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I don't think definitions "are" highly accurate precise things. Sometimes yes. The same scholarship, skill, and need to not mislead also applies for so many other things: encyclope…

I get the impulse to assume they'd be alike, but I've found that Wiktionary really isn't much like Wikipedia.

I really enjoyed the article, reading it more from the perspective of what 21st-century lexicography could be, less as a customer of a word game however thoughtfully designed. As a…

Some relevant prior discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21622322 (Nov 2019) "Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results" 1000+ upvotes https://news.ycombin…

I entirely agree. Quora and Pinterest are particularly routine spam sites in my search results. They rank just below word reference site spam, like dictionaries, thesauruses, or tr…

The execution of this visualization was rather disappointing. I didn’t like the overly cute text (the description of the Simpleton algorithm was almost incomprehensible), the low-c…

I looked into gentle a few weeks ago and did notice that it seems to use an online algorithm. It doesn’t have built-in support for live audio input unfortunately, but it may be twe…

Do you know of any existing forced alignment tools that work well with live audio (microphone) input? I would like to create a live stream in which the words of a known text are di…

I wonder if it’s possible to turn this into a video filter.

> screenshots What help. /s

I’ve seen Tufte CSS before when I tried to search for HTML/CSS sidenote implementations. I’m happy to see a responsive one, even though it uses JS.

What exactly are these "unique twists"?

This seems to be a laggier, CPU-exhausting shameless copy of Curve Fever: http://curvefever.com/play2.php

I had seen this effect about two years ago on the website of Roman Komarov and was impressed by it at the time: http://kizu.ru/en/fun/

Has the author made any insights into reverse-engineering Google Docs’ spell checking?

Thanks! — but I hardly think it’s impressive scraping your website using kimono (besides, 40% of the hyphenation data is missing anyway…)

Here is a version of the list grouped by whether the TLD is the same as the last hyphenation point (e.g., crow.bar and not frig.ht ). http://pastie.org/pastes/9147186/text