Mainly because I don’t read rational fictions. I can’t call myself even sufficiently rational so the whole point of a rationalfic would be lost on me. I’ve read HPMOR. It was nice. I just felt that I’ve missed something on a different level because it seems (to me) to have a large amount of praise.
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Not going to use it but:
Good job on not having a javascript hell
Some people might like a mobile view (if there isn’t one already)
No RSS feeds?
How do you solve interpersonal problems when neither sides can see themselves as the one in fault?
I’ve had a a fight with my sister regarding my birthday present. She bought me—boosted with a contribution of my mom and dad—a bunch of clothes. I naturally got mad because:
it’s a large investment for an unsafe return (my disappointment)
I always hated getting clothes for my birthday and the trend haven’t changed. I always just asked for money instead.
It has caused a little bit of bitterness. I understand her point of view, which was to make me happy on my birthday but I still can’t excuse the invalidity of the function she was using, especially considering that I previously mentioned that I hate clothes for birthday.
What should I do in order to ease the situation? Also, do you think that my reaction was inappropriate?
I talked about this with other people and what people said was ‘it’s the intention that matters’ and that sounds like an excuse (and at this point I’m curious if I actually am looking for criticism or just subconsciously hoping I’ll get a bunch of chocolate frogs) so get the best criticism you can give.
Has there ever been any investigation to their identity?
I’m curious how effective it is. Getting beaten up can be a nice example: it’s painful can last for a moment. That zap thing can be
Easily circumvented
Takes the Pavlov banner while not actually being 100% loyal to it.
Isn’t actually much of a consequence.
Most silly thing I’ve seen in a while.
Is it supported by CBT though? It could look silly only to me.
I thought Elo submits the open threads via a scripted cron job—am I wrong? (and if I am, would that not be a good suggestion?)
I’m aware I’m being off-topic, but have you ever thought about alternative methods of memorization?
Here’s two examples, and they have an important thing in common: the answer is visible.
Non-trivia questions: Just like trivia shows, except that they’re focused on a narrow subject.
Practical example: Which of the following is [xyz]? [A] [B] [C] [D]
Fill in the blank and a ‘answers paper’. You need to fill in the correct answer from one of the answers provided in a separate paper.
Question XYZ: __ Answer1 Answer2 Answer3 …. AnswerN
I’ve designed those on the basis of me having a strong nonconsious memory, but haveing difficulty with active recall. But I feel much more confident in my answers when I can remember them like that. Your own milleage may vary.
I’m also interested in some criticism of SRS, because every time I see something ‘good’ I also want to see how many holes can be poked in it. The wiki gave me some sort of ‘this is amazingly awesome’ and I’m just curious, how true is that? For example, if we have x number of cards in a typical deck, can we grade the usefulness of each card? It can get rather personal here but sometimes I have a conflict between perfectionism and practicalism, in which perfectionism says ‘You could completely screw up by missing those details’ and practicalism says ‘How important is it that you know?’, and I’m curious if I’m the only one who feels this way.
Piss off, Reddit.