closetkantian

Okay, thanks for the extended response. I suppose I would have to look at more questions, but I'm really surprised by what you chose to include on the front page, where you'd presumably want to highlight your best work. That passage strikes me as very obviously AI generated.

So, professional educator here, with fifteen years of high school teaching experience. If the sample passages and questions on the front page accurately reflect what's inside this, I would not let my kids go anywhere near it.

You've chosen to use the most generic AI-generated prose, when you could have licensed or hired writers to craft thoughtful, rich passages. I doubt you've consulted any serious standardized test item writers in the construction of what is essentially a standardized test item-based curriculum. This is the pedagogical equivalent of a Lunchable--mass produced, wrapped in plastic, and basically nutrition-free.

Interesting. Building something similar myself. Very interesting to see what people are cooking up for language learning using the latest tools.

I first read about this in The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence by Gavin McCormick. Really good read.

Frankly, I think if you're going to do something like this you're going to need to use well constructed critical reasoning items from graduate level exams like the GRE and LSAT.

I find the "unverified download" thing in Chrome so annoying, too. Remember when computers used to treat us like adults? I miss those days.

I love it

Source? I've seen studies that suggest the opposite.

Really wish someone would do this for Alpha Centauri, my favorite game of all time

I like the concept, but it doesn't work for me. I just see a red circle with a line through it when I hover over the text boxes.

I like the concept, but I'm not going to be reading Simple English Wikipedia.

It seems that you're not very familiar with what actually happened. The phrase "It's okay to be white" had become associated with white supremacists, And black people's responses to the pole had nothing to do with their opinions of white people as a whole. You, as well as Scott Adams, decided to misinterpret it. Scott Adams took things a step further and decided that he wanted nothing to do with black people on the simple basis of this poll, which is absolutely wild.

This is genius! I love it.

If you're studying Chinese, maybe you realized that Chinese writing works in a very similar way.

I'd recommend Careless People, if you haven't read it.

I had one of these break within a few days of purchase. It's a no for me.

I just released my SAT Writing textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Matthews-Guide-Digital-SAT-Writing/dp...

It took me two and a half years to finish. Now I've got to market it.

Very well said. There really should be a public option. Large scale PBS for the internet.

Recently I've been thinking about deconstructing a ThinkPad and putting the internals inside a MIDI controller. We're at the stage where VSTs/DAWs easily sound better than any synthesizer with internal sounds. But, it's a huge pain to carry a laptop and a sound card to a gig. When will someone address this?

Can I run this on my laptop?

I'd love to see this for English grammar

Well it was founded as a non-profit

I think one thing that this article misses out on is that people are more and more likely to have many careers over a lifetime. In my case, I was a teacher, then a technical writer, then a teacher again. And now I'm shifting into curriculum development. The skills built in my different careers all have complemented each other, and I don't feel as if any of them are my one and only "dream job."

My first thought when I read this, and it may very well be misinformed, was that she is probably using a team of ghostwriters. Many novelists at that level are. Your name just becomes a brand at a certain point.

Would it be possible to create a web browser where different tabs are running other browsers? Like I could have chrome in one tab and Firefox in another? Almost like a VM?

This looks like a great project.

What are the system requirements? And shouldn't they be listed on your website?

Great job!

There are no good dinosaur films because films are basically about people. Jurassic Park works because it allows for the conceit of people and dinosaurs coexisting.

I'm not sure about this. I heard mixed reports. I don't have a car so I can't test it.

Camera isn't the greatest but it's fine for everyday needs. I haven't tried a video call yet. I imagine it will work okay, though. Tap to pay works fine for me, too.