?? Depending on the study, false positive rates range from “undetectable” to 2:10000. Or are you worried about false negatives?
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Working on tools that expand what people can think and do.
Past: led R&D at Khan Academy, helped build iOS at Apple.
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I'd be curious to learn more about how/why executives come to sign their names to this kind of writing. Maybe it feels like a natural iteration of the pre-existing experience of signing one's name to an assistant's manuscript, or a press release from staff in Comms? I don't know execs who do this kind of thing, so would be grateful for any observations others might be able to share (anonymously or otherwise).
Aside: I think it would be very good for the culture if HN automatically ran Pangram on any text-centric articles. Even perhaps just those which hit the front page? I have my own browser plugin, of course, but judging by comments here, at least some seem not to notice?
I wonder how far they've gotten past it.
Yes, referring just to reviewing. Adding takes much more than ten minutes, as you say. And so, in practice, I don't saturate this capacity most days.
That's very interesting! The review sessions cap at 50 questions, so that means well over a minute for each. Our design intent is that if you can't remember in a few seconds, you should mark it as forgotten, view the answer, and move on. The marginal benefit from exerting marginal effort to remember on your own from point is not high. But your comment suggests that it would be helpful for the interface to do something to suggest the tempo we have in mind. Thank you for sharing.
A better solution in most cases would be to integrate some kind of "update available" affordance into the window chrome, as many interfaces now do. And (with user consent) most apps should simply update themselves when they are not in active use. That is (again, with user consent), desktop apps should simply behave like SaaS apps.
Ideas like these are public goods, so it’s difficult to profit off inventing them. Given that, we should incentivize their creation with social rewards by crediting their authors.
In the near-term, this project is about augmenting written texts so that readers can easily remember the key details. See https://quantum.country for an example or https://numinous.productions/ttft for detailed background and discussion.
This is very interesting! Can you say more about the task you perform when you see these prompts? How do you decide how to "grade" your response? Presumably it's not just whether or not you can remember the deleted word(s)?
Also: are you blanking out individual words? Phrases? Sentences? An example would be interesting if you're willing to share!
When I was working on new hardware, for instance, to access it I would: enter the building (locked), enter my floor (locked, separate from the rest of the building), enter my office (locked, different key), remove the hardware from my cabinet (locked, another key). For some projects, the hardware could only be stored in offices in a certain building, so I’d have to walk a few blocks away and perform the same steps to access a temporary office where I could work on it (eg for the Watch before its release).
Sometimes this caused serious problems. For a while I was running the project which evolved circuitously into SwiftUI and Combine. We spent months iterating on designs dependent on the proclivities of Objective-C and changes which could be made incrementally to it—which obviously constrained us a lot. Meanwhile the Swift project had been going on for about three years... but only about 70 people inside Apple knew. I was talking regularly to some of the people who were working on Swift, and they’d try to subtly nudge my designs, but there was only so much they could do. After many months of this my boss got me and my colleagues disclosed on Swift (required pulling tons of teeth). The project would be so different in Swift (and would require language changes which the team wouldn’t be able to get to for years) that we canceled our project the next day, after many months of wasted work.
They offer a variety of enterprises services and can now capture more of the marginal consumer value relative to competitors still fighting for the cert issuing market.
(Hi Chris!)
[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/bringing-ideas-36925173 (despite the URL, this is an unlocked post describing the high-level concept)