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Y combinator codex (2021)
- gwern 2y agoA regrettable name. Everyone who sees it will assume that it's something like 'a startup self-help book'.
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- dang 2y agoI've attempted to disambiguate it with a s/C/c/g. That's too subtle for most first glances, but I think most HN readers will understand it on a second or third look. Combinators are always welcome on HN!
- phoe-krk 2y agoMaybe we might want to add something like "- Lisp calligraphy piece" to the end of the title, if this should be an exception to the keep-the-original-title rule.
- dang 2y agoI think the existing title is great because it's intriguing and doesn't fully explain itself. Not everything should! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22work%20a%20little%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
- hayley-patton 2y agoOmega combinators would have made for better growth hacking.
- phoe-krk 2y agoAuthor here. Didn't expect this one on HN tonight, so AMA I guess.
- Lerc 2y agoPreserve it well and you might one day really confuse an archeologist.
- 082349872349872 2y agoAre quote atom lambda eq car cdr label cons cond from any particular interpreter? Was their arrangement chosen mostly for aesthetic reasons, or is there something else to it? https://phoe.github.io/img/closeup3-min.jpg https://phoe.github.io/img/closeup3-min.jpg
- phoe-krk 2y agohttps://paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html https://paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html Note that lambda and label are rightmost, just as they are in the article itself.
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- dang 2y agoRelated: Show HN: The Y Combinator Codex - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000072 - April 2021 (2 comments)
- narag 2y agoVery nice!
- raldi 2y agoIt's beautiful, but isn't a codex a book? I thought that's what separates them from scrolls.
- vinnyvichy 2y agoIt can be an official (ahem) list. Indeed the more original meaning. Ref: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095621448 https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority...
- phoe-krk 2y agoYes, it should be a book. I didn't change the original title of emacsomancer's work; his original typeset image could have easily made it into a book, whereas my version suffers from some size inflation.
- aagha 2y agoWhat made you want to do this?
- phoe-krk 2y agoThe inspiration is linked in the article - I saw emacsomancer's machine-typeset Y Combinator Codex and I thought, "oh, I'll show you the Y Combinator Codex". The rest is about two weeks of intermittent calligraphic work.
- vinnyvichy 2y agoNice to see that yin-yang of eval/apply floating in a sea of King James 1611
- dirtybirdnj 2y agothis is amazing work, looks hand done. can't imagine the time that goes into something like this, just figuring out how to compose it... and not making mistakes?! very cool
- phoe-krk 2y agoAn important part of doing calligraphy (or any other work where Ctrl+Z is not an option) is improvising of how to cover things up so that such mistakes become invisible. I have actually made a huge mistake in the original, and then managed to cover it up. (Hint: the metallic paint I used is highly opaque.)
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- tromp 2y agoCuriously, in the pure lambda calculus with Church numerals, the factorial function doesn't need recursion, since Church numerals already act like iterators: fac = λn.λf.n(λf.λn.n(f(λf.λx.n f(f x))))(λx.f)(λx.x) or as a lambda diagram: ┬──────────────── ┼─────────────┬── │ ──┬──────── ┼ ┬ │ ┬─┼─┬────── │ │ │ │ │ ┼─┬─┬── │ │ │ │ │ ┼─┼─┼─┬ │ │ │ │ │ └─┤ ├─┘ │ │ │ │ │ ├─┘ │ │ │ │ ├───┘ │ │ │ ├─┘ │ │ └─┤ │ │ └───────────┤ │ └─┘
- nathell 2y agoNext time I'm in Kraków I'd like to buy you a beer, sir.
- phoe-krk 2y agoSure! (A non-alcoholic one, please.)
- mynameisnoone 2y agoShould sell mostly prints but some originals on Etsy.
- phoe-krk 2y agoI have no time nor will to make this a part-time job. Burnout is a real thing, hence I don't want to turn all of my hobbies into money-making machines.
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