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Dowwie / socratic_fp_learning.md
Created June 7, 2025 09:23
Following is a prompt for effective learning with an LLM. It uses the Socratic method to help the student build up their understanding from first principles. Replace the topic in the prompt and then in your follow-up prompt , specify the subject.

You are a teacher of algorithms and data-structures who specializes in the use of the socratic method of teaching concepts. You build up a foundation of understanding with your student as they advance using first principles thinking. Explain the subject that the student provides to you using this approach. By default, do not explain using source code nor artifacts until the student asks for you to do so. Furthermore, do not use analysis tools. Instead, explain concepts in natural language. You are to assume the role of teacher where the teacher asks a leading question to the student. The student thinks and responds. Engage misunderstanding until the student has sufficiently demonstrated that they've corrected their thinking. Continue until the core material of a subject is completely covered. I would benefit most from an explanation style in which you frequently pause to confirm, via asking me test questions, that I've understood your explanations so far. Particularly helpful are test questions related to sim

@MohamedAlaa
MohamedAlaa / tmux-cheatsheet.markdown
Last active January 17, 2026 04:10
tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname
@meain
meain / loading_messages.js
Last active January 11, 2026 23:09
Funny loading messages
export default [
"Reticulating splines...",
"Generating witty dialog...",
"Swapping time and space...",
"Spinning violently around the y-axis...",
"Tokenizing real life...",
"Bending the spoon...",
"Filtering morale...",
"Don't think of purple hippos...",
"We need a new fuse...",
@leastbad
leastbad / action_mailbox.md
Last active January 11, 2026 04:08
Action Mailbox: The Missing Manual

This is all you really need to know in order to make Action Mailbox work in development.

  1. Fire up ngrok http 3000 and make note of your subdomain for steps 3 and 8.
  2. Create a Mailgun account because they offer sandbox addresses; grab your domain from the Dashboard.
  3. Go into Receiving and create a catch-all route pointing to: https://XXX.ngrok.io/rails/action_mailbox/mailgun/inbound_emails/mime
  4. Add your Mailgun API key to your credentials:
action_mailbox:
 mailgun_api_key: API KEY HERE
@jimbojsb
jimbojsb / gist:1630790
Created January 18, 2012 03:52
Code highlighting for Keynote presentations

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

@olivierlacan
olivierlacan / gist:4062929
Last active March 12, 2025 04:27 — forked from Gregg/gist:968534
Code School Screencasting Framework

Screencasting Framework

The following document is a written account of the Code School screencasting framework. It should be used as a reference of the accompanying screencast on the topic.

Why you should care about screencasting?

You're probably aren't going to take the time to read this document if you're not interested, but there are a lot of nice side effects caused by learning how to create quality screencasts.

  1. Communicating more effectively - At Envy Labs we produce screencasts for our clients all the time. Whether it's demoing a new feature or for a presentation for an invester, they're often much more effective and pleasent than a phone call or screen sharing.

OpenBSD logo     Rails logo     Falcon logo


Choose OpenBSD for your Unix needs. OpenBSD -- the world's simplest and most secure Unix-like OS. A safe alternatve to the frequent vulnerabilities and overengineering of Linux and related software (NGiNX & Apache (httpd-asiabsdcon2015.pdf), OpenSSL, iptables/nftables, systemd, BIND, Postfix, Docker etc.)

OpenBSD -- the cleanest kernel, the cleanest userland and the cleanest config

@camertron
camertron / measure.rb
Created June 15, 2012 22:48
Measure the memory taken by a Ruby object (by Robert Klemme)
#!/bin/env ruby
# lazy hack from Robert Klemme
module Memory
# sizes are guessed, I was too lazy to look
# them up and then they are also platform
# dependent
REF_SIZE = 4 # ?
OBJ_OVERHEAD = 4 # ?
class SynchronousJob < ApplicationJob
def self.perform_later
raise "This job is not designed to be run asynchronously. Please use #perform_now"
end
end
@copiousfreetime
copiousfreetime / README.md
Last active October 9, 2022 21:49
Replicating Heroku CI/CD + Review Apps

How to deal with missing Heroku CI/CD and Review Apps

The reason for this

In particular the update from 2022-04-26 23:54:00 UTC

For the protection of our customers, we will not be reconnecting to GitHub until we are certain that we can do so safely, **which may take some time