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My site: https://franklin.dyer.me HN posts from my site: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=dyer.me

Not a question, but - Tatoeba could use your help! It is an open source (both code and data) dataset of parallel sentences and their Maltese data is very lacking. Also it’s pretty …

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Is there any reason not to believe this is just a hoax? I am immediately skeptical I see reported only on Threads (or FB, IG, Twitter, Bluesky, etc) and not corroborated.

Really cool post! This is an awesome idea and I'd love to see more of these. :-) Maybe these won't be the kind of thing you are looking for, but here are some gems that would be co…

This is really cool. Do you speak this pidgin or are you trying to document it as a non-native?

As someone who is both an avid language learner and a software developer - what’s the value added in this platform, for someone who is already pretty comfortable as a programmer an…

This is a taboo-like game where you have to make other players guess a target word or phrase. When you use words that aren't among the most common English words, they are "censored…

This is so much fun. I did the same for a Discord server full of philosophy nerds, and the bot would say all sorts of things that started out profound-sounding and ended up absurd …

I'm curious - do you have any plans for doing "quality control" as more tutors join your site? What will you do if someone joins as a tutor and is giving incorrect/misleading answe…

I'm an undergraduate student and for my math honors thesis I'm studying asymptotic growth orders, the kind you usually see written in "big-Theta" notation to describe an algorithm'…

Thanks for the feedback! The business with `cbind` is a facepalm, I'll definitely fix that. I don't think it will affect performance much since that last step won't be repeated man…

In what cases have you found it worthwhile to use pandas?

For sure! Definitely an good thing to know for an R newbie like me who is handling large datasets naively. Thanks for mentioning polars, I hadn't heard of it before but it looks ne…