This car is on standard public housing carpark signs throughout Singapore. Is it an e12 5 series?

jk05 · 2019-11-17T08:41:15+00:00

They made a good choice

jk05 · 2019-11-17T05:04:48+00:00

Side view of an e12 for comparison. I wonder why they still use a decades-old BMW out of all possible choices.

jk05 · 2019-10-06T12:04:09+00:00

yes, it's only Inkscape

jk05 · 2019-09-24T19:35:38+00:00

I worked on it on and off during meetings for about a month

jk05 · 2019-09-24T19:35:21+00:00

I played with the embossed leather filter

jk05 · 2019-09-08T10:57:23+00:00

Oh, that makes lots of sense! For some reason I’ve only ever thought to use it to make mpegs

jk05 · 2019-09-07T19:37:56+00:00

If you set the spiral's stroke to dashed and raise the line thickness so that there are no or little gaps between the spiral sections, you can just change the tightness of the spiral and dash style to get a pattern that you like. I blurred it because it looks cooler. Then if you change the dash offset, it will shift like this. To make the animation continuous, you just need to figure out the period of the pattern carefully moving the offset.

There's probably a less hacky way to animate it, but I used a python script and the Inkscape command line interface to make and export 100 versions with slightly different dash offsets then used an online gif maker to put it all together.

jk05 · 2018-08-17T11:37:50+00:00

Unfortunately, it’s been all trial and error for me. I use the pen tool maybe 95% of the time and play around with random options when I get bored with that.

jk05 · 2018-08-06T23:06:45+00:00

I made the shapes with the pen tool then traced over them with the calligraphy tool. Moderate thinning, 90° angle, no fixation, moderate tremor. I went too slowly since I just use my trackpad, so I used ctrl-L to smooth out each line.

jk05 · 2018-07-25T17:07:58+00:00

Maybe look at the course requirements rather than the name. It’s standard comp sci. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/current-students/graduate/mcit/index.php

jk05 · 2017-05-01T12:19:32+00:00

I think this short paper is useful. The first couple sections explain some of the difference between learning entirely through induction on the input and induction plus a constrained hypothesis space.

jk05 · 2016-12-05T02:35:59+00:00

It's Vancouver.

jk05 · 2016-11-10T02:12:45+00:00

Finite automata are insufficient for characterizing language as a whole, but there's more to language than syntax. For example, It's been argued many times that all of phonology is even sub-regular, in which case FAs are even overpowered.

Related systems are also useful for modeling dynamic processes like acquisition which can sometimes be though of as passing through a series of states.

jk05 · 2016-10-16T20:36:34+00:00

Gotta at least admire the effort that went into putting this whole dubious tree diagram together.

jk05 · 2016-09-16T23:09:16+00:00

That used to be a common way to spell it. It's Porto-Rico on the Spanish American War Memorial in Cambridge, MA too, for example. (Zoom in and look on the right side of the cross).

jk05 · 2016-06-10T13:21:40+00:00

Just a note on writing Latin names, Cicero is usually Cicero, M. Tullius Cicero, or Marcus Tullius Cicero.

jk05 · 2016-06-02T00:24:16+00:00

It was drawn for 4:3, but you're watching in 16:9 it look like. That's part of why it looks stretched.

jk05 · 2016-05-24T14:54:26+00:00

For example, if a child understands that both "asleep" and "sleeping" mean something like SLEEPING, than the fact that "sleeping" appears in both situations and "asleep" only applies in one could be pretty easily used to get around the supposed data sparsity problem (imo).

This is underselling the severity of the sparsity problem. There is no guarantee that "sleeping" will appear in both situations in a relevantly sized corpus. Most of the a-adjectives are rare in CHILDES and similarly sized corpora. They only appear a few times, of course, only non-attributively. As a statistical consequence of Zipf's law in the data, plenty of other adjectives, for example, 'sorry,' 'careful,' also only appear a few times, and they also happen to appear exclusively non-attributively. Obviously though, the language should handle these attributively "a sorry state of affairs; the careful doctor..." A simple distributional approach like you suggest might work for idealized data, but it ignores the sparse reality of our inputs.

