On: Visually symmetric words

[rex_lupi]

Probably the most low-effort blog post I've read in a while

[Waterluvian → rex_lupi]

Funny enough, I came to the comments section to say how much I enjoy the occasional short post that touches on one thing and moves on.

I don’t need my life to be chock full of deep dives into ideas.

[omoikane → rex_lupi]

Seems like there isn't much material to expand upon "()()" versus "())(".

I prefer this other article about palindromes:

Was It A Cat I Saw? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33285198

[cleansingfire → omoikane]

I had to work harder than expected to get this. I interpret the cartoon as distinguishing between meaning and form. Until I read it aloud, I couldn't stop interpreting the strings as

open close open close

in both directions.

[hettygreen → cleansingfire]

Thanks for explaining this.. I honestly had no idea, even tried to google it.

[MontyCarloHall → rex_lupi]

Usually John Cook’s blog posts are extremely high quality, so I’ll give him a pass just this once.

[pbnjay → rex_lupi]

Yeah… I was really interested in thinking about how to code a solution and then the post ended.

[diceduckmonk → pbnjay]

It’s not that deep. Same algorithm as for palindromes, but with different logical conditions on “equality” / continuation

[downboots → rex_lupi]

Perhaps https://youtu.be/qTBAW-Eh0tM at cost of breaking symmetry