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New comment by peterhung in "Google search's death by a thousand cuts"

peterhung — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 08:43:11 +0000

A slightly too simplistic analysis.

New comment by peterhung in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

peterhung — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 08:15:27 +0000

https://peterhung.org - Mostly on life lessons - though I'm dev by training. English-only list of posts: https://peterhung.org/tag/english-articles/

My favorite is a post written more than 10 years ago on Buddhism: https://peterhung.org/lessons/you-and-i-the-3-levels-of-conn...

New comment by peterhung in "Learning Is Remembering"

peterhung — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 08:46:28 +0000

I think remembering is not the key to learning. Learning is understanding, in the sense mentioned in cloogschicer's comment + making connections with existing concepts: this is usually called "transfer". Transfer enables us to solve novel problems. Transfer is the real test, and probably the final goal, of learning.

New comment by peterhung in "Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI"

peterhung — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 07:26:50 +0000

It's a cool tool. But for serious learning, and from a more padegogical perspective, it's hard to tell when the AI starts to go off the rails.

New comment by peterhung in "Ask HN: In 2022, what is the proper way to get into machine/deep learning?"

peterhung — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 09:43:39 +0000

If you want to quickly review fundamental stats, you can read: ThinkStats book.

After that, I'd recommend: Statistical models: Theory & Pratice by Freedman.

New comment by peterhung in "I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple"

peterhung — Sat, 28 Aug 2021 12:43:23 +0000

I agree that there are many apps missing on Linux.

But that depends on the type of users: for devs & office workers, I think Google suite can replace MS Office and many Internet apps can help with many other types of everyday app that's available on Mac or Window.

New comment by peterhung in "Can't Unsee"

peterhung — Tue, 18 May 2021 11:29:20 +0000

Some differences are not quite clear.

But interesting idea anyway. Thanks for sharing this.

New comment by peterhung in "Terms and Conditions Game"

peterhung — Tue, 18 May 2021 11:17:59 +0000

"Would you like to not receive our newsletter?" - Super interesting.

Not sure if any real site actually writes so.