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I have encountered ads on YouTube that closely match what I think I am only asking on ChatGPT.

For example, just today I asked ChatGPT if I am speaking too much and an hr or so later I see a sponsored video on YouTube about exposing your weakness by speaking too much.

Is there a direct link between the two, am I hallucinating or it's a divine intervention?

I am on FF on Linux and I have ChatGPT installed on my Android phone. If that makes any difference.

Thanks

I've upgraded to a 27" monitor but I still struggle switching between windows. Tmux helps but only when I am inside the terminal. When I work with 3 or more windows for a single task e.g. a terminal, a web page, and a database viewer, the juggling resumes. Is there a more organized way of doing it? Do I need a still larger monitor?

Hi HN, I have been sloooooow to pick up new tech skills (ML/KJ/IH) by allocating an hour or two daily for reading books and solving problems. Often that hour gets missed or the interest wanes after a few days. On the other hand I have had occasional successes in moving a routine coding task forward by staying put for a full day or two. But the latter was possible because it was part of my day job. Which (little progress every day vs deep dives for a few days) has worked better for you for picking up expertise in complex subjects orthogonal to your current?

With python I have run into issues where I have multiple packages lying around, those installed by the OS's package manager and those installed by pip of another python.

With node I have always had to install a newer version than that installed by the OS.

ROS seems to take this even further. There is a ros-kinetic-, ros-melodic- series of packages each for a specific Ubuntu release.

There is also perl's CPAN.

OCaml had not one but 2 package managers I think and the only package set that seems to work is that is the default OS install. The others apparently stay up to speed with ocaml updates.

What are possible solutions/workarounds, if at all this is seen as a problem?

What tools do you recommend for illustrating a technical book on basic programming (Yes there are over 2^100 already but mine will be hard to miss :P). I am considering some master art works of arrays, and other data structures that appear drawn by the master artists. There was a link posted on HN this year if not this month. I really regret not bookmarking it.

I am loving the Statistics book by Freedman, Pisani, Purves. Maybe it is its slow and steady pace, or may be its real-life examples, or may be the cartoons, or may be the numerous well planned exercises with solutions, or may be its requiring no pre-requisites. Or may be it just is a great match for me! Everytime I read it, I want to make sure that I have all other equivalent books. I checked other Ask HN threads and found some that suggested its sequel or the Linear Algebra book. Are there others I don't know about, especially for CS/ML.