Check the full post for some more details, and feel free to let me know if any of this is useful. 7/7.

For fun I also compared the 4h/day number to common free time activities, because planned fun is indeed the best fun. 6/7

What do you get from working more or less than 4h/day? Here are some simple variations. My main takeaway is that consistency dominates attempts at more work. 5/7

I get the numbers partly from my own experience in grad school, and the publication number from a very successful young scholar who clocks all of their worked hours. By the way, they average 2h/day the days they write (around 70% of the days of the year). 4/7.

Why make this comparison? For people working on long projects with little feedback you might feel you should work all the time. This often just leads to procrastination. A solution is to aspire to work less but do so effectively. These are estimates of what you get if you do. 3/7.

Above are the total work hours you would get from working 4, 2, and 1h/day, 5 days a week for 16 weeks (roughly a semester) compared to common projects. 2/7.

How much can you get done by working a few hours a day regularly? I ran the numbers and wrote it up in a short post (link below). Here is a short summary 🧵 1/7

In discussions around the future capacities of LLMs and DNNs I don't see talk about the classic Fodor debates around connectionism. Is this because everyone knows and dismisses them on grounds I have missed, or are they just forgotten? Bc the latter seems worrying.

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