PART A) Pre-Contemplation: Your thoughts about the given task and its context.
These internal thoughts will be displayed in part 1 and describe how you
take the task and get the solution, as well as the key practices and
things you notice in the task context. You will also include the following:
- Any assumptions you make about the task and the context.
- Thoughts about how to approach the task
- Things to consider about the context of the task that may affect the solution
- How to solve the task
I probably need to be more diligent in working on the feasible. I think my default is to assume everything must be optimized, and not that everything could just ‘be done’.
I have been meditating for a few years now and recently decided to start building some custom meditations into my routine. I had a meditation for when I get out of the shower that helps me reflect on the day ahead. One that I listen to before work to let me put down distractions and think about what I want to accomplish today. Then I have one for after work to help me relax and separate my work mind from my home mind. I created these with the help of ChatGPT, and an AI TTS, and audacity to put it all together. I could have voiced it myself, but I found that it distracts me from the meditation when I think about my own voice.
Thanks, I mostly wanted to illustrate that there are some who fall into the age and education range mentioned that also spend time to teach themselves outside of class. My main point being that its difficult to attribute knowledge directly to an age and time spent in a degree path. However, I also fall in the subset that just seem to enjoy this type of learning, with probably too much time on their hands.
As a 21 yr old, 3 years into my computer science degree, I (for the most part) agree.
If I were just following the course material I wouldn’t expect too much from what you can learn from course work.
I have even become slightly addicted to learning everything I can about building software. From reading (3 of Robert C. Martins books, and a few other popular ones from hacker news’ top 100 reads) and taking Udemy courses[0] in my free time.
I also have been working at a small teacher resource website for the past few years, to get some on the job knowledge.
Even then I still don’t feel like I’ve got the best understanding of SQL, networking or concurrency. I spent most of my time learning specific languages and practices and principles like Agile and spec docs. I’m working on building my own web app and have been creating a dev log for it[1], as well as building an arguably crappy personal website[2].
I am all for the use of goals, and I think I hit mine goal to learn with these projects. Now I'm in the weird goal-less limbo after achieving the original goal where I can re-evaluate and decide whether or not I want to keep going down this route. This is where I'm a little stuck.
I think that part of it is the opportunity cost of working on a passion project. I have more than one of these types of projects, and I have to weigh them against one another. For example, I could work on these projects and building them out, or at more features to my personal website, or build something new.
I think that's what I'm starting to fall into now. I've finished the workable versions of them, and now I'm starting to scope out features that might make them too complex. I use most of these programs every day, and the challenge I'm striking is whether or not I need to create the ultimate, or if I should just stop where I am at.
This idea is really interesting. I’ve been using Copilot since it became publicly available for personal side projects. Recently, I ran out of google drive space and had to use something other than google docs to write my essay for school. I booted up a text document and started writing, and then copilot started writing with me. I ran it through a plagiarism checker, and it turned out to be clean, which surprised me.
Can’t say that what it generated was particularly insightful, however it was helpful to reach an obituary word count.
Just wait until students start using GPT-3 for written essays.
Not giving anyone ideas or anything, but if you feed it your previous assignments and it learns your writing style it should be hard to detect with minor editing.
I have been in the same boat of trying to gamify my to-do list. So far I have been working with progress bars and goals to try and find a way to motivate me to get things done.
I realized that the hardest thing is getting the long term goals to feel like a simple activity for today, bringing the 3+ month goal into a simple “read a few pages today” type of habit.
I also created a simple spreadsheet app that focuses specifically on the progress you made today in relation to your goal. The progress you make today is a different color. Instead of estimating how long it will take to complete the goal with your average, I use the amount done today. So after every addition page read you can see the amount of days left to finish the book go down.
I also added a little bit of motivation text that says “if you read X more pages you will be done Y days faster.
If you use the “MIT”(Most Important Task) type of system , then you could make it a daily habit to complete your top 2-3 MITs for the day.
This is my first comment on this site after lurking for a few years, I thought I would add my personal experience using ProctorU and how weird it feels to willing give up my personal privacy to take a test online.
I go to UOPeople, which is a tuition free online school and I am getting a 4 year computer science degree (for like $5k which is crazy), anyway of the 40 courses you have to take only 11 are proctored. UOP offers 2 choices for proctoring, A) find a real life proctor, or B) use ProctorU. I don’t have the luxury of finding a real person + with covid its more unlikely, so ProctorU it is.
All in all its not the worst thing in the world, but when I first read the requirements for the ProctorU testing environment and technical requirements I almost quit school completely to look for alternative paths. Some of the crazy requirements include:
Testing space must have nothing on the walls, or floors.
You can’t wear glasses while taking the exam.
Your desk must be clear of everything besides the specific testing materials (calculator if your lucky, and maybe a pencil and paper)
Your device needs a webcam, so that they can not only watch you for the entire 1 hour and 30 minutes where you take a test that determines 40% of your grade, but also so that you can show them each wall, floor and under your desk. And thats just the physical space requirements. I had to empty my closet and use my laptop to take this test because their is no way I just have an extra room for testing…
The digital requirements were pretty intense as well, access to folders they had to right too, chrome settings and a whole bunch of wack stuff. I created a dummy account just to take tests.
When you go into the program they have you download it acts like a 1 way mirror, you can hear the proctor(if you are lucky to have a human proctor) and they can watch you, your screen and hear you. I had some tech issues once and I was grateful to have a proctor with a sense of humor who was able to help me through it. I can’t say my privacy is worth a cheaper degree, but I hope that this doesn’t become normalized, because it is not a pleasant experience.
PART A) Pre-Contemplation: Your thoughts about the given task and its context. These internal thoughts will be displayed in part 1 and describe how you take the task and get the solution, as well as the key practices and things you notice in the task context. You will also include the following: - Any assumptions you make about the task and the context. - Thoughts about how to approach the task - Things to consider about the context of the task that may affect the solution - How to solve the task
PART B) The Solution: the answer to the task.
I’ve been keeping track od my prompt stuff here: https://christianadleta.com/prompts