Can't imagine using MTG to learn a language. But it does seem intuitive in hindsight. Back when I played in the junior super series and nationals I could recall almost every card and what it did. So I can see how that leap would be tantermount. Kudos.
Note that he's starting from N2 Japanese, which is already a high level of Japanese proficiency (although it does not test writing/speaking at all, so it's very feasible to have N2 yet be terrible at conversation). He's not exactly learning hiragana from M:TG.
The M:TG competitions are giving him a framework to practice that conversation, which believe it or not can be hard to come by in Tokyo without deliberate effort (see 'expat bubble'). The vocab/grammar on the cards is mostly incidental to all that. If he was playing online M:TG in Japanese he wouldn't be getting anywhere near the payoff.
It is more like: I love MTG, how to learn a language through this hobby?
As far as games go, tabletop RPGs are probably better than MTG because they are all about talking. But nothing beats doing what you enjoy doing, and if what you enjoy is MTG, then MTG is the best.
Godaddy is pretty awful in a lot of things. This doesn't even surprise me. But I will say that their broker services have done me well. But I do transfer domains away as soon as possible to dynadot
I compared all of the other registrars mentioned by HN users, and Dynadot basically tied with Namecheap on price, but Dynadot is so much more user-friendly.
This just shows that with the right training, in this case a thesis on erdos problems, they where able to prompt and check the output. So still needed the know how to even being to figure it out. "Lichtman proved Erdős right as part of his doctoral thesis in 2022."
Lichtman is an expert who commented for the story. Liam Price is the one who prompted ChatGPT. "He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training."
“I didn’t know what the problem was—I was just doing Erdős problems as I do sometimes, giving them to the AI and seeing what it can come up with,” he says. “And it came up with what looked like a right solution.”
"He sent it to his occasional collaborator Kevin Barreto, a second-year undergraduate in mathematics at the University of Cambridge."
So basically two undergrads/graduates in math, "advanced" is subjective at that point.
It's implied by "no advanced mathematics training?"
The article you linked (thanks for the unpaywalled link, by the way) describes him only as an amateur mathematician, but describes Barreto as a math student. If they were both math students, I feel it would say so?
Or perhaps you're arguing it's implicit in him having solved the problem? If so, you're just assuming your conclusion. "AI didn't prove it by itself; Price was a mathematician. Well, he must have been a mathematician to be able to prove it!"
I'm saying that it wasn't a random person who had no training in math, still miraculous achievement; just trying to show they still had to study maths to even understand how to present the problem and verify it.
Appreciate this, also put in another link in the footer to "Report an Error" just in-case it does become a reference source. No factor of safety in the periodic table of elements.
As second suggestion: this probably looks great on a cell phone, but on a 50" display you've got tons more space for additional elemental facts/tidbits. Perhaps detect monitor size, then keep simple for phones?
This could additional put the lanthomides into their correct placement (if window widened enough) [0].
Much prettier. Could easily have larger pop-ups (entire point is to get information on elements, no?) <https://i.imgur.com/IVx5MY5.png>
Heck, even have a link to Wikipedia articles (why not?). You're obviously in the enjoyment of information sharing =D
You also have plenty of space for an example element (e.g. describe what each line represents e.g.g: density, atomic mass, proton/element #). The map's "key" if you will... not everybody knows these standardized chemnerd properties (you can then also remove the 120+ "RT" by simply placing in example element @STP, with a link to what that means, too).
I like that you've chosen to use an actual element for the example / explainer.
To streamline the UI, might I suggest replacing example element (copper) with just the explainers, next to hydrogen [2]... using that elements information (without adding a free-floating copper).
If that doesn't make sense, let me know.
Thanks for being a responsive educator.
[2] perhaps use Beryllium for your example/explainer -- because then you can explain the electron orbitals too ..?
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Replace the topbar (color==atomic class) location to between Group II & III elements (e.g. whitespace between Be B); does not need to be explained on example element text.
I tried playing with making the elements a bit more full but then it feels too cluttered. So I think the tool tip is good for now till maybe I figure out a way to add other stuff into it but not feel to cluttered.
I updated the Title to show the .org, but also in the mean time picked up https://periodictableofelements.com so working on that as well to make one the educational and the other to support any costs it might ever have and for any traffic leak I guess.
You've added something that dims elements in years before they were officially discovered; but this is not “what the periodic table looked like at the time”. When I was a child, the periodic table had element names hahnium and kurchatovium on it. This is probably not easy to implement because many elements had multiple names between the US and USSR and they were not internationally standardized until 1997 (long after the fall of the USSR).
Made the moible X 36px now, so easier to close. And removed uses and fun fact clues that gave away answers, replaced with density, melting point, electronegativity, and group number
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