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by gwd 1y ago
> That is an important insight. It is not so much which method gets you to learn more when used for a given amount of time. It is probably more about which method is fun to use, and engages you and thus actually gets used. Yeah, you hear
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by gwd 1y ago
It started out as a side project just for myself to study Mandarin in 2019. There's an open beta of the system ported to Biblical Greek here: https://www.laleolanguage.com I've got several active users without really h
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by gwd 1y ago
Thanks for the write-up! I've got a system for learning languages that does some of the things you mention. The goal is to be able to recommend content for a user to read which combines 1) appropriate level of difficulty 2) usefulness
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by gwd 1y ago
For what you describe, he ideal system would do this: 1. Identify knowledge blocks that you want people to learn. This is what would be tracked with the SRS. 2. Create cards , with a prompt which requires knowledge blocks to answer.
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by gwd 1y ago
So now having read one of the original reports [1], and not being able to see the response he claimed he and other women had written (they're mentioned in the post but not linked to), it's hard not to think that there was potentia
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by gwd 1y ago
I remember reading an essay once saying that the real power of superheroes -- and the most unrealistic one -- was certainty . In most of our superhero stories, there's never any question who the bad guy is or what needs to happen t
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by gwd 1y ago
> At the very least, relying on quirks of someone else's implementation is a risk that should be understood and accounted for, and no one has any reasonable grounds for complaint if those quirks suddenly change in a new version. It&
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by gwd 1y ago
I've been on the other side of this interaction, and it's just as frustrating -- we do a phone interview a student who's been doing random stuff with the project for a while; and some combination of stress, the phone, not bei
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by gwd 1y ago
> Because the underlying beliefs of a 'left' anti-monopolist and a 'right' anti-monopolist are likely very different, and similarly their proposed solutions...? Just curious, how "left" and "right"
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by gwd 1y ago
Since the authors are arguing for removing a lot of current housing regulation, I have a hard time seeing how "the billionaire class of the Democratic Party" would consider them their enemy -- unless, of course they're mistak
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by gwd 1y ago
> If someone said they were anti monopoly, that the government should do something to prevent businesses from operating like that, I'd never expect them to be from the right to be honest. So consider several perspectives: a. The gov
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by gwd 1y ago
> It really should not be on random strangers to determine the employees salaries directly FTFY (I mean, actually I agree with your point too; but personally I think tipping is much more unfair to the employees than to the customers.
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> Everyone I talked to at the time who worked with Perl knew it would not go away But what about people who didn't work with Perl, or only used it as a side thing? I know I personally put off deepening my superficial knowledge of
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by gwd 1y ago
Then why even bother calling it "left" at this point? Just say they're anti-monopoly. Is there really nobody on the right who are also anti-monopoly?
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by gwd 1y ago
The query completion can also be SSR. The example below is HTMX for Active Search, but the principle is the same: https://htmx.org/examples/active-search/
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by gwd 1y ago
OK, so having poked around the documentation a bit, I do think the Pony documentation could use a lot more examples. But there's one reasonably concrete example here: https://patterns.ponylang.io/data-sharing/is
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by gwd 1y ago
If you want to dive right into what seems like the first key "interesting" idea, it's here: https://tutorial.ponylang.io/types/actors If you know a few programming languages I think you should be able to
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by gwd 1y ago
I wonder if they're falling back to the Claude API when they're over capacity?
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by gwd 1y ago
> If the value of a company is $10m and the company asks an investor to give $10m in exchange for equity, the investor should own 100%. That's not investing , that's buying . Buying means the buyer gives $10m to the previo
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by gwd 1y ago
There is actually a sense to the dilution. If I have something I think is worth $10m, and I'm asking someone else to give me another $10m, doesn't it make sense for that person to own 50% of the company? Why would any investor g
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by gwd 1y ago
> I feel the opposite. I appreciate the ability to iterate and prototype in a way which lowers friction. I feel the same way. Things I like: Thinking about architectures and algorithms. Things I don't like: Starting out with a bla
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by gwd 1y ago
> partly because the quality tends to degrade with the length of the context. And as if to emphasize this, I was using opencode this morning with Sonnet; but once the context window got up close to 100k, only about 30% through implementi
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by gwd 1y ago
> Languages usually have either the voiced/unvoiced distinction as phonemic, or the aspirated/unaspirated distinction. Yes, that makes sense -- I certainly learned something from this conversation. It makes sense that speakers
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by gwd 1y ago
I don't think I realized how the sessions worked; It looks like /new would get pretty close. One of the things /clear does in aider is clear the chat history but not the files you've added (which are always done manuall
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by gwd 1y ago
I think that must have been within one dialect . If you include all dialects of English (Scottish, Irish, Australian, Singaporian, Indian, American, etc. etc.) I'm sure you have a lot more than 43 phonemes. In any case, her point was
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by gwd 1y ago
Like it a lot so far! After a brief play last night, the biggest feature of aider I miss is more control over the context window -- saying "/clear" to re-start the conversation from scratch, or specifying files to add or remo
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by gwd 1y ago
Been using aider as my daily driver for a while, just gave opencode a spin last night. As another comment by the authors said, they're still pretty early days, so there's a lot of missing documentation and functionality; that&#x27
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by gwd 1y ago
> qu and chou are aspirated; ju and zhou aren't. ...Compare [ref] So the idea here is that chou and zhou are related in a similar way that the t's in "top" and "stop" are related: your mouth and vocal cords
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And, you'll notice I pointed out English voiced plosives. :-D
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I've been using VSCode with aider, but with auto-committing turned off. VSCode has a thing where changes not yet checked into the tree are highlighted in the scrollbars -- blue for modified, green for added, red for removed. You can

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