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by bradrn 6y ago
This one? http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/ (I remember it for having won the Ig Nobel Prize in Computer Science.)
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by bradrn 6y ago
This is something I happen to know a bit about, since a while ago I had a long conversation about this on a conlanging forum [0]. Unfortunately, I can give you no citation for this — quite the reverse! In fact, the general consensus seems t
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by bradrn 6y ago
This is one of those difficult cases where you have to decide which terminology you want to use. The best approach is probably to just accept that there are two different ways to define ‘gender’, as described by e.g. Aikhenvald (2000): >
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by bradrn 6y ago
> XeTeX helps, but in my last team, I was stuck with Latex Yep, I agree that font-related things are painful if you can only use LaTeX. > For tables there are many many different implementations that all work in only some use cases [2
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by bradrn 6y ago
> But instead, we're dealing with Latex - a language that overcomplicates the most basic features such as fonts, tables and special characters. I can’t really argue with the rest of your post, but in my experience this is incorrect.
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by bradrn 6y ago
Syllables and morphemes are not the same! In Chinese languages, all (or nearly all) morphemes are syllables, but not all syllables are morphemes. From Li and Thompson’s Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar : > The relatednes
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by bradrn 6y ago
> No, although place-value systems do seem to be younger than the non-place-value system the article calls "ciphered-additive", place-value numerals date from 02000 BCE This is of course correct; I should have mentioned it. (Th
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by bradrn 6y ago
I’m not sure ‘contained’ is quite the right word to use here. Perhaps populations might be less than what they used to be, but where I live in Sydney, you can barely walk across the road without seeing at least a couple of rabbits. We certa
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by bradrn 6y ago
Not necessarily! One Chinese character = one English syllable, but just like in English, many (most?) Chinese¹ words have more than one syllable. The article itself mentions that most names are two syllables, for instance. Or here’s another
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by bradrn 6y ago
> It's also interesting how history has taken us to the point that an anthropologist names a numeral system invented in India and brought to Europe via Africa "Western", because readers will understand that name, and uses
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> I've also heard that LaTeX editors are development disasters with a bus factor of one. In case anyone else is wondering about this: > The bus factor is a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not b
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As well as the Haskell reanimate package: https://github.com/reanimate/reanimate
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Of course, such a situation is difficult for anyone to learn! That’s what I was trying to get at with that Isiwara example above, which shows a language with even less regularity than Czech. The point I was trying to make was that mere ‘dec
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by bradrn 6y ago
I must admit to being confused by this comment. What do you mean exactly by ‘all words having a declension’, and why would it complicate learning a language moreso than anything else? My confusion arises from the fact that the concept of a
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by bradrn 6y ago
Not only that, the more you learn about other languages, the more weird than ‘insult’ becomes! Some representative examples from outside Europe: (Murik) g-a-kərə-na 3P.NUM-1S.ERG-hit-PRS ‘I hit them’ n-umbwa-ŋa-kərə-ŋ
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by bradrn 6y ago
> So... Genesys I linked is more than just basic CA, it consists of independent agents with each "creature" using a lisp-like instruction set. Sure, I do understand that Genesys is an agent-based simulation rather than being ‘j
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by bradrn 6y ago
I found an explanation here: https://github.com/Aperocky/cellular-automata
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I find it interesting that so many people have made their own CA simulator — I’ve made one as well! [0] Mine uses a very different design to yours: it’s distributed as a library allowing people to define their own CAs, which they can then c