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Make use of the right-hand rule, which will suffice so long as they're not made of antimatter.
How will they know we're not made of antimatter?
Has there been any attempts to 'translate' this into other languages? I'm struggling most often with vocabulary first, whereas the grammar is much easier for me to grasp (programming helps?)
Want for French badly. Would pay.
If true, this is interesting from an academic perspective: word meanings can be derived from a space of 60 dimensions. But I’m not still not convinced of the value with respect to language learning. Learning how language is spoken from the fundamental 60 words sounds like trying to learn mathematics from its fundamental axioms. It seems like you might just get caught in a long list of definitions where you might be f…
I don't think that's true. How would a 60-dimensional vector capture all the syntactic relationships between the words in a complex sentence?
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I once had to describe left and right to my kids as they grew up, and the best [ * ] way to do that in my opinion is with this sentence: "Left is on this side of the sentence, and at the end of it is right." [ * - as in: they didn't 'get' it until I formulated it this way]
Can you come with the Arabic translation, please? (-:
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Vertically up it's just too a higher local gravitational potential, no? Sure, we flip right-left when we look at things upside down, but that's a nuanced usage.
How do you determine whether your magnetic field is pointing up and not down?
The 60 words: to see, saw, seen. thing, something, what. this, these. the other, another, else, is the same as, be, am, are, being, was, were. one of. two of. person, people. many of, much of. inside. not, do not, does not, did not, some of. all of. there is, there are. more than, live, alive. big. small. very, kind of. if, then. touch. far from. near to, in a place, someplace, where. above. on a side of, hear, heard…
One of those words is not a word in British English. (Why do I mention that? Firstly, perhaps it's a fun puzzle for non-native speakers of American English to identify the word. Secondly, it's surprising that a difference between British and US English is apparent in such a short list of such basic words, considering that sometimes it's possible to write whole paragraphs of English without it being apparent which var…
If true, this is interesting from an academic perspective: word meanings can be derived from a space of 60 dimensions. But I’m not still not convinced of the value with respect to language learning. Learning how language is spoken from the fundamental 60 words sounds like trying to learn mathematics from its fundamental axioms. It seems like you might just get caught in a long list of definitions where you might be f…
More like 60 x N , since each of those words can appear arbitrary many times.
Having worked with and taught foreign language, nobody learns the first 1,000 words of a language from a same-language dictionary, nor should they.
Children learn from the world; adults learn from classes or a translating dictionary. (Only intermediate/advanced level learners start to use a native dictionary.)
The idea of "bootstrapping" language knowledge from a single dictionary just... isn't going to be necessary for anyone?