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    [SilverSpoon] Which Neutrino?

    November 5, 2011
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    Thank you for your interest in SilverSpoon/Neutrino. Unfortunately it is currently closed to the public. SilverSpoon is a highly exclusive program and is rarely open for entry. A few new spots in the SilverSpoon-Neutrino program are periodically opened throughout the year, so to be notified when the next round of entries goes live, get your name on the VIP...

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    SRS: If In Doubt, Throw It Out — Ambivalence Is the Greatest Enemy

    June 15, 2013
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    Cards you’re ambivalent about are worse than cards that you hate. Cards you hate get acted on instantly, but the ones you’re ambivalent about are allowed to accumulate until they outnumber the ones you love, and then the whole language, your whole life just...

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    The Trouble With Heritage Languages

    June 10, 2013
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    The problem with learning an ancestral or “heritage” language is that it takes just as much effort as learning any other language, except that you get no credit whatsoever for doing it well (and it’s happily assumed that you basically got it “for free”,...

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    Don’t Debate: Experiment

    June 5, 2013
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    This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Social Resistance“…the yeoman work in any science…is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.” ~ Michio...

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    Getting There Is Also Your Life

    May 30, 2013
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    This entry is part 8 of 10 in the series Intermediate AngstThe journey of getting used to a language is so psychologically long that it can’t merely be a...

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    Grinding: Focus On What You CAN Do

    May 25, 2013
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    This entry is part 5 of 10 in the series Intermediate AngstOften enough, a comment puts it much better than I ever put it. This was one such situation....

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    12 Common Reading Mistakes You’re Making That You Need to Stop Making if You Want to Be Thin and Pretty Like Me

    May 20, 2013
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    Stop trying to read in massive chunks of time Most of life is waiting. Most of life is disjoint snippets of time: two, three, five minutes here or there. That’s...

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    Mandarin Mini-Transcript: Memorable Quotes From Batman: The Dark Knight Rises

    May 15, 2013
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    Mandarin Mini-Transcript: Memorable Quotes From Batman: The Dark Knight Rises

    So, apparently, a Batman movie came out last year and it was a big deal? Haha. No, I watched it and loved it. I wish Christopher Nolan were in...

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    Moe Dictionary Bookmarklet

    May 14, 2013
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    The Moe Dictionary is a monolingual Chinese dictionary. I think it’s relatively new(?) and it seems pretty cool. I like it so far. Here’s a bookmarklet for it: MoeDict/萌...

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    It Counts If You Let It

    May 12, 2013
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    This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Intermediate Angst“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” ~ Walter Elliot...

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