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Tour of the Sacred Library(moultano.wordpress.com)
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Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D? (2019)(blog.mecheye.net)
135 points by thesephist 5y ago|71 comments
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Open Letter: IEEE Spectrum editors apparently fell for Russian propaganda(medium.com)
8 points by thesephist 5y ago|3 comments
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Carbide Alpha(alpha.trycarbide.com)
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The Last Transmission(linus.coffee)
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by thesephist 5y ago
This point should get more visibility — embeddings are not made in the abstract; they reflect the lexicon of their training sets, and I strongly suspect word embeddings used here reflect the lexicon and word frequencies (and their meaning&#
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Show HN: Just Some Burds(burds.vercel.app)
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Readable Recipes(readablerecipes.com)
13 points by thesephist 5y ago|3 comments
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by thesephist 5y ago
Interesting perspective! It had actually not occurred to me to take a more general non-anthropocentric perspective and I'm grateful to know there's non-human sides to semiotics/notation to think about. TIL :)
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by thesephist 5y ago
I mention this in passing in the post, but I think the various notations that exist to express finite state machines help us greatly to understand complex software systems. One way to express FSMs is the general node-and-arrow diagram. That
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by thesephist 5y ago
Though I mention some of these in the post, I think it might be worth calling attention to some of my favorite works in this general space of interactive documents/dynamic notation/interfaces for thinking in the software medium. -
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Towards a research community for better thinking tools(thesephist.com)
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Tools Embody Mediums(jessmart.in)
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AI as a Creative Collaborator(thesephist.com)
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Chicken Sandwich Wars(en.wikipedia.org)
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Scales of Cities, Scales of Software(linus.coffee)
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by thesephist 5y ago
Yep! They're completely procedurally generated to be random (within some anatomically possible range). It does get slow if you really crowd up the map (or you're on a large large screen) because I didn't particularly optimize
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by thesephist 5y ago
Hey HN! Quick weekend hack (I did a Twitter thread of me building this [0]) that seemed fun and interesting. Apparently a lot of people were having fun seeing some of the images I could create with it [1], so I thought I'd drop it here
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Show HN: Tiny Humans(tinyhumans.vercel.app)
13 points by thesephist 5y ago|4 comments
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Wicked Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
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Timefind: Binary search through a web site's history(github.com)
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The Cargo Cult of Versioning(akkartik.name)
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Scales of Cities, Scales of Software(linus.coffee)
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by thesephist 5y ago
OP here. Indeed, Iverson's seminal lecture is what the title alludes to :)
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The web browser as a tool of thought(thesephist.com)
3 points by thesephist 5y ago|1 comments
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Screenshots from developers and Unix people (2002)(anders.unix.se)
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by thesephist 5y ago
It's funny that lots of people comment on the snappy UI, because there isn't actually a lot of performance magic going on here -- the frontend just loads a few-MB large gzipped JSON inverted index and uses it to do all search and
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by thesephist 5y ago
Ink in its current form/design has a few fatal flaws, mostly around poorly conceived syntax and semantics. I didn't notice it in design because I was new to designing a PL, but noticed them as I wrote a lot of software in Ink. The
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by thesephist 5y ago
Thanks! This comment made my day. Certainly knowing which directions not to go in is a big part of my efficiency, and something I'll point to whenever I get asked that question in the future.
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by thesephist 5y ago
+1 to both Crafting Interpreters, which is probably my favorite free online text about this stuff, as well as the Interpreter Book and Compiler Book, both written for Go as the implementation language. They were all a huge help for me learn

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