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Written by Saul Pwanson on 2024-12-15 at 07:07

What Searle didn't predict was how useful a really fast Chinese Room would be.

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Written by Saul Pwanson on 2024-11-02 at 02:33

There's also a Firefox plugin for Mag World that automatically converts numbers on webpages into magnitude notation:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mag-world/

It turns out to be useful when reading news articles about tech giants:

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Written by Saul Pwanson on 2024-11-01 at 06:54

I recently wrote a minor screed on the virtues of logarithmetic, with a simplified notation for numbers that focuses on the magnitude. And then I spent quite a bit time thinking and writing about computer history (specifically RAM) through this lens.

https://saul.pw/mag

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Written by Saul Pwanson on 2024-10-14 at 17:09

We released @visidata v3.1 to PyPI today! We've made several interface tweaks, including clickable sheet tabs on the status bar, aggregation totals on the bottom rows, a command to make a histogram from any column (addcol-histogram), and user-defined reference lines on the graph. See here for the release notes: https://www.visidata.org/blog/2024/v3.1/

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Written by Saul Pwanson on 2024-09-24 at 23:54

Joseph Reagle has made another VisiData video, this time demonstrating how to pivot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW_6xZSFBC0

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Written by Saul Pwanson on 2024-09-04 at 04:37

I've been playing a lot with magnitude notation, where ^X is shorthand for 10^X: ^3 is a thousand, ^6 is a million, ^7.5 is 31 million (seconds in a year), etc. Much easier to think through math at scale than with scientific notation. It's becoming kind of a slide rule in my head.

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