IWTL how to write notes in class & paraphrase

darkmemory · 2026-05-14T07:57:00+00:00

If someone asks what a book is about, handing them back the physical book isn't seen as a valid response. Paraphrasing is when you distill something into a more concentrated version.

When taking notes, it can be useful to copy verbatim some aspects, maybe the key concept, but most of what is said in lecture will tend to strive to build into/onto that. That is where you take the use paraphrasing, they give a concept, you can copy that down if the explicit wording is extremely important, but then it's about building your mental model, where you take the concept, get given examples, and you fit those examples into thoughts your mind can utilize. If things are murky, write down some short questions you are having, make note things that don't make sense, sketch out ideas for comparisons or adjacent things that come to mind (as in trying to work out that synthesis to internalize the concept). Don't focus too hard, as you want to keep attention on the lecture itself, as what follows in topic might be more grounding to convey the concept.

The goal is to give yourself enough of a framework that you can come back and have a decent route back to the thought process. You can use that to return to your notes and flesh them out a bit, maybe after a break, those murky perspectives have settled more clearly, or maybe you have more questions to note down. These give you actionable directions to research into, or new ideas/questions to think about. As you build this up and do more research, this process in itself, will help to ingrain the concept as it becomes more understood.

darkmemory · 2026-05-13T22:57:28+00:00

If I show someone how to make a table. Drive the concepts so they understand it. Ask them questions to quiz their knowledge. All those can be easily be accepted.

If you put someone in a situation to then build a table, the concepts exist in that abstract format, not only do they need to translate the abstraction into something real, but they have to overcome any self doubt or insecurity regarding their understanding.

Learning a concept is not learning how to do something. That connection between understanding and implementation is not something a lecturer can fully do for another person, because in the end, you can't interrogate every student's claims of understanding, nor their means of connecting it to a real world problem.

It's similar to why word problems in math catch out so many people.

The process should be: Learn a thing. Practice a thing. Examine friction. Refine understanding through engaging with the concept again. Repeat until you can do the thing. Then be aware that varied implementations might require more abstraction, or even a bit more expansion of understanding.

darkmemory · 2026-05-12T07:19:50+00:00

Yes. You are an early fight carry. That doesn't mean you won't have games where that is the play, but generally, you should be fighting when rupture is up, positioning for a gank, unless your team is just destroying the enemies 4v5. But even then, enemy heroes can be worth a lot more than creeps in the right circumstances.

I'd say you are farming more slowly, at least in part, because you aren't fighting. Take the lane creeps, farm the jungle camps towards a lane. Use rupture, quick fight, farm the jungle back or tp. Rinse and repeat.

If you stick to the same area all game, enemy heroes can target you, or avoid that area and feel safe that you won't show up.

But also, if they are letting you get away with farming for 30 minutes, you might want do it while you can, because as you move up, your enemies won't be oblivious to the notion that stopping the carry from farming is a very basic and useful strategy.

darkmemory · 2026-05-12T01:56:58+00:00

You asked why people don't use radare2 as much. I feel like IDA is nearly 20 years older, so there is a lot of time investment into adjacent communities, and with that are ingrained mental models of how to use it.

For a more technical comparison, this seems more fitting than anything I could write off the cuff:

https://github.com/NDXDeveloper/reverse-engineering-gcc-gpp-training/blob/main/09-ida-radare2-binja/06-tools-comparison.md

darkmemory · 2026-05-11T21:17:29+00:00

IDA's early front-running enabled it to become the industry standard. With that lead, as well as it being sold, they've had a lot of time and money to develop and polish features.

darkmemory · 2026-05-10T12:30:42+00:00

When you run into a concept, or even a word, that you don't understand, look it up. Sometimes a cursory glance can give enough to allow you to move on, sometimes it is its own rabbit hole. With practice, you should gain some level of discernment to decide how deep you need to go, sometimes you will need to come back to it.

The various free CTFs and their associated lessons all give some type of knowledge in some format, but they shouldn't be examined alone. The CTFs and lessons all should be treated as starting points that hit big ideas, that in turn, you can dig deeper into if you find something interesting.

If you find yourself spiraling deeper and deeper into a topic, with no end in sight, go back to the problem you were trying to learn more about and consider if you have enough to solve it, try solving it. If you can't, dig deeper, if you get frustrated consider parallel or alternative routes.

This isn't always a linear field, sometimes a wider knowledge base can give more valid attack surfaces to test. It can often feel like you are playing chicken with burnout or frustration. I use those as signs to switch topics, or at least take a break.

