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by stevendaniels 7mo ago
When I use other models review plans (eg opus 4.x with Gemini3 or codex5.x), they often surface different issues than the model that wrote the plan.
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by stevendaniels 3y ago
It is also great for kids. My oldest has read it multiple times, and my first grader has started reading it (struggling with all the big words). One of the longer lasting Christmas gifts I bought.
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by stevendaniels 6y ago
They are currently the most valuable company in the world: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/apple-now-wor...
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by stevendaniels 6y ago
The policy wasn't as simple as the English name for it. It encompassed many other rules including the ages men and women could marry and the ages they could have kids. For certain people (mostly ethnic minorities) there was a higher li
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by stevendaniels 9y ago
Second simplification characters are pretty cool. Every once in a while you'll see them on handwritten signs.
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by stevendaniels 10y ago
The West didn't listen. It poked the giant a lot. During the 19th and 20th centuries, many European countries initiated wars in China, carving it into foreign spheres of influence.
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by stevendaniels 10y ago
Bad driving behavior exists everywhere, but in China it's much more common than in the US. Left turns from the extreme right lane (and vice versa), is another common thing you'll see. In my experience, the drivers in Beijing are b
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by stevendaniels 10y ago
I got hired at my current gig through a who's hiring ad. Our recruiter had sent me a message on LinkedIn, which I basically ignored, but when I saw the Who's Hiring post, I reached out and was eventually hired. I've even trie
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by stevendaniels 10y ago
Jibe | New York, NY | Full-time Software Engineer | ONSITE About Jibe: We are pushing the limits of single page cross-domain web application development. Our code needs to run in some of the most hostile environments: within other people’s
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by stevendaniels 11y ago
One big difference: there's been a lot more research on economic matters since America's early tumult. There have been warnings about China's debt issues since the issues started.
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by stevendaniels 11y ago
I don't think a learner should skimp on reading, but I think its worth asking if so much time should be spent learning to write Chinese. It's a lot of rote practice that can't be sped up, but in China, writing has been replac
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by stevendaniels 11y ago
If you're looking for stroke order animations, try out my site , Tasty Mantou: https://www.tastymantou.com/blog/the-best-chinese-character-...
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by stevendaniels 11y ago
My comment didn't say that China is or isn't polite. I just said the discussion of politeness can't be reduced to the usage of one or two phrases.
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by stevendaniels 11y ago
There are so many intricacies to being polite in China. Living in China for over 12 years hasn't taught me even half of what I'd need to know. I don't think one can decide whether a society is polite or not based on one or tw
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by stevendaniels 11y ago
I recently watched American Experience's Silicon Valley. I was a bit shocked by the lack of diversity in the those early companies (Fairchild Seminconductor, AMD, Intel, etc.). Andy Grove, a Hungarian, seemed to be the most diverse of
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by stevendaniels 12y ago
>I think the disillusionment exists, especially among the youth and democratically-minded. This. Except older, middle-class people are even more disillusioned than the young. As a rule, older Chinese people won't talk about their di
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by stevendaniels 12y ago
The Memory Palace is so good. I wish Nate DiMeo had more time to produce it. I love how Roman Mars from 99% Invisible ripped off Nate's intro.
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by stevendaniels 12y ago
Reminds me of another Hippo story, the U.S. Hippo Bill that was proposed to farm Hippos. http://www.wired.com/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/
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by stevendaniels 12y ago
Point of fact, there is a lot of competition between companies inside of China. In many instances, there is more competition inside China than there is in the US.
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by stevendaniels 12y ago
Here's a breakdown of who gets what fees during payment processing: 1. Credit Card issuer. They get the bulk of the fees because they assume all cardholder risks. Besides fraud risk, they also care about the riskiness of the loan to th
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by stevendaniels 12y ago
I've been pushing together a lot of Chinese functionality into this Ruby library: https://github.com/stevendaniels/zhongwen_tools
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by stevendaniels 12y ago
That's kind of funny, would they have removed all of the readings borrowed from China? What would Japanese sound like without any borrowings? Historically, the Japanese people have been very willing to borrow words from other languages
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by stevendaniels 12y ago
I talked with Professor Moser before and his article happened to come up (it always seems to). He agrees with you about Chinese becoming more approachable. Brendan O'Kane, a translator, said it pretty well: learning Chinese use to be a
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by stevendaniels 12y ago
I once did a little project where I looked for phonetic components of about 20,000 characters. More than 90% had a phonetic component, but most of those characters are extremely rare. In the first 300 characters a learner would study, there
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by stevendaniels 14y ago
The thing about the great firewall... It only affects expats or visitors to China. Any Chinese person who wants to read the NYTimes can get access to it. Anyone who wants to read about the "Three T's" can find away (good luck finding anyone
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by stevendaniels 15y ago
Aren't there a few cases when this method won't work?
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Fixing Your Blog for People Behind the GFW of China(stevendaniels.net)
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