I tracked my productivity pretty rigorously in college for about a year. My maximum sustainable productivity was somewhere between 6 and 8 pomodoros a day. If a deadline was imminent, I could "crunch" and put in something like 12 a day for a week. Interestingly, I would crash afterwards and can only do about 3 pomodoros-per-day until my brain recovers. The average productivity in the crash + recovery cycle was also 6! So I was just borrowing from future productivity.
One piece of feedback - would be great if there was an "import from Linkedin" feature. It seems like a lot of the information has already been populated, and it's annoying to c/p it over.
It really depends what you mean by "low". It's certainly possible at the hundreds-per-day type volume. The key is to just look for bigger effects. If 200 people show up, 10/100 convert on A, and 25/100 convert on B then B wins (p < .01)
As your traffic scales, you can look for smaller and smaller effects. But the whole idea of testing variants can be applied pretty damn early.
I have experience going through the HD funnel and I only have good things to say. The team is professional, know what they are talking about and can connect you with great companies.
For me, the most valuable part was the interview feedback. Since they want you to succeed, they offer interview feedback that is honest and insightful - unlike when you actually apply to jobs.
I've used the Pomodoro technique religiously for the last year. Some interesting conclusions that I drew from my yearly review:
1) I have a maximum sustainable rate of about 8 pomodoros (4 hours) high focus work per day. This can be temporarily overridden, but I work much less the following days.
2) Bimodal days seem to work best for me. One big block in the morning, followed by a long-ish lunch, and then another big block in the afternoon. Similar to PG's essay on maker vs. manager schedule.
3) Having many small unrelated tasks is inversely correlated with number of pomodoros completed. Usually I get the most pomodoros in when I have 2 big tasks for the day.
Author here. JadeNB you've hit the nail on the head! I have found that each language is better suited towards certain problems. This was a key motivation for making a set of problems specific yo Python. Sounds like you have some great ideas. Hit me up (contact is on the page), we should chat!
Thanks for your idea. I am aiming for very specific boundef problems with quality references. A Google app engine app is much too broad. Do you have more specific suggestions?
Author here. Adding a community aspect is definitely an end goal. Right now I'm trying to create a reasonable project list and perhaps a few sample solutions. I'm toying with the idea of test suites but that really adds constraints on the final solution.
Author here. Great idea! The problem is that I would be hard pressed to come up with projects that are universally appealing. Crowd sourcing for ideas seems like a good option here. If you have a list of ideas please reach out. My contact can be found on the page :)
The article says students were only going to receive their SNP profiles for three genes (lactose digestion, alcohol digestion and folate absorption). I can't imagine how access to this information would radically any student's life paradigm. This sort of demonstration would've vastly increased my interest in first year introductory biology. It's unfortunate that such a great educational opportunity has been lost.
Please don't cite evolution without fully understanding your claims. Evolution USUALLY works through tiny changes, but in certain situations the changes are dramatic and sweeping. If your proposed experiment was carried out, I would expect such a sweeping change. Further I would posit that a pre-mating barrier would form (in the form of contrasting mating rituals) and speciation would occur after sufficient time.
TLDR: Don't claim that Science supports your view if you don't really understand the theory.
This is like saying if you fed everyone the EXACT same diet as Yao Ming, the world would be full of 7ft+ people. A central tenant of evolutionary theory is that there is intra-species variation (serving as the raw material for natural selection to act upon). The brain is also a physical trait subject to variation. Is it so hard to believe that variations in the brain's structure leads to variations in ability?