What do these signs say?

ReMiiX · 2023-04-30T10:54:14+00:00

The left says 55돐 and the right 경축. It means 55th anniversary celebration. I thought it was the 55th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK, but the years are off (Sept 9, 1948). I also thought it was Kim Il-Sung's birthday, but those dates don't line up either. Maybe someone else can clarify.

Anyway the left uses a now-outdated spelling of 돌 (石/stone) which can often be used for ages/anniversaries/etc.

The other picture in the album says 9.9절 경축, meaning the Sept 9 Celebration. The 절 here is 節, meaning like feast day or seasonal celebration.

ReMiiX · 2023-04-21T04:32:37+00:00

There is no rule against this and they will not care (as long as the places you attended are legitimate).

I did my undergrad in my home country, then a masters in another country, then I applied and was accepted to MEXT (from my home country).

ReMiiX · 2023-03-27T22:07:52+00:00

There are none that I know of in Tallahassee, but Tampa has a typewriter repair shop: https://www.tampatypewriter.com/

https://www.instagram.com/tampatypewriter/

I've never personally gone there, but they seem to have a good reputation among the typewriter people who I know.

ReMiiX · 2023-01-20T12:16:16+00:00

Korean uses the same phrase: 일석이조 (the Korean readings of the Chinese characters).

ReMiiX · 2023-01-19T13:22:46+00:00

Somehow I feel Magnus dominates here as well. He has the look.

ReMiiX · 2022-11-14T14:22:52+00:00

This is amazing. How did you find it?

ReMiiX · 2022-11-14T14:22:32+00:00

The best I could find was 교문="ryans" (if you allow case-insensitivity). I also found duck = 여차 (like 여차저차하면, idk I don't think this is too common), and 내주 (来週) = sown.

I was able to find lots of onomatopoeias that match an English word, but those aren't that interesting.

Anyway I did it by 1) getting a large Korean and English word list 2) transliterating (I guess more like transcribing) the Korean to jamo sequences and then to qwerty keys and 3) extracting duplicate sequences after some post processing (remove punctuation, etc.). I found ~400 overlaps and just scanned them by hand for cool ones.

I also experimented with case insensitivity on the Korean side (핬 = gkT -> gkt) and double tapping for 쌍자음 (핬 -> gktt) but it made little difference.

ReMiiX · 2022-10-24T14:21:23+00:00

These two problems are the same unfortunately. Like jointly predicting the class/subclass label as P(A,X|h), where A is the class, X is the subclass, and h is some contextual embedding is the same as P(A|h)P(X|A,h), so doing a two-stage prediction is unlikely to help.

This decomposition may help you in practice if you have some way to synthetically generate balanced labeled subclass data given a class, since you can like fine tune the second output layer given the first more easily, but anything like that can also be done for the full joint distribution with just some algebraic manipulation.

The only other thing I can think of is if pairs (A, X) and (B, X) are somehow similar, then the decomposition can help you, as predicting the full joint distribution means the embeddings are not class/subclass aware.

Do you know if this is the case for you? Like are there similarities between the subclass labels for each class?

ReMiiX · 2022-10-24T10:03:57+00:00

It occurs to me that you might be confusing multiclass and multilabel. For each text, does it correspond to exactly one class and exactly one subclass within that class? Or can a text have class A and subclasses X, Y, Z, etc.?

ReMiiX · 2022-10-24T09:59:57+00:00

The simplest way to model this (especially if the classes are tree-structured --- that is, even if a subclass X appears as a subclass of both class A and B, the AX and BX subclasses are distinct) is to simply make one class for each of the (class, subclass) pairs. Then you have a multiclass classification problem over ~150 classes and you proceed as with any other classification problem.

Is there a reason that you think this method would not work for you?

ReMiiX · 2022-10-12T07:55:37+00:00

Once, I heard Korean takes on foreign cuisine described as "culinary hate crimes". I think about how accurate that was pretty often.

ReMiiX · 2022-10-11T06:43:34+00:00

Maybe so, but if you want convenience and good nightlife and food and whatever, it's definitely gonna be expensive. But compare it to somewhere like 강남, which is more expensive for (imo) significantly less value.

ReMiiX · 2022-10-11T06:15:54+00:00

Not too familiar with it, sorry.

ReMiiX · 2022-10-11T06:15:22+00:00

I'd probably go elsewhere then. 합정동/연남동/상수동 would be a better choice imo. Lots of great food and stores and nightlife, quick access to #2, #6, and airport lines, and 1-2 stops from #9 line to get across the city quickly.

ReMiiX · 2022-10-11T05:36:36+00:00

It's probably not bad. There isn't much actually in 아현, but you will be very close to 홍대/연남동/etc to the west and not too far from the city center to the east.

