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The main problem with many function arguments isn't the number of arguments per se. Rather, it's why a method needs all those arguments.
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And that's why we say motivation is 90% of the problem or the solution because you have to be able to motivate the person to engage with these personalized lessons to learn it.
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it's not just like there's some factory somewhere that you can pay to produce the the data like you actually need to invent new novel scientific approaches
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The boring truth is that expertise in most subjects is largely a matter of having an enormous library of knowledge and skill.
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Almost any time I hear that someone has had a damaging experience with meditation, I find that it's because they're violating this rule.
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Coffee processing method's effect on fines production is much smaller than popularly believed.Their words
Many people believe coffee processing affects fines production, and sometimes it does a little, but its effect is drastically overstated.
24 April
From one piece Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Canada and much of Europe have adopted different interrogation techniques — such as the PEACE method — which emphasize collecting reliable information over coercion. These approaches still garner confessions; they’re just more reliable.
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The dominant American police interrogation method is good at producing confessions and bad at producing true ones.Their words
The Reid technique works at getting confessions. But it’s less successful at getting accurate ones.
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Most people hear that story and think: he must have lacked talent, or commitment. I don’t think that’s the right conclusion. I think he was never taught how second language acquisition actually works, and so he spent hundreds of hours doing the wrong things.
24 March
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Education is not something that can be done to someone; it’s something that requires at least a minimal act of will from the learner, and no reform agenda can engineer that away.
1 January
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Try a number of things, right? So, experiment with a number of things. Run a number of small experiments. Once you find something that works, double down on it and then keep doing it until it stops working, which is the step that a lot of people skip. Um, and then once it stops working, go back to the start and try a lot of small experiments again.
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The scalable method is you learn from experience. Um you uh you you try things, you see what you see what works. No one no one has to tell you. First of all, you have a goal. So without a goal, uh there's no sense of right or wrong or better or worse. So large language models are trying to get by without having a goal or a sense of better or worse. That's just, you know, it's exactly starting in the wrong place.
8 September 2025
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Because some people are simply better at school than other people, any pedagogical strategy, practice, or method that improves the performance of the worst students will also improve the performance of the best students
19 August 2025
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I'm more agnostic about the best techniques, things like sparse autoencoders are a useful tool, but easy to waste effort using when a simpler method is sufficient or better - start by doing the obvious thing!
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Almost all discussions of it center on “data”, but it’s actually a fight about payments, and whether banks have a right to monopolize and charge for all economic activity their users engage in, irrespective of whether the bank operates the payment method.
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Tariffs, this kind of highly protectionist method is very distortionary and it’s going to be bad for the US. I’d actually argue that both China and the US have totally taken advantage and also enjoyed the global economic realm under the US liberal order.
31 July 2025
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The Mongol strategy is first you take the countryside. They're country people. They think in terms of countryside. You take the countryside, you occupy the countryside, and you cut off the city. It cannot live without the countryside. And that's how they did it every time.
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Since these datasets are likely already part of model training data, we shouldn't rely solely on them to evaluate our Q&A system.
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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.
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The short-term that company that could make the most money is the one that figures out what advertising targeting method works for language model generations.
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A simple and tested method for communicating and connecting with anyone, Supercommunicators is an exploration of the psychology and neuroscience of communication — and how to use those skills at work, home and in life.
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Anyone can learn a language, and what separates those who do is method rather than talent.Their words
Everybody can learn a language if they know how.
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Fundamentally, the game invites you to make guesses, but punishes you for them — and a missed guess doesn’t help you prune the logic space, only the trivia space.
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Even in that case, though, what we should trust is not the particular output of the scientific process at any given time. It can make wrong turns. Instead, we should trust that it will find the truth eventually, and that it is our best and only method for doing so.
8 February 2022
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Relying on metatables for method lookup tends to produce surprising, unpredictable behavior.Their words
This is a common problem with using metatables; they can lead to surprising, unpredictable behavior.
15 July 2021
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Here we provide the first computational method that can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even in cases in which no similar structure is known.
28 October 2020
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Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.comTheir words
If you're looking to understand the basics of building and scaling a sales process and team, this book is a great primer. It also goes into great detail in how the author built a better, more reliable method than pure cold-calling to generate leads beyond the marketing team at Salesforce's efforts.
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You can't teach a kid to ride a bicycle at a seminarTheir words
Sales isn't easy to learn, especially when you have beginners luck and then hit a wall. This book, from the Sandler Sales Method, gives a good overview of the approach, and why it can be easier to sell when you first start, than once you get into it.
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.
From one piece The Only True Way to Learn a Language 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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While there is no absolute best and fastest way to learn a language, there definitely is a best and fastest way FOR YOU, personally, to learn a language. A method that is tailored to your likes and dislikes, your learning style, and your schedule.
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For your health and sanity, do not force yourself to learn a language using a method you hate, no matter how good other people say it is. Trying to do so will only lead to disappointment, and ultimately burnout.
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In general, people will stick with the learning strategy that they like best, not the one that everyone says is best.
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I am HUGE Notion fan! I pay for the personal plan to get unlimited blocks and use it both for personal and work. I use it for task/project management and structure it using the P.A.R.A. method.
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The Dialogues of SocratesTheir words
Socrates remains the greatest foundational influence on philosophy, and to understand his method, you have to read his dialogues. The rhetoric is brilliant, and at times, even hilarious.
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Method of Levels: How to Do Psychotherapy Without Getting in the WayTheir words
This book isn't just bad, it's dangerous.
6 September 2017
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