The Valley of Fear
by Arthur Conan Doyle · first published 1914
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Even Sherlock Holmes, well-accustomed to the bizarre, finds the elements of this case unusual; the scene of the crime, a moated English country house; the wapon, a very American sawed-off shotgun; the bereaved, strangely dry-eyed; and the solution, backward in time and deep in a VALLEY OF FEAR...
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…N defaults to 250 but can be set on the command line. At the default 250 msec per word I found it very easy to read the material I tested with (random extracts from a Project Gutenberg edition of"The Valley of Fear", by Arthur Conan Doyle). That works out to around 160-180 wpm. (Not the 240 wpm you would expect from 250 msec/word because of the delays for punctuation). At 200 msec/word, it still feels like a very…
on “An experiment to test if Bionic Reading helps you read faster” ↗Hmm... "The Valley of Fear" Sherlock Holmes Novel by Sir Conan Arthur Doyle comes to mind ...
on “Red Dead Redemption 2’s Pinkerton agents are at the center of a lawsuit” ↗…which is what every scientist should do; true genius is too scarce and random and so one must be able to recognize it and fan the flames into roaring discoveries. As Conan Doyle says in the novel, The Valley of Fear; “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”.
on “Abel, the Mozart of Mathematics” ↗The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle featured a fictionalised version of a Pinkerton agent.
on “True Crime: Allan Pinkerton's Thirty Years a Detective (1884)” ↗Yeah, I feel the same way you do, but then console myself with this quote - “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but Talent instantly recognizes Genius.” (from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle). People have a silly need to point out the obvious as a crutch to their ego.
on “Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)” ↗…legion of "oddities." -- from "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe. To dismiss you/your comment; “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than Itself; but Talent instantly recognizes Genius.” -- from "The Valley of Fear" by Arthur Conan Doyle. To deflate your claim of Dijkstra's Algorithm being "self-evident"; Students Struggle with Concepts in Dijkstra's Algorithm -- https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3632620.3671096…
on “The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra” ↗“A touch! A distinct touch!” cried Holmes. "You are developing a certain unexpected vein of pawky humour, Watson, against which I must learn to guard myself". -- from "The Valley of Fear" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
on “Learn Prolog Now (2006)” ↗