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by sinkasapa 3y ago
Having read the article. I don't know where one would get the idea that it said anything meaningful about the songs being like "talking", which implies a whole host of features that were not even mentioned. They made analogie
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by sinkasapa 3y ago
As a non-specialist, I think a surprising statement is that in this particular field, there is an expectation that large, dense cities encourage socioeconomic mixing. That seems counter to everyday experience and policies that are sometimes
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by sinkasapa 3y ago
I think this is true for the sciences as well but it is more evident in math. Mathematicians could hypothetically exist in a system where they are funded by artificial scarcity. I don't know how practical that is but they tend to exist
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by sinkasapa 3y ago
Panama is not necessarily that underdeveloped. It is a middle income country as is Colombia. Colombia due to its size and war is more uneven in the development of infrastructure. Having towns only accessible by boat is not necessarily a mea
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by sinkasapa 3y ago
It depends on your values I suppose but as someone who teaches a course that many take for general education requirements I'd say that the majority enter my course not knowing basic things about the world, like that American Sign Langu
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by sinkasapa 3y ago
I think there is often a bias that when one hears "tribe" they assume that someone is living as a stone age hunter gatherer. This is not the case. There are a lot of people who live within social organizational structures that are
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by sinkasapa 3y ago
I don't feel like it is unintelligent ("low-IQ") to believe that there are meaningful environmental impacts to hydro-electric dams. Recognizing that hydro-electric may cause more harm than good in some cases seems like a posi
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by sinkasapa 3y ago
The phrase "throw a photo" coming from "tirar una foto" is kind of interesting. It seems plausible that since "tirar" can be translated as "shoot" as well as "throw" that the Spanish phrase
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by sinkasapa 3y ago
This is fun. I worked at a company that did something very similar around 2008. We had too much fun testing it out and I remember getting lots of ridiculous post cards in the mail from co-workers. I don't know that it was ever somethin
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by sinkasapa 5y ago
I don't find BookWyrm to be confusing at all. I assume most people use many applications without diving into every single feature or learning an underlying API that may be available. Why should BookWyrm be evaluated according to a diff
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Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by sinkasapa 5y ago|0 comments
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by sinkasapa 5y ago
I once worked at a campus disability resource center and was encouraging the use of open source software. It was not comfortable pitching the GIMP as a Photoshop alternative. Luckily I don't think anyone felt personally attacked and it
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by sinkasapa 5y ago
Speaking as a linguist, Cartography, the theory espoused by this work, is a highly controversial approach. The claim needs to be taken with a grain of salt. It isn't a statement of fact but an argument for a hypothesis that has not bee
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
If you don't care about engineering, and are in the humanities, philosophy or theoretical areas of the social sciences where you use logic, this article actually makes a great case for why you'd care about learning any programming
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
Theorem provers are increasingly popular in certain areas of linguistics.
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
The most important indicator is the average age of speakers. If you have 1000 elderly and middle age speakers but no children, the language is in serious peril. It is the chain from mother to daughter that needs to be maintained. Large numb
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
I think the great work by Chris Harvey is more notable. http://www.languagegeek.com/ He's been developing the Aboriginal fonts for decades, when many people working on language documentation were only vaguely aware of
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
It might be that the person whoes paper you're reviewing will some day be able to influence whether you'll be hired.
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
I had penmanship in elementary school. Lot's of boring repetitions filling class time, cursive as well. We all forgot about it later on like some mild trauma that we collectively buried. I actually remember feeling surprised when I did
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
I suppose this is for the same reason that people structure databases. There are often non-trivial relationships between different types of information that are useful to keep track of. Citations and links are useful features for note takin
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
For me the advantage is that I mostly use org-mode for other reasons, like note taking, but when it makes sense to integrate TODO functionality, which comes up frequently while taking notes, it is there and I don't need an additional a
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
A lot of people use org-mode for writing documents and note-taking. For instance, there are tools like the following: https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter If you also use org-mode for tasks then you can add todo items
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
I suppose it is like saying: "Python: Write computer programs in plain text!" In my experience, one does actually just edit text files using org-mode. It is different than the Tasks sub-application of Thunderbird/Lightening,
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
My experience was much like your own except I never took the tests, which I'm sure I'd have done horribly at given my high school experience. I'm now getting a PhD in a really nice program so I feel good about the transfer ro
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
It is at least a good reason to reject set theory for certain theoretical applications. Imagine you're a linguist trying to develop a theory of compositional natural language semantics. You want to have a good theory of what is entaile
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
> Other oddities " Richmond Thomason notes that Montague saw grammar as a branch of mathematics and not (as in Chomsky) of psychology". Pretty sure Chomsky's hierarchy of grammars, types 3 to 0, are considered by him as ma
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
It seems that if vim is so much more popular than emacs, old fashionedness doesn't necessarily make an editor less popular. If one believes that emacs would be more popular if it were more like some other editor that is more popular th
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by sinkasapa 6y ago
I think people do say that. The notion is that when you look at the people attending Harvard and Mit, for instance, their parents tend to be much more wealthy than the students at Bunker Hill Community College. You're right! That isn&#
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by sinkasapa 7y ago
I've been using jsonb columns in PostgreSQL recently and have used CouchDB extensively in the past. I find the builtin support for JSON superior in PostgreSQL. There are a lot of nice built in operators for querying and creating indexe
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by sinkasapa 7y ago
It is often the case that the details that are important to human perception are different than physical properties alone. An illustration abstracts away superfluous details and exaggerates others in subtle ways. Think of them like a diagra

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