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Oh, this interesting little thing I noticed just now: jodrellblank also mentioned "enclose bind grade_up index self_right" hours before me in https://news.ycomb
by foxfluff 5y ago
Oh, this interesting little thing I noticed just now: jodrellblank also mentioned "enclose bind grade_up index self_right" hours before me in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28095934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28095934
And I had read that comment! It just didn't register at all when I read that comment; even though I read it word by word, I did not realize that he also wrote the sort train (until I read it again now and converted to symbols in my head). Yet I would have immediately recognized it had I seen it written as APL symbols.
Visual pattern matching can be strong. (It's what allows you to recognize and read words that you do not know how to spell correctly.)