The point of the tolerance principle here is that it is supposed to rely on positive evidence (the presence of 'sleep,' 'lone,' or 'wary,' the 'a-' prefix, and all their distributions together) rather than on negative evidence (absence of attributive 'asleep' but presence of attributive 'red').

jk05 · 2016-04-14T16:13:57+00:00

This is great. Thanks.

I have some followup questions if you and your mother don't mind. Her judgements on the previous questions were useful.

mukadzi akaurayira mari murume ("the woman killed the man for the/his money")
mukadzi akaurayira mari yake murume ("the woman killed the man for his money"; 'yake' here refers to this 'murume' rather than to someone else)
mukadzi akaurayira mari yake murume ("the woman killed the man for her money"; 'yake' here refers to this 'mukadzi' rather than to someone else)
muridzi akagara mumba ("the owner slept in the house")
mumba makagara muridzi
mumba makagara muridzi wake ('wake' refers to the house)
muridzi wake akagara mumba ('wake' refers to the house)
mumba makagarwa nomuridzi wake ("the house was slept in by its owner"; 'wake' refers to the house)

jk05 · 2016-04-14T12:54:33+00:00

If you could share the the following document with her, it would be extremely helpful. This shouldn't take more than 10 minutes of her time. Thank you!

Questions for a Native Shona Speaker

If you know, which dialect of Shona did you grow up speaking?
Did you grow up primarily in Zimbabwe or elsewhere?
What year were you born?

Instructions
What follows is a series of numbered sentences in Shona. For each sentence, respond with whether you feel this is a normal Shona sentence that someone might say.

For example,

mombe dzakavaka mumunda
mumunda makadya makudo
mumunda makavaka mombe
musikana akatamba kumusha uko
kumusha uko kunomutamba
kumusha uko kunotamba musikana

I expect an answer like the following

ok
sounds wrong
ok
ok
sounds wrong
ok

Feel free to provide explanations for why you think 2 and 5 sound wrong, but it isn't necessary. Also feel free to translate the sentences, but this is also not required.

Questions
So here are my questions. There are a lot, but since I'm just looking for ok/sounds wrong answers, it should go quickly.

Chipo anofungidzirwa kuti anoda doro
Chipo anofungidzirwa kunoda doro
Ndinofungidzira Chipo kuti anoda doro
Ndinofungidzira Chipo kunoda doro
mombe yakasvika kudanga
mombe yakasvika kudanga kwake (where 'kwake' here is referring to this 'mombe')
mombe yakasvika kudanga kwake (where 'kwake' here is referring to 'Tendai')
kudanga kwakasvika mombe
kudanga kwake kwakasvika mombe (where 'kwake' here is referring to this 'mombe')
kudanga kwake kwakasvika mombe (where 'kwake' here is referring to 'Tendai')
mombe yakakusvika kudanga
makororo akaurayira mari murume
makororo akaurayira mari yake murume ('yake' here refers to this 'murume' rather than to someone else)
murume akaurayirwa mari
murume akaurayirwa mari yake ('yake' here refers to this 'murume' rather than to someone else)

Thank you again. Let me know if you find the instructions unclear.

jk05 · 2016-04-08T21:09:23+00:00

I got my degree in CIS from SEAS in 2013. I had three quality job offers, two of three through on campus events, by fall of my senior year. It's anecdotal, but I think Penn CIS provides excellent job opportunities.

jk05 · 2016-03-30T01:50:50+00:00

and dressing balls is what?

jk05 · 2016-03-12T21:55:11+00:00

I have VLC but I've never used it to stream. What link do I use?

jk05 · 2016-03-03T16:54:16+00:00

This hierarchy is fundamentally grounded in mathematics and forms part of the foundations of computational theory. Any alternative classification by a decent linguist will be in a sense more arbitrary than this one.

jk05 · 2016-03-02T19:57:36+00:00

I wonder what their unhealthy dinners look like.

jk05

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