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curo

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About curo

Building a daily history app

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    This page embeds the exact payload of the original including campaignVersion: "v5", candidateSetVersion: "mendelsohn-2025", all eight private excerpts, contexts, profile copy, and …

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    Comment #49084010

    There's a section in the report "what's the most accurate translation" - tldr it's complicated. Presumably the top 8 translations by popularity pass some threshold of credibility.

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    Comment #47979345

    Nice lesson on animation performance, i learned a lot by reading this. As someone trying to build animated, edutainment-rich courses I'm a big admirer of Josh's work. Another bange…

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    Comment #47304983

    An interactive Greek & Roman Mythology course: https://www.scrivium.com If we can nail this one, then an entire Oxford-grade education in the same style.

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    Comment #45870725

    This is really fun — have you played with making the tile position opinionated (not agnostic)? i wonder if have the clues point to a starting square (e.g., "E5") would be better th…

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    Comment #45627378

    It's at the end of the interview. He wants to build Starfleet Academy for technical fields. Physical with a digital equivalent. Thinks education will become like a gym (self-educat…

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    Comment #44093386

    Building a Duolingo-like app to "learn from the greats, daily." ( https://www.scrivium.com ) Until recently, it was cost-prohibitive to gamify topics with indefinite answers and pr…

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    Comment #43250525

    Real GDP per capita growth for US vs UK was almost identical until 2008. The last 3 years have been terrible for the UK, but if you're looking for the start of UK's stagnation you …

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    Comment #43130171

    The fact that this thread is full of people who envisioned a physical recall is evidence enough the word is misleading. If reuters was an industry journal, sure.

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    Comment #43129264

    Or it's just a misleading headline

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    Comment #42840930

    Not scripture. Passages from the "Great Books" (literature, philosophy, poetry...)

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    Comment #42781608

    We tried to partner recently to co-create interactive books with a well-known classical education influencer on X. His job was to select passages from books and provide some commen…

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    Comment #41099693

    Would "pragmatic-universal" and "pragmatic-consensus" count as a fifth and sixth? I.e., "what's useful for the group?" and "what the group thinks is useful for them?" An example of…

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    Comment #40025504

    I'm curious how education or entertainment companies fit into this framework, or how they think about PMF in general. Was Duolingo targeting customers who accepted the "hard fact" …

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    Comment #39497253

    I like this idea, although preference-tuning for politeness might negate this effect

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    Comment #39263793

    I'm bootstrapping https://www.crone.ai and making a small amount of money. I've bootstrapped a few companies. B2B apps are easier since you can do custom work for business clients …

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    Comment #38893338

    are there others? (besides Project Gutenberg)

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    Comment #37976656

    I've had a lot of fun working with both: 1. Lexical 2. ProseMirror/Tiptap Both of these are very extensible, actively developed, and well-built. Tiptap is indy and pushes its pro p…

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    Comment #37598785

    One alternative. If you live in VS Code, consider Foam which gets you Roam/Obsidian like flows alongside an LLM (Github Copilot). I have no affiliation to Foam. It's just awesome.