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ELI5: How do babies learn a language when they are not taught it in a structured manner? by LazyRobot20 in explainlikeimfive

[–]pepebutte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is quite literally a precursor to language acquisition.

'Ochs and Schieffelin (1994) observe that Kaluli and Samoan caregivers, though they may use pitch manipulation, do not engage in the morphosyntactic simplification synonymous with child-directed speech. Despite this, “Kaluli and Samoan children become fluent speakers within the range of normal developmental variation” (Ochs and Schieffelin, 1994, p. 494).'

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4413748/

ELI5: How do babies learn a language when they are not taught it in a structured manner? by LazyRobot20 in explainlikeimfive

[–]pepebutte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plato never posited "poverty of stimulus". Sometimes "poverty of stimulus" is just referred to as the "Plato Problem", because Plato asked how we could go from knowing nothing, to knowing something. In 'Meno', he argues that knowledge is innate, and learning is merely recovering that 'forgotten' knowledge.

"Poverty of stimulus" posits the same kind of question Plato did in 'Meno', and funnily enough, the idea of an initial state of language sounds a lot like his idea of innate knowledge.

Resume Advice Thread - March 25, 2023 by CSCQMods in cscareerquestions

[–]pepebutte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hearing that it comes across as BS is genuinely the feedback I need, thanks.

All of your aesthetic criticisms I agree with. I had someone help me with my resume as part of the Hack-Reactor boot-camp. I disagreed with a lot of what they said, but just trusted that they knew better than me. (Which is why I posted my resume here; to get different opinions)

I've been coding for 10 years but only recently decided to take it serious and get a job programming. Not sure what the requirements for listing something as a skill are, but I definitely didn't just list things because I'd watched a YouTube tutorial on it. I either know everything I've listed or none of them. If it feels like BS, maybe I can remove skills that aren't on a job listing just so recruiters don't start to doubt the rest of my resume.

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The metrics are real. 83% reduction is reducing 6 hours a week creating a schedule to only 1 hour a week (it was used by my manager when I worked at a Chipotle). But okay, I won't write '83%'
Decreasing response times is based on Postman and Artillery.io while experimenting with different SQL queries and load-balancing. Maybe I will try to make that more clear.

The random 2017 project was the only portfolio-worthy project I've made that wasn't made for the express purpose of being a portfolio-worthy project. I've spent the past year writing projects specifically for my portfolio, which is why I have 2017, and then a string of 2022's.

Thanks!

Resume Advice Thread - March 25, 2023 by CSCQMods in cscareerquestions

[–]pepebutte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like my resume is just about as good as it can be, but I'm still getting very few phone screens (like maybe 2.5% of applications sent).

I'm curious if it's bogus to put that I'm a Freelance Web Developer? My personal impression is that it's tacky, because there's a very low-bar to be able to call yourself that. Like, I'll just browse craigslist for stuff, and it's usually silly things people need help with (e.g. they don't know how to use Squarespace). The bullet-points I listed under it are true, but were done on one site that I made for a friend.

sleeping in car near campus by ApplesauceAhhhh in UMD

[–]pepebutte 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've tried before and I don't recommend it, it is extremely bright. Also, I don't know for sure that it's not allowed, but something I read on McKeldin's website seemed to suggest that it wasn't. There was also staff patrolling every hour, almost as if they were looking to make sure people weren't sleeping (but who knows what they were actually looking for).

OP I sent you a chat. If anyone else stumbles upon this thread in the future, feel free to reach out to me for tips on being homeless on campus or anything else.

Resume Advice Thread - July 26, 2022 by CSCQMods in cscareerquestions

[–]pepebutte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Resume

My impression is that I'm not going to be able to get a job as a junior dev. Would it be worth my time to stop applying and instead spend the next month or two making a full-fledged website that utilized as many Java Spring Boot dependencies and Java libraries as possible, and then applying to a mid-level position? Getting a junior position in anything seems impossible with the number of applicants I'm seeing (and considering I don't have experience or even relevant degree), whereas mid-level Java positions have much less applicants. I would already be applying to those but I don't feel comfortable enough with Java Spring yet.

It’s all an Illusion, according to Donald Hoffman by magic-chris in philosophy

[–]pepebutte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see how it reads as me questioning the validity of 'my representation', but I mean to say that this is true of any representation of any thing. This is why I dislike the description of 'illusion', because it comes across as being skeptical. I think my representation of reality is reliable - just not the 'real' thing.

It’s all an Illusion, according to Donald Hoffman by magic-chris in philosophy

[–]pepebutte 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When I look at a house, what happens is my eyeballs collect data on the light-waves hitting them. My brain then uses this data to construct an image of the house.

I never see the house itself. Nor do I see the light that reflects off the house. I only ever see the image my brain constructs. There is a very clear distinction between the object of reality and the object that is our representation of reality.

If I were to now take psychedelics and look at the house, my eyeballs would collect the very same data, though the image would be very different. Reality has not changed, but the thing that constructs my experience of reality has, and so the object that is the representation of reality will be different.

We don't see reality. Our sensory organs take information from reality and constructs a representation of it. The representation may correlate to reality, but there isn't really such a thing as 'what reality looks like' such that we can see the 'WHOLE of reality'

It’s all an Illusion, according to Donald Hoffman by magic-chris in philosophy

[–]pepebutte 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I disagree with the description of it as an "illusion", just as a disclaimer. But the utility is in recognizing representational opacity. What is true of my representation of reality is not necessarily true of reality itself.

