The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers

 (garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com)

30 points | by panic 3 days ago

2 comments

  • dang 1 day ago
    Recent and related:

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  • california-og 9 hours ago
    Author here, thanks for sharing the essay & archive!
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    • gwern 1 hour ago
      Very nice. May I make a suggestion? Add a metadata field for the use of red (ie. rubrication https://gwern.net/red ), which is a core technique of this kind of printing, I think, but not typically noted.