OpenCards is a free award-winning flashcard learning software. The basic idea of OpenCards is to use PowerPoint presentations (*.ppt) or Markdown (*.md) files as flashcard sets. Thereby, slide-titles are represented as questions and the slide contents as their answers. Based on state-of-the-art memorization and scheduling algorithms OpenCards will help you to learn any set…
“With the first Marble Machine I just started to build… I ended up building the same things 10 times because I didn’t do any prototypes.” “A big part of our monkey brain wants immediate reward at all times. I’m now trying to keep that part of my monkey brain at bay by not doing the…
Their findings, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, show that students whose circadian rhythms were out of sync with their class schedules – say, night owls taking early morning courses – received lower grades due to “social jet lag,” a condition in which peak alertness times are at odds with work, school or other demands….
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]HILE using an RSS reader is a pretty easy process, setting it up isn’t. There are a couple of hoops to jump through, but once you set it up you can read your RSS feeds like a boss. For an introduction into why you would want to us RSS, check out my article from last…
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THE MODERN WEB contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there’s no panacea for what ails this internet we’ve built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that’s been there all along but has often…
Source: What is the cost of interrupting a radiologist? Interruptions change focus and time spent on case reviews, but don’t increase error rate — ScienceDaily [dropcap]R[/dropcap]ESEARCH says it takes 20-25 minutes to get back into the groove after an interruption. For a 45 minute class that means just one interruption can ruin a day. I’ve talked…
Source: My Notes – Chrome Web Store Maybe you don’t want to use Google Keep for notes? My Notes is a Chrome extension that will save your notes to your Google Drive account, right from the browser. Once installed, you will need to authenticate your Google account to begin using the extension. To activate My Notes,…
Source: Webjets.io – The new way to collect, organize and share anything It’s always nice to have another option, and Webjets looks pretty good. You can sign up with a Google account, which is always nice. One really cool feature is the ability to pull in content through IFTTT recipes. I sent an email asking about…