Also, I have ten books on perspective drawing, and my understanding isn’t complete without all ten of them
Or, if I’m teaching a subject on A*, perhaps ONE of those articles conveys the materials best for my students.
Thank you for providing links to the others though! I’m sure it will be helpful for someone.
The Smarties test (What's in this Smarties tube - look it's not Smarties, ok now what does somebody else think is in the tube?) shows that humans need a further step to discover that model isn't enough.
But it's still cheaper and it's pretty good. It will correctly predict that this person you've never met before probably wants cake not death, just like you. It won't reliably predict whether they prefer lemon cake or coffee cake. But it's a good first guess.
> perhaps ONE of those articles
It is the same article each time, though the comments coming off the different postings of it might have unique nuggets of useful information to dig for.
> Thank you for providing links to the others though! I’m sure it will be helpful for someone.
It isn't as prominent as on other sites, so it isn't difficult to miss sat right at the bottom of the main page, but HN does have a working search function. I find searching for older posts this way can be quite useful for the above reason, when something comes up that has existed for a few years.
hides from the dreaded downvoters
I used to spend more time browsing when reading an actual newspaper or magazine. The discourse on opinion pieces and such is more thought out too—many people, myself included, post too quickly before thinking because we’re always on the go.
Something about the online experience consuming news is less satisfying. Perhaps a hacker out there can set up a print version of HN archives, and print it on a Gutenberg Press. :)
Which books might those be? ;)