miniblog.

I've been playing with 'sliders' in difftastic, the classic diff problem where you highlight an adjacent value that is correct but weird. I've taught difftastic to penalise sequences across newlines. This largely works, but it hurts perf (another degree of freedom to solve).

Modelling foreign language learning in the Duolingo app by fitting a machine learning model! When you have millions of users you can measure recall effectiveness with a high degree of confidence:

Cleaning out some 2009 notes from my Computer Science degree. Interesting to see location aware tech and containerization discussed. [1/2]