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Great article

“Here’s something that isn’t meant for your use case, but just ignore most stuff”

Vs.

“This does exactly what you want”

Of course, there are advantages to learning with the same tool you could also go on to use professionally.

Still seems like a good idea, even so.

I’m just doing a module in formal languages & automata now but hadn’t yet made the connection that they were related to regular expressions. Neat!

Great read, very clearly explained & what a nice programming project too, writing a solver like that - would be great to stick a diagram-parsing front-end on it and then I could solve all my homework problems in double quick time.

This is fun, but the fashion police descend undeterred

Idk about that

This makes it sound like plant based diets are much crueler than they make out to be - but that harm is surely still an order of magnitude reduced compared to farming animals?

One is collateral damage (mice sucked up etc.) but the other is _premised_ on death.

This sounds like a great setup thanks for making me aware of Thes these tools; noteplan & kiwi

I think the right type of thing are the sorts of questions that get put in buzzfeed lists like “10 questions to find out if your date is the one” and “how compatible are you? 25 questions to predict relationship success with your partner” type things.

The questions are all like “do you like camping”, “would you like to live in a foreign country” etc.

Some questions like this have actually been studied for their predictive ability I think.

This is nice, it’s more like how I see the fret board in my head

This deserves its own blog post

Anything that forces you to tell stories; creative writing, making videos, theatre, improv perhaps. I think it’s the _telling_ that matters, more than the story. - and I think practice will be much more effective than theory for that.

Build up that sense for what works and what doesn’t by trying and seeing (ideally in a supportive environment - a certain sort of friendship is great for this actually, no need for an improv class)

You can find videos of people’s improvement with practice on YouTube.

This is one example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eTX9LxZ9YUQ

Definite improvement

SSC also uses the a whalefall event as a very effective analogy in this older post:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Which was the first thing to come to mind when I saw this post

There are two red circles, but there is nothing identifiable to the untrained eye contained within them.

Ahhhh so that’s what happened!

Your website is amazing and full of very interesting projects, looks like a lot of fun.

Strikes me as very Douglas Adams in its absurdity

Much less whimsical

Such beautiful diagrams.

I do something halfway in between - i routinely get frustrated with everything that’s not relevant to my present concerns, and just throw it into a folder called ‘archive’ and then move THAT into the big central archive folder.

I never really look back through any of it but when I do it’s quite nostalgic.

Guessing the latter. It’s a common expression in uk english, not sure about elsewhere.

Your very articulate derision - of your own ability to articulate yourself - gave me a good laugh.

I would consider this greatly valuable

If you think of it like a bunch of cells like minesweeper, where the temperature differential is a function of #of neighbouring air cells - corners are going to cool much faster!

Thank you I’ll give it a try

This looks like it addresses the exact problem I have had with getting started with c++. I only wish it had more of a ‘landing page’ layout; ie. a brief summary, a working example I can try right away, and THEN a long explanation I can peruse at my leisure.

13000m ~> 20000km

    Order of 200000: 10^4
    Order of 5: 1^0

Conclusion: difference in order of magnitudes = 4 (not 1000)

(The worst sort of isomorphism)

I interpreted it to mean that they are in fact a subset of Bezier curves. A computed smooth-spline (cant remember what they’re called) is still stored using the exact same information as any other Bézier curve - but the extra rules about its construction just make them smoother than canonical bezier