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pitherpatheron Apple sold an estimated 180K Vision Pro units during the first pre-order weekend

> unless .. game-changing

I have been silently dismissive until seeing a c.a. 5 minute ad on YouTube last night. Now I would be interested in at least trying the experience. However, I am wondering if the sales video might be better rendered (or somehow more impressive?) than the VR/AR itself.

pitherpatheron FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm

Given the importance of spaced repetition, I've wondered if a modular approach is called for, contra Anki.

Aren't there three separate items?

1) Your cards (or a subset of cards).

2) The history of your interactions with them.

3) An algorithm (potentially just-in-time) taking that history into account to present cards to you, thereby adding to the history.

pitherpatheron Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python

> 0.1 Bellard

Off topic, but a log scale might be useful: 0.1 Bellard --> -10 deciBellards. That allows for: 0.001 Bellard --> -30 deciBellards.

Problem: Programmers with negative productivity cannot be represented on the same log scale.