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Writing better spaced repetition cards

How can I make better flashcards? While reviewing, I usually notice that some % of cards bother me after a few reviews (usually it’s when the previous…

Apr 11, 2020 •

Weekend Project: Roam -> Anki Sync

Over the last weekend, I hacked together a small NodeJs(!) library that does an automatic anki -> roam sync. Github Learning points: Building stuff in…

Apr 7, 2020 •

December 2019

2019 reading challenge results I read 18 books to reasonable which to me means something like feeling like I got ~80% of value out of the book…

Dec 29, 2019 •

October 2019

Learning via Spaced Repetition

1. Summary I want to remember things better. This article summarizes my ongoing foray into enhancing long-term memory via spaced repetition, including…

Oct 14, 2019 •

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Oct 14, 2019 •

September 2019

Five Things: Sept 2019

Meta I’m starting this (monthly? weekly?) blogchain as a way for me to summarize important events in my life and interesting stuff I’ve learnt…

Sep 15, 2019 •

December 2018

The goal I set an ambitious goal of reading a book a week in 2018. As of 27th December 2018, I am at 47/52 (and not likely to get much further). Here…

Dec 28, 2018 •

March 2018

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?” “I give.” “You get someone who stays up all night torturing…

Mar 12, 2018 •

If you reflect on who you were six months ago and don’t feel even slightly embarrassed by that person, you aren’t growing. You’re stagnant. “How odd I…

Mar 12, 2018 •

A Short Review of Harari's Homo Deus

The most thought-provoking and scary book I’ve read in a long while.

Mar 12, 2018 •

Bayesian Analysis of I-765 Processing Times

Summary aka. How I spent my extra time while waiting for my I-765.

Mar 10, 2018 •

Deus Est Machina

There is an afterlife, but not for humans. This is because God is an ethereal machine, comprised of innumerable lines of code and data. Contrary to what…

Mar 10, 2018 •

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