For people not in the loop, Cure Dolly was a youtuber who taught basic Japanese grammar lessons using a digital avatar. She had (and continues to have) a cult-like following (in a good way) among a section of the online Japanese learning community. She was also ill at the time and eventually passed away.
kochikame 3 hours ago [-]
I live in Japna and have a high-intermediate level of Japanese. I wish I had been able to read and think about these well-expressed observations when I was just starting out as it would have saved me from having to intuit things over time.
Like Cure Dolly writes, no one tells you what you really need to know when you're learning Japanese (all languages?)
Macha 7 hours ago [-]
I found Cure Dolly's guide very helpful as a launching point for Japanese. Just don't take her "all you need" marketing too seriously, it is more an introductory level than a complete guide.
greybox 7 hours ago [-]
I'm so glad someone is taking these forward. Her videos were a god send when I started out learning this language. Besides the sometimes strange rants about text-books, her videos are top notch.
This looks like it took a lot of effort to transcribe with all her helpful graphics too.
> I would of course explain that the equality sign is not symmetric with respect to such notations; we have 3=A(5) and 4=A(5) but not 3=4, nor can we say that A(5)=4. We can, however, say that A(0)=0. As de Bruijn points out in [1, 1.2], mathematicians customarily use the = sign as they use the word “is” in English: Aristotle is a man, but a man isn’t necessarily Aristotle.
I did some digging into the identity behind the Cure Dolly character after finding the videos quite helpful. There is what I recall being a fairly credible trail of evidence that the proprietor is formerly associated with the Silver Sisterhood, AKA the "Lesbian Spanking Cult", which has popped up on HN a number of times due to their involvement in the early text adventure video game industry.
joshdavham 6 hours ago [-]
Could you provide some sources for this? I'm worried that this could be considered as spreading rumors.
userbinator 6 hours ago [-]
This is what I could find from a few minutes of searching, although it's not really much evidence either way: https://pastebin.com/eHtG45pf
I have no skin in this game, but I wouldn't be surprised that someone with a brilliant mind would also have, to put it bluntly, "a bunch of weird shit."
arrakeen 5 hours ago [-]
i randomly stumbled upon the connection as well while reading about the St. Bride's School. such a random connection between two completely different interests of mine that i joked the universe is a simulation with limited RAM and reuses assets
Cure Dolly has _some_ connection to this group which, to me, just adds even more mystique to an already fascinating story[1]
Like Cure Dolly writes, no one tells you what you really need to know when you're learning Japanese (all languages?)
This looks like it took a lot of effort to transcribe with all her helpful graphics too.
Thank you for doing this!
R.I.P Cure Dolly
What on earth did I just read?
https://i.imgur.com/Z6OUVSp.png
— Donald Knuth, Teach Calculus via O Notation (https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/big-o-notation-a... or http://micromath.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/donald-knuth-calcu...)
I have no skin in this game, but I wouldn't be surprised that someone with a brilliant mind would also have, to put it bluntly, "a bunch of weird shit."
Cure Dolly has _some_ connection to this group which, to me, just adds even more mystique to an already fascinating story[1]
[1] https://if50.substack.com/p/1992-silverwolf