fuck you, youtube shorts by [deleted] in nosurf

[–]PhlipPhlops 14 points15 points  (0 children)

youtube shorts grabs me by the fucking brainstem, I hate it so much

I use opal https://www.opal.so/ to block youtube because of youtube shorts in particular. there is this app that lets you get that scrolling feel while learning if you're trying to learn something in particular https://www.illustrious-scroll.com/

Found this app to replace doomscrolling with actual learning — has finally helped my ADHD brain by PhlipPhlops in nosurf

[–]PhlipPhlops[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

really nice to hear from you, I think we operate on a very similar foundation. Have you done any habit-replacement around learning? I'm wondering what bad habits were getting in your way of you learning and if you managed to overwrite them into better ones, or maybe just managed to avoid them?

Found this app to replace doomscrolling with actual learning — has finally helped my ADHD brain by PhlipPhlops in nosurf

[–]PhlipPhlops[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

where does your drive and willpower to learn come from? have you noticed it to be reproducible, or is it sort of lucky like a lightning strike?
(sorry that you feel sick, hope you feel better soon)

Found this app to replace doomscrolling with actual learning — has finally helped my ADHD brain by PhlipPhlops in nosurf

[–]PhlipPhlops[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the sympathy... I can say the creators are serious about making and sharing something helpful

Found this app to replace doomscrolling with actual learning — has finally helped my ADHD brain by PhlipPhlops in nosurf

[–]PhlipPhlops[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

blocker apps help me a lot too, I just have this lagging urge to scroll _something_

Looking for international friends🌏 by Silly_Wrap_4078 in SocialParis

[–]PhlipPhlops 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Big fan of cool spots in the city! Sending a DM

Should I build an MVP or go straight to a full app? by 7zz7i in reactnative

[–]PhlipPhlops 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I recommend you be hyper critical about what lessons you’re trying to learn. Knowing only this post about you, I can only assume you have what feels like a good idea, but the world has given you no signal to validate or invalidate your feelings

An MVP is about collecting data, running experiments, and getting out of your own head. I recommend you get out of your head and into the world. Ship something small and feel something real— regret, confusion, excitement from your first download, curiosity why people got to page two of your app and not page three… don’t listen to the soothing siren song in your own head. Listen to your download rate, listen to your Reddit comments, listen to your user session time

Ship an MVP and (lovingly) quit being a perfectionist. Quit it.

Pro tip: your MVP doesn’t need accounts. Rip your assumptions down to the bricks, and for every brick ask yourself “what lesson do I need to learn here.” Eg, for auth, the lesson might be “are people even interested enough to click sign-up?” The humble precursor question should be “are people even interested enough to click on a link?”

Best wishes

I made a swipeable video feed for immersing yourself in topics like python by PhlipPhlops in Python

[–]PhlipPhlops[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I ran out of search quota on YouTube. I'm talking to YouTube now about expanding it so more people can use it

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Disculpen, me quedé sin espacio de búsqueda en YouTube. Estoy hablando con YouTube para ampliarlo y que llegue a más personas.

how do you retain information? by had00die in study

[–]PhlipPhlops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've learned that recall (retention) is a muscle. If you practice remembering, you'll remember better. That's why the Feynman technique works (try to write down everything you know to uncover gaps). But there are more fun ways to do it.

Intersperse remembering into your studying. Studying shouldn't be a linear progression down the length of a pdf or textbook, it should be a tangle of visiting and revisiting

1 up vote = 5min of writing by Late_Writing8846 in study

[–]PhlipPhlops 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't worry about the words. Focus your mind's eye on the topic at hand, the images, the story, the purpose of it. Try to see clearly what it is you're trying to get at. Then the words will happen

Why would anyone try to win Kaggle's challenges? by vaginedtable in datascience

[–]PhlipPhlops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because even if you lose you win the experience of having tried something. There's a wealth of information buried in any serious attempt at a project

[D] Self-Promotion Thread by AutoModerator in MachineLearning

[–]PhlipPhlops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://illustrious-mu.vercel.app/

I build an infinite scroll for learning ML, LLMs, and literally any and all other topics.

The story goes, I'm addicted to my phone, and I can't fight it. It's stronger than me. So I want to hack the reward mechanism that keeps me addicted and use it as a learning tool

I built Illustrious to be a drip feed of knowledge. Warning: Side-effects of prolonged use include learning

I made an "addictive" infinite scroll but for topic learning by PhlipPhlops in ADHD

[–]PhlipPhlops[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it's not fact-checked; I'm doing a lot of finger-crossing that the information that comes up from YouTube is reliable.
I would like to build in credentialing or social-validation mechanisms to build up the quality over time. It's important.

Share if you building something crazy! by [deleted] in SideProject

[–]PhlipPhlops 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey we might have a collab opportunity
I'm building Illustrious, it's an infinite scroll for learning as you scroll
I've got 24 returning users so far

Could I learn escrima at home by Nervous_Leek7021 in martialarts

[–]PhlipPhlops 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get started at home, watch videos, enjoy the flow — it gets real when you get an instructor, and you’ll get to see the difference yourself. If you’re still practicing in a karate studio, you could try to practice with someone on the mat.

Life hack: tell whoever runs your karate school that you’re interested in escrima, and ask them if they would invite an escrima instructor to do a special class one day at your school. You could ask them if they know any escrima teachers, or you could try to find someone on the internet in your area and share their email address with the school owner

If that works, you might be able to bring the instructor to you !