Join Notes
A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Set objects (§11.1.1) are iterable, so an easy way to remove duplicate elements from an array is to convert the array to a set and then immediately convert the set back to an array using the spread operator: let letters = [..."hello world"]; [...new Set(letters)] // => ["h","e","l","o"," ","w","r","d"]
JavaScript
David Flanagan
Does it represent the yearning for order, or the surrender to chaos?
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu and Ken Liu
There is, to be sure, no comprehensive theory of creativity. But there is a well-documented tendency people have to consider only familiar uses for objects, an instinct known as functional fixedness.
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