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rogerallen | 2 years ago | on: Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web

I wish it was easy to render western text to multiple columns that are fit to the screen. Reading like a multicolumn paper newspaper and scrolling horizontally. I think this shows that it would be pleasant to read text on the web this way.

rogerallen | 2 years ago | on: Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m

What you say can be true, but it sets a certain bar for clearly conveying the message artistically. I would say that bar was not met in this case. I found it so distracting I was compelled to go off to Desmos to draw it myself.

rogerallen | 2 years ago | on: Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m

Egads, why hand-draw a graph like that when there is Desmos?

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/f61mxuqurc [update]

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/aqhcs63r2e [first version]

rogerallen | 2 years ago | on: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

I said I despised the algorithm, I did not say I hated Twitter. Now I at least know why I hate it.

Yes "Following" is what I use. The reason I use it is because of this algorithm that thinks I could possibly want 50% tweets that make me "engaged^H^H^H^H^Hraged". To me, that is a ridiculous mixture.

I'm happy they have a "Following" and I sure hope they keep it, but I will not be surprised if it goes away.

rogerallen | 2 years ago | on: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

"Today, the For You timeline consists of 50% In-Network Tweets and 50% Out-of-Network Tweets on average, though this may vary from user to user."

I have spent significant effort creating a network and there you go choosing to ignore my efforts by putting in 50% of crap-I-don't-want-to-see.

That is why I despise your algorithm.

rogerallen | 3 years ago | on: Secretary Granholm to announce major scientific breakthrough by DOE [video]

https://youtu.be/LJ4W1g-6JiY explains the difference between Qplasma and Qtotal. I hope this presentation will be as forthright.

rogerallen | 3 years ago | on: An account was suspended

My twitter evolutionary art bot @tweegeemee is going through a fiasco like this, but I don't have nearly the same presence as Ben.

The account was suspended for 10 days and I'm still trying to get the app (separately suspended) that runs it unsuspended...

They must be going through some kind of crazy time over there between nation-state trolls, the Musk fiasco and the run-up to midterm elections. Yeesh.

rogerallen | 3 years ago | on: Twitter Notes

Came here to say this. I really, really liked Posterous.

rogerallen | 3 years ago | on: Now Monkeypox

"another less in [sic] real-time virology"

A typo in the first sentence? In Science? Wow...

rogerallen | 3 years ago | on: The endgames of bad faith communication

I wish there was a "good faith" up arrow.

rogerallen | 4 years ago | on: Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution

Thank you!

rogerallen | 4 years ago | on: Guess the daily Wordle in one try using the tweet distribution

SPOILER ALERT: shows today's answer!

rogerallen | 4 years ago | on: The enigmatic Portuguese R (2013)

LOL, I really expected to read an article about a variant of the statistics programming language R...

rogerallen | 4 years ago | on: Grafica Obscura – Collected Computer Graphics Hacks (1977-1996)

For those who are not quite getting what this site was about. It was Paul's personal, creative outlet for various ideas that were not quite serious enough for a SIGGRAPH paper. As far as I can see, it hasn't changed from the 90s when it was first published. Quite the time capsule to a day before Google when the web was new, 3D graphics was mainly in workstations and digital cameras were rare items. Not to mention, back when very few used the web as a personal, creative outlet.

For more examples of Paul's more serious graphics work, see https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=236LzcwAAAAJ

rogerallen | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why aren't micropayments a thing?

Hear, hear! I would love to give money to a "read-the-article.com" and have them dole out money on a per-article basis for articles I read online. They can make money on the float.

Google & Apple should waive their 30% for this.

rogerallen | 5 years ago | on: On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation

O how the mighty have fallen!

If you haven't ever done it, take a browse through the Inside Macintosh Volume I pdf here. https://vintageapple.org/inside_o/

All API documentation should aspire to be this great.

rogerallen | 5 years ago | on: Epic has published an in-game Macintosh commercial spoof in response to Apple

Agreed. Note that IBM could not even dream of doing what Apple has done with the App Store. They had only just finished off their monopoly lawsuit in 1982...

rogerallen | 5 years ago | on: Yann LeCun is leaving Twitter

There is more context here: https://venturebeat.com/2020/06/26/ai-weekly-a-deep-learning...

I appreciated this response thread by Nicolas Le Roux on twitter: https://twitter.com/le_roux_nicolas/status/12754857362597928... especially this: "Why did you reply by repeating what you thought was true, even after many explicitly told you that what you believed to be true was incorrect?" ... "did you watch the tutorials or read the papers that were pointed to you. What did you think of them?"

rogerallen | 6 years ago | on: Multiplayer Deck of Cards

Excellent! I've wanted to make something just like this for our family. Are you going to work to make the site self-sustaining or is this just for fun?

rogerallen | 8 years ago | on: Drawing an elephant with four complex parameters (2008)

Congratulations, full bonus points awarded!

Seriously, that's very cool. Well done.