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Cutesy messages can be confusing to people whose first language is not English or who are not familiar with current informal spoken English. The use of “This is awkward” in that meaning is, I believe, fairly recent; at least, I don’t rememb
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Thank you for your comment and question. Out of vanity, I wanted the images to be accompanied by my piano music, however inept that music may be. Please feel free to take screenshots of the images in the video and share them yourself on the
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I have added a list of the prompts I used to the description of the above YouTube video.
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Like many others, it seems, I have also been blown away by DALL-E 2. When I got access on Sunday, I first tried a lot of different prompts and got some interesting results. One semirandom one, “A photograph of a professor playing a grand pi
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I remember wondering the same thing twenty-five years ago, when I lived not far from Tokyo Disneyland. I took the kids there once in August, when the Tokyo area is hot and humid and insects abound, especially in the evenings. At Disneyland,
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Neat idea. One suggestion: Study what the creators of the Mini crosswords on the New York Times website do with their clues. Your clues seem to be all straight dictionary definitions, which will get boring after a while. The Minis balance s
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> I'm finding YouTube a goldmine for my current interest Same here. I exercise daily at home. A few months ago, on a whim, I bought some kettlebells, which I used to see in the gym but had never used before. Once I started searching
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> I’d love to hear how you ... enjoy this music ... I can’t say I do enjoy that music, to be honest. When I was in my late teens and early twenties—as I said, around forty-five years ago—I was attracted by the notion that some 20th centu
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On the opposite end of the spectrum is Elliott Carter. He intentionally tried to avoid repetition in his works. I was into his string quartets for a while about forty-five years ago but haven’t heard them since. Maybe it’s time to listen to
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Good point. Some of the actors seem to be native speakers of North American English and are trying to pronounce the last vowel of "Türkiye" with the vowel of "bed" or "sell." That vowel doesn't normally ap
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I was curious how “Türkiye” is supposed to be pronounced in English. The following video offers one recommendation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPPXvZQDlps
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I don’t have any shogi pieces handy—I’m more of a lapsed go player myself—but can’t they be stood on their ends like dominos? Image searches for shōgi daoshi in Japanese yield a lot of pictures like this: https://www.photo-ac.c
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There is no licensing of the print or online media in Japan. However, there are a number of factors that effectively limit the freedom of many media outlets. The kisha clubs [1], which control media access to government officials and the
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The linked article ends with this: “Why the Japanese media has refused to identify the ‘religious group’ that formed the motive for the killing must remain as speculation at this juncture, though it reflects very poorly on Japan’s status a
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Thank you! Those are really interesting and valuable comments. I haven’t, in fact, heard many stories like yours, especially with such clear insights about how you have been able to use MT constructively in your language learning. Most of t
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Thank you for your exciting work and for coming onto HN to respond to questions. I am a former professional translator (Japanese to English) and am now supervising research at the University of Tokyo on the use of machine translation in sec
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I’m lucky to have a home office that is nearly soundproof, and when there I listen to music only through a stereo. When I want to listen to music while out, I use earbuds while walking and noise-cancelling headphones on public transportatio
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Kalaripayattu: India's martial art and the world’s oldest [video](bbc.com)
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I vote for strength training in general. I don't follow a specific goal-oriented program, but I work out with weights every day and definitely notice the mental benefits--as well as the mood drop if I miss a couple of days.
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I took my kids there once during a visit to Berkeley about twenty-five years ago, and even then it seemed daring and against the grain. I don’t think that one visit was enough for my kids to see the attraction of the place, but I sure did.
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> there should be a slider on the pricing page Oh, I see. I actually did drag that slider a bit to the right the first time I accessed the page, but not far enough to go to the next plan, so I didn’t understand the purpose of the slider.
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Interesting concept. I’m sure the service will be valuable to people who need it and can afford it. The pricing page has a notice saying “Use the code FIRSTDRAFT for a free month of the Hobbyist or Basic plan,” but the only plan described o
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“Recently there was given the overture to Beethoven’s opera Fidelio, and all impartial musicians and music lovers were in perfect agreement that never was anything as incoherent, shrill, chaotic and ear-splitting produced in music. The mo
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A good specialized site and YouTube channel is Garage Gym Reviews [1]. Their reviews are clear and thorough and should be useful references for people buying gym equipment for the home. The owner can go into obsessive detail about equipment
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>> You need a good tutor. > OP, you should try to get someone to work with you. Those both sound like great suggestions to me. When I was a linguistics major in college, around 1976, I started wondering about pure mathematics—it se
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The linked article mentions “There will also be servers in the building.” Here’s a bit more information from the invitation I received last week to the Internet Archive’s event marking the launch of their new Canadian headquarters: “The Can
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Thanks for that link. The documents listed under June 9 and 10 present the positions of the two sides clearly and in detail. I have no idea how the case will be resolved, though my personal sympathies are with the Internet Archive.
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I’ve lived in Japan—in and near Tokyo—for four decades, and on the trips I’ve made to Seoul I’ve enjoyed observing similarities and differences between the two cities. One of the differences was uniformed soldiers riding the subway in Seoul
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I have also been following machine translation, as a former professional translator and currently an academic supervising research on the use of machine translation in language education. For some real-world applications, MT can get the job
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I agree. When undergraduate education goes well, the students will be interested in the material and motivated to learn it, both on their own and through working on collaborative projects with other students. Then testing and grading, while

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