dwcnnnghm

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by dwcnnnghm 1y ago
The dialogue you refer to is Meno and the idea is a solution to “Meno’s Paradox”.
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by dwcnnnghm 2y ago
If you’re in America and want to help your native butterflies (and moths), the National Wildlife Federation has a tool for finding local plants and their respective pollinators. https://nativeplantfinder.nwf.org/
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by dwcnnnghm 2y ago
Japan’s national bird (green pheasant) is, IIRC, the only national bird that’s also a game bird. There’s not many stories or symbolism with green pheasants (as opposed to, say, cranes) and it’s mostly known in the country as food. I’ve seen
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by dwcnnnghm 2y ago
Corner Café in New Providence, New Jersey. From Rob Pike’s blog: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2020/01/utf-8-turned-20-y...
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by dwcnnnghm 3y ago
By “two held out hands”, do you mean a person’s wingspan? Is there something similar for centimeters? I’m asking out of genuine curiosity and not antagonizing. I would love to have more tools at my disposal. An inch, for example, is the len
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by dwcnnnghm 3y ago
Having lived in the UK, I found the balance between systems to be quite nice. I think that the Imperial System is actually underrated for daily use: most of the measurements are intuitive (based on sensory information and easily visualizabl
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by dwcnnnghm 3y ago
Miles and kilometers can be estimated by the Fibonacci Sequence. The conversion (mi -> km) is very nearly the golden ratio (1.61 and approximately 1.62, respectively, IIRC). For any number in the sequence taken as miles, the subsequent n
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by dwcnnnghm 3y ago
There’s an app for this [0,1]. It follows the calendar and shows you the current season, it’s haiku, seasonal foods, etc. It’s free to view the current season, but you can pay (one-time) to access to the entire calendar. The company that ma
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by dwcnnnghm 6y ago
I appreciate you having a look! I totally understand if it's not enough to make a switch, but I'm glad you were able to see that it's not so bad on this side of things. There's definitely not enough niceties for the av
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by dwcnnnghm 6y ago
My apologies. I think I misunderstand what you mean by "ecosystem". All of your requirements are fulfilled by the tools I suggested. The guides I provided show complex typesetting (mathematics and otherwise), eqn does complex math
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by dwcnnnghm 6y ago
Plan 9 troff might work! It works with utf8 out of the box[0], and while I haven't used it for complex math typesetting, there is a command (eqn [1]) that was developed for it. I'd recommend Ali Rudi's port (neatroff [2][3])
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by dwcnnnghm 6y ago
In the early days of computing (that is, when computer companies and universities were finding the first people to learn programming) music experience was a strong signal for programming ability! Playing music prepared them for focusing on
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by dwcnnnghm 6y ago
> Brian is super modest and claims to be a horrible programmer but he is comparing himself to Ken Thompson, who he thinks is just incredible. Ken once wrote a disassembler, assembler and B interpreter for a mini-computer that ran a print
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by dwcnnnghm 6y ago
The discussion on Ghoti[0] around language standardisation reminded me of this essay. It's a review of an American Usage Dictionary[1] that centers primarily around the question of the purpose of dictionaries (as a prescription for the
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Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage – David Foster Wallace (2001) [pdf](harpers.org)
2 points by dwcnnnghm 6y ago|1 comments
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by dwcnnnghm 6y ago
This is definitely true, but I think it's also valuable to ask "how much and how fast?"
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by dwcnnnghm 6y ago
I do think this is a great point but I do think the idea is fun to consider anyways. My first thought would be some (silent) {super,sub}script symbol/letter to indicate distinction between them. Obviously this feels like we'd be r
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A tour of Edo(us-japan.org)
2 points by dwcnnnghm 7y ago|0 comments
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by dwcnnnghm 7y ago
Do you have any recommendations for next steps beyond Spock? I learned Haskell at uni and am interested in going back to it for web work (instead of Erlang). Any insights you might be able to share would be really helpful!
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by dwcnnnghm 7y ago
I'm not sure if you mean that the murder was mentioned without reason or if Chris was the victim of a murder without reason. I think it's a bit unclear in the writing style (at least it was to me) that the book is a real story, ab
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by dwcnnnghm 8y ago
I had believed something similar. They are definitely remnants of a 10 month calendar, but July and August were existing months (Quintilis and Sextilis, respectively) renamed for the emperors. January and February appear to be the additions
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by dwcnnnghm 8y ago
The French [0] tried to implement this twice! They failed both times, and I think it's due to more than having everyone in the world (or country) relearn to hold time in their head. Ultimately I believe it becomes less practical in day
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by dwcnnnghm 8y ago
>That ship has sailed long long ago...like, 1890 long ago. In California, at least, that is still the only way become a lawyer without a law degree (called the "Law Office Study Program"). If you forgo law school, you are requi
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by dwcnnnghm 8y ago
This is great. Another wonderful piece of advice I had read somewhere for similar situations is: "remember that an argument between you and your partner is you two against the issue rather than against one another " I think it
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by dwcnnnghm 8y ago
This is also the basis of the Steel Man Argument [0] [1], as opposed to Straw-manning. Instead of attacking (basically nitpicking) the easy missteps in your opponent's reasoning, find the best form of their argument, and then argue w
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by dwcnnnghm 8y ago
The Cal Newport book on Deep Work that this article is based on has inspired a push for the Eudaimonia Machine [0] (an updated version by Newport himself here [1]). It’s a concept for an office that is designed to promote effective deep and
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by dwcnnnghm 8y ago
Some great suggestions here already but thought I would add Metacademy [0] and Learn Anything [1] (White Paper here [2]). These are designed to create a map of skills and concepts for a given topic. I find an interactive visualisation to be
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by dwcnnnghm 8y ago
+1 for Thinking Fast and Slow. There was a discussion on HN recently [0] about cognitive biases. Readers provided some better links than the OP, but it's all worth a read. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=168754
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by dwcnnnghm 8y ago
I am currently studying this degree at the same university. A few AI concepts (NLP and Formal Language Processing) are introduced in the 2nd year. Other than that, all courses are CS/Maths. Keep in mind that at Scottish Universities, s
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by dwcnnnghm 9y ago
Do you have thoughts about possible remedies for this? I believe that HN has a great voting structure compared to other similar sites (for example, Reddit); though there is, as you point out, obvious room for improvement. Would a supplement

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