An operator is a map that maps maps to maps.
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I love reference books, formula booklets, and cheatsheets.
Textbooks and boardgame rulebooks are awesome, but they have to teach the material, which gets in the way of auramaxxing: explanations are ephemeral and messy, and you have to include arbitrary things like examples.
The layout, ordering, and grouping has to be selected to be pedagogically sensible, which sometimes doesn’t reflect the conceptual proximity or distance between chunks of information. They aren’t even trying to be maps.
But the information density in reference books fills me with awe.
When all the most powerful rules, theorems, and formulas are right next to each other it’s as if you have a whole area of human knowledge compressed into a few lines.
A graveyard is like a park for introverts.
I’m not well-calibrated.
My self-assessment of my calibration is not well-calibrated.
So I must be well-calibrated.
‘concept handle’ is one of my favourite concept handles.
Feature I wish text editors had: Wrap the last line to the first line of the file.
So if you are near the end you can see the beginning of the file, as if the file was the curved surface of a cylinder that you rotate as you scroll up or down the page.
I want this because I like to have my cursor line centered at all times (’typewriter mode’) but this wastes screen real estate when I’m near the beginning/end of the file. Might as well put more of the file there!
I would totally make a deal with the devil from the classic folktale Don’t Make A Deal With The Devil, No, Seriously, Even If You Think You Are Too Clever To Listen To Classic Folktales About Making Deals With The Devil because I’m too clever to listen to classic folktales about making deals with the devil.
There once was a user named Wotton
whose patience for drivel neared bottom.
Bluesky held some hope,
turned out to be cope.
Any social media is bound to be rotten.
There once was a pal who wished to microblog
yet could find no place for witty dialog.
Twitter? Worse as X.
Fediverse? Looks complex.
Might as well throw paper slips into a bog.