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  • Archive for September, 2010

    Your Way Doesn’t Have To Be “Right”, It Just Has To Work: Language Acquisition and Cybernetics

    September 30, 2010
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    I was just thinking today about how “dirty” and fluid and lazy Lazy Kanji is. And I was thinking about the obnoxious certainty that anti-RTK people have about how RTK couldn’t possibly work. And it hit me that it may have been this article (about the differences and similarities between AI and cybernetics) by a guy called Paul Pangaro that...

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    Book Review / 1-Minute Email-Fu | Quick, Concise, Chronically Awesome Japanese Business Email Examples For People Who Think Too Much

    September 27, 2010
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    Book Review / 1-Minute Email-Fu | Quick, Concise, Chronically Awesome Japanese Business Email Examples For People Who Think Too Much

    Cult? AJATT. AJATT? Books. Books? Today’s book: 1-Minute Email-Fu. A book that will quite literally turn you into the shogun of Harlem. Or at least of Japanese business email. Anyway, 問答無用!No more preliminary jibber-jabber! Let’s get right to it! Title/Author/Info Pros Cons 考えすぎて書けない人のための1分間メール術 神垣あゆみ (著) 1-Minute Email-Fu | Quick, Concise, Chronically Awesome Japanese Business Email Examples For People Who...

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    Free LARD Trilogy Audiobook

    September 26, 2010
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    Free LARD Trilogy Audiobook

    So as you kids may know, all three parts of LARDTM — the Little Red Dao of AJATT — are finally all out. Anyway, as part of my Wickid Master PlanTM to blackmail, I mean, encourage you to join AJATT PlusTM, I’m offering you the full audiobook version of LARD — all three volumes recorded in a soothing female voiceTM...

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    AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2010-09-26

    September 26, 2010
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    Tip: shoot for #reading time rather than pagecount. But take the time in small slices and switch freely. #timeboxing # When you read very disjointedly (e.g. URP), page/bookcount start to lose meaning. Time becomes the best metric. #timeboxing # RTHK Podcast Station bit.ly/9Vu67e # RTHK Podcast Station bit.ly/9es40e #Chinese # 『そのような「改善=小変」に対して、 「右のモノを左にしただけじゃないか」 「縦のモノを横にしただけじゃないか」とケチを付ける人が出て来ます。 しかし、この「○○しただけ」こそ改善そのものです。』 amzn.to/axq60R # モニ太のデジタル辞典 : 写真特集...

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    Reading and Respectability

    September 25, 2010
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    If you have to limit your reading to what is considered respectable, you might as well physically remove your brain and personally hand it to whoever’s making those respectability rules. Because that’s kind of what you’re doing already. And while you’re at it, have the Rulemaker come over to your house and pick out your clothes and thoughts, too....

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    The Three Laws of Language-Learning | Version 2.0

    September 24, 2010
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    The Prime Directive: Have fun. The Promise: I will not suck any more today than I did yesterday. I will not suck any more tomorrow than I do today. Every day, I will suck less. I will do this in a way that does not conflict with law # 1. The Path: Little and often. Start more times than you...

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