jamesfisher

Hi, it's actually $29 for the entire course, of which this post is just one chapter. Was there some content that suggested it was $29 for just this chapter? I need to fix that if so!

Yeah, I used the perspective tool in GIMP for that. That was the main bit of "editing in post".

I was saying earlier, it would be cool if there was an ML tool for adding/modifying text in images. Similar to how there are additional tools for fixing faces, super resolution, and so on.

Hi! Do you think there's any way we can make it clearer what's going on? I put "free preview" at the top, but perhaps it can be easily missed.

We've been writing a data science course [1] which feels like a game. Although it's more like Monkey Island meets MS Encarta, or a choose-your-own-adventure. It's a written story, where you frequently make choices through multiple-choice buttons.

[1]: https://tigyog.app/d/C-I1weB9CpTH/r/everyday-data-science

Skip the boring intro: https://youtu.be/7RNbIEJvjUA?t=395

Ooh, that's nice progress! At TigYog we're actually using Stripe Elements - not Checkout or products - so I think this can't work for us yet. It would be cool if you exposed some of this functionality in Elements. I'm not sure what that would look like though :)

After consideration, I think I'll go with this option.

We can actually go even lower effort: add a discount code for this, and just say "get in touch if the US price is unreasonable for your country" or similar.

Thanks for reminding me to KISS :)

Thank you! I thought "I've never heard of Pluto.jl", but then realized I've seen it a lot in that course by Grant Sanderson! At some point TigYog will have interactivity like that :)

Good spot on the table. I'll edit the example to fit, and make math blocks scroll more nicely if they overflow.

Thanks, such positive comments give me strength to continue! (I recognize though that I may have gone overboard with silly styles in some places ...)

The next chapter should be out next month - stay tuned! (Which reminds me, we should probably have a "subscribe for updates" button, without having to buy it first ...)

Hi! I wonder whether we could win you back with the course? We've reworked so much of the content, I hope you'd find those problems are gone! (Although the course is not on higher quality paper)

Hi! What are the main things you'd remove? E.g. maybe we've gone too heavy with the illustrations, or sounds?

Hi! I'm the solo developer of TigYog.app. I've been working with Andrew to build out the course. What percentage would you consider appropriate? It's set at 20% essentially because I have rent and bills to pay :-)

Thanks! :-) That's a great point, I'll look at adding PayPal. (In the meantime, anyone in this situation: send me an email and I'll can sort something out for you! - jameshfisher@gmail.com)

Thanks for the feedback! Did you mean the "I’ve worked at Google Brain and OpenAI" in the second para?

Also, yeah, Distill is amazing! Every post is a work of art. Learned so much from it.

Yes, one of those was group A

Haha!! Excellent question. So this is our fourth round of testing messages. We didn't want to A/B on HN cause that kinda feels disingenuous! But we've definitely been crunching things like conversion rates.

(Edit: this comment is a stupid meta-meta-joke, please ignore :-)

Everyday Data Science is the first course on TigYog [1], a platform I'm building. Most courses are video-based, but TigYog courses are more like books. The only addition is multiple-choice buttons with responses. This lets you simulate the tight feedback loop you’d have with a private tutor.

Andrew's writing shows off what you can make with this medium. It's a bit like blogging. Try it out and let me know how it goes! (Currently it’s a WYSIWYG editor, though I’m also working on a Markdown+git interface. Let me know if you’re interested.)

- Jim Fisher [2]

P.S.: Thanks to one user reporting an Apple Pay UI glitch. I'm on it! In the meantime, ordinary Stripe card payment should work.

[1]: https://tigyog.app/ [2]: https://jameshfisher.com/

Surely "Threlium"?

I wrote about something similar a few years ago! [1] I'd be interested in hacking something together one day. I imagine it would display your Google Calendar events, in a format reminiscent of Google Calendar, but where the smallest cell is a week.

1: https://jameshfisher.com/2017/06/06/long-calendar/

Thanks, I see. I'm using Slate for TigYog.app, and fairly happy with it, but neither CJK nor Android are important there.

Btw I'd love to see any public posts about the architecture of the Notion editor!

Why the sarcasm?

Why are all Google Search alternatives founded on gimmicks? Where is the startup with a straightforward pitch like "better results than Google, $5/mo"?

Thanks! :)

What is that slightly blackletter font being used for the title? [1] I like it, but it seems to not be used in the interactive example.

[1]: https://learnui.design/tools/img/typography-tutorial/tmatag-...

Nice, but weird to mix it with retro pixel art. Simultaneously simulating old print AND old screens?

This comment is a great example of "What if it changes?" [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31472997

I love it. Where is the startup to fill this gap in the market?

Really hoping they have fixed the performance issues. On both Windows and MacOS, Inkscape is really sluggish, even with small SVGs.

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67 ILL

49 WITH HIS BOSS

17 BREWING BEER

13 WITH AAPEHTI

8 WITH THE SCRIBE

6 MAKING REMEDIES FOR THE SCRIBE’S WIFE

5 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS MOTHER

5 OFFERING TO THE GOD

5 HIS WIFE WAS BLEEDING

5 FETCHING STONE FOR THE SCRIBE

4 WITH KHONS MAKING REMEDIES

4 SUFFERING WITH HIS EYE

4 OFF ABSENT

4 HIS DAUGHTER WAS BLEEDING

3 WITH HOREMWIA

3 WITH HIS BOSS DITTO

3 LIBATING TO HIS FATHER

2 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS SON

2 HIS MOTHER WAS ILL

2 HIS FEAST

2 FETCHING STONE FOR QENHERKHEPSHEF

2 BURYING THE GOD

1 WITH HIS GOD

1 THE SCORPION BIT HIM

1 STRENGTHENING THE DOOR

1 OFFFERING TO THE GOD

1 OFFERING TO HIS GOD

1 OFF ABSENT WITH THE SCRIBE

1 MOURNING HIS SON

1 LIBATING FOR HIS SON

1 LIBATING FOR HIM

1 LIBATING

1 EMBALMING HORMOSE

1 EMBALMING HIS BROTHER

1 DRINKING WITH KHONSU

1 BUILDING HIS HOUSE