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InstaCalc is great! Love the natural language oriented input for calculations. Tangentially related to the article, did BetterExplained itself start out as a s
by otoburb 10y ago
InstaCalc is great! Love the natural language oriented input for calculations.
Tangentially related to the article, did BetterExplained itself start out as a side project, or did you double-down from the start?
- kalid 10y agoThanks! BetterExplained started as a collection of notes on my university website: Sadly after a decade the CS department shut down my alumni account :(. But I have a cached backup here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150708043012/http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~kazad/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150708043012/http://www.cs.pri... https://betterexplained.com/~kazad/ https://betterexplained.com/~kazad/ I started BetterExplained about 10 years ago exactly (wow), just taking some of the notes online. Thankfully they were on evergreen math topics (divergence, flux, gradients... stuff I desperately wanted intuitions for) and it grew from there. I had been thinking of doing a decade year retrospective on what's worked/not worked in terms of keeping motivation and momentum for the projects (so far, so good). Thanks for the reminder!
- sharmi 10y agoLooking forward to the retrospective post! Motivation tends to be highly fluctuating. Perseverance is the key to success. Would love to hear how you maintained a decade long streak.