Wordle 1,550 3/6*
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https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
Minute Cryptic - 16 September, 2025 (I'm on page 275 of Minute Cryptic's book, in the 'Lucky Dip 2' bit, because I've slowed down, doing a few before bed, and I'm enjoying the puzzles at the end. I suspect, along with a couple of crossword dictionaries I acquired, that the method that the MC book uses for teaching is very effective, or at least very effective for me, when applied to larger crosswords. The granular nature of learning individual clue patterns when applied to a larger form of a full crossword works as well as learning the rudiments of any gestalt form composed of those rudiments. There is a symmetry in how kids learn where initially everything is blurred and nebulous, like a baby's gibber, and it comes into focus as it is further refined by experience and feedback. There are parallels with neural networks and LLMs in that regard. I wonder if we should be more tolerant of getting stuff wrong on the path to getting stuff right, where permissable, because gibbering along to a song in a foreign language, as an adult, maybe having a similar effect to a baby gibbering along. That's part of the greatness of certain programming language compilers, such as Rust's, because they give good feedback once understood. I think autocorrect, LLMs and plugins don't inhibit learning but I suspect they may slow it down, under certain circumstances, because there is a whole chunk of 'doing' taken out of the process. But maybe a lot of it was pointless 'doing" to begin with, at least sometimes, it depends on context.)
"Listen out for Mum" (6)
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I scored: 2 under par
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