andensande

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by andensande 3y ago
I second this -- Harl's courses are fantastic, and really enjoyable to listen to.
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by andensande 3y ago
In a similar vein, for Australian Rules football, there is the unbelievable AFL Tables [1]. There are the headline statistics you'd expect, but it also has really detailed, player-specific statistics for each match. The records - altho
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by andensande 5y ago
I went into a PhD programme in Australia straight out of my undergrad degree, and while it certainly wasn't great for my financial security, I'm glad I did it. Anecdotes don't make data, of course, but this is background to w
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by andensande 5y ago
The conclusions of the article seem a bit far-fetched to me, and seem to ignore the rhetorical style of poetry and theatre at the time. One of the examples the author gives (where they missed a contracted instance of "the"): >
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by andensande 5y ago
You can gloss it with 'under observation' I think fairly well. But the problem with (1) She would have had to have been observed. is that it misses out the gerund form preceding 'observed', which alters the meaning sligh
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by andensande 5y ago
The difficulty of mastering the tenses is something that I think a lot of English speakers overlook. There's a lot of really precise and difficult-to-explain subtleties in English. (Of course, English isn't unique in this regard -
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by andensande 5y ago
Not related as such, but worth pointing out. The author of this discussion - and the project manager of Audacity - is Tantacrul, who is, in my opinion, one of the best music youtubers around. His video[0] on corporate music was fantastic, a