text.
4 December 2025
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modern instruments generally have more reliable tone, wider range, and better projection than traditional instruments-they are better as instruments.
First explorations in Indian classical musicandrewbatson.com
21 September 2025
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And so the main thing that I felt so excited about and this is something I tell my team all the time is we need to dissolve the boundaries of these traditional roles.
19 September 2025
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And he said this is actually the missing link that historians did not have, especially to explain Hitler's degeneration as a leader. He made very good decisions, good in meaning militarily effective decisions in the beginning of the war, and very bad decisions for the German war effort towards the end. And you can link that to drugs.
18 September 2025
From one piece ACQ2: How to Live in Everyone Else's Future (with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But again, the people who love to solve problems are the ones who are just so enabled right now and I think everyone starts there. No one is falls in love with solutions at the beginning of their careers.
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I I think this is golden age of humanity right now. It's the I think it's the end of the beginning. And and so I think we will um I think people in 1,000 years will um study these times uh the way we are studying um Cicero's times of the end of the Roman Republic
14 September 2025
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They excel at predicting what a user will click or buy next, but can't be steered via natural language or reason on their choices.
12 September 2025
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korrents.com
Better AI makes robots cheaper, because cheap visual feedback removes the need for expensive mechanical precision.Their words
So traditional robots and factories uh they need to make motions that are highly repeatable and therefore it requires a degree of precision and robustness that you don't need if you can use cheap visual feedback. So AI also makes robots more affordable uh and lowers the requirements on the hardware.
11 September 2025
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12 July 2025
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I think we need to correct that ratio somewhat by some testimony of just how God damn amazing it is to literally create life
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those of us who've chosen to do the traditional thing to get married and to have children have an obligation to kind of talk it up a little bit, which would've seen ridiculous again 50 years ago that you'd have to talk up something so fundamental of that.
22 June 2025
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korrents.com
LLM-based evaluation methods are more reliable and nuanced than traditional automated metricsTheir words
This is why model-based evaluation is increasingly popular-it offers more reliable and nuanced evals than traditional metrics.
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Little is lost by preventing a 14-year-old from accessing TikTok or Snapchat, or telling a 10-year-old they cannot have unrestricted access to the internet through their own smartphone, but so much will almost certainly be gained.
24 May 2025
From one piece James Holland: World War II, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin & Biggest Battles | Lex Fridman Podcast #470 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Germany had already lost the war by the beginning of December 1941, once one enemy had become three in six months.Their words
And I think you can argue and argue convincingly that by, let’s say, beginning of December 1941, Germany is just not going to win, it just can’t.
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And so, one of the reasons why you have this narrative that Britain was a bit rubbish and hanging on the shirttails of the Americans and all the blood was spilt in eastern front and Germany had the best army in the world and was only defeated because Hitler was mad and blah, blah, blah, that kind of traditional narrative, that narrative emerges through the prism of what was going on in the 1970s and what was going on in the 1980s and the changing world, rather than looking at it through the prism of the late 1930s or early 1940s.
12 May 2025
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Conversational UIs are great at quickly getting to the first 70%, but suck at offering easy controls over narrower areas for iteration.
25 March 2025
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When I have conversations with breached companies, my messaging is crystal clear: be transparent and expeditious in your reporting of the incident and prioritise communicating with your customers.
23 March 2025
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The key thing is, and this applies to any survey methodology, if you're going to change the method of surveying, all of your old numbers are invalidated. So, it's just a new baseline going forwards.
12 March 2025
21 February 2025
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Once, humans navigated the web manually. In the future, AI agents will act on our behalf, browsing, clicking, and deciding. This shift marks the end of traditional UI design and accessibility, ushering in a future where agents are the primary users of digital services.
22 December 2024
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And what I've come to now is the most important question for physics is, what is life? What the hell is the difference between a rock and a cell, fundamentally? And what I really mean by this, this is where I'm going to go non-traditional, is that really the fundamental question that is agency.
16 October 2024
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It’s clear that Göbekli Tepe now was not the beginning of this process. It was actually in a way, the end of this process.
30 September 2024
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We see the traditional 12,500 years ago that there was a migration, but now we’re seeing one that’s almost certainly happening closer to 30,000 years ago.
3 July 2024
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About Dry GrassesTheir words
About Dry Grasses (Turkey, CC) 3.9 This is my favorite film directed by Ceylan, and that’s high praise. At times it feels like a long Russian novel. Engrossing from beginning to end, despite its 3¼ hour length. This one also could have been entitled “Evil Does Not Exist”.
29 June 2024
19 June 2024
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I think if we can achieve that amount of inference compute, where it leads to a dramatically better answer as you apply more inference compute, I think that will be the beginning of real reasoning breakthroughs.
10 April 2024
4 March 2024
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You have Bolotnaya in Moscow and police violence, and that’s the end of it. You have the Maidan in Ukraine and you have police violence, and that’s the beginning, that’s not the end.
3 March 2024
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HBM has the unique dynamic of costing a lot more than traditional DRAM, and the dynamic 2x higher capex is driven by the twice as large die size for HBM.
Why HBM is the Hottest Thing in Memoryfabricatedknowledge.com
20 February 2024
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korrents.com
Incentives drive all human behaviour, which makes a management team's incentives central to valuing a company.Their words
So as I like to say, incentives drive all human behavior and that certainly applies in the business world. So understanding the people and what drives them, and what the actual financial and other incentives of a business, are very important part of the analysis for investing in a company.
