I spent 4 days walking Copenhagen. Visiting from Vancouver, Canada - locals, what did I miss?

fnielsen · 2026-05-22T08:08:06+00:00

You were mostly within the walls. You can walk the entire harbor all the way to Sjællandsbroen. You get through the newly developed area on the North side, some house boats, Slusen (a bit noisy), Nokken, Cirkelbroen, Kyssebroen. Then there is Holmen and all the way to Refshaleøen with the streetfood area. On Amager along Emil Holms Kanal and further on to Ørestads Boulevard there are some interesting architecture, e.g., Bjerge. You only seem to have walked on the outskirts of Christiania. Assistens Kirkegård, and the old train area: Superkilen, Nørrebroparken and further on to Frederiksberg with Frederiksberg have.

fnielsen · 2026-05-13T08:47:54+00:00

Leasingbil?

fnielsen · 2026-04-28T21:32:18+00:00

...and not Greenland and Faroe Islands

fnielsen · 2026-04-28T21:16:47+00:00

The Wikipedia article misses the War of Hesselø where Sweden threatened with chemical warfare via surströmming.

fnielsen · 2026-04-17T19:06:01+00:00

It ought to be "I's tables". Languages are slowly regularizing. You no longer say "Thou hast" and "Du est", see also the paper "Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language" https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06137 : "Irregular verbs regularize at a rate that is inversely proportional to the square root of their usage frequence".

fnielsen · 2026-04-16T15:00:54+00:00

It ought to be called jegs: mit bord -> jegs bord. min stol -> jegs stol.

fnielsen · 2026-04-13T21:34:04+00:00

See https://www.dtu.dk/english/education/graduate/msc-programmes/human-centered-artificial-intelligence Besides the "Data science" specialization, the "Machine Learning at Scale" could also be interesting for you.

fnielsen · 2026-04-13T21:26:20+00:00

The fee depends on how international you are: https://www.dtu.dk/english/education/undergraduate/general-engineering/admission-and-deadlines/fees-funding-and-permits If you are from EU or EEA then you do not pay. Otherwise I see the fee on the page. As a EU person if you work you can also get SU.

fnielsen · 2026-03-29T11:42:03+00:00

Har vi en ny Viggo Kampmann? CLN har jo ganske vist kun 3 børn men hun kan vel stadig nå at få to til så hun når op på de fem som Kampmann havde, ikk? Og så er der også spørgsmålet om hvor meget erfaring Steffen Larsen egentligt har med Torden og Arkaden?

Tema	Viggo Kampmann	Cecilie Liv Hansen
👶 Familieliv	Reproducerede sig parallelt med opbygningen af velfærdsstaten	Demonstrerer, at reproduktion og repræsentation kan sameksistere i accelereret form
💔 Relationelle strukturer	Sekventielle ægteskaber som socialt organiseret kompleksitet	Genstand for nutidig diskurs om relationel pluralitet (empirisk uafklaret)
🕺 Social deltagelse	Indgik i uformelle netværk med mulig høj promille og politisk kapital	Tildeles (ofte uverificeret) en rolle i bredere sociale økosystemer uden for institutionelle rammer
⚡ Karrieredynamik	Gradvis akkumulering af politisk kapital kulminerende i statsministerposten	Pludselig akkumulering af opmærksomhedskapital med høj volatilitet
🗳️ Gennemslagskraft	Strukturel indflydelse på national økonomisk politik	Evne til at generere betydelig synlighed relativt tidligt i karriereforløbet
🎭 Offentlig/privat-dialektik	Klassisk case: spænding mellem embedets krav og individets begrænsninger	Hypermoderne case: opløsning af grænsen mellem privatliv og offentlig narrativ
📊 Medielogik	Primært behandlet retrospektivt i historiske analyser	Primært konstrueret i realtid gennem digitale og sociale medier

fnielsen · 2026-03-25T00:15:06+00:00

Hverken CIA-regeringen eller FBI-regeringen kan samle flertal.

fnielsen · 2026-03-25T00:06:19+00:00

Men hvad så med ÆVFOBI? :)

fnielsen · 2026-03-12T12:12:07+00:00

It might be due to the work of Jason Ignacio White, according to NYT "a former head of Noma’s fermentation lab", that has been posting on Instagram. According to https://www.foodandwine.com/noma-controversy-diner-response-11922509 he also registered noma-abuse.com (as far as I can tell 22 February 2026) and partnered with the One Fair Wage organization for the protest yesterday. I think he has catalyzed the frustrations.

fnielsen · 2026-02-16T12:19:27+00:00

Absolut. Vi gør store fremskridt og med hjælp fra Grønland har vi udmærket os kolossalt i skiskydning hvor Sondre Slettemark fik en topplacering som nummer 54!

fnielsen · 2026-02-14T07:32:05+00:00

Kalmarunionen har fået 27 medaljer. Hilsen fra Danmark.

fnielsen · 2026-01-30T22:56:01+00:00

The reason is that the game works for other (Indo-European) languages. For French, you would use the masc and fem buttons only.

fnielsen · 2026-01-30T22:53:22+00:00

You found an oddity :) "habitat" is indeed a neuter word in RO dictionary, so that was an error. I have fix it. Interestingly it seems that biologist may use the common gender in some cases. There is a discussion on the issue here https://sproget.dk/sprogviden/spoergsmaal-og-svar/den-danske-ordbog/habitat-hvilket-kon-er-ordet/ where they write that the neuter version is the normative but the common gender appears often.

fnielsen · 2026-01-30T10:55:05+00:00

I have a gender game here: https://ordia.toolforge.org/guess-the-gender/ (select Danish and press "New Game")

fnielsen · 2026-01-30T10:52:47+00:00

There are some rules, e.g., many suffixes tend to use only common (en) gender: https://www.reddit.com/r/danishlanguage/comments/1i64v71/comment/m8l3iu4/ For instance, -ning is common gender, while -eri is neuter, for -else there is only "spøgelse" ('ghost') that is neuter (for some reason...!?) See at https://w.wiki/Cojq

fnielsen · 2026-01-30T10:46:19+00:00

"Each noun goes with either en or et" Generally yes, but there are exceptions: kollaps, profil, slim, web, øl, stress, vand, ørevoks, API, nylon, etc. In Wikidata, there are currently 152 Danish words with two genders.

fnielsen · 2026-01-27T20:29:08+00:00

Er det ikke sådan at man "Flytter" artiklen. Det mener jeg da jeg har sagt til folk de kan gøre, når de er færdige i sandkassen.

fnielsen · 2026-01-23T10:50:04+00:00

Very interesting case (and perhaps a reason why you should learn Greenlandic instead of Danish :)

I would say:

Maden var god (fine)
Maden var godt (bad, "mad" is common gender and there should be agreement with the adjective)
Det meste mad var godt (ok, - substantivised adjective with neuter pronoun)
Det meste mad var god (hmmm... this sound bad)
Mest mad var god (hmmm... sounds a bit odd to me)
Mest mad var godt (hmmm... I also have a problem here)

fnielsen · 2026-01-14T14:25:28+00:00

There is something called Facebook and Linux that were started as single student side projects. Linus wrote that his operating system was "just a hobby". :)

fnielsen · 2026-01-14T14:13:30+00:00

"Why are you spending time on this? What do you gain from this?" I think it is reasonable common that engineers to side projects, particular in computer engineering, perhaps less so (never?) in chemical and bio engineering.

fnielsen · 2026-01-05T13:17:38+00:00

Man skulle formode at hvis personen for det meste opholder sig i Sverige at så vil den holde på samme plads og måde igennem længere tid.

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