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Conserved enough to do word translation: https://engineering.fb.com/2018/08/31/ai-research/unsupervis...

Absolutely. This will be an even bigger issue for people texting in a second or third language (which I understand is quite common among countries and communities where feature pho…

Yes, it's interesting that the T9 seems to have made a slight improvement on my "naive" alphabetical layout. You might even be able to brute-force a solution where the alphabetical…

I tend to blog more often on my soccer blog ( https://www.statsandsnakeoil.com ), which has RSS set up. Naturally, that's a bit more niche. I'll look into RSS for this site if I st…

Hello! OP, here. I agree that the task is training for this specific subset of English writing, which isn't ideal. For this task, I was primarily interested in whether the task wou…

Maciej Cegłowski has an excellent post that goes into a bit more depth on this story of how the cure for scurvy was found, unwittingly lost, and refound: https://idlewords.com/2010…

In a similar vein, there's also babashka for these "bash+" use-cases: https://github.com/babashka/babashka

If you're interested in collecting small-scale/simple event-data, I put something together for my own use here: https://torvaney.github.io/projects/tracker.html

Neat! I happened to finish a similar project in Clojure just this week: https://github.com/Torvaney/flow-solver Although I used a much lazier strategy for doing the solving (reduct…