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New comment by S4M in "Recto – A Truly 2D Language"

S4M — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:47:06 +0000

There is also thje 2D dialect of Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/2d/

New comment by S4M in "Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning (2022)"

S4M — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:09:42 +0000

Looks neat! My only criticism would be that the solutions are given right after the questions so I couldn't help to read the answer of one question before thinking it through by myself.

Brain wires itself to match your native language

S4M — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:11:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brain-wires-native-language-neurons

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35482378

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by S4M in "Ask HN: Analog Chess Tournament?"

S4M — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 09:36:17 +0000

I will join if someone organizes it!

New comment by S4M in "A list of advanced math tricks by Terence Tao"

S4M — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:20:07 +0000

There is also this blog post from 2007 by the same author with some math tricks, very neatly explained (it is Terence Tao after all...): https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/amplification-arbi...

New comment by S4M in "Graduate Student’s Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture"

S4M — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:00:51 +0000

It said that the quantity sum(1/(n log n) for n in A) is always finite when A is a primitive set. The "operation done to each element of the set" is n -> 1 / (n log n).

New comment by S4M in "Day trader army loses all the money it made in meme-stock era"

S4M — Mon, 09 May 2022 23:47:29 +0000

You are lucky, I kept having the same message asking me to prove that I wasn't a robot and couldn't access to the article at all (same reason as you, they "detected unusual activity from your computer network").

New comment by S4M in "Strangest Sorting Algorithms"

S4M — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 03:16:19 +0000

That's just a more sophisticated version of sleep sort.

OCaml Labs Joins Tarides

S4M — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 02:55:44 +0000

Article URL: https://tarides.com/blog/2022-01-27-ocaml-labs-joins-tarides/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30173075

Points: 42

# Comments: 4

New comment by S4M in "Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?"

S4M — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 01:50:42 +0000

Hi, I would be interested to help a bit, as I think human trafficking is disgusting and should be stopped. Do you have a contact detail - my personal email is in my HN profile)?

New comment by S4M in "Chess.com vs. Lichess"

S4M — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:02:19 +0000

I played three games and lost them all. It's as you said, I felt that in the opening they knew something I didn't and they entered quickly in my camp. The strange thing is that when I played last year, I didn't have that feeling at all, the games felt pretty even - I won one game because my opponent resigned after I declined his draw offer.

If you want we can play some games some day. My email is in my profile if you're interested.

New comment by S4M in "Chess.com vs. Lichess"

S4M — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 07:57:21 +0000

I just went on playok to play couple of games of xiang qi and... I also got murdered...

New comment by S4M in "Chess.com vs. Lichess"

S4M — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 02:54:04 +0000

I don't have the source, but I remember read the lichess didn't want to implement other board games in their interface.

For XiangQi, I know that you can play it on playok.com (I know the rules and played a few games last time just to get the feeling, but I am more into chess and shogi...).

Magnus Carlsen retains title after winning lopsided match

S4M — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 01:57:50 +0000

Article URL: https://en.chessbase.com/post/world-championship-2021-g11

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29517694

Points: 255

# Comments: 139

New comment by S4M in "Good science fiction books about intelligence, AI, artificial life forms, etc.?"

S4M — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:20:36 +0000

Hyperion and Endymion by Dan Simmons are quite good.

It's set in the far future, when humans have colonized the whole Galaxy, and AIs have become so advanced that they are sentient and have their own world, somewhat parallel to the human world.

New comment by S4M in "Show HN: Marvin – A grumpy Slackbot who doesn't like your ideas"

S4M — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 01:27:24 +0000

> Thanks, but I already have this coworker.

Something like that could be added in the bot's list of responses.

New comment by S4M in "Why Lisp? (2015)"

S4M — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 01:16:19 +0000

I haven't tried it, but there is Janet (https://janet-lang.org/) that seems pretty well suited for building small scripts. It was submitted a few times recently here on HN.

Black Radicalism’s Complex Relationship with Japanese Empire (2018)

S4M — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 03:10:34 +0000

Article URL: https://daily.jstor.org/black-radicalisms-complex-relationship-with-japanese-empire/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28547504

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

New comment by S4M in "China bans for-profit school tutoring in sweeping overhaul"

S4M — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 03:44:50 +0000

You might like the wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_pr%C3%A9paratoire_aux_g...

New comment by S4M in "Ask HN: What's the weirdest/best thing you've done with Emacs?"

S4M — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 23:33:33 +0000

I use it to connect to my chess server! I play on freechess.org and xboard is my client for it, but I launch it from an emacs shell that becomes my console to interact with freechess. I also added some elisp commands so private chats have their own buffers.