vple

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by vple 4y ago
I think good writing is more about the higher level: effectively communicating a point. Mechanical components, such as grammar, are important but don't help express ideas. As a tangent, I think a lot of the soft influence you mention r
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by vple 4y ago
> How much does the environment you're in contribute to performance? As an oversimplified answer, a lot. I think this is actually a complex question, cause there's a lot of dimensions to go in. Even in your story, it seems like
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by vple 5y ago
Yeah, I wasn't sure how I wanted to deal with duplicates so I mostly ignored them. I track letter positions directly (just a bunch of tuples), but don't actually do anything with this other than restricting candidates words. I thi
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by vple 5y ago
I also wrote a tool for playing: https://github.com/vple/wordle-solver/blob/main/solver.js There's probably more tuning I can do for the algo, but roughly: - I took all the words from the site'
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by vple 5y ago
> How did you first get into programming? In high school, my friend and I realized you could program TI-84 graphing calculators. We made really simple games (guess a number from 1-100, hangman, etc.). I didn't even realize I was pro
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by vple 5y ago
Similar ideas discussed in The Best Interface is No Interface: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Interface-No-brilliant-technolog... I like the underlying concept a lot (roughly, use technology to accomplish minimal-interaction u
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by vple 5y ago
I think it's good that you're taking time to evaluate yourself! I suspect you are smart but haven't found something that fits your "groove" yet. Here are some thoughts/questions that came to mind: - It seems li
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by vple 6y ago
I've seen this too, and I'm wondering how (or if) this fits into the shapes/additive/subtractive model. "Ritual" work doesn't seem like it falls under additive or subtractive to me. Maybe it's some co
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by vple 9y ago
He's probably selling to diversify. It looks like he's selling based on a 10b5-1 plan, i.e. he's selling on a predetermined plan.
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The Layman's Intro to Encryption Concerns(medium.com)
3 points by vple 11y ago|0 comments