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Show HN: Mistake Trainer – Spaced repetition from your own Lichess games mistake-trainer.pages.dev

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Comment · 3 years ago

Second this. I’m 40 and have been gaming since the Atari 2600. FTL is among the greatest games ever created. Other suggestions for HN audience include Factorio (of course) and Civ games (Civ 5 with all the DLC is my favorite). Terrance Tao apparently enjoys Civ as well FWIW.

Comment · 4 years ago

Seems to be inspired by Tom7's "You can't win this game, it exists only to destroy your mind" [1]. Tom7 is like an indie intellectual/artistic hero of mine. Be sure to check out his other stuff. [2]

[1] http://entire.spacebar.org/ [2] http://www.tom7.org/

Comment · 6 years ago

Erdos[0] certainly felt his creativity was helped by caffeine (and amphetamines). From personal experience, math professors seem to be the most reliable academic users of nicotine and caffeine. I'm skeptical they are all deluding themselves.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s

Comment · 7 years ago

I believe Turing Machines are an example. Turing originally called them "automatic machines" or a-machines.