This is wonderful! Just last night I realized I had a need for something like this, while using the "words containing" feature of Pleco. I find I can remember characters much better if I see their relationship to other characters. Then I recognized hey this is a graph, that would be a cool thing to play with.
I learned intermediate level Chinese 40 years ago, back when paper dictionaries with pinyin were the hot new thing. Then I forgot it all. I recently stumbled across Pleco, which astonished me so much I started learning Chinese again.
I'm looking forward to using HanziGraph in my studying.
I'm enjoying the Milewski series too. For a couple months I've been plowing through some books on Category Theory. It isn't easy for me. A disproportionate number of aha moments have happened while re-re-watching one of his presentations.
I've been enjoying this book for the last 2 weeks. It's not an easy read for me. I did a BA in Math about the time negative numbers were discovered and haven't touched math much ever since. But with some effort this book is do-able and has given me very many new insights to chew on. Looking forward to re-reading chapter 14 again again this evening.
I used Dvorak for about 15 years and loved it. There are probably incrementally better layouts now, but Dvorak was available when I switched. I found it very much more comfortable than QWERTY. Perhaps a little faster. But ending the pain in my hands was the big win. I would strongly encourage others to switch to an improved layout.
That said, I switched back to QWERTY about 5 years ago when Parkinson's stopped me from touch typing with my right hand. Now I type with my left hand and one finger on the right. I have to look at the keyboard. I use too many different keyboards to practically relabel the keys. It didn't take more than a few weeks to re-learn QWERTY on the left hand. My hands hurt more now, but at least keyboards are better now than they used to be.
When my Chromebook fell out of "support" it became useless. Like, I couldn't open a console or run Crouton to do what I needed to do. The hardware was fine, just Google remotely broke my machine. I liked my Chromebook, but will never get another one. I'm happy with my used Thinkpad that cost about as much as the Chromebook. I'm finished with Google.
This is really cool. I wish it had been available when I learned Chinese back in the mid-80s. I remember having to look up the pinyin in one dictionary to get the character(s) and then count strokes to look it up in a different dictionary to get a definition in English. I've been forgetting Chinese for the last 30 years but after looking at this app and seeing what learning tools are available now I thought it might be fun to pick it up again.
His book was horrifyingly interesting. Today I got annoyed by something stupid that Slack fails at but is easy in email. Then I realized I could be working on a Thai fishing boat and Slack suddenly seemed totally adequate.
I had one of these, and installed Linux on it (it came with Windows). But the hard drive was so noisy I couldn't stand to use it. That was the fatal flaw.
I hate typing, so here's a short reply. I type less every year. 6 years from diagnosis. I seek work that is more looking at stuff to find the fault, and less data entry. Voice recognition is fine for dictation, but sux for editing code.
Riding my bike hard every day makes a HUGE impact on my typing speed, so a decent bike commute is mandatory for me.
Glad I'm in the software biz, and not a musician or surgeon. Never thought I'd say that!!!
I learned intermediate level Chinese 40 years ago, back when paper dictionaries with pinyin were the hot new thing. Then I forgot it all. I recently stumbled across Pleco, which astonished me so much I started learning Chinese again.
I'm looking forward to using HanziGraph in my studying.