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And yet my American ex-GF that went to one of these top universities with very good grades when she came to Barcelona to do a masters (in a lowly Spanish university) she was so far behind in knowledge compared to her peers she had to do a lot of work just to catch up.

I'm pretty sure most of these are just politics being played.

The reason you can say "an American" has nothing to do with a vowel or not, there are just some demonyms that for some reason can be used like this, and some that can't.

For example:

* German is countable: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... * French is uncountable: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... * American is countable: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... * Spanish is uncountable: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...

But your explanation about why it is correct is bullshit, has nothing to do with "an" vs "a", the English language is just inconsistent as fuck and some demonyms can be used like this and some can't.

Squishy Go 6 months ago

There are different rules on scoring, Chinese rules don't care about stones in your territory. Japanese rules do. From what the page says, this uses the traditional japanese rules (Stone Scoring)

https://senseis.xmp.net/?Scoring

https://katarineko.com

I think by this point everyone that is learning a language knows that immersion is very important, however a problem I've had myself is that the content that interests me is beyond my reach, and the content that is within reach doesn't interest me.

This is my attempt at doing something to remediate that. You select the content you want, and I create a personalized study plan to learn the most important words to achieve a target % of understanding. Then I generate a short story each week for your particular level containing the new words in the context of your content.

The idea is to bring the content you want to learn to your level so you can watch what you want to watch.

When we get Komooted 12 months ago

I saw a post recently on linkedin. A founder was saying "If you had one year to live, would you still choose to work at this company? That is the bar to join <crappy nonsensical startup>". It was so incredibly sad.

The rules are very clear on when those are used though, you are not really arguing the original point imo. What are the dialectical variations in "ll" and "c"?

in my case it runs on a good old server.

So your Python code without modidication can benefit from it.

that's not completely true though, say you have two python processes, you need to solve yourself how they communicate, HTTP? a message broker? through the DB? You need to handle errors, stateful deployments.

You can deploy python code without modification if the python code does very simple things. My point is that the BEAM gives you a lot of this mostly presolved for you without having to add more infrastructure.

So now you need several servers, an orchestrator, tons of YAML, arcane and terrible error messages and a devops team to kind of match the BEAM? That's... not a good look

Yet another Japanese learning app[0], but something that is very useful to me, so I hope it will be useful for others as well. I struggle to deal with comprehensible input that interests me at this time. The best way to immerse yourself is with content that interests you but sometimes that content is a bit advanced. I'm building this to bridge the gap, you can upload or select content that interests you (or we can recommend you content that would be comprehensible input), and we'll generate short stories, set in the universe of the content you want to learn that will introduce new words you need to understand the original content every week. The words and sentences of these stories will then be reviewed using spaced repetition (using the Ebisu SRS algo as underlying model with some modifications).

[0] https://katarineko.com/

That's insane, my dad had cancer 3 years ago, and here in Spain we didn't even think about it (beyond of course the terrible situation). If you also want private insurance it will cost a youngish small family (like mine) 150EUR/month.

AI definitely helps here (and it's the direction I'm going), although to start exploring the space in a way that makes sense to me (and because it's a problem I have), I've reduced the space into these steps:

  * I wanna be able to watch X in Y language
  * I know these words
  * Help me

It's tricky I think, I think it comes down to specialized tools for different systems. I'm building a tool for Japanese in this direction. But of course it doesn't generalize to everything since the content and context extraction is very objective dependent.

I have no problem with technological assistance in human lives in most cases. I'm just pointing out the incredibly anti-social behaviour of wanting to outsource socializing.

What conspiracy theory? I didn't say anything about AI doing shit, what I said is that somehow my 48 points comment that was at the top of the comment section, within the span of 5 seconds ended up at the bottom of the comment section while having more upvotes. I don't even care about that. But it's incredibly weird and without bringing AI into question (because it was not downvoted), it's clearly just that HN wants to slow down anti-AI sentiment (since it benefits them economically?).

Why don't you get your own island and let the AI communicate with the rest of humanity for you? Heck, why stop there. Maybe it could even outsource talking to your parents! No more of that time wasting! I could be hustling!