This is a weird story. If I were the dad, I would've preferred to tell my daughter myself. And a Nobel winner being overjoyed to get a free parking pass is borderline dystopian.
Berkeley gives dedicated parking spots to Nobel laureates. It’s not about having a place to park. It’s about being in the same category as all of those greats.
1. Very few people these days understand the difference between hyphens, en-dashes, and em-dashes. And then converting fonts and character sets on the internet adds another layer of error generation. We could settle on using a single '-' for hyphen and en-dash and a ' -- ' for em-dashes in fonts that don't have a ligature, but that hasn't carried down from the typewriter days for some reason. Microsoft Word is probably a big part of why.
One example: ICUs typically monitor a dozen or so of these traces per nurses station, so having an automated system for detecting codes would speed up response and avoid missed cardiac events.
I think in general this lack affects almost all areas of human endeavor. All my speech teaching my kids how to think clearly, to young software engineers about how to build software in a some giant ass bureaucracy, how to debug some tricky problem, none of that sort of discovering truth one step at a time or teaching new stuff is in blogs or anything outside the moment.
When I do write something up, it is usually very finalized at that time; the process of getting to that point is not recorded.
The models maybe need more naturalistic data and more data from working things out.
What is the purpose of declaring an sj_Reader object with an sj_read method if you don't support lazy parsing? Seems like you could tighten up the code by combining the declaration and parsing into one subroutine.
Should there be a million-dollar prize for developing a way to parse and reflow the text in PDFs in real time? Reading PDFs on screens is a huge headache.
Various apps already do this, if you find yourself reading lots of PDFs on phones. For example I use PDF Expert on iOS to do this. It’s not perfect—depending on the quality of the PDF there might be weird artifacts in the reflowed text (e.g., “ff” ligatures getting mapped to the Unicode ligature character “Latin Small Ligature Ff (U+FB00)” which breaks copy/paste/search).
But for PDFs which are really hard to read on a phone otherwise, it’s really a nice investment.
There is a company called Nano Dimension working on something like that. Last I heard their 3d printer wasn't at the consumer level yet, but neither were computers in the early days.
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