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I remember encountering NoDictionaries years ago, and love it. Thank you for building it!

This is a really nice presentation of how some people play the authors' lawn-moving game better than others -- a great analysis of the gameplay. But the majority of comments on thi…

This is such a surprising comment! Bradbury's style is very sparse and plain, and much closer to Hemingway's end of the spectrum than to the other. Where would you put, say, Naboko…

For OP: I think "Type specimen" should be the default sample text, just to get readers into the right spirit. :) For anyone else reading this: make sure you click on the "controls …

By your reasoning, multiplying two numbers in binary involves no multiplication at all, because multiplying by 1 and multiplying by 0 are both trivial operations. But obviously mul…

This is great! Loved the demo and controls (and nice touch to include The Frog Prince as one of the sample texts lol). I think by doing tracking and expansion you're going even fur…

> AI is a bad writer, but […] Let’s say they finally fixed the machine so it was really good, so its default setting was to write exactly like VS Naipaul. The result would be a wor…

No they are not, which is why Wikipedia doesn't rely on them. All information on Wikipedia is supposed to be verifiable via a reliable secondary source (books, newspapers, etc from…

I had to read your comment several times, because the quotes seemed to have nothing in common, let alone be "almost verbatim". Then I realized you were probably commenting not abou…

I think it's the latter. I find the introduction (written by Kent Beck) easier to understand than the rest of the article (which he says is AI-written: "genie-generated description…

X, who was Y, was stuck at Z the entire W. (Bruce Edgar), who was (on (102 not out)), was stuck at (the (non-striker's end)) the entire (over). • An “over” consists of six opportun…

To make the chronology clear: • The Wikipedia page from before the reference to Chen's article was added: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chip%27s_Challeng... — it cites…

This is cool, good luck with your project! For this page, you may want to pick as the default examples some longer words (like say "nevertheless") that show both positive (odd numb…

I think your second paragraph is the same as “so slowly”, just quantified. And I'd argue that the technical meaning of “almost all” does match the everyday definition: if you told …

I think by "have 32 bit factors" the GP actually means "has a factorization as a product of two 32-bit numbers", rather than the natural meaning that doesn't work, as you pointed o…

It's related, but not the same thing. For example, for b=10, the number 70=2x5x7 is b-smooth, but it cannot be written as the product of two numbers less than b. Here are the other…

The word “most” is indeed not very surprising if taken to mean >50% (as you do), but the surprising fact (admittedly not relevant for 2^64 in the quoted sentence) is that “most” ca…

See “The Concept of a Meta-Font”: https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/1982-knuth.pdf

> But nearly all print publishers also do what SE does. Do they? To check, I tried to find a recent publication of Agatha Christie, and found the collection “Country Christie: Twel…

Your comment makes it sound as though the mistake was introduced by an inexperienced contributor who did not read the guide, when in fact it was introduced by the founder/editor-in…

An Applied Mathematician's Apology by Nick Trefethen[1] has a chapter (a couple of pages) titled "Cleve Moler and Matlab". > I first met Cleve Moler when I was a graduate student a…

Hi (looks like I've already starred your repo at some point months/years ago)! The motivation was not to replace art with technology, but to preserve/resurrect an art that was goin…

Actually: • He had already published the first editions of Volume 1, 2, 3, and the second edition of Volume 1, by 1973. It was in 1977 when the publishers sent him galley proofs fo…

I was hoping to reply to this in detail but as I never got around to it, I'll keep it short: mostly it's about the editorial changes they make to the text, modernizing spelling etc…

Have you considered having a detailed version history for each book (etext)? The process of submitting fixes to typos etc in books involves sending an email ( https://www.gutenberg…