Spiel Des Jahres is a prize they give every year to a bunch of board games. Don't look at very old board games, but some of the modern ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiel_des_Jahres
As for Go, I was tempted, but it's also very abstract, I do like some kind of theme in my board games.
A board game well integrated with the theme gives great vibes.
Some of the games great from there:
- Sky Team, discovered right there on the wikipedia page: for 2 players, me and my wife spent countless hours on it. Very simple rules yet so damn fun
- Azul up to 4, simple rules and a lot of depths. Place tiles on a board while stealing from others the stuff they want to use
- Kingdomino is so simple yet choosing the piece (some form of draft) requires thinking ahead so many turns!
- Dominion is still a great game: deck builder with simple rules. Didn't think that was possible? It is!
A lot of the children games are also great (this is for families with kids)
Some nominated are also great, even if they didn't win
Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) is a boardgame award that notably favors family-friendly accessibility. If you're seeing the award on the box, you can be confident that even if the strategy can potentially get really deep, you can still break this out to have a fun time with both grandma and your 12 year old cousin.
One of the values of doing your own research is it forces you to speak the "language" of what you're trying to do.
It's like the struggle that we've all had when learning our first programming language. If we weren't forced to wrestle with compilation errors, our brains wouldn't have adapted to the mindset that the computer will do whatever you tell it to do and only that.
There's a place for LLMs in learning, and I feel like it satisfies the same niche as pre-synthesized Medium tutorials. It's no replacement for reading documentation or finding answers for yourself though.
This seems like a difference between learning styles. You seem to champion learning by reading. I’d argue using an LLM to build a toy or tool and learning that way is just as valid.
The lack of syncing doesn't bother me, because the purpose of taking notes always falls into one of these categories:
1. I read the code to get an idea of how something works. The code is there to make examples/variable names concrete, but I don't need to know the exact implementation.
If the notes need to sit in the code, usually that's because the answer spans multiple methods (eg "what does an e2e request look like?"). A set of comments on outdated code is always good enough for me.
Otherwise, a lot of times the answer can be summarized in one line (eg "where is the state tracked?" -> in FooBarClass). These can go into personal notes.
2. I need to know the implementation and it is complex and hard to follow.
If I need to know the implementation, either it is because I'm actively working on it, or I need to make [complex idea] more concrete in my head.
If it's the former, usually I'll have memorized it by the time I read through it.
If it's the latter, by the end of it I'll have gotten the main idea and it's fine to forget the implantation details.
It's really helpful with MongoDB Query Language (also MQL). Document models without a rigid schema and a less intuitive API are where this stuff comes in real handy. MongoDB's GUI Compass already shipped a feature to generate queries and aggregation pipelines from natural language.
> What’s deeply frustrating is that for more than a decade Sal Khan similarly said that the videos on his “Khan Academy” would revolutionize education, and they utterly failed to do so.
How does one determine whether an edtech startup like KA has succeeded or failed? As someone who has found KA useful at times, I don't understand where the author is coming from
I recently heard someone say their favorite cure to writer's block is to read more and do research.
I found something profound about that. Writing is hard when you don't have anything to write about, and maybe there's something analogous to be said for goal setting.
If you want the ultimate depth:ruleset ratio, come learn Go :) Every game is so different and exciting