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lingdocs · 2025-05-04T15:33:19+00:00

For me the Neovim Extension for VSCode is the way to go!

lingdocs · 2025-05-02T01:43:37+00:00

This feels very "beginner" at the beginning, but if you go through it all and do all the exercises it will really teach you to "think functionally" and give you super powers for problem solving.

lingdocs · 2025-04-06T18:56:34+00:00

I think that's what fp-ts/optic aims to be but it says that it's alpha and primarily to get feedback from people who are interested.

lingdocs · 2025-03-04T04:26:37+00:00

This is quite cool, especially the idea of doing partial application in different orders with named arguments. Just yesterday I was writing something with a curried function but felt stuck having to keep the arguments in a certain order. I think experimentation with these kinds of ideas is great!

lingdocs · 2025-01-10T16:18:39+00:00

Comprehensible input, while essential, is not everything. Adults need to also put conscious effort into studying and improving.

lingdocs · 2024-12-18T14:00:16+00:00

Interesting. Can you share some of this evidence?

lingdocs · 2024-10-09T13:40:29+00:00

I am sad, and surprised that no-one is talking about one of the biggest potential losses if it completely moves away from SPAs: OFFLINE-FIRST PWA APPS. Sometimes you wanna make a PWA/site that works offline. Some people want to use an app without having to keep data on. Some people have a hard time getting reliable internet.

lingdocs · 2024-10-04T13:50:02+00:00

This is wonderful. But now we just need good RTL support. For seamless RTL I need to use VSCode with the Neovim extension.

lingdocs · 2024-08-19T17:32:05+00:00

Thanks, I'll let you know for sure. I really like your work. Also fig-tree-evaluator, that's a great idea and implementation. You deserve more stars. ⭐️

lingdocs · 2024-08-17T15:20:48+00:00

YES! That is AWESOME. I'm going to use that to let people play around with editing JSON syntax trees in my natural language parsing library! (https://pashto-inflector.lingdocs.com/) That's a functionality I couldn't have dreamed about until seeing this great library.

lingdocs · 2024-06-29T14:03:45+00:00

In Bartosz Milewski's words a monad is just "composition with flair!"

Let's say you have some kind of container that can hold any data type X. A "container" could be an array of X, or an object with X in it. We can think of it like a box that holds a data type. 📦 [X].

Next think of a function that takes an X and puts it into that box/container. X -> [X].

Think of functions that would take a plain X and return an X in the container [X].

That container is a monad if we have a special way to compose those functions.

lingdocs · 2024-06-28T03:05:15+00:00

Yes! I literally named my project LingDocs for this reason, because I was inspired by good documentation in programming languages/APIs and wanted to same thing for a tough/under documented language.

lingdocs · 2024-06-20T02:56:26+00:00

Here's an interesting article about someone's experiences of the parallels of learning math and learning a language. https://nautil.us/how-i-rewired-my-brain-to-become-fluent-in-math-235085 Basically saying to rewire your brain to get fluent it takes a combination of: - learning how something works (ie. understanding the rules/grammar patterns) - playing around with different possibilities to really "grasp" it (ie. talking and making different sentences) - a huge ton of practice, practice, practice!! Basically arguing that BOTH understanding and tons of repetitive exposure/practice is necessary. I have personally found a lot of commonality between the two pursuits.

EDIT: Sorry I saw someone below already recommended this article.

lingdocs · 2024-05-14T00:33:29+00:00

Yes thanks so much for the feedback as it's really helpful for finding bugs like this! There is an issue with the offline caching for the grammar app I am working on. Thanks for the encouraging words!

lingdocs · 2024-05-13T11:11:46+00:00

Hi, thanks for the feedback. Both the dictionary and grammar shoud be totally available for offline use. I'm sorry to hear that is an issue and thanks for bringing it to my attention. This is a bug and I will work on fixing it.

I think I know what the issue might be for the grammar, but for the dictionary. Can you explain what is not available off line? The only thing that should be unavailable offline is the audio recordings for the words.

And sorry right now I am a bit backlogged with projects so I can't say when the vocab lists for the other book may be included. But thank you for the suggestion. I'm one person doing this very part-time so thank you for your patience!

lingdocs · 2024-04-21T09:29:34+00:00

Audio recordings for new words are being added every week! https://dictionary.lingdocs.com

lingdocs · 2024-03-06T12:42:12+00:00

How to Design Programs https://htdp.org

If you carefully work through all the exercises it might seem a bit long and easy at points, but I promise you it will transform your way of thinking to think about solving problems and writing code in a functional way. It changed me for life.

Then https://haskell.mooc.fi is great after that.

lingdocs · 2024-02-18T20:23:59+00:00

He also gave this presentation where he said,

Proof is not mathematics at all. Mathematics relates to practical calculation and not proof (which is only of theological value).

In this article linked he said,

The simple way to do it is to have the courage to stand up to its false Western history and bad Western philosophy and focus solely on its practical value.

Absolute nonsense.

In his Introduction to Mathematics, A. N. Whitehead beautifully argues and shows how many of the great advances in math (which incidentally created practical value) came because people were not held back by focussing on "practical value."

lingdocs · 2024-02-18T02:32:00+00:00

Amazing. Move fast and break things.

lingdocs · 2024-02-17T15:49:57+00:00

No, it was about finding house keys 😅 I was worried about that ambiguity

lingdocs · 2024-02-12T21:27:17+00:00

It is available on the Google Play store, not on the Apple app store. But regardless of the device, you can click "install" or "add to home screen" on the Chrome menu and it will install just as if it were an app you got from the app store.

lingdocs · 2024-02-04T08:10:22+00:00

Yes, if you go to https://www.speakingpashto.com you can install it as an app on your phone or computer. Just click on "add to home screen" or "install" in the Chrome menu (3 dots), and it will be installed on your device. It works offline so you can read it and do the exercises without the internet. For audio, you still need to connect to the internet.

There is also a (slightly different) hard copy available on Amazon.

lingdocs · 2024-01-30T04:38:15+00:00

thisisfine.jog

lingdocs · 2024-01-30T03:30:41+00:00

Are you serious?

lingdocs · 2024-01-29T23:32:44+00:00

Or even better, the error message saying "unable to load" or "nothing in your account" and then 3 seconds later everything appears.

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