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I really enjoyed this! I do agree with the other comments that a larger vocabulary would be nice. The way some games handle this is by giving bonus points for words that are uninte…

That's a fair point. That probably makes more sense, especially when viewed from a company-specific perspective. Each individual actor probably has much more to gain by trying to a…

This perspective is pretty interesting: https://federicocarrone.com/articles/china-commoditizing-the...

I'm reminded of this: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/heuristics-that-almost-alwa...

MIT OCW does a great job of this

Beli is a pretty popular app with this functionality

I believe the repo linked in the post is actually quite different, converting Python to runnable whitespace.

“No one ever got fired for hiring IBM”

I wish the data in this article was presented as a map with colors indicating the prices.

It’s a superset of JSON. I guess they mean it’s backwards compatible in terms of reading existing JSONs?

Ah I misread this, thanks

> The advantage of this approach is that it generalizes efficiently to any number of dimensions. I am unsure about whether this is true. The ratio of a ball’s volume to its enclosi…

Happily surprised at the quality of the TTS for Tamil — Jessica feels quite good. Some of the other voices felt pretty American, though.

I find it difficult to think of examples that aren't just based on niche information (what did we talk about on this day? what analogy does the teacher make repeatedly?). Maybe mul…

related (and quite cool) -- minecraft generated on-the-fly which you can interact with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42014650

Love RemNote -- ability to take notes and create SRS cards within the notes is so sick

Obviously five minutes is unnecessarily frequent, but one network request every five minutes doesn't sound that bad to me. Even if every app running on my computer did that, I'm no…

I've been using Tad [0] for this purpose, as it streams in the data. [0] https://www.tadviewer.com