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William Casarin
Personal blog · jb55.com/logprogrammingsystems
William Casarin writes Bill Casarin, a personal blog at jb55.com about programming and systems. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link a mirror of Eliezer Yudkowsky's LessWrong sequences hosted on this blog. One commenter used the text as a corpus to compare against a vocabulary-size test.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I thought Eliezer's Lesswrong sequences might give different results. Applying your tests to those (from http://jb55.com/lesswrong/ ), I get 257,646 total words, 11,666 unique dictionary words, and 12,721 unique words (I'm surprised there aren't more unique words, given that the quantum physics sequence is in there). 168*257,646^.3357 = 11,010, so the sequences seem to be at about HP level. Excellent work, by the wa…
Comment linking /lesswrong/
on “Estimate your English vocabulary size”Submitted Building an airgapped Bitcoin node with NNCP as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jack Dorsey Donates to Develop Decentralized Social Network Protocol [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussion