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Do you know any second languages or are learning any?

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>>404 is that Bún Bò Huế

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>is that Bún Bò Huế Late reply but yeah

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>>114 English is my 2nd language, actually! Tried to learn Japanese, Russian, French and German over the years, but none of that really worked out

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>>114 Chinese

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>>114 English is my second language, and i'm studying japanese atm. But learning english and japanese so far have been 2 completely different experiences; I learned the former pretty much through osmosis and too much time spent on imageboards, but I'm quite literally having to grind to get any semblance of progress in the latter. Still lots of fun though, the language is fun to learn in general. >>297 I think the biggest advantage of being a native portuguese speaker, or BR portuguese at least, is the wide range of kinds of sounds in the language, which makes learning the phonology(?) of other languages much easier. I never had trouble pronouncing japanese words, for example, because we have 1:1 equivalents in BR portuguese for all of those sounds. Pronouncing french or german words isn't particularly difficult for me either. >>301 It has always been grammar for me lol. A lot of times I can understand what each word in a sentence means individually, but not know how to string them together to understand the bigger, general structure of that sentence.


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We post about our research group meetings. >someone can't get something basic to work, the professor tries to do some light troubleshooting then and there, but this makes the presenter nervous and they start to spill spaghetti >someone went over their time and talked for hours about nothing I have my research group meeting this Friday and I've barely started on implementing the control algorithm I said I'd have done. Please shoot me.


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what books have you read recently, hikarin? what is your go-to literary interest? what's your reason for reading it? talk about fiction or nonfiction, academia or entertainment, everything in between, as long as you find it interesting. however, discussion of manga and comics should be kept to the /jp/ board. e-book resources: https://annas-archive.org/ https://libgenesis.net/ https://sci-hub.se/ https://archive.org/ https://openlibrary.org/ https://www.gutenberg.org/

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This one book i found that is about some really detailed medical problems some people had in the past, mostly really stupid people such as a guy that swallowed 50 knives for fun. I take this book with me sometimes and i show it to people just to disgust them.

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I have been reading a lot more lately, which is good. I am almost finished with Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility series. It's nothing short of beautiful. I am not the same person after reading Runaway Horses. Temple of Dawn piqued my interest in Buddhism, so I checked out a book titled "Essence of Buddhism" by Traleg Rinpoche from my library. It's a good introduction, and I'd like to read into Buddhism further. I enjoy political science but have read only little about it. If anyone has recommendations about anything (I'm interested in Mao or Showa Japan) I'd be grateful. >>374 It's not a novel, but a rather touching short story. "The Dandelion Girl" by Robert F. Young. I haven't read it yet but I have "When Sleepers Awake" by H. G. Wells on my list, so I'll throw that out there.

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>>374 >I don't know much about the pioneers or well established authors of the genre. This is going to sound weird, but Tolkien was an inflection point for science-fiction just as he was for fantasy. Much like in the fantasy genre, authors before Tolkien focused on exploring an idea or making a point rather than building an open world just for the sake of doing it. So bear in mind that those pioneers were nothing like 40k or really any of the modern sci-fi franchises, which have more in common with Tolkien than with Phillip K. Dick and such. H. G. Wells is a good starting point, I read almost a third of his bibliography when I was in high school and from what I remember, I liked his earlier work from "The Time Machine" to "Kipps", his later stuff was badly written, preachy and so optimistic and utopian that I couldn't take it seriously. I think it is completely valid to prefer modern, Tolkien influenced sci-fi over the old guys, so don't feel obligated to read Asimov or Wells if you don't like them.

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>>378 Noted. Thanks for the analysis. I do prefer the worldbuilding for the sake of worldbuilding, I enjoy getting invested into and enthralled by a fantasy or sci-fi world. Honestly, using 40k as an example, I really prefer the idea of the galaxy that 40k builds more than I enjoy any specific storyline within the galaxy. The larger framework in which the authors use to lay out specific stories. Do you have any recommendations for authors that do good worldbuilding?

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Very mainstream book recommendation but i reckon that this is the worst book ever read. It's legitimately just torture porn disguised as something deep. While the setting descriptions are amazing, the character development is (in my opinion) extremely subpar. Upsetting because I wanted a good read that would toy with my emotions. cry


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What's your major /aca/? I'm in my last year of a Master's in Computer Science

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i will be majoring in political science. i want to be one of those people who write papers all day

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Currently in 2nd year of BS Information Technology; graduating by the end of 3rd Year. I only got 2 GitHub projects, both of which are crappy and nothing to show for. I don't know whether to apply for an internship early, or wait for the school to offer/assign one for us.

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>>388 >I only got 2 GitHub projects i relate to this so so much. do companies usually want 5+?

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>>335 My luck was against me when I picked my uni because they never told us we would need to grind certificates or show off some github as portfolio. I never had any well untill I finished my master's neco

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>>389 Jobbing at a tech interview is a bigger concern and would invalidate even 10 projects


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Post resources for studying any given subject here! Textbooks, online courses, etc

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I will share a list of Intro/Transition to Proof resources: >Textbooks Journey into Mathematics: An Introduction to Proofs - Joseph J. Rotman Proof, Logic, and Conjecture: The Mathematician's Toolbox - Robert S. Wolf Bridge to Abstract Mathematics: Mathematical Proof and Structures - Ronald P. Morash Alice in Numberland: A Students’ Guide to the Enjoyment of Higher Mathematics - John Baylis, Rod Haggarty >Lecture Notes A Primer for Logic and Proof - Holly P. Hirst and Jeffry L. Hirst http://www.appstate.edu/~hirstjl/primer/hirst.pdf Modicum Mathematicum: A Swath Through The Basic Language Of Abstract Math - Paolo Aluffi https://math.hawaii.edu/~pavel/Aluffi_notes_321_Modicum.pdf Proof, Sets, and Logic - M. Randall Holmes https://randall-holmes.github.io/proofsetslogic.pdf Basic Concepts of Mathematics - Elias Zakon http://www.trillia.com/zakon1.html

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>>330 hi math-anon. do you have any book recs for real variables that aren't rudin? it's extremely terse and dry and doesn't really motivate much it covers so i want to supplement it i was thinking of going through apostol or abbot but neither seem to cover lebesgue theory or multivariable functions as far as i know

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Does any anon know some resources for learning biology ?

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>>371 what level of biology?

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>>371 Depends on what you're looking for, but OpenStax textbooks are always a good place to start. https://openstax.org/subjects/science They have highschool level bio, college level bio, and microbiology textbooks available for free.


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https://web.archive.org/web/20240731004804if_/https://www.tdx.cat/bitstream/handle/10803/7555/tjbs.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y I've been working on reading through the paper "Voice Processing and Synthesis by Performance Sampling and Spectral Models" and have started to implement it. It seems as if most if not all of the relevant patents have expired. I will post any updates here.

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good luck op!


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share cool living things here I'll start: The oriental hornet's cuticle acts as a photovoltaic cell, the electricity from which is used to power a heating organ in its thorax.

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Caracals are cute & pretty interesting While they're wild animals I would love to keep one as a pet They're pretty aggressive, but it makes for good house security The ears kind of remind me of bat ears

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>>17 El Floppa

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An Axolotl which can regenerate lost limbs like its spinal cord, even parts of its heart of brain

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Lyrebirds can mimic a large range of sounds like other living beings, but also make mechanical sounds

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Pistol shrimp can shoot water bullets so fast that they heat up to 4500°C (4 times the temperature lava) and create a loud 218dB shockwave Their bullets are so loud that WWII sonars confused them with enemy ships


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What have *you* learned today?

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>>22 Never knew this before: A group of flamingos is called "flamboyance"

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>>107 beautiful name, flamboyance :surprise:

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Plate tectonics wasn't an accepted idea until the 60s-70s because people were dumber then

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>>22 imageboard boards culture's. It's a wonderful learning experience filled with good effort.

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Hello /aca/rin~ I'm gonna try fileshelter software once I get back home today!


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/aca/ has the potential to be something good and original, don't remove it please, if you really have to you could just hide it the same way lainchan hid the /lain/ board (like you've done now), and who's in the known will go there and partecipate. If in the future there's enough action with the site in general you could bring the board's visibility back, consider it.

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yeah, i pretty much changed my mind about deleting it. i'll keep it (but delisted for now)

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>>312 Nice, hopefully the spam ends and we get more users.

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>>312 Thanks. This is a neat little board.

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This board is like Mathchan except it's just one board instead of an entire site.


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A new Indo-European cuneiform language has been discovered in clay tablets from the Hittite Empire. Dubbed Kalašmaic, it was recorded in Hittite tablets that preserved rituals from different parts of their empire in their native languages. This discovery made me very happy, I hope we get new words and roots in the Anatolian languages after the text is deciphered. Does /aca/ like linguistics and ancient languages? https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/new-indo-european-language-discovered/

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>>277 I wish we knew more about pre-indo european europe

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>>278 same. I'm obssesed what language albanians were talking before indo-europeans givong their language to albanians tribes


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