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Apropos of nothing:
How does one frog?
"define: frogger"
...it was the best username I could think of, at the time ;).
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Apologies for just criticising without a constructive suggestion (hopng for an indication of whether anyone else thinks it's a problem first), but:
Anyone reading the sequences this way doesn't see the comments. That seems to me to be a non-trivial loss. Even the trolls; they were training material.
The major issue in implementing this would be the width of eReaders. As replies get further nested, the more to the right they should be. On your average Kindle, it might only be able to go to 4 or so levels before having to wrap around (am I making sense?)
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Thanks. Are there many EY LW posts that aren't in these files because they weren't part of any sequence?
Would you like an ebook of all of his posts not in the sequences? It would be reasonably simple to make.
(Not related, but I should mention: in my ebooks, some posts in the sequences are actually omitted because they aren't on LessWrong, but Yudkowsky.net or Overcoming Bias. Particularly in "Map and Territory." jb55's have those posts.)
Sequences in Alternative Formats
In the past weeks, there have been a few projects aiming to convert the sequences into more eye-friendly formats than the computer screen. There's no collection of these projects yet, so I'm posting here and in the wiki to get the word out.
- Print ready versions by jb55 (GitHub.) Has versions in Markdown, PDF, and ePub. ePubs can be converted to nearly any other format with calibre.
- lw2ebook by me (GitHub.) Includes all sequences in ePub and mobi format.
- Print ready versions by Jordan. Contains all posts of the sequence in one HTML file.
Some of the sequences can be rather lengthy -- the one on quantum physics is around 118,000 words. I know that there are some people that don't mind reading off LCD screens, but hopefully these tools will prove useful to the rest.
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Hi.
I only subscribed yesterday, and I didn't even have an account before now, but I'll consider myself a lurker and post here. There probably won't be a better time to join the community anyway.
Nice to meet you guys.
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Well, the OED gives several possibilities. If one is 'frogging', one is 'catching frogs, fishing for frogs'. One might 'frog' a coat - that is, apply 'frogs' ('An attachment to the waist-belt in which a sword or bayonet or hatchet may be carried.' or 'An ornamental fastening for the front of a military coat or cloak, consisting of a spindle-shaped button, covered with silk or other material, which passes through a loop on the opposite side of the garment.'). And so on.
That it's actually a verb surprises me. I was just intending it to be a pun on the game Frogger. I thought, "one who runs is a runner, so what does Frogger mean?"