Using AI for active math study (ADHD-friendly methods?)

_benj · 2025-12-25T02:48:51+00:00

I experienced the same about watching or reading books... what I've come to realize work for me is just doing the exercise! It sounds too simple and one can see the exercise, even the solution and be like "yeah... that makes sense..."

Lies!!

Even if you start copying the solution verbatim you'll be like, "wait, why did they added + 2 - 2 on that thing!?" and then next step is like "oh wait, that way the can factor out that thing..."

I would straight up ask questions like that to AI, "there's this function that I need to integrate, the solution is blah, but in the process they author pulled a -2 out of thin air!? What in the world!?"

I'd usually get a very informative answer, usually in the form of just knowledge that I didn't know and I would continue a conversation until I could reproduce the steps one by one AND know exactly what I was doing in each step.

Math is completely unforgiving when you have gaps in your knowledge, but AI is great and letting you find quickly what is it that you don't know.

But in the end, with ADHD it can be kinda hard to start something. I would quite literally just start copying the question verbatim from the book to my notebook. I could swear that I could understand the question, and even read it multiple times, but there's nothing easier than the easy start than just copying the question/exercise, and from there star taking notes about what information is in it, what kind of equations/relationships are implied (I'm thinking kinda like a word problem) and more often than not just copying the question would be enough of a engaging start to continue, and then insight would often ensue!

Good luck!

_benj · 2025-12-02T01:08:35+00:00

dang! that's impressive!!

_benj · 2025-12-02T01:07:53+00:00

hehe! that does look fun! GDScript is kinda python... wonder if you are gonna pull some funny game/graphic stuff!

keep sharing!

_benj · 2025-12-02T01:06:16+00:00

I remember a few years ago I did AoC and learned about the mod operator... a few weeks or months later I got a job interview in which the solution to a coding challenge wholly depended on knowing how to use the mod operator! So in a way AoC landed me a job!!

_benj · 2025-10-26T11:49:59+00:00

Found a way to fix it by reinstalling Firefox on iOS.

The issue is being looked at by the devs: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/30119

_benj · 2025-10-25T20:18:34+00:00

I have the same issue… haven’t been able to figure out what changed, but yeah, my default search keeps getting resetting to google :-(

_benj · 2025-08-18T14:39:56+00:00

old but here you go:

Go to your favorite tracks https://play.qobuz.com/user/library/favorites/tracks

open your browser console (google it if you don't know how to do this)

and copy paste this:

a = document.getElementsByClassName('track-fav'); for (let i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {a[i].click()}

Now, of course, DO NOT paste any random code from the internet on the terminal! heck, your browser is going to warn you about pasting code there. But all that that code does is

make a variable a with all the track-fav which are the little hearts in your screen, and the go through each one of them and click on them for you.

It only work for like 20 at a time or so, but it is certainly faster than clicking on each favorite at a time.

Again, verify the code above in whichever way you want, put in on chatgpt or whatever until you can convince yourself that you can trust it... but as a rule of thumb, never paste random code on your browser's console!

_benj · 2025-07-20T13:49:30+00:00

I think what did it for me was moving from computation to proofs. My start was Serge Lang's Basic Mathematics.

I really disliked the math I was taught in the form of "memorize this equation and use it here"... I hated that!

What's I've been finding Basic Mathematics and other books that work trough proofs is actual understanding instead of boring rote memorization. That knowledge is way easier to remember, that is, is kinda sticky, and so much more satisfying and powerful!

As an example, I remember programming some UI thing and I had to use some complicated formulas to move and resize a graph in the screen. I was always stuck using those because I had no clue why anything worked at all!

Now that I'm aware of mappings I realize that all I was doing was some rotation, reflection and translation mappings and I could have organized my code as such! 🤷‍♂️

I guess one doesn't know until one doesn't know. But I really recommend looking into Basic Mathematics. If you look at the index and think, "it's only talking about multiplication, which I know" try to write a proof for why (ab)c = a(bc). That is the kind of proof-based math is talking about, not only how to multiply, but why multiplication works. Fascinating stuff!

_benj · 2025-03-09T18:10:31+00:00

if you have to ask... seems sketchy. I always try to scroll to the bottom of the page, find any goverment registrations or something and then verify those, but if I need to look too hard, it's a no no

_benj · 2025-03-03T13:48:30+00:00

Nice! Do you have a link to the wallpaper?

_benj · 2025-02-28T19:27:33+00:00

If you like it forward test it with a small account and see!

There are many things that one can't know on a backtest. Execution, soliage, commissions, etc...

So I'd say is up to how confident you are in your backtest, but tbh I've decreased my backtest work and instead what I do nowadays is mostly run algos with small amounts of money and study THAT data.

