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Scott 1 year ago
To sit in the sadness of the wayward. image
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Scott 1 year ago
Hey @arkinox, if I move in the real world would I have to perform proof of work to update my location in d-space? Is there anything that would keep these two connected? Happy to read anything if this is covered somewhere.
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Scott 1 year ago
Does anyone have experience with a language learning conversation partner? Looking for advice.
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Scott 1 year ago
English vs Spanish days of the week comparison is interesting. Day of the sun - Day of the Lord Day of the moon - Day of the moon Day of Týr - Day of Mars Day of Woden - Day of Mercury Day of Thor - Day of Jupiter Day of Freyr - Day of Venus
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Scott 1 year ago
Apparently Spanish can imply the can/could mode without needing a dedicated modal verb.
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Scott 1 year ago
After doing a sleep study I have learned that I probably do not have sleep apnea. I just snore loud.
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Yo @Alex Gleason something pretty wrong seems to be going on with my threads account, @npub1p7hw...zwh0 It seems to be reposting tons of random posts which I have not reposted myself and have no control over. Maybe a bug.
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Scott 1 year ago
Any recommendations for websites to help learn Spanish grammar? I’m looking for reference material not guided learning.
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Spanish direct object pronoun placement is dubious…
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I would love custom algos/feeds that have a scoring threshold that is so high that maybe only 10 posts make it into the feed a day. When I check this hypothetical feed, I would expect to come to the end of it rather quickly.
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There are two parts to my strategy to learning Spanish: loading my neural nets with training data and learning grammar models to apply to that material. Sort of a bottom-up + top-down approach.
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Another thing I'm gonna need to get straight is the difference between the words 'ser' and 'estar' in Spanish, where in English we only have the word 'to be'. My understanding of this is that 'ser' is for more "permanent" characteristics while 'estar' is for more "temporary" characteristics. Will learning new verbal paradigms allow be to see the world differently?
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A review of English verbs... We have three main "tenses" - past: uses -ed ending in simple tense - present: - future: uses 'will' modal verb And four main "aspects" - simple: - perfect: uses 'to have' verb and -ed ending - progressive: uses 'to be' verb and -ing ending - perfect progressive. uses both 'to have' and 'to be' verbs and -ing ending Beyond this, the sugar is in how the 'to have' and 'to be' verbs are inflected. Sadly Spanish is very much not 1:1 with this system.
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Scott 1 year ago
Going to Honduras in early May. Speedrun to learn Spanish starts now.
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Do I have to do something special to squeeze a threads post into nostr? I’ve entered the fediverse beta on threads but only my profile has made it to nostr, no posts.
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Scott 1 year ago
Is primal vc funded or what’s the deal there?
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Scott 1 year ago
Don’t worry, instagram is doing just fine… instagram.com/reel/C4m_9MNIL9Z image
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Noland Arbaugh, a quadriplegic, on learning to use neurallink: “So there’s a difference between *attempting* to move it [the cursor] versus *imagining* to move it. Attempting, I feel like is kind of cheating. It’s probably not, but when I attempt to move something it does feel like I’m moving it with, say, my hand or my wrist, even though you can’t see it. To me, I can feel things in my arm moving around. Maybe you just can’t understand, I guess. When I first moved it just by thinking it… it blew my mind for like a day. Like I just could not wrap my head around it. It was so cool.” (Starting at 29:55) x.com/ModdedQuad/status/1771298116719002100