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toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Risk and Regret

I came here to see if anyone discussed this quote : “The purpose of life is to experience things for which you will later experience nostalgia.”

I can totally relate to it but it might be because I'm in a mid life crisis.

toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Toward a Digital Comics Praxis

Thanks. Right now it's all static. To go from one page to the other you can click 次and 前 . It would be easy to move the characters within the images using a bit of javascript. That's a plan I have for the future.

If you need inspiration you can take a look at this as well made using REXPaint. https://preview.redd.it/vxfohcwxywt71.png?width=1458&format=...

It's all ASCII art so in theory one should be able to convert it to HTML. I have a project to make a story using REXPaint to HTML in a near future.

If you need more info, feel free to contat me raising an issue on github.

toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Everything You Can’t Have

I'd say my version does not include comparison to others. I actually wish more people try their best to create great things even if what their creations are much better than mine.

My version would be more like :

"Owning a car is very circumstantial. It means you temporarily have some property right on it. It can break, it can be taken away from you. If you create something it's yours forever. Its existence is not independant of your will.".

At the end of their lives some people will have owned ten cars, others will have written ten books.

toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Everything You Can’t Have

I have found that instead of wanting things I don't own, wanting to see created things I haven't created yet very liberating.

Since it makes my goals very personal, I can't compare myself on an objective metric with other people and as a result feel less frustrated about not earning more.

toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you test SQL?

I admit it's not the best but I do almost like you. Graphs are definitely helpful.

I also have a few 'test' queries that insert there results into a 'test_results' table. Most of the queries check the cardinality of the table since to me wrong cardinality is where the biggest errors come from. I do something like :

insert into test_table

select case when count(*) = count(distinct users) then 'pass' else 'fail' end as result, 'test_cardinality_temporary_table_a' as test_name from temporary_table_a

toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Yandex ‘leak’ reveals search ranking factors

When it comes to ML scalability is a constraint not a goal. The goal is to minimize some loss function and it turns out simple dot product can be outperformed by more complex algorithms.

I remember reading a few years ago that most search engines use some tree based model. If that's the case, that means the idea of monotonic linear weights is not relevant.

toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Make up a guy

The article points to a Twitter account named Two-Word Horror. I clicked on it not expecting much, it's actually quite disturbing.

Here are some examples :

> Riemann counterexamples

> Unicode Corporation

> Google Sex

> procedurally-generated regulations

> denim skin

> peak humanity

toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata

I am writing one for Japanese (I was not aware of LLPSI when I started) and I use things that are common knowledge to a lot of people like set theory. I have used a few unusual things on the way.

I have recreated the UI of a fashion Ecommerce site such that the user is so familiar with the button labels ('buy', 'add to cart', 'recommended items') that they can easily guess their meanings.

I teach HTML using simple Japanese. I make use of the fact that "<span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span> " uses English words but is not English. That allows me to say things such as 'to change the background colour to yellow you can add this tag' without using English. It's definitely cheating but I have found that cheating is actually good practice when it comes to help people guess the meaning of words in a foreign language .

toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata

I am making one for Japanese here : https://drdru.github.io/stories/intro.html . It makes use of emoji and pixel art to illustrate simple stories. The only thing required of the reader is knowledge of Hiragana and Katakana.

It reached the HN frontpage a few years ago and I've kept working on it since then. It now contains close to 100 pages (~500 words) and everything has been proofread by a native speaker.

toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Protonmail Recommended Browsers

I actually posted this link because I could not sign in to my mailbox yesterday due to the fact I was using the DDG browser on my tablet but my comment about it got buried.
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