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Re:Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases on Sunday February 20, 2022 @02:51AM (#30404031)
Nice. Could you add a URL-parameter for the search-term, so it is possible to link to a query?
Really nice work. It was easy to integrated this library into my own project. Looking forward to see some WebXR support in the future.

Example link: https://conze.pt/explore/Pyrenees?l=en&t=link&s=true&i=12431...

Re:It's time to take alternatives to dark matter seriously on Saturday June 27, 2020 @10:11PM (#23666291)
Maybe physics needs a more holistic light theory based on stillness and the two-way motion of each phenomena in the cosmos: https://wikischool.org/divided_light
Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:30PM (#20742001)
Yes, noted, thanks. Some wikipedia templates are difficult to get right. Will see how to fix this and make the presentation clearer.
Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:26PM (#20741983)
Thanks for the feedback. There will be a "font-switch" option and I may need to do some user testing for the best default font.

The speed issue is really a Wikipedia (and Archive.org) API fetching issue plus some parsing time. I am planning to make the data fetching parallel, but need to do some data-source-code refactoring first. A better loading indication UI will also help.

Re:I Miss Microsoft Encarta on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:08PM (#20741327)
I am having fun developing an alternative interface for Wikipedia called "Explore":

https://wikischool.org/explore

https://wikischool.org/explore/Ludwig%20Wittgenstein?l=en&t=... (read an article chronologically)

The larger goal is to make self-study more effective and enjoyable. Desktop browser recommended for now, as the mobile UX needs improvement.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? – March 2019 on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @11:08AM (#19379386)
Building a better interface for using Wikipedia & Youtube:

https://wikischool.org/explore

The larger goal is to make self-study more effective and enjoyable. Mobile needs some more improvements.

Re:The World Is Built on Probability (1988) on Friday October 19, 2018 @08:46AM (#18256302)
Enter the implicate (folded) order of the holoverse ("holographic universe"), which Bohm (among others) developed and supported.

See the non-local, higher-ordering properties of true holograms and eg. this mixed fluid experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpJ-kGII074

More on all this in Michael Talbot's amazing book "Holographic Universe": https://wikischool.org/book/holographic_universe

Re:Why I’m Worried About Google on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @01:30PM (#18132576)
Agreed. I noticed this too, would be great if the FF devs could implement that very useful feature. It gives an instant overview of the search hit distribution on the page.
Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic on Saturday September 29, 2018 @11:14AM (#18100815)
Don't think so. Lately Google has really messed with the trust of their Chrome & Chromium users.

I switched to Firefox + DDG recently, and I don't think I'm alone with this action. Switching takes only a few minutes and is really worth it IMHO.

Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic on Saturday September 29, 2018 @10:52AM (#18100669)
Advertising (MS Bing + Yahoo) and affiliate-linking (Amazon): https://duck.co/help/company/advertising-and-affiliates

I hope DDG becomes smarter with AI-assisted searching, eg. by doing semantic sentence encoded searching, like Google Books showed a while back: https://books.google.com/talktobooks/query?q=best%20search%2...

Re:‘Quantum Atmospheres’ May Reveal Secrets of Matter on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @06:42PM (#18080890)
Non-arguments still. Also, spirituality is not religion, nor is spirituality mutually exclusive with science. Scientism with its snarky, ignorant arrogance is a sad religion.

The video is actually pretty good, your choice though.

Gerald Pollack has also written a small book (full of science!) on the 4th state of matter (crystalline liquid): https://file.io/SGlzL0

“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. (…) We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Spirit. This Spirit is the matrix of all matter.” - Max Planck

“Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties, when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent, it must have been created.” - James Clerk Maxwell

Yeah, but maybe those guys were not "real scientists", but just religious lunatics! Downvote, censor and burn them!

Re:‘Quantum Atmospheres’ May Reveal Secrets of Matter on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @06:04PM (#18080648)
Nice bit of non-arguments you got there.
Re:‘Quantum Atmospheres’ May Reveal Secrets of Matter on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:19AM (#18076164)
The ether does not exist. What we call “space” is light decentrated (expanded, radiated). Space is relatively cold, but not without seeming light motion. Therefore “space” is the negative half of the physical universe, while “matter” is the positive half. The pressures of motion between space and matter balance each other out continuously. https://wikischool.org/divided_light

This story is actually about the fourth-phase of matter (though they claim their own discovery), the charged liquid crystal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q33KyLkP_Rg

These four states of matter (gas, liquid, liquid-crystal, solid-crystal) correspond to charge and geometries: https://wikischool.org/divided_light#crystallization_and_dec...