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Mine is now 1.5 and the amazement continues. Hearing them learn to speak is also at a whole different level than any algorithm or adult does. They use some rud

Mine is now 1.5 and the amazement continues. Hearing them learn to speak is also at a whole different level than any algorithm or adult does. They use some rudimentary logic even at that age. There is a thing that's in English called an "egg cup" (according to Google Translate :-)), there is one word for that thing in Dutch: "eierdop". My daughter, just having heard the word "egg" for the first time that day looked at an egg cup and decided that it was "ei-bakje" in Dutch, which roughly translates to "small container for egg". Only took maybe 2 seconds. I think that ability to find relationships between things and extrapolate very rapidly from them is what makes human kids so fast at learning. Which may have something to do with the fact that human memory is very associative, almost like what near 100% data locality would be in CPU design with many many cores.

d1sxeyes 4y ago
Dutch is weird. I was interested to see whether 'dop' or 'erdop' meant something similar to cup, and the question is really just one of spacing. I discovered actually 'dop' means something like 'shell'. So APPARENTLY eierdop all as one word means egg cup, but eier dop as two separate words means egg shell?
- tibbydudeza 4y ago
  "eierdop" for me means the shell of the egg (Afr) ???.
- t0mas88 4y ago
  Dutch has less spaces. Generally if it's one object, it's one word. This causes a typical spelling mistake native Dutch speakers make in English: we combine words into one that should be two words. In Dutch "eier dop" does not exist. Could be "ei dop" and then you're taking about two separate objects, an egg and a cap (as in bottle cap). And that's also immediately an example, I tried to type that as bottlecap and my phone corrected it with an extra space ;-)
stevenjgarner 4y ago
Thanks so much for sharing. Refreshes my own experience. I was so clear what I wanted to do with my life - so many goals and aspirations. Then I remember holding my first-borne in one hand. Less than an hour old she peered up to me almost inquisitively as if to say "I hope you got this?" At that moment I realized what my life was about. Can barely remember those goals and aspirations now. As they say in Spanish, my first borne now has 42 years. Brought 6 kids and 5 grandchildren into this world. As I age I am reminded by the same process you talk about but in reverse now. Watch the Robin Williams movie "Awakenings" [1]. Really portrays it. We come into this world absolutely unable to do much of anything. We fade in. Then ... trust me ... we fade out. But in between, if we're really lucky we get to shine. I wonder if a neural network will ever do that? [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/

d1sxeyes 4y ago

Dutch is weird. I was interested to see whether 'dop' or 'erdop' meant something similar to cup, and the question is really just one of spacing. I discovered actually 'dop' means something like 'shell'. So APPARENTLY eierdop all as one word means egg cup, but eier dop as two separate words means egg shell?

tibbydudeza 4y ago
"eierdop" for me means the shell of the egg (Afr) ???.
t0mas88 4y ago
Dutch has less spaces. Generally if it's one object, it's one word. This causes a typical spelling mistake native Dutch speakers make in English: we combine words into one that should be two words. In Dutch "eier dop" does not exist. Could be "ei dop" and then you're taking about two separate objects, an egg and a cap (as in bottle cap). And that's also immediately an example, I tried to type that as bottlecap and my phone corrected it with an extra space ;-)

stevenjgarner 4y ago

Thanks so much for sharing. Refreshes my own experience. I was so clear what I wanted to do with my life - so many goals and aspirations. Then I remember holding my first-borne in one hand. Less than an hour old she peered up to me almost inquisitively as if to say "I hope you got this?" At that moment I realized what my life was about. Can barely remember those goals and aspirations now. As they say in Spanish, my first borne now has 42 years. Brought 6 kids and 5 grandchildren into this world. As I age I am reminded by the same process you talk about but in reverse now. Watch the Robin Williams movie "Awakenings" [1]. Really portrays it. We come into this world absolutely unable to do much of anything. We fade in. Then ... trust me ... we fade out. But in between, if we're really lucky we get to shine. I wonder if a neural network will ever do that? [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/