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Anyone know how to get past the paywall?


The New Yorker is available via Libby electronically if your library subscribes. In Santa Clara county I get it this way. So we pay library taxes and get access, not technically free. In plus side, a lot more content and the cartoons, on minus side, have to filter a lot of New York only culture and other articles for your interests.


Archive link in the post body?

(Apologies if that's been edited in after your comment)


Lynx works well.


Pay for the work they did?


Out the window with you!


I believe they do, but the author seems to focus on OpenAI since they're more of a household name.


People said the exact same thing about AR furniture, and I'm 99% sure no one uses that.


It seems like 99% of apartment listings in the city of New York are virtually staged with AR furniture


That essay generator is pretty cool. There are definitely a lot of undergrads whose essays look about the same.


There is no dearth of midwittery in the non-STEM fields. I admit this is elitist and downright snobbish, but I am disgusted that somebody else can get a degree from the same university as me in a non-STEM major and piggyback off of prestige they didn't create.

In my opinion, it's stolen valor.


Perhaps you should value knowledge over status?


It doesn't matter what I value. The people who wanna hire me for jobs or invest in my fund value status.

There's a reason companies hire people they don't need: to make themselves look bigger to investors and in the case of law firms, clients.

Analyzing complex systems from first principles and challenging decisions that have no good reason is a noble cause, but it's only useful if you have the authority to make the changes. I'm not dictator of the world, I don't get to dictate how customers, clients, or employers shall make their business and hiring decisions.


It's a great explainer. Definitely better than mine.


fwiw, your explanation really made markov chains click for me (unlike other markov chain explanations) i have to admit, that the part where you went from the idea over hashmaps to the matrix representation was a bit dense, but rereading it twice made me under it so thanks for your explanation!


That's great to hear. Thanks! I'm glad it worked.


This is actually sick! I have to admit, my implementation is far more (likely unnecessarily) complex.


Thanks! I think! Your implementation might be easier to understand and modify, too, although perhaps not because of being unnecessarily complex.


Checking if a word is spelled correctly is easy. It is providing high-quality suggestions that is hard.


Even that is hard since there are many words where a mispelling is a valid different word.


As a copyeditor/proofreader, the number of times over the years I've had to fix the low-quality (i.e, wrong) suggestions is quite large. ("he had a small plague on his desk" remains a favorite.)


   I have a spelling checker    
   It came with my PC   
   It highlights for my review    
   Mistakes I cannot sea.    
   I ran this poem thru it   
   I'm sure your pleased to no   
   Its letter perfect in it's weigh   
   My checker told me sew.
https://www.thoughtco.com/spell-checker-poem-by-mark-eckman-...


"He looked in the [car's] grove department" is still my favorite.


One of my favourites was 'rouge elephant'.


Having written a spellcheck, maybe 20 years ago for school, this is accurate.


As an engineer that primarily uses Rust, this is a good omen.


Yup, but you're automatically giving up a ton of RAM that could be better used for Slack.


I can see this as a major issue. If you start using this for grammar checking, you're basically subtracting 3GB of RAM from your system.


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