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by soferio 4y ago
This looks great. My son uses “beast academy” from Art of Problem Solving ( https://beastacademy.com/ ), which is fantastic. But mathacademy looks like it might be a good competitor at the post year 6 level.
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by soferio 4y ago
I just tested it on the full text of a legal case in which I was involved (as a lawyer). It prepared a superb summary. But then I tested it on a second, more complex, case, and it did an average job.
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by soferio 4y ago
Steven Pinker, “The Sense of Style”, is a book about the science of how to write well. YouTube talk here: https://youtu.be/3ZKTmsgqi0U
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by soferio 4y ago
As for signalling, “The Case Against Education” by Bryan Caplan is a crisply argued case that signalling is >50% at least of what is going on.
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by soferio 4y ago
I set up a raspberry pi to auto boot into Commodore 64 mode with a BASIC command line. It was a fantastic start, there is something magical about that experience. The boy then shifted to scratch and also uses REPLIT.
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by soferio 4y ago
The very last plot idea, “infestation“, seems to predate and be kinda similar to the Alien franchise.
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by soferio 4y ago
Are there any statistics on how much higher the survival rate is in a larger car rather than a smaller car? (assuming roughly equivalent safety technology).
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by soferio 4y ago
Do five star crash test ratings therefore overstate the COMPARATIVE safety of small cars? Or do they account for the risk reduction of larger cars? Eg https://www.ancap.com.au/safety-ratings?is_current_model=tru...
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by soferio 4y ago
Crossword genius is outstandingly good at cryptics.
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by soferio 4y ago
Proraso anti-bleeding gel is the best thing I have found for razor cuts. It dries into a transparent artificial scab.
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Ask HN: What do we do with cash now that inflation is a risk?
66 points by soferio 5y ago|64 comments
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by soferio 5y ago
And you might find the following interesting: - Wikipedia entry for “groupthink“ and the ways of preventing it. - The Israeli “10th man doctrine” and “Ipha mistabra”, as one technique (perhaps this is real, and not just a feature of the plo
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by soferio 5y ago
Re AOPS: their online “beast academy” service for primary kids is unbelievably good. https://beastacademy.com/
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by soferio 5y ago
What teaching or training tools are out there for a very average player at no limit Texas hold’em who just wants to get at bit better to a respectable level at a modest time commitment , and does not need to be a pro-level player?
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Flood alarm. Simple electronic design(digikey.com.au)
1 points by soferio 5y ago|0 comments
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by soferio 5y ago
Liquidtext is a commercial multiplatform app with some similar and interesting functionality.
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by soferio 6y ago
We’ve been using LastPass without real issues of any variety (inc speed) on: Mac, iOS, windows 10. Sharing feature working well.
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by soferio 6y ago
Wow, what a fantastic idea. There goes the weekend.
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by soferio 6y ago
Looks great. I would be delighted to have the small task of converting to docx when the big task of actually writing a novel is made easier by this and finished! (Also python has docx libraries so docx is unlikely to be too much trouble in
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by soferio 6y ago
I got a raspberry pi to boot up into Commodore 64 BASIC. My son got into it pretty quickly. We then moved to python and scratch. Scratch has been the most addictive so far.
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by soferio 6y ago
MVP Like this? I made it for my son: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/word-magic-toddler-reading-and...
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by soferio 6y ago
Happy user here too. Well done! I wish you had an iOS version. Cheers.
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by soferio 6y ago
Can it (or any tool) perform proximity searches on scanned PDFs? E.g word1 within 20 words of word2, on scanned PDFs? (I think this is non trivial but very useful.)
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by soferio 6y ago
A Commodore 64 emulator on a raspberry Pi connected to the family TV is what I used, with similar results. My boy was instantly programming and in awe of all the magic the words could weave. Boot straight into BASIC. This one: https:/
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Australian Innovation Statement – IT Boost(afr.com)
1 points by soferio 11y ago|0 comments
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Flask Web Development Book – 2014(amazon.com)
58 points by soferio 12y ago|21 comments
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Monument Valley – 'making of' video(youtube.com)
1 points by soferio 12y ago|0 comments
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by soferio 13y ago
This looks really useful for validating rest endpoint data. Thanks!
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by soferio 13y ago
This is a great idea. You have my $10. (FWIW, advanced Flask-SQLAlchemy topics (relationsips, queries, association tables, alembic etc) and also security issues (what to watch out for with Flask, jinja and WTForms if anything) would be my p
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by soferio 13y ago
If you don't need to go as deep or as far, you might want to consider 'Code' by Charles Petzold: http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/ I found it great read and it covers some of the ground of this course.

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