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In Finnish, the letter 'ä' denotes the vowel [æ], which is close to the vowel you'd use in the words 'cat' or 'hat' in English. This sound, to my knowledge, doesn't exist in Standa…

Finn here. It's true that Finnish spelling is very simple. The mapping of sounds to letters is quite regular, and much more so than in English. As an example, the word 'computer' i…

This is a long-running weekend project I started for my own use in ITF Taekwondo. I've been generalizing it little by little to cover other arts. It's still a little rough around t…

I think we all saw this coming when G+ took over some of Reader's functionality. I've been working on a news solution of my own, Scoopinion, since 2011. It's a discovery engine tha…

Agreed. I've been wondering how to do that so that it doesn't get tedious but stays effective. Blacklisting categories or sources works to an extent.

This is a good point, and happens to me sometimes too in real life. I've also found that some people read way too much into how well an automatic recommendation system should work.…

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