Big fan of CRA. I like the idea of bringing this to the full stack. Really cool this includes AWS and CD configurations. I've spent weeks setting that up.
This makes sense. The act of recalling it is what cements your 'knowledge' of it, and repeating that recollection makes it easier to draw that connection each time.
It's not really how we learn new things. We see, hear, experience them in context many times, not force ourselves to recall them. Forced repetition is one of the worst most inefficient approaches to language learning.
I've found spaced repetition a great way to increase the size of my vocabulary whilst learning a language. You're right that it's unnatural, but a large unnaturally-learned vocabulary can then be polished by practice in more natural contents, and I feel like the net result is more efficient than using the natural contexts alone. This is especially true since I do not have easy access to native speakers for half an hour every day, but I can practice with the Anki app whilst on public transport during that time.
Last time I learned a language (German), a small vocabulary was my perpetual weakness. Now I'm learning a different language (Spanish) with a different approach that makes heavy use of spaced repetition, and vocabulary is no longer my weakest point. Instead, listening comprehension is now my weakness. But with a decent vocabulary, I am now working on improving the listening comprehension using podcasts. If my vocabulary were weaker, this would be much more difficult as I would need access to a native speaker who would considerately restrict themselves to mostly use vocabulary I know.
One thing that’s helped a lot with my listening comprehension is following along in a printed book with an audiobook reader. Especially when it’s a translation of a story I already know, I can usually more or less follow the plot and let the language information seep into my unconscious.
Thanks for the tip! That's one thing that hadn't occurred to me to try. I've tried the same thing with TV/movies, but the subtitles are usually not identical to the spoken dialog - they tend to be simplified and paraphrased to be shorter - but eBooks should be very faithful to their written counterparts.
From my experience, spaced repetition is only really useful as a trigger to recall prior meaningful experiences. The really tricky part of using spaced repetition well is writing the cards: you need to work with new material until it feels obvious, and only then make cards that will recall that experience of it being obvious.
For language learning, there’s one other wrinkle: you need to be working with material written in the target language, rather than written about the target language. Most of my language cards are Cloze deletions from novels I’ve read or museum captions, for instance.
The idea that scheduling recall repeatedly is a poor and inefficient approach to learning is directly contradicted by all available research on learning and memory.
See [0] for a review of the research on spaced repetition.
The closest thing there is right now would be ENS - the E stands for Ethereum.
ENS domain names can mainly be used for payment for now, so I'd be sending crypto to [domain].eth where the advantage is having a readable address instead of a random-looking string.
You can also host web pages on it (which I believe is helped by their IPFS) but that has seen limited use as of yet.
I work at Namebase. Handshake is compatible with ENS actually because Handshake has reserved .eth for ENS names. Since Handshake decentralizes the top-level namespace, Handshake can serve as a gateway to other naming systems like ENS and Namecoin.
It can do that or it does do that? Also, ENS doesn't typically resolve to an IP but instead a swarm hash or a block address, what would end up resolving in those cases?
The way the the ENS integration would work is the DNS request for vitalik.eth would end up at a Handshake Authoritative Name Server and then there are certain blacklisted top level domains (.onion, .tor, .i2p, .bit and a few others) where a client for that protocol is instantiated and then a request is sent out to the appropriate system and then the response would be formatted into a DNS query by the Handshake Name Server and sent back to the client.
Incidentally, crypto exchanges in the past (and one very recently, known as Bitmex) have faced issues with US authorities regarding this. Context: US citizens cannot trade unless the exchange is US-licensed.
Essentially, US gov applied pressure such that a simple tick box (to prove you are not American) is not sufficient. So, authorities definitely have precedent to enforce geo-constraints, it's just a matter of "do they care".
It gets really spooky when you start getting ads for something that was mentioned a couple times in Messenger. Wouldn't be surprised if they are scraping DMs now, too.
Not from the South myself, but I noticed a similar trend in parts of the Midwest and anywhere that's not a big city.
Similar to the UK would be somewhere like Japan, which is well-known for its culture of restraint and politeness. Loneliness and suicide rates are high, while dating and marriage are suffering. It would appear a result of having a relatively restrained social culture.
That's the thing about a trick... if you reveal it, it's gone. I suspect there are a few Spotify engineers who read this; wouldn't want to give it away.
Will you be adding other backend or auth options?