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What is it with that university and questionable practices...


Two more:

For a course format with more audio exposure? Speakly

For an immersion-based approach that will help you improve reading fluency massively once you know just a little bit? LingQ


I'm in sales/marketing; bored out of my mind, so I'm studying to be in R&D.


I remember this being shown on PBS Infinite Series. God I miss that show.


Kelsey has a new channel on YouTube called Chalk Talk. It got some traction with a few lovely videos, but it's been some time since she maade one. I suspect there is a funding issue.

https://www.youtube.com/@chalktalkmath


But it actually seems to serve a useful purpose, namely memory consolidation and differentiation between objects/experiences.


Only when we are not being aware is it possible that we forget.


As someone with a terrible memory who grew up with these constant distractions around me, be it a phone or an MP3 player or what have you, I often wonder how much that contributes to my lack of substantial memory about my childhood. While it's not mentioned here, I wonder if the inverse of this finding is true; specifically, if one doesn't have time of "quiet wakefulness", are they likely to experience a larger-than-usual absence of memory?


Attention (and the absence thereof, i.e. distraction) is definitely related to memory. See:

* Attention and working memory: Two sides of the same neural coin? — https://research.princeton.edu/news/attention-and-working-me...

* Professor Wayne Wu (CMU) on 'Intending as practical remembering' — https://youtu.be/okk-fpwcdbY

However, this is about Working Memory. Autobiographical memory is also related to the experience of emotions:

“Much evidence indicates that emotional arousal enhances the storage of memories, thus serving to create, selectively, lasting memories of our most important experiences.”. From: Making lasting memories: Remembering the significant [pdf] — https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1301209110


Here comes Rule 34...


I assumed that was satire when I read it.


yeah, some of the exercises are like the following:

```

function helloWorld() {

  return "";
}

helloWorld()

```

but those sorts of obvious examples are mostly in the beginner exercises, so I wonder what the distribution of the correct answers was. If it was guessing based on function stubs, the prediction would be that correct answers would be clustered around the beginner exercises, and that as the exercises advanced in difficulty, there were fewer correct answers.


Not to mention you might have to work on projects that are mostly divorced from programming entirely, like making plugins work together in WordPress.


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