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SQL is in a sweet spot of declarative, formal, and high level. It's basically a description of what the resulting dataset means, not just how to produce it. For ad-hoc queries mayb…

It's a kind of pitch instability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_(recording)

Interesting! Looks like the IDE itself is written in Coalton ( https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton/tree/main/mine ) and you can either bring your own terminal or use the standa…

(2015) More information here: https://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/extensible .

> I am still struggling to understand the way in which many people naturally form casual connections with others. [...] I perceive a lot of confusion here - and in my own life - ab…

You're right that sensory issues make up a small (optional) part of the diagnostic criteria for ASD under the DSM-5. And I agree that "autism" in popular discourse seems to be very…

I think the word "spectrum" is reasonable, as it implies a broad range. Or it's analogous to the rainbow with a variety of colours. But what people consistently misunderstand is th…

A Sanskrit transliteration (IAST) editing mode for Emacs, including a dictionary and Devanāgarī rendering: https://github.com/sctb/sanskrit .

There is no one without a uniquely narrow perspective who could possibly see a full picture.

I love to miss people. I think missing is a complete and beautiful expression of love, just as much as having.

In clinical contexts, cognitive tests are used for diagnostic purposes. They are important to determine exactly what sort of ongoing care and support the person needs in order to t…

Strictly speaking, any intervention other than exercise is going to give you a subset of the total stimulation. A drug acting on the tissues directly would bypass the neurological …

Of course, they certainly do. But this article is really something else! I don't care if it's written by AI or not, but it has a rhetorical style that relies much more on rhythm th…

I would suggest that, like many things, that line is dependent on all of the details of the situation. Because all of those subtle details (e.g. the mood, receptiveness, familiarit…

You added the "just". Becoming a better person is probably the best thing you can shoot for, though obviously it's not a trivial process and requires significant effort and intenti…

Obviously there are many flavours of Buddhism and many flavours of Christianity, but the author is simply relating his own experience. I really don't see how cherry picking or cult…

It's hard to convey precisely what I mean, of course, but to try to clarify further I would say the emotion is experienced on behalf of the object itself in a direct way that does …

I'm not fooled whatsoever into thinking LLMs are human, but I am polite in how I interact with them because the language that I use impacts my experience. Same goes with how I inte…

I don't have access to the full text, but based on the abstract I think it's likely that I relate to this phenomenon (I am autistic). My experience is not so much the attribution o…