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by lvxferre 4y ago
The similarity that I'm talking about (letters with excessively similar shapes) is a hindrance, not a help. Specially because, as you said, we don't read words letter-by-letter; if the shapes are too similar you need to pay more a
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by lvxferre 4y ago
It was, but is it now? I don't think that we should restrict ourselves to what we could do 200y ago. Specially when you could easily build a system already using the readers' knowledge of current Braille, something like this: htt
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by lvxferre 4y ago
I could evoke Brandolini's Law on this one, but for the sake of other posters, I won't. >No, it unironically IS useless. There's an example of why Linguistics isn't useless in _the very comment that you're replyi
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by lvxferre 4y ago
It's fine if the tactile letters intended for the blind don't look the same as the visual ones intended for the sighted; you can associate the whole set in a single day, provided that you're genuinely interested in doing so.
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by lvxferre 4y ago
MK2? →→A,→→A, and my sister screaming that her little brother was "cheating". (I played with Mileena quite a bit.) I'm giving this a try.
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by lvxferre 4y ago
[taunt]Most things that I hear about natural language processing boil down to a bunch of codemonkeying assumers trying to oversimplify linguistic phenomena that they are completely ignorant about, and yet trying to sell it as if it was the
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by lvxferre 4y ago
The bitter variety is a bit more drought-resistant. That's actually relevant in the Gran Chaco and the Brazilian Northeast, as both regions are rather arid and prone to drought. In the Amazon though? Not really - and yet most recipes t
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by lvxferre 4y ago
Relevant detail about yucca/cassava/manioc: there are two varieties of the crop, "sweet" and "bitter". The bitter variety is mostly eaten in the Amazon, the Brazilian Northeast, and a chunk of the Gran Chaco; e
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by lvxferre 4y ago
> I don't think anyone assumes Sunday as the first day. That is not up to assumptions, but to conventions and arbitrariness. You find both conventions among Portuguese speakers, but mostly domingo/Sunday as the first day of the
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by lvxferre 4y ago
Pretty much. People don't often realise, but users are a resource just like any other. And if a resource is abundant, you'll often sacrifice a bit of that for the sake of something else. So... sure, bad content (false negatives) a
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by lvxferre 4y ago
I know which study you're talking about. I don't recall if Labov addressed gender differences in that specific study but, if he did: in that situation, lower class men would be even less likely to use the rhotic (with /ɹ&#x2F
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by lvxferre 4y ago
>This sounds like a very categorical claim. The claim is explicitly non-categorical, as the usage of the word "tend" shows. >It seems hard to measure, quantize and produce rigorous and replicable results. Not really. First y
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by lvxferre 4y ago
>in the final years of the Queen's life, her accent reverted to be more similar to the way she spoke in her youth. Not surprising at all. The trick here is to realise three things: 1) People change quite a bit the way that they spea
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by lvxferre 4y ago
>Correction, or addendum here: the actual dissolution of the salt is an endothermic process, so even if there was no ice, the temperature of water decreases when salt is dissolved. That's technically true, but it's a rather neg
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by lvxferre 4y ago
>Is the review not human? Do they run it through the same algorithm a second time? Do they lie about the review? Yes, yes, and yes. There's a context-illiterate AI deciding what you can say or not, even if the later heavily depends
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by lvxferre 4y ago
That crap also looks like an eyesore. And if anything, that clown bullshitting that it's an abstracted Parana pine makes it even worse. I wish that it was replaced with something in the old colonial style. A man can dream, right. (Also
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by lvxferre 4y ago
Oh, I miss Stormtroopers.
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by lvxferre 4y ago
I don't hate where I live (far from that) but I can understand this lack of eagerness to migrate, even when you hate it. You're still emotionally attached to a few people around you, who might not be so eager to migrate. Migration
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by lvxferre 4y ago
> Is Flanderization just synecdoche - where one attribute becomes the reference for the whole, or is it a new co-oridnate on the spectrum of metonymy and simile? Not quite; it's a character development process, not a figure of speec
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by lvxferre 4y ago
Write because you have something that you want to talk about, not for the sake of an audience. This is coming from someone whose blog has zero readers.
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by lvxferre 4y ago
I just wrote about this in my blog. I'm lazy so I'll copypaste it here. _______________ Linguists already understood a long, long time ago that redundancy is not a bug, it's a feature; it's what allows you to decode a me
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by lvxferre 4y ago
I'm no dev but let's say that my job has a similar issue. The approach that I use focuses on being 1) truthful, 2) clear, 3) polite, 4) concise. In this specific order. In other words: "Sorry, I'm not going to do this be
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by lvxferre 4y ago
> How many more bottle-washers did they have to hire? Or are they using expensive people to wash bottles? "They", who? Marine Institute? Probably zero, due to the nature of their samples (biological material) and scale (~8 samp
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by lvxferre 4y ago
The nasty part of reducing waste in labs is that it depends a lot on the type of material that you're handling, so the know-how of one lab won't necessarily help another. Just for the sake of example. The lab in the article is han
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by lvxferre 4y ago
> And why do they have so much power, so frequently? A business managed by a sociopath has a larger margin of profit, due to arseholery like: misleading customers, dumping stuff on rivers, bribing authorities, etc. That makes the busines
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by lvxferre 4y ago
I remember two dairy brands in Brazil doing the same, a decade or so ago. However the whey+juice mix was more expensive than plain fruit juice, and both advertised it as a "fitness alternative", so you barely see it any more.
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by lvxferre 4y ago
>Of course that might be a hard sell given the importance of the ethanol production industry in the economy. It's less important than it looks like, but it's backed up by a rather nasty political mafia. At least for SP/PR&
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by lvxferre 4y ago
>Reminder: biofuels made from corn are not sustainable at all. Reminder: you should read the article before commenting, to not make a fool out of yourself. Maize is not relevant in this discussion. RTA and you'll see why.
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by lvxferre 4y ago
For those wondering: vinasse is the crap left after you distil the fermented mass, to retrieve the alcohol. It should not be an issue, because as mentioned by the text it's a good fertiliser; however law enforcement in most of the Amer
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by lvxferre 4y ago
TL;DR: failure to understand the production leads to the destruction of intangible assets, while focusing solely on tangible wealth.

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