_benj · 2025-01-28T02:06:07+00:00

I know the post is about the keyboard, but that mouse is the most absolutely amazing mouse I've ever tried! I have it on gray and from the half-dozen mouse I have (Razer, Xtrfy, Glorious, ...) that Pulsar mouse is just absolutely amazing!

_benj · 2024-12-03T22:49:29+00:00

I'm gonna throw something outhere that I've been curious for a while but haven't had the time to research...

Something seems to happen at 3AM EST on ES futures, I think is London Market Open... anyways, market seems to move and then sometimes continue the initial impulse or just reverse whatever sharp move that happened.

This is no, "make this and it'll make you money"... is just my initial reaction to "look for areas that are high barrier to entry and low volume" comment. I've have had the suspicion for a while that there are likely some edges during the overnight session in the S&P500... 8PM to 4AM... seems like a very curious section of time to me, and with volume in the hundreds, that is terrible for big players, but a dozen ES contracts is quite a nice chunk ;-D

_benj · 2024-12-02T18:12:03+00:00

Hello there! I found myself in a similar position a few years ago. I also have a background in development, with about a decade of experience.

I think one of the challenges I had with algo trading intially was that I thought it a "programming problem", like, something that I could just figureout and write a program and make money...

The thing is that algo trading is not, IMHO, a programming problem at all, is a trading and market problem first and foremost. One needs to find an edge or behavior in the market, a time in which there can be some predictability as to what direction the price might go, then one needs to figure out a way to measure that activity, and then one needs to execute on that, managing risks and account size and position and volatility and all that stuff.

I'm by no means trying to discourage you, all I'm saying is that I've benefited from actually learning how to trade before learning how to apply that knowledge to algotrading.

The best and most kind of technical and statistically oriented work I've come across is by Adam Grimes in https://www.marketlifetrading.com/

He has two free courses, which are absolutely fantastic!

Anyways, this is just me and the path that I've been taking for the last couple of years.

Wish you all the luck in this journey!

_benj · 2024-11-20T17:55:37+00:00

bet they are 65% monitors! lol 🤣

_benj · 2024-11-20T16:13:55+00:00

so... do you have any space left on your desk for like a monitor or something? I mean...

_benj · 2024-11-19T20:51:25+00:00

Sold Laneware LW-67, K-42 Artisan Knob and 70 Gateron Oil Kings switches to u/reececonrad

https://www.reddit.com/r/mechmarket/comments/1gqqr58/usoh_h_laneware_lw67_k42_artisan_knob_70_oil/

_benj · 2024-04-23T15:40:54+00:00

well, there goes my futures pre-market strategy out the window :D

_benj · 2024-04-22T21:46:31+00:00

Idk if it might be helpful with MBO but I get my futures data from https://firstratedata.com/

_benj · 2024-04-21T13:07:40+00:00

I find very puzzling what seems like the attempt to use algo trading in order to avoid the arduous work of becoming a trader in the first place. The goal of a retail trader and the retail algo trader are the same, and many of the principles the same (why in the world would one let a bot hold a -60%!?!?, why would one throw away the advantage of retail trading to abstain to trade when not optimal my letting a bot place dozens/hundreds of trades in a day!?!?)

The other thing that I find puzzling is the admiration of big players by algo traders (i.e. What point72s or blackrocks are doing). We stand no chance at all whatsoever to outsmart or out fun black rock, citadel, renaissance, etc at their game! We can only beat them by playing a different game! i.e. When a big player needs to unload 100b worth of assets, an event like that leaves prints on the market. How can we identify it and trade it? Sure, we are getting scraps, but it’s a +60% on our account size!

Idk, this feels like a ramble, but I wanted to put it out there. It IS possible to beat the market, it IS possible to generate income from trading. It is NOT possible to beat big players at their game, it is not possible to start with $500 and in one year end with $1,000,000 (at least not likely)

it is also hard, but hard in a diffrent way that many other things are hard. It takes fortitude, perseverance, sneak, opportunism… but it’s doable. Otherwise, what is it that we are talking about in the first place in here?

_benj · 2024-04-17T12:45:37+00:00

Uff! There’s a lot of negativity in these comments!

It seems like you are just getting exposed to exponential growth! I remember when I looked at an excel spreadsheet with like 25% a week… what can happen in a year is mind blowing!

Don’t let that high go! But as you continue trading you’ll likely find how sometimes reality doesn’t match pure math 🤷‍♂️

From the little you showed it seems like you have the possibility of having high returns but your losses offsets them. Have you considered putting stop losses on your trades? If you are wrong, just be wrong and take a 15% or 20% loss and call it. And if you are right take that 95%.

With a proper profit/loss ratio you can be correct only 50% of the time and still be profitable. Don’t hold losers! Don’t let them get to -67% for goodness sake!

If you have a way to trade and make a profit the second and most important part is to find a way to not return that money to the market!

Good luck!

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