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by tkgally 4y ago
> … near to Tokyo station. Longest at the moment … 2.7km. I walked that route once, about twenty-five years ago. We had had an unusually heavy snow for Tokyo and I needed some exercise, so I took the subway to Otemachi and walked undergr
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> it’s not the same issue Thank you for the clarification. I had hoped that would be understood from my “It reminds me of…,” but I guess it wasn’t.
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Yes. It reminds me of the bad old days of magazine layout in the 1990s and early 2000s, when graphic designers, armed with the latest desktop publishing software, roundly defeated the conservative forces of authors and readers. Here’s a 199
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I've had trouble recognizing and understanding narcissists, too. I'm sixty-five, and I can't recall anyone I knew in the first fifty years of my life who I realize now was a narcissist. In contrast, I recognize retrospective
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One kind of AI-enabled plagiarism that can be very difficult to detect is done by students who are writing in a second language. They copy-and-paste text from Wikipedia (or whatever) in their first language into DeepL or Google Translate an
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> I have a theory that most people tend to favor the pop music of their high school years. No idea if it’s true or not. I would rank that theory with evolution, relativity, and the germ theory of disease as being as close to true as any
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Does anyone have any experience with the current version of OpenShot that they would like to share? I have been using iMovie on the Mac to edit short educational and presentation videos, and I have been thinking of switching to something wi
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This reminds of a list I’ve been compiling for the past couple of years: English-language software and products with names taken from Japanese. I find them interesting because there has long been awareness, discussion, and controversy in Ja
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Many thanks for the reply. Internet Archive Scholar—like everything else the Internet Archive does—is fantastic, and I am very grateful for all the efforts you and your colleagues make. Just for reference for anyone else reading this, here
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The Internet Archive has a similar project in beta: https://scholar.archive.org I have about ten academic papers that are accessible online for free, so I tried a vanity search. The Internet Archive has indexed one of those pape
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I was reminded of Space Cadet , too. Reading that passage again (for the first time in fifty years), I see that there were at least two tests with hidden purposes. One is a simple task where the test-taker could easily cheat if he wanted t
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I also donate regularly to the Internet Archive. I have benefitted from it immensely both personally and in my work, and I admire and support all of their efforts. A recent interview with Brewster Kahle, the Archive’s founder, is here: htt
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I seem to have bragged before about studying with Paul Halmos: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... He seemed a bit formal and intimidating at first, but he turned out to be a warm, co
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I teach courses on various topics related to language and second-language education. Recent course titles include Ideology and Language Education, Ethics and Language Education, Language and Society, and Topics in Second-Language Education.
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> Is there anything you do differently, relative to in person? I call on students more systematically rather than just waiting for volunteers to raise their hand. When I taught in-person, it was usually the same few students who spoke up
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One minority data point here. I teach at a university in Japan. I have been teaching my classes exclusively online—live using Zoom—for more than two years, and overall the experience has been better than with the in-person classes I taught
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In this hour-long interview, Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, talks with Tony Marx, president of the New York Public Library, about the Archive’s history and activities.
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The Internet Archive at 25 [video](youtube.com)
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I’ve been doing something similar. After losing some important personal files back in the early 1990s due to floppies that failed, and hearing a lot of stories then about people losing data in hard disk crashes, I got paranoid about my pers
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My experience with Feedly has been similar. I use the free version every day with no problems. The ads are unobtrusive, too.
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> I wish HN had some kind of labels. I want to filter out [...] I was thinking something similar recently. I’m uninterested in well over half of the posts that appear on the front page, usually because they involve technical topics I don
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BBC predicts the home of 2020 in 1989 [video](youtube.com)
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Deseret Alphabet(en.wikipedia.org)
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Partly my age: I began learning Japanese when I was twenty-six, and I am now sixty-five. Language acquisition does get more difficult as we age. But probably more important is that, when I started studying Japanese, I was in a sweet spot of
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Hmm. I work in the field of second language education. I even read Hamilton’s pamphlet [1] ten years ago when writing a couple of papers on historical controversies about language education [2, 3]. I’m sure the Hamiltonian system works for
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https://web.archive.org/web/20220416010152/https://www.nytim...
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Large Language Models and Trust(nytimes.com)
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The following paragraph in a Guardian article caught my eye: “It is the most significant naval vessel to be sunk since the Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano was torpedoed by a British submarine, HMS Conqueror in 1982. It is the first t
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I’m sure it’s a real thing, not only with manga but also with literary writing. Like manga, a lot of novels in Japan are first published in serial form in weekly or monthly magazines, and publishers count on being able to run installments i
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A lot of music these days is produced by one or two people with a computer sitting in a room by themselves. I sometimes listen to the Music Introducing programs on BBC Radio, especially BBC Music Introducing in London [1]. The music is subm

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