HumanCalculator

Always travelling since 2016. Freelance in software and STEM education. Competing at mental calculation. https://www.daniel-timms.com/

Joined 2020-11-02T19:31:57Z
Last seen 2021-01-23T15:57:47Z

LAST 24 HRS

2 hr 35 min

LAST WEEK

22 hr 1 min

LAST 30 DAYS

68 hr 6 min

ALL TIME

244 hr 57 min

started 120m timer 2021-01-23T15:57:47Z

Plan: Teach class on machine learning. Such a random selection of classes today!
finished 90m timer 2021-01-23T15:35:46Z

Plan: Teach mental calculation class to student R.
Result: Good class on calendar dates and square roots, and the new training tools were actually really helpful.

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heidi
finished 65m timer 2021-01-23T14:02:57Z

Plan: Teach class on calendar calculations
Result: Good class!
finished 25m timer 2021-01-22T02:30:14Z

Plan: (1) Two messages about mental math; (2) Draft two invoices
Result: Just sent the messages.

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Tangerine

TimmyCube2
finished 25m timer 2021-01-22T01:45:38Z

Plan: (1) mindfulness journal; (2) message mental math students B, D and E
Result: Mostly done—just missing poor student B.

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TimmyCube2
finished 18m timer 2021-01-21T20:29:48Z

Plan: Core workout
Result: All done! Chose this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yZDVWab_dI

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TimmyCube2
finished 30m timer 2021-01-21T18:52:51Z

Plan: (1) Some housework tasks; (2) Plan workout; (3) 10 minutes mindfulness meditation.
Result: Got distracted talking in the middle for ages but now all done.

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isinger

TimmyCube2
finished 11m timer 2021-01-21T17:00:29Z

Plan: (1) Reply to M; (2) Chase client for payment; (3) 10 minutes mindfulness meditation listening to the rain.
Result: Just the messages sent. Don't know why I made this timer so short as clearly there wasn't time for everything!

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TimmyCube2
finished 20m timer 2021-01-21T16:10:40Z

Plan: (1) Share subtractions trainer for feedback; (2) Ask client about spreadsheet task; (3) Reply to potential student H
Result: All done! Timmy users' feedback is also welcome for this: worldmentalcalculation.com/gym/subtractions-partially-unseen/

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larkspur

TimmyCube2
finished 20m timer 2021-01-21T14:04:10Z

Plan: Short meeting with student who is worried about a test.
Result: Student seemed actually quite happy

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cfish

heidi
finished 10m timer 2021-01-21T13:24:08Z

Plan: 2 rounds Wim Hof breathing to start the day
Result: Done—breath holds of 2:17 and 2:53 today.

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heidi
finished 10m timer 2021-01-21T02:46:32Z

Plan: Build mental math trainer to help me train for my square roots record attempt this Autumn.
Result: That only took 7 minutes to build the whole thing xD
finished 27m timer 2021-01-20T23:29:36Z

Plan: Teach mental math class to student S.
Result: Student did not show up (again)...
finished 30m timer 2021-01-20T21:10:57Z

Plan: Finish text to accompany training tools, and send messages.
Result: Pretty muched finished the text, but got distracted escuchanda a la música latina...
finished 30m timer 2021-01-20T19:14:59Z

Plan: (1) Email students B and K; (2) Add better text to trainer pages on website
Result: Did most of the work but didn't actually commit any of it yet.
finished 35m timer 2021-01-20T15:40:10Z

Plan: Hunt for food.
Result: Successfully hunted food. Supermarket made it kinda easy.
finished 118m timer 2021-01-20T12:32:56Z

Plan: Let's get back on the leaderboard! Teach mathematics class to student R.
Result: Final lesson and I think the student is prepared.
finished 15m timer 2021-01-19T03:39:24Z

Plan: Aah it's so late. 10 minutes mindfulness meditation then journal then bed.
Result: All done—good night!

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isinger
finished 30m timer 2021-01-19T03:21:06Z

Plan: Plan calendar dates workshop and competition techniques bootcamp.
Result: Done and had some great ideas of how to proceed with these!

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MrNobody
finished 30m timer 2021-01-19T02:10:25Z

Plan: Make plans for potential online workshops
Result: Planned two workshops (on general memory; and on cube roots). Actually it wasn't so useful to plan these.
finished 46m timer 2021-01-18T23:44:28Z

Plan: Teach mental math class to student S.
Result: Student did not turn up, but I continued working on the memory article.
finished 35m timer 2021-01-18T22:58:16Z

Plan: Write draft of blog post for using memory palaces for mindfulness meditation
Result: Haven't written much—but it was the introduction which is always the most difficult.

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mad_hatter
finished 25m timer 2021-01-18T20:09:24Z

Plan: (1) Shortlist of blog articles to write; (2) Compile fresh list of mathematical facts for Anki resource
Result: Only had time for (1) but I have a decent list now.

