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I shared this article with my sister. Unfortunately I have lost faith in most people to read the full article. Within 30 seconds of sending the article she responds with "Sadly I don't know two languages! So we will focus on english together"

To me the point is to toss as much at the brain as possible. Not limit yourself or your child with monoculture.


A little empathy can go a long way. Perhaps your sister simply has different taste in reading than you do? For example, I opened the article and closed it pretty much right away because it has all the hallmarks of a clickbait nothing burger.


A lot of people worry that exposing their baby to another language will somehow impair its ability to learn theirs. This isn't true, but people worry anyway.

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The result described in this press release isn't new. We already knew that neonates are able to distinguish languages they've been exposed to from languages that they haven't been. What this study adds is "we documented an existing known result, but with some pictures of brain activity".

Brain activity is always good for an extra publication. Compare the classic paper Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic Salmon: http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf .


Definitely need an LLM to just generate it automatically on the fly! Welcome to the future! (Just kidding please don't (generate automatically))


Not quite this, but still relevant: https://www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/spigot/


A great idea if you're looking to intentionally sabotage AI.


I wish there was a Git way of commenting even anonymously (not necessarily without auth). Then a site like this, written with Hugo, could keep all the comments and the moderation/spam could be built in with a GitHub authorization.



I removed myself from beta. I always have iPhone and Android apps stalling on backing up unless the app is open.


The recent betas have been extremely performant for me, especially today’s. Might be worth checking out again.


I was also thinking something similar. If it was me as a child it would be quite nostalgic to see a video of myself at 4 years old with my father.


Well, I actually remember much of that time myself. About a year or so after that video was made I was learning to program in Fortran on the university's IBM-360 mainframe. (Learning to program was compulsory for anyone studying science, engineering and mathematics and the subject was a part of the math curriculum.)

So I was ready when the early processors, 8080/5, Z80 and 8086 arrived a few years later. In fact I was running both DR's CP/M and Tim Patterson's SCP DOS on an S-100 system around the time Microsoft bought the product and renamed it MSDOS.


or 15 Years of Buildling Jefit


Pretty neat test of image recognition. I don't know why but it bothers me to know that everyone everywhere is being watched by something.


Using the get parameter that is mentioned at the bottom of the page produces a very jarring scroll through all comparisons.


I work in PHP each day. I prefer the Yii2 framework and sometimes use Symfony. For some reason I just can't get into Laravel. I tried but the rapid development speed of Yii2 really is the best for my workflow.


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