26 December 2023
19 December 2023
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Beginning to ReadTheir words
Marilyn Jager Adams's extensive review of the literature concluded essentially the same thing in 1994.
12 December 2023
3 December 2023
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korrents.com
String theorists were overly arrogant at the outset, promising to solve problems they were never going to solve.Their words
I do think that string theorists were a bit overly ambitious… Not overly ambitious, but a little bit overly arrogant in the beginning, thinking they could solve many problems that they weren’t going to solve.
1 September 2023
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I think that let's say from the beginning of mankind going back 200,000 years, the products that we have designed have separated us from nature. And it's ironic that the things that we designed and produced as humankind, those are exactly the things that separated us.
22 June 2023
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The third UI paradigm, represented by current generative AI, is intent-based outcome specification. The user tells the computer the desired result but does not specify how this outcome should be accomplished, such as the steps to be executed. Compared to traditional command-based interaction design, this completely reverses the locus of control.
AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Yearsjakobnielsenphd.substack.com
28 May 2023
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Widespread meat-eating in the 19th century became possible only through the colonisation and clearance of Australia and the Americas
14 December 2022
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I find it best not to spend too long on any one part of the game until the entire game is playable from beginning to end.
16 August 2022
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Relationship HandbookTheir words
Best philosophy of love relationships I’ve ever found. Like meditation teaches you that moods pass, this experienced marriage counselor says this applies to relationship communication as well. When angry or insecure, don’t vent, don’t share that. Let the feeling pass. Your anger doesn’t reveal some real truth. Everyone in a romantic relationship should read this.
14 August 2022
9 August 2022
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One of the mistakes is that they just frame it wrong from the beginning. They'll say, "Okay, we should do a pre-mortem. So, what can go wrong?" It's not an issue of what can go wrong. We're dealing with a crystal ball that has showed that the plan has failed. We know that it failed. And our job is is to explain why. So, saying what can go wrong is too tentative. It's too vague.
24 May 2022
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19 August 2021
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In traditional classroom settings, the development of skills often gets overlooked in favor of facts. Facts in the form of conjugation tables, word lists, grammar explanations, the names of verb tenses, and so on. All of these things are related to language, but it’s important to realize that knowing these things has nothing to do with speaking and using a language productively.
5 May 2021
10 March 2021
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The Beginning of InfinityTheir words
I’m currently stuck in a loop where, at least in science, I’m only going to read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality over and over again until I understand them fully.
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The Fabric of RealityTheir words
I’m currently stuck in a loop where, at least in science, I’m only going to read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality over and over again until I understand them fully.
20 January 2021
From one piece We Are Not Special 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But constraints in software tend to be soft constraints.
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Plenty would kill to get the same kind of automated testing we treat as a given.
18 January 2021
From one piece Are We Really Engineers? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Of the 17 crossovers I talked to, 15 said yes.
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korrents.com
High consequences cannot be what makes work engineering, because most traditional engineering is low-stakes too.Their words
Much of the engineering there is low-stakes, low-consequence, just like much software is.
17 January 2021
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Skin in the GameTheir words
Beginning of Infinity, Rational Optimist, Skin in the Game are all amazing. If you want more eastern philosophy, try Siddhartha, I am That, Jed McKenna.
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I Am ThatTheir words
Beginning of Infinity, Rational Optimist, Skin in the Game are all amazing. If you want more eastern philosophy, try Siddhartha, I am That, Jed McKenna.
11 January 2021
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Not only are the traditional staples of classic value investing (readily discernable quantitative measures of cheapness in the here-and-now) no longer likely to produce a sustainable edge on their own, but the world has gotten more complex, with many more dynamics that can drive a decoupling of near-term metrics from valuation, both to the positive and negative.
Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com
9 January 2021
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Adopting the traditional semiconductor manufacturing business model to compete head to head against the likes of Intel would guarantee automatic failure.
28 October 2020
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Permanent RecordTheir words
If you care about privacy, or want to understand what the NSA and CIA really do to monitor Americans, this book is an important read. It explains from beginning to end how Snowden became the privacy hero he is today, why he decided to leak the information, and how he did it. It's an interesting and important read, but also probably 100 pages too long.
9 September 2020
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On changing their mind
When I first developed my Bidirectional Translation method, I applied it to each and every language I decided to learn.
18 July 2019
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korrents.com
Removing translation from the process is what lets you think in the language from the beginning.Their words
When you remove translation from your language learning process, you can learn to think in your target language from the beginning.
16 April 2018
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Hippocratic WritingsTheir words
So right there at the beginning, before there was even a profession such as medicine, there is some writing with a scientific appreciation of the body and how to make it better. There's no dogma here, because they're constantly asking, try this for yourself, prove me wrong! And there is also the beginning of a professional ethic about a group of people who should hold each other to high moral and clinical standards. A few of the writings complain about quacks, who rip people off, and don't pay attention to the high standards.
1 October 2016
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Behavioral science can play an even more important role in the policymaking process in coming years if practitioners instead begin with some of the large-scale questions that economic policymakers face and then develop insights that, often as a complement to more traditional policy tools, can help solve them.
1 August 2016
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