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notathinker··on Show HN: Learn LLMs LeetCode Style
The purpose of the project is learning. The author believes that avoiding GPT will help you learn more effectively and offers that as upfront guidance. In this case, “avoid using GPT” isn’t an ethical directive but simply a learning recommendation. The value of that advice isn’t tied to which tools were used to create the question set.
notathinker··on Ask HN: Is there an HN-like forum for woodworking?
Also r/handtools
notathinker··on Show HN: I built an iOS app that helps YouChoose faster
What’s your source of entropy? I don’t just need my indecision, resolved by an app, I need the feeling that my choice is being made for me by the cosmic background radiation!

When I have real breakfast decisions to be made I fire up random.org.

notathinker··on Show HN: AI Mock Job Interview by Talkberry.ai
I can’t get the recording to work on safari iOS.
notathinker··on University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs
1. Does it feel worth the time you are investing? 2. Do you hope that the degree itself will be a valuable credential, or just (!?) that the learning is good value-for money? 3. What, to you, are the advantages of this over self-teaching using MOOCs or any of the other online resources (which are better for computer science than for any other field)?

Thanks for offering to take questions. I'm intriegued by UoPeople and other similar ventures. I have a son who will graduate in a few years who may have social trouble at a regular university.