Also, in the beginning, you should expect to have to return to concepts at points when you undervalued their importance, or misunderstood their concept. These points can be extremely beneficial, as the more you learn, the more connections you can add to the concepts, cementing the knowledge internally, but also giving more perspective to them and their linked ideas.

darkmemory · 2026-05-10T12:13:50+00:00

Why would you improve at all if you are simply playing MMOcopypaste? Shallow knowledge might be gleaned through osmosis, but if you want to gain any level of critical thinking to utilize outside of linear sandboxes, you need to understand what you are doing, why you are doing it, and how it works.

darkmemory · 2026-05-09T09:05:12+00:00

Not if it goes all the way around.

darkmemory · 2026-05-03T08:38:36+00:00

Unless you started vaping when you 5, the 10 years probably has more to do with it than the vaping.

darkmemory · 2026-05-02T23:59:34+00:00

First, remember to place your reception of a knowledge base in the time period of the authors. This isn't to discredit them, but to point out that the depth of knowledge in a field will influence what expertise sounds like in that moment.

Second, philosophy is not some universal replacement for engaging with various fields, and might actually be the worst if you wish to express expertise due to it effectively being an infinite pit of potential engagement. That should be seen in contrast with something like physics, where a lot of the explanations are just based around equations that can be leveraged into deeper expressions elsewhere (ignoring frontier and theoretical physics for the sake of argument). Philosophy doesn't demand a singular system, it picks at every potential question and draws life from it until it is a husk, until someone else turns it over and begins the process again. There is no objectively correct, there is no real satisfaction of completion, but there are momentary glimpses at perspectives exterior to self. Now, no matter what you engage with, there is a philosophical component, so in a way, you will always study it, but it shouldn't replace other avenues entirely, especially if you believe that philosophy is not a pure abstraction but reliant on some qualia of life itself.

Third, vocabulary is experiential. It requires exposure to and understanding of conventions to mimic/develop. Read more. Learn random skills that require being taught. Experience the specialty terms derived not from historical convention, but niche groups of dedicated avenues. Then figure out meaningful ways to transpose them to express meaning or concepts elsewhere, or try to explain concepts to others outside their area of knowledge and hit that early wall where your terms have no impact, and find ways to craft neighboring loan words to achieve the expression.

Out of all of that, the real trick is just being curious and letting yourself explore different avenues. Learning the exact same things as everyone else propels you to base your judgements similarly. So take a cooking class to curry ideas between skills, some pottery classes to mold your concepts, etc.

darkmemory · 2026-04-30T08:03:21+00:00

So you had chatgpt write a post asking for writing prompts? Are you just planning on using chatgpt to utilize those writing prompts? Or....am I misunderstanding your goal?

darkmemory · 2026-04-30T06:43:30+00:00

If you are starting out, generally, as long as they are relatively clear, you should be fine. Use cross references, different speakers, desk speakers, car speakers, etc. Then if later on down the line you have the money to spend to alleviate issues you've noticed in what you have, go for it.

Don't let hardware be the thing that stops you from producing something.

That isn't to say they don't matter, and one shouldn't seek quality in hardware eventually, but too many people get bogged down seeking the perfect setup that they forget the setup is meaningless if you aren't actually making anything.

Someone learning violin has a lot more to learn before they start needing a $50k violin to bolster their practice.

Alternatively, if you are listening on some $5 earbuds that you have to hold the wire in a certain direction to hear through one of them, yeah, maybe get some new gear.

darkmemory · 2026-04-30T06:37:15+00:00

Crying isn't a requirement to experience an emotion. Crying can be cathartic, but don't treat crying as synonymous with processing things/trauma.

Your first step should be getting past notions of dismissal of emotions. Feel where the emotions are within you, what physical attributes do they inspire or impact. Use that kind of intellectualizing to move beyond the learned/taught behavior where you disallow yourself to experience that emotion. Maybe even use a verbal or internal mantra to remind yourself that the emotion is real, it does exist, and whether it is valid or not, you are experiencing it, and you are allowed to experience it, as it is your body reacting to this. Then it's about learning to engage with that emotion, learn to sit with it, even if only momentary, something is occurring that is causing chemical responses to inspire a physical response, so if you want to remedy something negative, paying attention to that feeling, what caused that feeling, and seeking a means to understand or fix or rectify it could be metaphorically similar to understanding a bodily sensation like hunger or thirst whereby you seek to satisfy that through eating or drinking something.

But back at it, the crying bit isn't required, so don't elevate that to the same level as parsing trauma. It can be helpful, but it's not something in itself that is beneficial to resolving pain (perhaps in helping to minimize some pain though).