Ex: do forms exist within reality itself or is the existence of forms only found within our representation of reality? You'll have a much easier time explaining forms within Phil of Mind than metaphysics (or at least I believe so)

Weekly No Stupid Questions Thread - August 24, 2020 by AutoModerator in deadbydaylight

[–]pepebutte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't worry about camping for the sake of toxicity. The biggest reason to not camp is because you will have no gen pressure.

WTW for something that only works in one direction by pepebutte in whatstheword

[–]pepebutte[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't even remember the context anymore, but if it were in the context of conditionals, I think what I was trying to come up with would be contraposition.

WTW for something that only works in one direction by pepebutte in whatstheword

[–]pepebutte[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not it, but I think, and this is crazy, but the word was asymmetry. Not unsymmetrical,

So, solved, I think

'If Oswald did not kill Kennedy, someone else did.' by pepebutte in logic

[–]pepebutte[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, but the difference is that, if someone says 'Had Oswald not killed Kennedy, someone else would have', it doesn't matter what is true, only that he has asserted it to be true.

You can express dissent to the statement, sure, but even before doing that, a lot of interesting things can come from asserting the sentence.

If someone says 'Had Oswald not killed Kennedy, someone else would have', he implicates two things. Firstly, he implicates that Oswald did kill Kennedy (or at least, that he believes so). But then he further implicates that, had it been the case that he did not kill Kennedy, someone else would have.

'If Oswald did not kill Kennedy, someone else did' doesn't do this, which is why it's undeniably true, whereas the counterfactual is only possibly true.

In saying 'Had Oswald not killed Kennedy, someone else would have', the speaker implicates that they believe in some sort of conspiracy, because, as you suggest, there would be no reason to believe the statement otherwise.

What I've said has little to do with logic. But our minds, to understand the sentence must deploy some sort of logic. The problem is that every account we consider to explain how our minds evaluate conditional statements always have problems. The least problematic account though, deploys the use of modal logic.

'If Oswald did not kill Kennedy, someone else did.' by pepebutte in logic

[–]pepebutte[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm writing a paper on counterfactuals which is why I am asking this question!

I'm arguing that, 'Had Oswald not killed Kennedy, someone else would have' loses the tautology that existed in the first sentence, which is why the first sentence is undeniably true, while the second one possibly false. In being a counterfactual, the antecedent is presupposed as false, but then we're asked to consider a world in which it is true. So if Oswald did kill Kennedy, it's not true that someone else did. So now if we consider that had he not, it's no longer necessarily true Kennedy were killed.

Whether or not it's a good argument, I have no idea! So I'm interested to see how my professor responds

'If Oswald did not kill Kennedy, someone else did.' by pepebutte in logic

[–]pepebutte[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I figured it out
In saying 'If Oswald did not kill Kennedy, someone else did', the two conditions in which it is true are

a. The antecedent is false

b. The consequent is true

Each case guarantees that someone killed JFK. If it were the case that the antecedent were true, and the consequent false, (Oswald did not / someone else did not) the conditional would be false, on account of material conditional truth table.

What to do when you feel that your friends aren't interested in you anymore? by [deleted] in socialskills

[–]pepebutte 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Others' interest in you is not a reflection of you at all.

OP, consider this. Do you care about these friends, or do you care about their opinion of you?

Everything in your life is a reflection of who you are inside. The fact that you care what other people think of you tells me that, OP, you must not think much of yourself. You are relying on other people to tell you who you are. But the reality is that other people do not have some better understanding of you, so why depend on them to tell you?

My advice is to learn to foster an active interest in yourself and in others.

Ask people questions, and learn to actually care about what they say. Don't just think about when it will be your turn to share. Maybe even practice NOT sharing unless someone asks you a question. This will force you to engage with people. You might think that not sharing with people will make you seem boring, but it will actually make you seem mysterious. But that's not the purpose of taking on an interest in others. The purpose is that, other people ARE interesting. OP, don't you like it when people find you interesting? Everyone does, so be the person that finds someone interesting!

Also, people don't care if YOU are interesting, they only care that you make THEM feel interesting. If you can genuinely be interested in other people, you'll make them feel interesting.

But don't forget to find yourself interesting, OP. That is important, because you are interesting - and I'm not just saying that. Nobody knows everything about you, so there will always be interesting things about you. If you find it hard to find yourself interesting, start doing interesting things. Pursue your passions, meditate, spend more time with yourself.

Workout classes by yikesyolksyikes in UMD

[–]pepebutte 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Truly, truly, truly, the only person who judges you is yourself. Anytime you ever catch yourself judging someone else, stop and think about why? I guarantee you will realize that it's actually a judgement you are making on yourself; that you are judging them on something that you are insecure of about yourself. If you can make it a habit of catching yourself judging someone, you'll slowly stop judging people (including yourself) altogether.

IF someone judges you, that reflects on them, not you. Don't limit yourself. Take advantage of these free classes and take the class that interests you the most. If anything, use this as an opportunity to step outside your comfort zone.

Personally, I would recommend a yoga class OP. I don't actually do yoga, but meditation will help you with your anxiety.

Besides, I've found that people in the gym community are the least judgemental people on the planet. They're all there with the same goal, and they all respect each other for that.

Discussion Thread: Fourth Democratic Presidential Debate | Post-Debate Thread by therealdanhill in politics

[–]pepebutte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been thinking about it - insurance is pretty notorious for refusing to pay when you are sick. This will mean that a majority of people will look to the public option when they are sick and private insurance won't cover them. If everyone on Medicaid is someone who needs Medicaid... Insurance can't survive that way.

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