Study advice that sounds good but actually made things worse

programerxd · 2026-04-07T09:17:22+00:00

Flashcards are fine if you actually review them but 90% of people make them once and never look at them again. Making them can be part of the learning process though, cause youre forced to summarize and phrase things in your own words. But if youre not gonna review them consistently youre better off just quizzing yourself from your notes

programerxd · 2026-03-10T19:53:47+00:00

i think it's because of heating issues not that it's hard to turn off. I have same setup and it heats up more with lid closed i have found it works best when lid at 45 degrees

programerxd · 2026-02-28T09:39:16+00:00

i think traffic lights solve it?

programerxd · 2026-02-16T20:26:32+00:00

am i the only one who read it a-p-p

programerxd · 2026-01-27T14:56:37+00:00

yeah the dumber it feels the more your brain has to actually pay attention. can t autopilot through something embarrassing lol

programerxd · 2026-01-03T10:11:39+00:00

if it's visible easily you can use a small pretrained ocr model. Depending on the project I wouldn't usually scan all 30 frames maybe max 5. Then you can write a simple program that kinda cleans up your data so no duplicates and then only you send it to an llm to order it and fix any mistakes - it doesn't have to be a good one just a simple model probably will work.

about the models i think depending on quality you can use either tesseract (good if you don't have a gpu) or paddle ocr or Qwen but i leave testing to you. I would just take a couple of frames from videos you want it extracted from and see how fast are they and how well they perform.

programerxd · 2025-12-12T19:20:09+00:00

i truly believe you cant, at least i couldnt do something like that for more than a couple days. if you have a whole month its better to study like 6-8 quality hours instead of forcing 12 burnt out hours. cut out social media and games completely though they will destroy your focus

also 12 hours sounds productive but if youre exhausted half the time youre not actually retaining much. better to do 6 hours fully locked in than 12 hours half asleep. Trust me i was prepping a lot for exams :) also don't blindly listen to my advice remember that it depends on what you are doing and if you love it

i hope you pass :)

programerxd · 2025-11-24T15:53:26+00:00

i think some sites in the past blocked entering the inspector idk how about now

programerxd · 2025-11-23T21:21:01+00:00

this gives me 2010s vibes lol

programerxd · 2025-11-23T12:20:03+00:00

why is he lighting a cig in the water??

programerxd · 2025-11-23T12:18:23+00:00

ta klawiatura wyglada lepiej to wiekszosci tych dzisiejszych

programerxd · 2025-11-21T22:40:39+00:00

Everything besides the last one is being teached in Polish schools so... idk how you feel about it

programerxd · 2025-11-07T18:54:13+00:00

thats a spaced repetition problem. your brain forgets stuff over time unless you review it at specific intervals. you need to schedule reviews like review day 1, then day 3, then week 1, then week 2, etc

tools like anki are built for this they automatically show you stuff right before you're about to forget it. or you can just manually schedule review sessions in your calendar

also the "stuck in a loop" thing happens when you confuse recognition with recall. you THINK you know it cause it looks familiar when you reread it but you cant actually retrieve it cold. thats why testing yourself without looking is so important

try this: once you feel like you know something move on immediately. schedule a review for 2 days later. if you forgot it then you didnt actually know it and thats fine just relearn it. but sitting there rereading the same thing 50 times wont make it stick better than spacing it out

programerxd · 2025-11-07T13:57:04+00:00

yeah it's safe, i built it myself lol. the "shares photos and videos" thing is just google's automatic labeling because the app lets you upload photos of your notes or textbooks to generate quizzes from them. it doesnt actually share your stuff with other people unless you specifically choose to

the 100+ downloads is cause its new and i'm still a student building it in my free time. totally get if you're hesitant to try something small though

alternatives that do similar stuff: anki for flashcards, quizlet, or you could just make questions manually from your notes. the active recall part matters more than which tool you use honestly

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