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If you have the time for it, please do. I tried to listen to an episode (namely, Your Time Might Be More Valuable Than You Think) and found it more difficult to parse than a regular podcast or audiobook because of the lack of intonation. Subtle cues like tone and pauses seem to make a larger difference in my understanding than I have previously realized. That being said, I haven't experimented with the playback speed yet, maybe slowing down a bit would make the audio easier to parse.

Epistemic status: I have not been involved with Leverage Research in any way, and have no knowledge of what actually happened beyond what's been discussed on LessWrong. This comment is an observation I have after reading the post.

I had just finished reading Pete Walker's Complex PTSD before coming across this post. In the book, the author describes a list of calm, grounded thoughts to respond to inner critic attacks. A large part of healing is for the survivor to internalize these thoughts so they can psychologically defend themselves.

I see a stark contras... (read more)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uqP4bHPFQReHD2uGn/an-apprentice-experiment-in-python-programming-part-4#Python_Objects_in_Memory__from_comments_

I have disabled the RSVP function for now, because I realized that the LW RSVP system lists out people's full names in public, without warning users that would be the case. Feel free to show up regardless of whether you've RSVP'd! We'll have some other ways of tracking attendance, like sign-in sheets or counting the # of name tags given out :)

what kind of thing do you want to do with Python?

Out of the things you listed, scientific computing & OSS libraries are things I want to explore more. I also don't just want to learn Python - although I have chosen Python to be the language to try to get pretty good at - my goal is to get myself a proper CS education. I think it would be difficult to truly get good at a language without understanding how things work underneath.

Also, what gjm said.

I'm also a little confused about what you're aiming to learn!

There are lots of gaps in my Python knowledge (this applies to my CS knowledge in general as well) and I'm trying to close those gaps. I asked gilch about decorators because I encountered them in pytest and was very confused about how they worked.

I didn't have a project in mind, when I signed up for this apprenticeship, I just saw gilch offering to teach Python and thought I wanted to get better and learning from a mentor could be great.

I have attempted to contribute to open source in the past... (read more)

Sorry, this is what happens when I don't keep a good trace of changes and try to reconstruct code snippets. When I was writing this post, the version of the function in my file was

 def preprint(greetings): # factory
    def greet_by_name(function): # decorator
        @wraps(function)
        def wrapper(): # replaces the function being decorated
            print(greetings)
            return function()
        return wrapper
    return greet_by_name

In order to reproduce the effect on docstring of bob without using wraps(function), I simply commented t... (read more)

At the moment, users can message LW admins to add more authors, so I asked to add you as an author too. However, "only the first author gets karma, regrettably."

Ah, I missed a section on @wraps. Added it here.

Also renamed "Branching without if" to "Making Branching Statements without Using if"

Also added some command line outputs for a couple examples at the end.

Thanks for pointing this out, you're right. Even when I have your half of the transcript available to me, I still found it sometimes hard to recall what exactly I tried when I was confused about a concept.

Yes, it's the [crab mentality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality).

There's already a community of people who do conspicuous saving: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
In this subreddit people celebrate each other's saving milestones, share saving/investment strategies, share screenshots of their account balances, etc. Outside of Reddit, searching for "financial independence early retirement" would yield a variety of blogs of people in this community.

However, most people do this anonymously. A common topic in the community is friends and family getting envious when you tell them how much you've saved. Here are ... (read more)

Thank you so much for your kind words, I'm glad that you enjoyed it!

icebreaker.video allows users to use their own questions. I didn't have the time to come up with my own, so I just resorted to the boilerplate ones provided by the website. I wonder if there's a "rationalist ice breaker" list somewhere.