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Why does she write in the LinkedIn writing style? Doesn’t she know that nobody likes the LinkedIn writing style? Who are these posts for? Are they accomplishing anything? Why is she doing outreach via comedy with posts that are painfully unfunny? Does anybody like this stuff? Is anybody’s mind changed...

Here is a bad habit I noticed in myself. * I encounter something I want to learn about. For example, let's pick transformers. * I scroll through the tweet/paper/article and get some sort of general gist. "Okay, there's positional encoding, and an encoder-decoder setup, and something called self-attention which people...

"Being articulate" is a skill I feel like I do not have, and I would like to practice this skill. Here are some concrete aspects of "being articulate": * Speaking clearly * Not using filler words "um", "uh", "like", "I guess", "So", ... * Not starting a sentence, getting lost...

Here's a common situation I find myself in: it's 1:30pm and I have a commitment at 2pm. I'd like to spend the next 30 minutes working, but all of the tasks I need to complete will take much more than 30 minutes to complete. I think to myself: "By the...

Tasker is a general purpose automation app for Android. It costs a few dollars and takes a bit of time to learn, but once you learn the basics it is quite useful. In this post, I briefly describe how Tasker works, then list simple things I've implemented in Tasker, and...

Gait recognition technology ( = identifying a person by the way they walk) is getting good, and I find this trend unnerving. Current context: It's already deployed in China by a company called Watrix, which claims 94% accuracy up to 50 meters away from any angle. Japan, the US, and...

How much worse is sitting outside in the shade compared to the sun, for the purpose of experiencing enough lux to feel alert? Making the difference between shade and sun a bit more extreme than it probably is in practice, we can take "sun" to mean "10,000 lux" and "shade"...