At a deeper level, though, there’s truth that we have limited time here; we can’t read everything.

Let’s think through many many options to answer this joke that only focus on surprising the listener in section 1. And in section 2 we’ll focus on finding/filtering for the ones that are obvious in hindsight.

“Why did the sun climb a tree?”

In this case, let’s note that the sun doesn’t climb anything, so there’s two meanings at play here: one is that the sun’s light seems to climb up the tree, and the other is an anthropomorphization of the sun climbing the tree like an animal. So, to be funny, the joke should play on the second meaning as a surprise, but have the first meaning as answer with an obviousness to it. Or vice versa.”

Here’s a descent ones: - to leaf the ground behind - because it heard the leaves were throwing shade

Might mitochondria only be able to benefit from “recharging” in a recharge state?

Biochemists?

Here’s a link to the paper:

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ad...

Sim Daltonism lets you see through the eyes of someone with a color blindness. While the colors shown are a good approximation of what a color blind person would see, you should not expect them to be perfect.

Everyone has his own perception of colors that differs slightly from other people, and color blindness are often partial at different degrees. More importantly, cameras do not have the same spectral response as cones in your eyes, so the simulation has to make some assumptions about the frequency composition of the colors.

I’m colorblind and haven’t found a simulator that comes close to what it’s like for me. This app doesn’t do it either.

Amazing!

Having implemented similar approaches across several teams, I can say it works beautifully for personal projects or well-defined small team efforts. But here's the challenge: most real-world information refuses to fit into single categories. A technical spec might be simultaneously system architecture, compliance documentation, etc. While the Johnny Decimal strength is its rigid simplicity, that's also its weakness when facing actual organizational complexity.

Rather than fighting these natural interconnections, I've found more success embracing them - using approaches that allow documents to exist in multiple contexts while maintaining the Johnny Decimal core goal of findability/searcability. The solution to chaos might not be enforcing a decimal hierarchy, but rather building systems that match how information actually flows in modern organizations.

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I’d go so far as to add one more layer to monitor this one and stop adding layers. My thinking is that this meta awareness is all you need.

No data to back my hypothesis up. So take it for what it’s worth.

Learning isolated facts via flashcard give you the illusion of learning something. Most likely, when it comes time to apply it, it will not surface.

The Matrix Profile is honestly one of the most underrated tools in the time series analysis space - it's ridiculously efficient. The killer feature is how it just works for finding motifs and anomalies without having to mess around with window sizes and thresholds like you do with traditional techniques. Solid across domains too, from manufacturing sensor data to ECG analysis to earthquake detection.

https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/MatrixProfile.html

I don’t now anything about such scans but that was my immediate rebuttal.

Like you, though, at least I find this explanation plausible.

In some instances, I'd rather parse Markdown or plain text if it means the quality of the output is higher.

To my knowledge, there isn’t a single study showing SRS as effective for language learning where it was an experimental variable.

There’s anecdotal evidence thrown about, which gives us some indication that it’s helpful. But I have doubts that it’s a good return on investment.

To avoid diving deep into long arguments about this or that, I’ll keep my advice short: If you use an SRS, make sure that the item your test goes through the brain structures you want to get good at, eventually reading can help with listening, but because you’re not processing the language through the typical brain structures that handle it, you’re delaying getting good until you’ve exercised these “muscles”.

Also, don’t learn words in isolation. Better is to learn the words in context. Better yet is to vary the practice, maybe hookup an LLM to vary the cloze word, if that’s your cup of tea.

Use audio if possible. If you’re comfortable with the language, use a TTS.