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577 sats \ 7 comments \ @cryotosensei 17h AskSN

And what inspired you to think of it?

It’s the school holidays, which is a good thing because life slows down and opens up space for me to think randomly.

I have received a few books on caterpillars and taught my son on the life cycle of butterflies. Yesterday, a brainwave came over me. I could compound my efforts by introducing pertinent phrases in Chinese. Stuff like 狼吞虎咽 (wolfed down) and 吃得津津有味 (ate with relish). I’m optimistic that connecting Chinese to his existing schema will help him write beautiful essays in the future.

A pat on my shoulder!

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129 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 13h

I've top-down thought up a method to automate large parts of information forensics. It's mostly the search and case building part, which is by far the most time consuming unproductive activity I do nowadays. The final click of how that would work was thanks to @siggy47, in #1009750.

I'm still brewing on it, but will prototype something to figure out feasibility and next steps.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 12h

This is really a great idea. I wonder if this has been tried before?

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 5h

There's a huge, famous company with government contracts that has this; I'm 200% sure. But, I'm currently at the stage where I don't want to cloud my mind with other people's solutions - I think that that's part of the creative process. It's also why I'm a terrible engineer (but, if you'd ask me, a good out-of-the-box thinker / analyst.)

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 11h

Cool how a seemingly innocuous remark fired your brain to connect the dots together!

55 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 15h

I've been trying to get my kids to play Pathfinder with me, but either they're not super interested, or I'm not engaging enough as a GM

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 11h

Is this playing for fun or do you want them to learn some computational thinking or something like that?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 10h

Just for fun, and something to do together instead of everyone on their own screens