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Star Maker

Olaf Stapledon · 1999

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Gwern loved it
It’s really impressive how Stapledon just casually scatters around handfuls of jewels that lesser authors might belabor singly throughout an entire book.

on gwern.net · 13 Oct 2022

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.