Tag: #reading
Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 7 posts
Lookup Cost Decides What You Can Read — From Two-Thousand-Year-Old Texts to Code Navigation
A site has appeared that gathers 1,060 Greek and Latin works and, when you click any word, shows its lemma, its morphological parsing, and its dictionary entry. The impressive part is not the volume of text but that the
2026-08-09 · 8 min read #developer-tools#code-navigation#ide#reading#toolingHow to Read a Difficult Book — Five Judgment Calls That Matter More Than Finishing
Most of the time, what makes a difficult book difficult isn't unfamiliar words — it's the shape of the argument. Grounded in Adler's method for reading and in what reading research actually supports, this piece lays out
2026-08-02 · 14 min read #storytelling#reading#books#learning#cultureNovels Worth the Time — 30 Books and the Rule of the First 50 Pages
Novel recommendation lists are everywhere, but they tend to leave out exactly what you need to know: how long the book actually is, how hard it is, and whether it's the kind of book you should push through when the first
2026-08-02 · 22 min read #storytelling#novels#reading#world-literature#cultureReading Deeply, Thinking Slowly — The Craft of Reflection
In an age of endless skimming, we are slowly losing the habit of reading deeply. This essay looks calmly at the difference between shallow and deep reading, what the internet did to our attention, the arts of active and
2026-07-05 · 17 min read #learning#reading#reflection#attentionFrom JLPT N3 to N2 — A Roadmap for Breaking Through the Intermediate Wall
For learners who have passed JLPT N3 and want to move up to N2, this guide breaks down the jump in difficulty subject by subject, then lays out 3-month and 6-month study plans, the 20 most common N2 grammar points, an N3
2026-06-30 · 28 min read #japanese#jlpt#n2#study-guide#readingJLPT N3 Reading and Listening — Strategies for a High Score
A focused attack on JLPT N3 reading and listening — the high-weight sections that trip up learners from Korean. Passage types and approaches, tracking keywords, referents, and connectors, time allocation, listening note-
2026-06-28 · 10 min read #japanese#jlpt#n3#reading#listeningThe Neuroscience of Reading — The Moment Letters Become Meaning
Reading is not an inborn ability but an acrobatic feat the brain newly invents. Starting from the brains letterbox that turns marks into meaning, we follow the leaps and pauses of the eye, the invention of writing, how c
2026-06-21 · 23 min read #culture#neuroscience#reading#brain#literacy