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isinger
finished 30m timer 2021-01-18T17:05:49Z

Plan: Client meeting with new student
Result: Productive meeting. Our classes will be on machine learning.
finished 60m timer 2021-01-18T16:15:29Z

Plan: Teach mathematics lesson to student R.
Result: Done.
finished 15m timer 2021-01-18T14:57:59Z

Plan: Set up separate pages for all training tools (hosted locally)
Result: All done. my menu bar looks ridiculous but that's fine for my testing version 😅 Got distracted trying to sing along to La Leyenda del Hada y el Mago...
finished 24m timer 2021-01-18T14:14:46Z

Plan: Create training tool for the human calendar algorithm.
Result: Didn't take long at all!

Feeling:

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shoo
finished 10m timer 2021-01-18T13:04:40Z

Plan: Two rounds Wim Hof breathing to start the day.
Result: Done—good morning! Breath holds were 2:16 and 2:45 today.
finished 14m timer 2021-01-18T03:19:11Z

Plan: Mindfulness meditation, quick journal and then time for sleeeep.
Result: All done—good night!

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Tangerine
finished 30m timer 2021-01-18T02:26:05Z

Plan: Final half-hour building flashcards trainer. I hope to fix the bug, create a second variant, and upload it to the website.
Result: Completed! Here's the arithmetic flashcard trainer if anyone wants to try—feedback welcome! worldmentalcalculation.com/gym/flashcards-for-times-tables/

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Tangerine
finished 30m timer 2021-01-18T01:20:47Z

Plan: Various improvements to flashcard trainer... refactor and place on website. Who else here is coding right now?
Result: Made all the flavours for the square numbers trainer. Final refactor broke it though :/ Hopefully easy to fix...

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GeekLady113
finished 60m timer 2021-01-18T00:10:46Z

Plan: Teach mathematics lesson to student D.
Result: Lesson today was on formal set theory. Short break and then back to software building!

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Tangerine
finished 27m timer 2021-01-17T21:56:55Z

Plan: Continue creating flashcard trainer in javascript. Hopefully get the results statistics printed.
Result: Yay got it working pretty much how I wanted already :)

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isinger
finished 30m timer 2021-01-17T21:12:58Z

Plan: Another pomodoro of work on flashcards trainer in Javascript
Result: Yep got the timing part working, plus displaying some statistics at the end of a run.
finished 30m timer 2021-01-17T19:21:13Z

Plan: Digest a grapefruit and work on this flashcards trainer. Next steps: (1) 60-second timer; (2) output some list upon completion including timings.
Result: Still having problems with the javascript for the 60-second timer...
finished 30m timer 2021-01-17T18:02:47Z

Plan: Building flashcards trainer.
Result: Some progress but I've broken something...
finished 21m timer 2021-01-17T17:04:28Z

Plan: 2 rounds WHM breathing, 30 bodyweight squats, and then quick housework task
Result: All done. Wim Hof breath holds 2:25 and 2:30 today.

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tiffany_
finished 60m timer 2021-01-17T16:00:27Z

Plan: Teach mathematics class to student R.
Result: Good class, including Pythagoras' Theorem, calculating areas, and presenting written proofs.
finished 15m timer 2021-01-17T02:48:03Z

Plan: Argh a power cut meant I couldn't really work for several hours :( Now finish setting up Q1 goals
Result: Completed and entered onto spreadsheet.

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GeekLady113

yasi
finished 15m timer 2021-01-16T20:09:24Z

Plan: Finish housework tasks.
Result: Okay all done.
finished 45m timer 2021-01-16T19:38:52Z

Plan: Various housework tasks
Result: Mostly finished!

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topoisomerase2
finished 30m timer 2021-01-16T17:54:49Z

Plan: (1) Set up Q1 milestones; (2) Reply to India enquiry
Result: Lots of progress on (1) only. I have a list of about 20 items to look at later.

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isinger
finished 15m timer 2021-01-16T17:05:06Z

Plan: Three rounds of Wim Hof breathing, for an immune system boost.
Result: Done—breath holds of 1:55, 2:25 and 2:35 today.
finished 90m timer 2021-01-16T15:43:02Z

Plan: Teach mental calculation class to student R.
Result: Finished class, today doing a variety of calculation techniques. I'm hungry
finished 60m timer 2021-01-16T14:06:54Z

Plan: Teach Mathematics lesson to student R
Result: All done.
finished 30m timer 2021-01-16T03:12:02Z

Plan: Set next week's productivity rules, 10 minutes mindfulness, and journal.
Result: All done. Mindfulness was about 14 minutes and journal was quite long too.
finished 35m timer 2021-01-16T02:04:18Z

Plan: (1) notes for Monday client meeting; (2) check old notebook for anything important; (3) set next week's productivity rules; (4) mindfulness meditation + journal
Result: (1) and (2) done only

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MrNobody
finished 20m timer 2021-01-15T20:24:15Z

Plan: 20-minute core workout
Result: Found a great workout and maybe tomorrow I won't be able to move 😅

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MrNobody
finished 25m timer 2021-01-15T18:13:15Z

Plan: (1) message M and L; (2) admin for new Computer Science student; (3) plan core workout
Result: (1) and (2) only

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tiffany_
finished 75m timer 2021-01-15T15:30:27Z

Plan: Teach Computer Science class and write final report
Result: Finished class—today looking at improving Python code. Wrote reports too.

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