Domenic Denicola

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Essays that don't yet have enough siblings to be grouped into a more descriptive category.

  1. Spaced Repetition Systems Have Gotten Way Better

    Spaced repetition systems are a well-known way to efficiently learn material. Recent innovations have applied machine learning to greatly improve their scheduling.

  2. Learning Japanese Part-Time

    After 6.5 years of studying Japanese, and only getting moderately far, I reflect on how to most effectively study a second language while only being able to spare an hour or two a day.

  3. ChatGPT Is Not a Blurry JPEG of the Web

    Are LLMs just compressed representations of their training data, or something more? The "simulators" hypothesis proposes that they're much more like a human imagination, instantiating simulacra of various entities.

  4. DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source

    A plea for DigitalOcean to stop making open source maintainers' lives miserable, once a year every year.

  5. Mathematical Consciousness

    What if your mind is nothing more than evolving data—and what if the cosmos is nothing more than a static mathematical object?