swann

no worn tool whittles stone

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making the reader multi-language, starting with a sort of proto–"better wiktionary"

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@ManishEarth l2 hindi opinion, but phonetically for hindi "fish" feels masculine to me too

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@computer_dream laughing at "versión débil"

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@Aelkus hello again

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this is what it looked like at the time i made these tweets (more recent videos forthcoming, probably)

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traversing the word graph, with links corresponding to characters that are shared between words (blue is when the reading is also the same, red is when it isn't)

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all of this used to be implemented in "userspace" in about 1kloc of rust in a previous version—turns out you can do it with less than 150 lines of sql, which also happens to be several times faster

[the chitinous scavenger @SKULLHORNETS]

i made the gofundme for my legal expenses for my refugee case here, thank you https://t.co/4czXgNdyMD

[sean @DilettanteryPod]

people usually judge things from their own context, not our own

[sean @DilettanteryPod]

I love—and keep encountering—stories of people from radically different cultures encountering modern/western cities for the first time and being unimpressed except for one specific thing.

Do you know of any other stories like this?

[swann @evertedsphere]

i read a short story by kawabata yesterday evening (titled 心中, if you want to look it up) that completely, como se dice, bodied me despite being less than two pages long

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cool, my hack for gluing together tiny tokens into longer word units works

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staring at this table until i achieve enlightenment

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a long but otherwise straightforward query gives me the verbs most frequently used in a book (or across a library)

this will be more interesting once i've hooked up the spaced repetition to this again and filtered out everything that isn't already marked as known

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rather pleased with how the furigana annotator has turned out

it's not in the screenshot, but this also tracks what rule/heuristic was used to match the dictionary ("underlying") reading to the word (e.g. かた -> がたvia rendaku, オー -> おう is "LongVowelMark", and so on)

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@frescopaintings for some people those have the same answers as the three in the quoted tweet