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Reading Is Skimming

August 1, 2011
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There is only one book: the world book. And all books are volumes of this one book. And all pages are pages of this world book. Now, there are billions of pages in this book. And you’re never going to read them all. Not. Ever. You’re already skimming. You’re already skipping over. You’re already not reading all the pages...

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Bigger, Better Google Search Bookmarklets

March 3, 2011
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Bigger, Better Google Search Bookmarklets

These bookmarklets give you pages with 100 search results instead of 10. Getting more search results on one page is useful if you’re going to, say, have all the links on a page automatically added to something like the Surusu URL Shuffler. Google JP (Japanese) javascript:(function(){var w=window,d=w.document,s='';;if(d.selection){s=d.selection.createRange().text}else if (d.getSelection){s=d.getSelection()}else if(w.getSelection){s=window.getSelection()}window.open ('http://www.google.co.jp/search?q='+encodeURIComponent(s) +'&num=100&hl=ja&prmd=ivns&source=lnt&tbs=lr:lang_1ja&lr=lang_ja','_blank')})() Google HK (Chinese) javascript:(function(){var w=window,d=w.document,s='';;if(d.selection){s=d.selection.createRange().text}else if (d.getSelection){s=d.getSelection()}else...

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The Wait That Kills: Before You Pwn Books, You Must First Own Books

December 3, 2010
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The Wait That Kills: Before You Pwn Books, You Must First Own Books

We are all born illiterate. If you were to wait until you could read to start thumbing through Japanese books, you’d die waiting. If you were to wait until you could  read to start owning Japanese books, you’d die waiting. False: can’t read Japanese ∴ own no Japanese books. True: own no Japanese books ∴ can’t read Japanese. See these...

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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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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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Language Is Friendship and Familiarity

September 3, 2010
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A language is a person. Of course, it’s not a real person. You can’t see or touch Japanese. But she exists. She exists just like Harry Potter exists. You don’t learn a language, you get used to it. When someone is used to something, what do we call them? We call them an “expert”, we say they’re “good at”...

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