Notes by Lex Toumbourou

When data is provided to a model that is significantly different from what it was trained on, it's referred to as out-of-domain data.

Howard et …

Metrics are usually a proxy for what we really care about

How to Take Smart Notes provides an overview of the Zettelkasten system, popularised by prolific sociologist Niklas Luhman. The book starts with an overview of …

Fleeting notes in Zettelkasten are for capturing ideas while reading, listening, or thinking. They are designed to be short-lived and should be stored in an …

Literature Notes in Zettelkasten are notes which capture information from the source material in our own words. They are sometimes referred to as Reference or …

Permanent notes (also known as Evergreen notes) capture a single "atomic" idea. They also include links to related ideas. In the Zettelkasten system, they're created …

arriving at false conclusions by only examining success cases

Charlies Munger advocates for building a "broad theoretical toolbox" that he calls a Latticework of Mental Models. The idea is to accumulate concepts from a …

Teaching the "whole game" uses the metaphor of baseball to highlight how common approaches to teaching are the equivalent of doing batting practice without ever …

In Zettelkasten, the topic overview is a note that links to key Permanent Notesithin a topic. It is linked to via the index and …