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by tatrajim 3y ago
You have a solid point, grounded in realism, and one very reminiscent of the U.S. tax system, embracing many hundreds of forms and requiring countless hours for filers to spend poring over obscure rules ("so I can rent out my house two
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by tatrajim 3y ago
No, far from it. My point is that the Korean alphabet (essentially 24 symbols, arranged into syllables) is easy enough to learn in a day or two, so that clueless foreigners, such as me, can begin to sound out road signs and menus quickly, w
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by tatrajim 3y ago
Just an observation from an educational outsider. In the 1970s I was a US peace corps volunteer in one of the more impoverished rural counties in South Korea. My job in a health center required learning and using the Korean language. The gr
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by tatrajim 3y ago
An early story of Ballard, "The Voices of Time" blew my young mind as a teenager and single-handedly projected me toward a future career in distant places, a journey I could scarcely have imagined from my life on a remote midwest
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by tatrajim 3y ago
You would really enjoy the Chinese internet world, where legions of "gatekeepers" at Bytedance et al. bravely patrol the cyber world and rapidly eliminate any undesirable utterance. It's very clean and reassuring.
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by tatrajim 3y ago
Looks very promising. I will await with interest more developed tutorials.
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by tatrajim 3y ago
Some historical context that might be of use to one or two lonely grad students reading this comment :) As a US peace corps volunteer working in a very rural health center in South Korea (one paved road in a large county, many villages stil
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by tatrajim 3y ago
Been there, done that: "pro-Sadam, pro-Iraqi, pro-Taliban, pro-Viet Cong", the list goes on. Washington does love its wars and hence cherishes its foes.
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by tatrajim 3y ago
> Glenn Greenwald didn't do anything of merit before or since. I'll leave it to curious readers to explore Greenwald's articles at salon.com, generally castigating the Bush security state and nuanced on Obama. Make your ow
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Respectfully disagree. His stalwart and ever-unpopular efforts from the Bush years down to the present to defend freedom of speech against the efforts of the security state to undermine it have been impressive. It is an ironic sign of the t
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An ominous confirmation of a massive and growing problem. Will the pioneering efforts of Guangdong province to cajole d employed youth out to the countryside be emulated elsewhere?
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by tatrajim 3y ago
You appear to be mixing up this claim with another. This one is from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, not Southeast University. The situation is fluid and many extraordinary claims are being made, e.g. see the link below &quot
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by tatrajim 3y ago
They're talking about a newer paper that provides some reason for optimism. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892
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> ejmr made a system that includes hashes that could trivially be linked to ip addresses "trivially be linked" = searching 3 quadrillion possibilities? Suppose that in the near future that a quantum computer enables the "t
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At that point, while living in various countries in East Asia, I had been following the uneven fate of Apple for a decade. Japan and Taiwan had readily embraced Apple technology across the board, while South Korea remained a resolutely Wind
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Arbitrage of relevant information can be a powerful advantage of amateur retail traders, living as they do outside the Wall Street bubble. Participation in the academic world, frequent international travel, and use of several foreign langua
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by tatrajim 3y ago
What worked for me was shaking things up greatly. I joined the Peace Corps, was forced to socialize with fellow volunteers, learn a new language, then daily interact with my new local colleagues, living in radically different surroundings.
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Neutrinos offer a new view of the Milky Way(sciencenews.org)
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China’s Baidu claims its Ernie Bot beats ChatGPT on key tests(cnbc.com)
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by tatrajim 3y ago
In East Asia, China-South Korea relations have turned rocky over the past ten years, due to frustration on the part of China over South Korea's continued military alliance with the U.S. (e.g. the THAAD radar issue in 2017 that ended by
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by tatrajim 3y ago
Award for best understated comedy on this thread.
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Until one gets caught. Teaching at SNU in Korea -- my students among the brightest minds of their generation -- I was shocked to catch a rank plagiarist, who copied most of an essay out of a book s/he believed beyond easy checking. S
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by tatrajim 3y ago
There are many different environments in the U.S. I grew up on an isolated farm in the midwest, where the nearest neighbors were miles away and the closest shopping some thirty miles. Access to cars gave me, compared to the horse era of my
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by tatrajim 3y ago
>Work is not everything. I actually never knew a person who moved because of work< Academics are one exception. I have moved five times over my career, including from coast to coast and continent to continent to have a livelihood in m
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Silence from the tech crowd in China? Cases like this have eroded trust in PRC-trained engineers in the US. What's the comfortable phrase? Right: 骗老外
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by tatrajim 3y ago
NPR is a "neutral organization"? I suspect that would wound the souls of many of the staff there. See, for example: "New NPR Ethics Policy: It's OK For Journalists To Demonstrate (Sometimes)" https://www.
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by tatrajim 3y ago
I'm working with historical documents from the 18th century, and will likely be the last person to look at them for a decade or so, and consequently need to be correct. I translate them quickly manually, then use ChatGPT to check my ef
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by tatrajim 3y ago
If a woman doesn't wear a titanium chastity belt, she can be deemed negligent.
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by tatrajim 3y ago
Using for academic research. It is especially useful for translating long strings of numbers in classical Chinese sources into Arabic numbers. It's not perfect, but well over 90% accurate and saves much tedium.
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by tatrajim 3y ago
Maybe some sort of required social service (beyond the required military), especially in the SK countryside where it is badly needed? Only anecdotal, but I went from massively introverted to a more-or-less well adjusted social adult after t

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