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gfaure
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Comment #49215845
Cool! Enclitic -que should _not_ be broken off as a separate word, though.
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Comment #48728259
That "Stocks" icon is bizarre -- imagine a stocks app where the marker indicating the queried position on a trendline actually had that superfluous refraction effect on it.
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Comment #48447024
"Ova Sfongia Ex Lacte" seems like a typo of a recipe that originated here ( https://historicalitaliancooking.home.blog/english/recipes/a... ) and spread around the Internet.
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Comment #48387642
Agreed. I started from this article a few years ago, and was frustrated enough by: > So that means, while I know what it does, I don't really know how, since all the work is in tha…
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Comment #48199080
The genus of the seahorse is _Hippocampus_.
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Comment #46723231
I wish it were possible to link to a particular page (e.g. the optics simulation).
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Comment #46318023
For starters, a Chinese language which preserves final stops (-p, -t, -k) would be a better choice (e.g. Cantonese). These disappear completely in Mandarin, leaving rhymes (the vow…
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Comment #44340211
Don’t give them any ideas… https://taxheaven3000.com/
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Comment #44213392
There is the normal notation for half-open ranges, which would lead to unbalanced brackets.
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Comment #43754758
Amazing that you developed this over the course of three months! Can you drop any insight into how you pulled together the audio data?
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Comment #42927385
> In this instance Standard Chinese or any sort of literary pronunciation is essentially useless to me since people aren't speaking that way Thank you for creating this! But I'm af…
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Comment #42923886
> - Characters starting with the vowel i sound more an e. Therefore, "to invite", 請 (cing2), sounds more like ceng2, and "to hear/listen", 聽 (ting1), sounds more like teng1. As a C…
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Comment #41353877
Adoption makes it entirely possible for an Asian-presenting person to have a European first name _and_ surname and, frankly, is not something you should be asked about in an interv…
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Comment #40802225
I've also successfully used this in production — another side effect is that you can inspect the exact information that each step is using to compute its own output, if you ensure …
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Comment #40662835
A video presentation of the same algorithm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajv46BSqcK4
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Comment #40637341
This is occasionally quite useful. A few weeks ago, my phone's display went haywire, and the only way I could operate it to secure a backup was through the somewhat hidden mirrorin…
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Comment #40231474
The end result seems to have been the intentional desecration of the corpses of a previous ruling dynasty in a massive, public bonfire, and the (probably intentional) use of the un…
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Comment #40215080
In the literature, they're usually called convolutional layers (I think you can pretty much search and replace all uses of "convolutive" in the text).
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Comment #39986921
This reminds me of an urban exploration video on YouTube taken in a dead mall, where the people found a hidden apartment in a crawlspace where someone had apparently been living — …
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Comment #39898453
Both س and ص are transcribed as "s" — is this really a common convention?
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Comment #39890714
It's also worth noting that Tan is a Mandarin Chinese surname too (譚) in addition to being a distinct Hokkien surname (the much more common 陳).
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Comment #39888143
Is there an index of resources that lists metas that people have put together for each country?
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Comment #39637660
I find it exquisite that Paral·lel station in Barcelona really has a parallel platform layout (despite the station name deriving instead from the fact that the street with that nam…
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Comment #39623606
This is clearly referring to 阿姨, which is a vocative term of address for an aunt (in particular, on the mother's side). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E5%A7%A8