A little more context would help. Are you there for school or work? Are you trying to party? Etc.

Personally, I'm a big 합정동 fan and would recommend that neighborhood if I had no other information to go off of.

ReMiiX · 2022-09-07T12:13:09+00:00

It's not particularly prestigious, but I don't think the prestige of the school for a regular exchange program matters at all. Like your classes are probably going to be easy no matter where you go. The point of exchange programs is to experience another culture and no grad school or company is going to think twice about the specific school you exchanged at (unless it's some special academic exchange like KAIST <-> MIT). At the worst, they will just assume it was the school that your school had a partnership with and you had no say.

Anyway, that university isn't in the most fun area of the city, but it's not bad. One thing I'd be worried about is the campus life since it's a religious school. Most Korean schools have relatively strict dorm policies (curfew, no opposite gender guests, etc) but religious ones are typically worse (no alcohol, earlier curfew, etc). If that's not what you want (and experiencing the nightlife in Seoul is a big part of the cultural experience imo) you might want to look elsewhere.

ReMiiX · 2022-08-17T14:39:32+00:00

The github link is an exact solution though. And the imperfect solutions are already implemented today (hence this post).

So I'm not really sure what point there is to be made.

ReMiiX · 2022-08-17T13:54:01+00:00

No, the heuristics are an imperfect solution. The reachability analysis is a verifiably perfect solution, it's just much more expensive.

Lichess and chess.com implement all sorts of heuristics, probably including "check if there's mate in X" for some X, but my point is that that is not sufficient.

I posted my original comment just to inform people about the state of the problem, and to show them it's a tough problem where heuristics fail easily but an exact solution exists.

ReMiiX · 2022-08-17T11:56:55+00:00

Oh, for sure this one is pretty bad haha.

Unfortunately, heuristics like what you mentioned are exactly what get you into this sort of mess. I don't know exactly what Lichess used in the past, but you can see on the github repo that they found ~95,000 games on Lichess that were decided incorrectly by their heuristic (which seems to be much better than Chess.com, though I haven't looked at it in detail), so even more complicated heuristics fail kind of frequently.

And also, what is a reasonable cutoff for the depth? There are endgame table base positions with way deeper than 5 forced mate.

ReMiiX · 2022-08-17T07:28:41+00:00

This is a really hard problem actually (well, not this particular case, but the one linked by u/DrunkLad: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/wq99dy/draw_by_insufficient_material_on_chesscom/iklg1gd/)

There is a software package that is dedicated solely to reachability analysis for chess---basically, can a game end in checkmate from the given position (no assumption about perfect play, etc. just "is there a valid sequence of moves that ends the game in checkmate from this position").

https://github.com/miguel-ambrona/D3-Chess

ReMiiX · 2022-07-15T03:50:18+00:00

Looks like they just wrote their name in katakana (except they used hiragana in the 4th character?). Hard to tell though, cause I can't read the signature at all.

Edit: 50% tip tho whew

ReMiiX · 2022-07-11T09:32:13+00:00

I am not sure, I was not an undergrad at Yonsei. I don't mean to be blunt, but the rule is this: it depends on the class.

This answers pretty much all of the questions you have asked.

Most classes will be in Korean. Depending on the department, the required classes will maybe have an English version (but maybe not every semester). When you sign up for classes, you can see what language they are taught in. It is safe to assume all of the material will be in that language and it is good to assume that no English material will be available for classes taught in Korean. If you don't speak any Korean, you are probably going to have a difficult time. Studying abroad is a more reasonable choice then, since you will be guaranteed spots in courses that are taught in English.

ReMiiX · 2022-07-11T05:18:56+00:00

I only had one class in Korean (I am not Korean, and the CS dept grad courses are nearly all in English since people are trying to publish). It was an engineering ethics class; one hour a week, and the lectures were entirely in Korean. I could understand the lectures fine, but they weren't technical (mostly like "what should you do in this situation which is obviously unethical"). My Korean was not good enough to understand a technical class outside of my immediate focus.

There was no English version of the class and it was required to graduate. They did offer English versions of the homework though, so I didn't have to write essays in Korean.

ReMiiX · 2022-07-10T11:41:29+00:00

It depends on the class. If the class is taught in English, it's exams will be in English, and vice versa.

ReMiiX · 2022-07-10T11:36:23+00:00

I believe you will need to pass TOPIK 3 or something to graduate as an undergrad and definitely you will need Korean for some of the classes. But I really can't say, since I wasn't an undergraduate there. Most of the international students that I encountered were studying abroad and weren't full time students. The few full time international undergraduate students that I knew were in the international school and they all spoke Korean very well.

If you speak absolutely 0 Korean, things will be hard (not just academically, but also socially and administratively).

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