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by sharp11 10y ago
I read Garnett and P/V translations side by side for a while and found P/V to be remarkably more vivid.
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Turning the Tide Against Cholera(nytimes.com)
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Turning the Tide Against Cholera(nytimes.com)
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Apple will finally let developers respond to App Store reviews(techcrunch.com)
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Training the brain to overcome the effect of aging on the human eye(nature.com)
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Stop using flashcards (to learn vocabulary)(supercocoapp.com)
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by sharp11 10y ago
Have to suggest my app: http://supercocoapp.com Would love to get your feedback. It's designed to give you practice actually using (speaking) Spanish. Totally different from Duolingo, Memrise, et al, which I find unbearably
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Chat is the new browser(medium.com)
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by sharp11 10y ago
OP here. This is the language learning app that I've always wanted: no typing and tapping, lots of listening and speaking. Would love to get feedback from HN community!
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Show HN: SuperCoco – A better way to learn Spanish(supercocoapp.com)
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by sharp11 10y ago
Thanks for the link to that paper -- I hadn't seen that. I agree that SR and learning in context are not mutually exclusive--but they're challenging to integrate. Duolingo is not a good example -- they teach through random sentenc
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by sharp11 10y ago
I believe SRS is overused. The spacing effect is, of course, real and quite important. However, it lends itself to decontextualizing what you're learning. For example, foreign language vocabulary is best learned in context (ie., in sen
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That Thing with Feathers Trapped in Amber? It Was a Dinosaur Tail(nytimes.com)
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Evidence-based methods for inter-group civility(civilpolitics.org)
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by sharp11 10y ago
OP here. This is the language learning app that I've always wanted: no typing and tapping, lots of listening and speaking. Would love to get feedback from HN community!
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Show HN: SuperCoco – Learn Spanish by talking(supercocoapp.com)
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SuperCoco – a better way to learn Spanish(supercocoapp.com)
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by sharp11 10y ago
OP here. This is the language learning app that I've always wanted: no typing and tapping, lots of listening and speaking. Would love to get feedback from HN community!
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Show HN: SuperCoco – Learn Spanish through conversations(supercocoapp.com)
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ARM in Your Ear: Computers, Not Hearing Aids(superpowered.com)
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How connected cars are turning into revenue-generating machines(techcrunch.com)
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After 300 Years of Collecting, Nearly 12,000 Amazon Tree Species Are Found(nytimes.com)
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Study: Baby talk doubles infant vocabulary by age 2(seattletimes.com)
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by sharp11 10y ago
Yes, interesting that the prediction markets got this quite wrong as well.
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by sharp11 10y ago
I posted this because I found the use of graphics to tell a story remarkably beautiful and effective.
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The Voting Habits of Americans Like You(nytimes.com)
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by sharp11 10y ago
Beautiful UI, very intuitive! One issue I ran into (on a MacBook Pro, OSX El Cap) was that scrolling wouldn't work on my (external) trackpad. It interpreted 2-finger scroll as pinch (down) and zoom (up). Had to use trackball to scroll.
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by sharp11 10y ago
This is such a wonderful blending of genres. We techies often can seem (or be?) detached from emotion. The rigor with which analytics were applied here ("real-time crying dashboard"!) is genius. So funny and so true.
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Biovisions (animated visualizations of cells)(multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu)
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Apple rolls out a new App Store developer site(techcrunch.com)
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