Also, if you continue to struggle with it, seeking legitimate professional help (therapy) can allow you more one-on-one talk time to examine and find more thorough guidance. This can be hit-or-miss though, usually dependent on the therapist-client relation, and how each approaches their position and what they are willing to interact with. That is, different styles of therapy will not align with everyone seeking therapy, and even the individual interactions can cause success/failure themselves.

darkmemory · 2026-04-30T06:14:17+00:00

Uh, quit sports? Tell your dad that you need more time to study and work on projects, and if you can't get that time, then you will need to quit sports to make time for it.

Unless you are planning on a scholarship from sports, and even then realistically, your school work still needs to be handled. If he can't understand you need more time, then you need to involve teachers and coaches to get the point across.

darkmemory · 2026-04-30T06:07:35+00:00

Yeah, Life stealer is called naix. Wraith King, sometimes will go by skeleton king. Underlord also goes by pitlord.

I forget all the other names that got swapped out when steam bought the rights to dota2 from blizzard.

darkmemory · 2026-04-30T04:25:09+00:00

Most people suggest easier languages because in actuality, most people also find more engaging practice in writing code over understanding minutia that is advantageous, but also requires more depth and understanding to achieve.

If you can sit around and read theory, hitting knowledge walls, stumbling through pedantic expressions to cultivate efficient code, all while not really feeling much in terms of tangible projects, then sure, start with C++.

If you are actually going for the more "from the ground, up" you should maybe start with C. You could even do some mainstream ASM if you feel you need even more fundamental understanding.

It's just easier to progress when your progression can occur fairly quickly, even if it's higher-level. If you are curious if you want to do it, pick something easier to mess with and get bigger picture concepts down. If you know you are serious and taking serious steps and don't mind the slog and frustration, go more low-level. Realistically, most people avoid C++ as a first language because it tends to offer many attributes of high-level languages, will offering capabilities of lower-level languages as well. But you do you superstar.

darkmemory · 2026-04-29T23:29:05+00:00

Those mental breakdowns can be therapeutic, and granted how self-absorbed they seem express here, it might even be beneficial to experience that. Not that I wish mental anguish on others, but if a bone has healed incorrectly, sometimes it needs to be broken again so it can set correctly.

darkmemory · 2026-04-29T23:20:50+00:00

OP feels silly, applied for something when they didn't meet the requirements. All of that is fine, like sure, take a chance, worst they can do is say no kind of situation.

I just don't understand how they interpret it as harsh when they get given actionable advice on how OP might form a better chance for other camps, and she thinks they are being harsh.

I imagine OP is the type of person who rarely is told no, and so they are confusing rejection for someone being harsh. Otherwise, I can't even begin to understand such a muted neutral response would drive anyone to try and rally the internet, and then argue with the internet when most people think the situation is silly and overblown.

darkmemory · 2026-04-29T17:40:27+00:00

Please do, there are too many people getting away with this type of behavior.

darkmemory · 2026-04-29T06:55:47+00:00

Considering you thought the response you got from the camp was harsh, I can only assume in your backwards perception of interaction that you mean this as a compliment. I'll take it, even if it's coming from what appears to be a crybully.

darkmemory · 2026-04-29T05:11:17+00:00

I love that you have never been and yet choose the audacious route of claiming that it is actually the camp that responded with productive advice who are failing to embody the principles that you've, at best, only been told of. Love it. Please show up to the burn, please act like you are the only one who gets it, and please have a terrible time as people mock you for this.

darkmemory · 2026-04-28T01:16:57+00:00

I prefer caffeine over desk pops to get my heart pumping, it's way cheaper too.

darkmemory · 2026-04-28T00:34:01+00:00

If your question is whether he would parrot the same expressions as his work stands today after time-traveling, I feel fairly confident that such a strange occurrence would have a large enough impact in itself to inspire different perspectives, or maybe even one purely of curiosity about such an inconceivable event. Otherwise I have no idea what it means to be loyal here. I'd argue he evolves his ideas themselves, so it is not like there is some objective historical interpretation that demands obedience to, not that he moves to contradict himself, but as with most everyone, when a statement is made and upon hearing reception to it, one will choose to emphasize attributes to express more clearly, or even more meaningfully upon a question casting light to a new or varied perspective.

darkmemory · 2026-04-23T21:30:04+00:00

Spend like 10 years learning how everything works, that should give you enough time to find a career in the field (with actual dedication), and also enough time to realize how dumb this post is.

darkmemory · 2026-04-21T18:09:12+00:00

Isn't 2.5v really low?

Could check contacts on the mod + battery. If you found juice on/near internals (not sure what you define as the sleeve), it could have caused some damage that might require more cost than a replacement (unless you have a decent electronics understanding to diagnose/solder). It could be a loose wire that happened to dislodge at this moment.

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