other than the fact that the headline is misleading (this isn't what anybody would think of as a font), the concept misses the point of emphasis.
adding emphasis to words in unformatted text draws the reader's attention in ways that are not implied by the text itself.
you cannot figure out which word to highlight with the raw text "I didn't say he stole the money", but the semantics are completely different depending on if/where they exist.
you already have a mental model of surprise. adding visual noise to destroy what is already part of reading just makes things bad. the reason why syntax highlighting is successful is that the semantics are rigid. natural language is explicitly not that.
> In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law
47/50 states also provide for this right in their constitutions. the remaining three don't have it in their constitution but still have legislation or rules supporting it
Good catch but it's intentional. The engine behind the first simulator for 4-cards is adversarial and hence appears a bit deterministic.
- Adversarial engine: Will always respond with an answer to your query such that it maximizes the number of remaining permutations (used in the first simulator)
- Honest engine: This one will actually have one random hidden permutation that will be uncovered by your queries (this is used in the second simulator)
The reason why the adversarial engine is used up there is because if the user does not play optimally, they will be forced into 6 queries or more (and hence will appreciate the difficulty of the problem better). If you do self-play on the lower simulator (which has the 4,8,16 card variants) you will have the experience you expect.
This behavior also confused me. Perhaps I’m not the target audience for your post, but some text describing why the simulator behaves the way it does would have been quite helpful
this AI voice is killing me. there might be something technically interesting in this blog post but it's so hard to read because the AI voice just completely distracts from the message
For me the ai voice is bearable, but the length of everything is not. I just get exhausted reading this much text and searching for the sparsely placed interesting bits in it. After 10 minutes of reading, I gave up frustrated.
the target rp2350 is a sub-$1 chip. a 16x2 LCD module is over $1. but more importantly, you might have this much ram sitting around unused on whatever you're building anyway.
adding emphasis to words in unformatted text draws the reader's attention in ways that are not implied by the text itself.
you cannot figure out which word to highlight with the raw text "I didn't say he stole the money", but the semantics are completely different depending on if/where they exist.
you already have a mental model of surprise. adding visual noise to destroy what is already part of reading just makes things bad. the reason why syntax highlighting is successful is that the semantics are rigid. natural language is explicitly not that.
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