houshuang

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A map for one reader – a bespoke GPS audio travel guide(networkedthought.substack.com)
1 points by houshuang 23d ago|0 comments
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The Babel fish that we have been waiting for(networkedthought.substack.com)
3 points by houshuang 27d ago|1 comments
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by houshuang 27d ago
Visiting a live conference in a small village in Estonia without speaking the language... or viewing a TV show where they are negotiating the formation of their country before independence in 1988...
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Show HN: Petrarca: Voice first spaced repetition – track knowledge across books(networkedthought.substack.com)
1 points by houshuang 5mo ago|0 comments
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by houshuang 5y ago
I've gotten jobs at three international remote companies, all paying above $150k, with no whiteboard and definitively no leet code. Although domain expertise helps, and working in the open (a track record of open source code, blog post
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by houshuang 6y ago
Interesting approach. I learnt Chinese in university 20 years ago, and spent a long time in China both with traditional text books (self study) and just living there... Very curious about the approach of learning characters without the pron
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Reproducing 7 year old PhD note taking workflow with Roam(youtube.com)
2 points by houshuang 7y ago|0 comments
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by houshuang 7y ago
Yeah, we need to do a lot around messaging, to be clear - the wiki is in an early prototype and there are known bugs, etc. However if you want to try it out, install the repo (run initial_setup, then npm start server), then go to localhost:
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by houshuang 7y ago
One neat thing about live collaboration is that every single edit is stored. This enables some nice things, like seamless replay of the entire document editing history. We've been working for a while on trying to analyze edit histories
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by houshuang 7y ago
I am curious about this argument - I think CKEditor 5 made a similar one in this epic blog post about how they implemented real-time collaboration ( https://ckeditor.com/blog/Lessons-learned-from-creating-a-ri... ). We&#
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by houshuang 7y ago
tmbb has been doing work on writing a ShareDB compatible backend in Elixir ( https://elixirforum.com/t/realtime-collaboration/9736/5 ), this has long been a dream of mine. If not, having a separate Node server
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by houshuang 7y ago
That's basically what I'm trying to build - we're starting with Quill.js and ShareDB, adding extensions, configuring, and then adding a plugin system based on React, which can take arbitrary components all based on ShareDB sy
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by houshuang 7y ago
Thanks for the component you provided for shared cursors in text areas ( https://github.com/convergencelabs/html-text-collab-ext ). I've been using it with ShareDB, and have been working on adapting it to work with
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by houshuang 7y ago
Surprised the author didn't mention Quill.js, which works really well with ShareDB, and is fully open source. We've been doing a lot of fun stuff with it - here's a talk I gave recently as a job talk: https://www.y
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by houshuang 7y ago
If you enjoyed this article, you might also enjoy the novel The Great Passage by Shion Miura, a wonderful quiet novel about the creation of a Japanese dictionary.
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Minerva's Innovative Platform Makes High Quality Higher Ed Personal(forbes.com)
1 points by houshuang 7y ago|0 comments
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by houshuang 7y ago
People interested in block styled editors and new takes on editors should look at hax-the-web, a big effort using web components primarily designed for educational materials at PSU, but usable for so much more. It's quite amazing the f
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Synchronous Collaborative Tools with Operational Transforms, ShareDB (and React)(youtube.com)
2 points by houshuang 8y ago|0 comments
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by houshuang 8y ago
If they start publishing in Chinese? The commercial CNKI database indexes 10,406 Chinese language academic journals, and 63 million articles. Arguably, much of it is of low quality (although there are plenty of Western journals of questiona
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by houshuang 8y ago
At most festivals in Switzerland, you have a single kind of reusable plastic cup, for which you pay a deposit of a few Euro. You can then hand it back at any venue part of the festival and get the deposit back. Of course it requires some di
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by houshuang 8y ago
What's the issue with the Yangtze? It only flows within China?
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Collaborative learning scripts with NLP(youtube.com)
2 points by houshuang 8y ago|0 comments
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by houshuang 9y ago
[ShareDB]( https://github.com/share/sharedb ) is the most commonly used, we use it extensively - also has bindings to rich text or code editors. [Y-js]( http://y-js.org/ ) is a more academic project, also
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by houshuang 9y ago
Note that most of these are not full-time jobs. Even members of federal parliament only meet four times a year, and go back to their normal jobs in-between.
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by houshuang 9y ago
This discussion is very interesting to us, as we are building a workflow system for collaborative learning (students might do an activity individually, the output of that activity is aggregated and transformed, students are grouped based on
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by houshuang 9y ago
Same in Paris, we just vacationed there for five days, with a two year old. Very difficult to navigate in a stroller (good proxy for a wheelchair - I can lift it down the stairs, but my wife cannot alone). However, there it's quite a d
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Tulip: A language for humans(youtube.com)
1 points by houshuang 10y ago|0 comments
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by houshuang 10y ago
This was really frustrating to me, because it felt like treating the Chinese visitors not as people, but a natural phenomenon (locusts) or some such. It's natural that the locals would be baffled, and if this had been a short notice in
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by houshuang 10y ago
Would be useful to be able to type to Siri in a public setting...
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by houshuang 11y ago
This is a great site. I read a huge amount, but I easily "fasten" in detective stories etc. Discovery is a significant problem. I don't necessarily follow review columns in intellectual newspapers. When I come across an autho

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