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Post by stcroixx »

smm11 wrote: post #152
beachy wrote: post #147

Moving golf simulation into the cloud [0]. Golf is one of the only sports that can be realistically simulated indoors. Golf is also one of the only sports where even severe lag has no effect on the accuracy of the play - just the viewing experience. Unlike FPS games in the cloud which become unplayable with even modest lag. The golf simulation technology landscape today is pre-cloud. People running their own gaming c…

Golf and downhill skiing were huge when I was a kid. I grew up golfing and downhill skiing. Decades have gone by now. Who golfs? Who has downhill skis?

Bought season passes for me and 3 of my kids this year, we’ll ski as much as possible. Have multiple pairs of skis myself. Resorts are always busy and 50/50 ski/snowboard.

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Post by second_brekkie »

dan_quixote wrote: post #348

Learning Korean to better communicate with my GFs family and take advantage of _finally_ having real motivation to learn another language. I'm really enjoying having a different type of challenge than I'm used to. Mostly approaching it with Duolingo and Anki vocab cards with moderate success so far. We both have our own careers, kids, various responsibilities...so I don't get much time to practice with her. And pract…

Get Korean teacher irl or on italki. At least once or twice a week.Try to speak and listen to much Korean as you can.

Watch Korean kids tv shows on Netflix with Korean & english subtitles (I use language reactor chrome plug in)

Real life Korean conversations for beginners by Talk to me in Korean is good.

When you get to an intermediate level (TOPIK level 3ish) the iyagi podcast is GREAT.

Ive been going through the sejong institute practical Korean textbooks. You can get them for free online. They focus on understanding and expressing youself in spoken Korean. The audio examples emulate Korean speech much more than other Korean textbooks I've used.

The sejong institute also to free Korean online courses with weekly zoom lectures.

How to study Korean, sells anki flashcard decks with audio attached. The lessons are free. They're quite dense but are BRILLANT as a reference to grammar you have forgotten or want to know in more nuance.

Vocab-wise when you do flashcards have two for each direction KORENG. Learn the words for 3 days before putting them into an Anki deck (e.g. 30 words a day, but every day 10 words 'graduate' to the anki deck)

I find Anki good for keeping words memorised but not learning them. When you are looking at the korean word play the audio, it helps SO much!

Remember Korean is one of the hardest languages for a English native speaker to learn. There are times when you will feel you're making no progress. Then one day you will realise you actually understand what you MIL is saying. Have a sacred time every day where you do some Korean. Ideally at least an hour, anything less you will not improve quickly enough to re-motivate you, or thats at least how it was for me.

Good luck 파이팅!

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Post by tamimio »

Not “passionate” per se but I’ve been taking the stairs to my penthouse for around a year now, and sometimes as a challenge (against firefighters who obviously do that for living) I take the stairs and go down by the elevator to take the stairs again four of five times in a row! Good cardio.

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Post by voxl »

melvinmelih wrote: post #422
a3_nm wrote: post #129

The following open research problem. Given an undirected graph G with two vertices s and t, the task is to determine whether there is an undirected path connecting s and t which is simple (no repeated vertices) and has length divisible by 3. It is not known whether this problem is NP-hard, or whether it can be solved in polynomial time; apparently the question is open since the early 90s. (The problem is also open fo…

done: https://chat.openai.com/share/c8bc7305-6c75-4194-8753-b319d6...

I can't tell if you're making a joke, a troll, or genuinely believe what ChatGPT tells you with out bothering to test it.

This is why I hate the AI hype, because people do legitimately do this and think "wow it's so smart." When I explained the halting problem using Python to a student he asked "did you use ChatGPT?" No. Of course not...

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Post by riku_iki »

bing_dai wrote: post #241
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious why Christianity and not some other religion?

Mainly because knowledge about Christianity is the most physically accessible to me, as I am a next-door neighbour to a Theology professor of New Testament.

I am wondering if you became believer, and what changed you if so?

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Post by jkestner »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #292
jkestner wrote: post #191

Citizen science! It's great when people realize they can answer their own questions with observation and data, and for activism because data is a powerful story. One friend of mine started https://publiclab.org to feed this, and another is doing data journalism to highlight holes in the government's environmental data. https://www.muckrock.com/project/ A rules-configurable sensor tool I made a long time ago was used…

Your kids school has a makerspace - that sounds awesome can you provide any more details?

Helped my kid’s teacher win some Teacher of the Year award where a company gives away grants for PR, and as punishment, she charged me with using the money she won to set up a makerspace in the library. Funny thing is when I went to see what they already had, there was more than enough to start with…LittleBits, Makey Makey, a ton of supplies for paper circuits, etc.

Used the money to buy some more things like a microscope and sewing machines, but realized that it had failed before and will fail again because there isn’t enough humanpower to guide the kids in activities. So I’ve enlisted a couple of other parent volunteers and we’re trying to figure out a sustainable program. One step is to make the space (a corner of the library) look cool to attract current and future parents. Think I’m going for a satire of a corporate lab, with snaplock linoleum tile and a steel worktable.

Working in ad-how volunteer groups is a new skill I’ve been learning since we started at this public school. Very valuable, but not a personal passion!

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Post by stcroixx »

Aaronstotle wrote: post #199
politelemon wrote: post #18

Games. I've been forcing myself into productivity for too long because that is the thing to do. I recently built a gaming pc, picked some jrpgs, and I'm having a blast. There are entire franchises and worlds for the exploring. There are amazing rich stories and history and beautiful soundtracks that I'm living through right now. My wishlist grows by the day as I discover new tales.

As I've gotten older its rare for me to enjoy games, I can't seem to play for more than 15 minutes before wanting to turn it off/feel like I'm bored.

As I get older, game controls just get too complex for me to enjoy casually. Way too many combinations of stuff to remember. NES is most fun - 2 buttons and a d-pad.
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