January 2011
15 posts
De Wahl's rule
suppose you have a bunch of similar languages. now suppose you’d like to invent a language such that, if someone were to speak any of several of these related languages, they’d have no problem understanding text in the language.
how do you simplify common features in an algorithmic way to create a mutually intelligible product?
in this case, we’re talking about the...
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Au-ch →
Gold Tea is a brand of ice tea that is originally from the Confederate States of America in the 19th century. It was famous for containing large quantities of small flakes of gold in each cup. This was done not purely for aesthetics, but as a means of smuggling Confederate gold through Union blockades.
the ragbag: words wholly related →
ragbag:
tulip & turban
when maury povich handed out english’s paternity results, few in the audience were surprised to learn that the language was the bastard child of german and latin parents (with an occasional ménage à trois with the french maid). but what maury never told you, indeed what the…
fuck yes
Semantic satiation →
readmorewikipedia:
Semantic satiation is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. For example, say: “smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile smile….”.
Swedish Lesson #1
ckck:
Gift [jif:t]
In Swedish, the word gift has two meanings:
being married
poison
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(more efficient) simple prime number check in C.
this code is a more efficient simple C primality check than the other one that is readily findable on the internet. notes at the bottom.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
int main (void)
{
int x;
//get input x
printf(“Enter integer: “);
scanf (“%d”, &x);
printf(“%d”, x); //output the number to...
elsehow's perfectly reasonable predictions about...
by 2020, I predict with near certainty that humanity will have:
cured some number of diseases
made taller buildings
flown faster
found bigger prime numbers.
Potentially the best Google Voice transcription of...
nathaliebfr:
2 key. Pantsuits mommy calling you because you’re with the two to exit, get to Difference tonight. Thank you, too. Just all so I wanted to. Thank you. Love and hugs and hope that link to Chico it’s good. Okay love you bye. Yeah.
some day, when my friends and I have helped to make natural language processing suck [even a little bit] less, I will show people how stupid computers...
“In the context of most organizations, a non-networked computer is just a very...”