Some context for those that may be unaware; Chet has been a staple in the Android developer community for a very long time, having hosted a popular podcast and been a staple a conferences. His move into comedy will surprise no one, but he will be dearly missed.
Just to confirm my understanding; would you consider at least part of your product offering to be similar to temporal.io [1]? Your examples are reminiscent of theirs.
[1] https://temporal.io/
Feedly is fenomenal, its my 2nd most used app after email. I really love the advanced features of mute filters, web alerts and Leo - Feedly's AI Engine.
Have been on the feedly train ever since google axed reader, was able to transfer all feeds via import ++ will help you get some kinda feed (can break with big site redesigns but has been pretty solid) from sites without RSS. Haven't needed to shop around at all since 2013.
One more vote for feedly from me! One of the few online subscriptions I don't mind at all paying for. I especially like the ability to auto-generate email addresses for newsletters to "turn them into" RSS feeds within feedly.
I don't know about ios, but on Android there's a program called "Palabre" that lets you log into feedly. I like the interface, precache + readability features much more.
I haven’t had any major issues, but on the iPad the navigation is sometimes in limbo. I believe this is caused by using the keyboard/touchpad instead of touch.
I use Feedly Classic which is clocking in at around 37 MB. But I am looking at the other apps on my phone and the majority of them (maybe 90% roughly estimating) are well over 59 MB. Chrome, for example, is almost half a gig. What device are you using that 59 MB is an issue and are you also eschewing all the other apps that are that big or larger?
Correct. Reverse mode seems much harder to express in Haskell..i was trying to understand AD some time ago and used Haskell for that (before running into Conal's paper). This way of writing forward AD was easy and it was awesome to see type inference and laziness help me with the understanding.
At that time, I tried to code up reverse mode AD and failed to do it with comparable simplicity.
I'm yet to give reverse mode a second try, but my attempts at forward mode (linked in parent post) were on my own without the paper's help. There's a talk that Conal gives that makes the paper a bit more accessible - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne99laPUxN4 - but only a bit more. I know it'll take effort to wrap my head around the implementation details ... but the paper certainly helped clarify things I was stumbling around about.
This post feels identical to one that I had been considering writing for a while now.
I'm nearly 28, and the past ~4 months have felt like I have been suffering from acute brain fog. And not even regarding challenging topics; most of the decline feels concentrated in parsing relatively simple logical statements and arguments. I used to be able to do this without any difficulty, and now, suddenly, it feels like it requires conscious effort. I too feel like I used to be decent at math and computer science. It's gotten so bad that I'm wondering if this is an actual medical condition (perhaps there is lead in my water? perhaps I have long COVID?).
As far as testing intellect (2), apparently it's not so far out of the ordinary to request a clinical psychologist to administer an IQ test. Additionally it's easy to get tests from Mensa or other organizations. I've been considering doing this for a while myself, but have delayed due to anxiety over the result. IQ tests are evaluated against individuals of the same age, so it won't tell you how you compare against people of other ages (including your younger self), but you can probably compare against earlier aptitude tests you have taken to see if there is a decline. I get the whole IQ discussion gets toxic really fast, so I'll just say I'm not endorsing any of the rhetoric or ideas that co-occur when people start talking about it.
For (3) I think the research on this is rather grim. I don't have time to come up with a good survey, but I'm sure the "rationalists" among us will happily chime in. I think the consensus is that it is possible to increase abilities in a narrow domain and only for a short amount of time.
I have to admit that this has been a very hard thing to come to terms with. I've already felt my work performance suffer, and I'm not sure if there is anything I can do about it. I've been exercising regularly for years now, and recently got my sleep habits in check, but to no avail.
I suspect there is something going on with the number of people I see describe brain fog symptoms. If you look at google trends there was a marked increase in 2020 (probably covid related?).
Plus one for these. I found them a quicker and perhaps funner read than CLRS which was my undergrad textbook, and it covers a lot of interesting stuff. These are all a part of David Kopek's book project you can find here: https://classicproblems.com/
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(I didn't opt to randomly choose the middle letters, but instead sorted them, using reverse alphabetical order when the word came out the same. This makes some words insanely difficult--functional and interpretation are impossible to pick out so mangled, and I wrote the entire paragraph before pasting it).
If you thought that was too hard to read, here's the original:
Actually, that is not true. It seems like it ought to be, but that is in large part due to only very slight munging done to the text. If you try harder, and apply a more aggressive transformation to the text, you will find that it is no longer easy to read the text. Especially note how the longer words in this sample are far harder to read than those that are shorter; it is the omnipresence of the small, functional words that lends itself to easy interpretation, and longer words (more heavily mangled) become exceedingly difficult challenges to puzzle out what they were originally intended to represent.
FWIW I still found the heavily mangled version fairly easy to read, maybe a 20-30% slowdown max and it got easier as I went.
I speedread though so maybe it's because I'm already used to not actually focusing on letters and taking in the gestalt instead. It's kind of like how it's easy to tell the equality of two sets written in different orders up to about size 4, and past that it gets tricky. This is why the classic tick mark system uses 4 ticks and then a slash for the fifth too.
