Or perhaps this isn't a biological trait in humans at all. The human children subjects that this study used have spent years flicking light switches, using remote controls for television sets, avoiding hot irons and spinning fans, and otherwise obeying all sorts of random magical rules imposed by adults.
Maybe long before this experiment, they learned not to trust their knowledge of physics and just to do what they're shown/told.
Just one more physchological study that doesn't actually show what it claims (link is to Feynman's "Cargo-Cult-Science").
Yes, but if it's shown that syntax can be learned with general learning abilities rather than UG, then Occam's razor comes into effect and I call bulls**t on any kind of innate UG.
The biological arguments for innate-language-learning abilities are red-herrings. Sure, of course we have some biology to help with language--Chimps don't learn to speak, after all. But that's a far cry from UG and any of Chomsky's grammar systems (Plus, they're always overstated. The fact is, adults who are *completely* immersed learn language in 6 months or so--i.e., FAR faster than children)
This statement shows that you know absolutely nothing on the subject of hamartiology and Cristology. The Bible is clear on this. The age of accountability must be reached before someone has the possibility of going to hell.
It says no such thing, quite the opposite in fact, and even the very first article on google for "age of accountability": Is The Age of Accountability a Biblical Doctrine?
discusses this, so I think you're being a bit dishonest. You may be the kind of "half-ass" Christian who believes the young can get into heaven without Jesus, but then you should be for killing them, before they get corrupted.
In fact, the penalty for dieing before getting to know Jesus is an eternity in hell.
Yup, Christians believe that a good God sends innocent babies (unborn or not) to burn in fire for all time.
Futhermore, let's suppose that your just a half-ass kind of Christian and believe that such unborn souls go to heaven. Well, then, aren't we doing them a great big favour by killing them before they live long enough to get tempted by those evil evil dinosaur bones and neo-darwinists?
Yes, and moreover, serial killers who ask a 2000-year-old dead Jew and his invisible father for forgiveness go to paradise when you kill them. Unborn children burn screaming in hell for all eternity because a 5000-year-old dead guy ate an apple. This is because God is good. He's also his son. But His son is not good, because only God is good. And you can eat him every Sunday.
Because to me it looks like an etch-a-sketch, i.e. metallic gray low-resolution text on a silverish background. I was expecting something more like black text on white paper. As it is, a backlit LCD with much higher contrast and resolution than this thing in normal lighting is easier to read, so the only advantage is battery life.
It should be fine for a clock or watch though.
It's already used in an e-book product from sony. It looks absolutely terrible--sort of a high resolution etch-a-sketch.
My guess is that maybe in five years this technology will look about as good as a cheap newspaper, for only 1000* the price.
Still, it's probably a good technology for large print uses like this or advertising billboards.
I'd gain an extra 500 words of vocab that I'd loose just as fast. For me, only words that I saw all the time really stuck.
I've been using Supermemo for the palm pilot now for about a year (mostly with my own Japanese sets), and I'm not sure the author gave it a fair try. It's not really a program geared towards initial studying like most flashcard programs. It's main purpose is solving this exact long-term retention problem--it figures out for each card the next day you need to see it such that you'll remember 90% (configurable) of the cards you see. Not sure I'd call it magic, but it's been a real breakthrough for me.
And yes, of course memorizing vocabulary isn't learning a language--but it's certainly a necessary step.
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Ughh.
What's the hardest thing about learning Japanese?
Kanji. Try looking up 1 character a sentence while reading and see how quickly you become "lazy".
Here are some recomendations:
Some version of supermemo to help them memorize/study kanji and vocab. Or Stackz, KingKanji, learnAlphabets, etc. Use a version on a PDA and they can/will study on the train, on line at the bank, etc. Get a Japanese model so it'll have handwriting recognition, and you have a character dictionary that'll beat Halpern &/or Nelson hands down. There's a thread on this at Jim Breen's site.
And, lastly, for intermediate learning, get them reading news with my own rikai, or better yet, finish the moji/rikai plugin for mozilla!
No I'm not kidding, I remember this as a real historical anecdote. Think 1960s. Also think timing something locally, with automated repetition to gain precision.
I gather there are analogous attacks for today's sophisticated encryption schemes using time or even heat to gain some knowledge of how much work has been done.
Anyway, it's a movie (Wargames)--I look at it as my job as a viewer to find a scenerio under which it makes sense.* That just got MUCH easier I think, both for Wargames and Dr. Strangelove.
* WARNING: do not try this with the Matrix Reloaded.
Wheh!!! Thank goodness that the guys in charge of the WOPR knew what they were doing! Not like those butt-nuggets who chose 00000000 for the minutemen passwords (in real life).
So should I laugh or cry?
May I suggest that for language learning what you want is not translation to your own language, but something to help you read. In Japanese, that's particularly hard because of the kanji.
But there are a couple of open-source mozilla plugins that may be of some help:
rikaixul, my own project which was functional a year ago but noone's touched in some time.
Jim Breen runs a really great list of online resources for Japanese, most of which are at least free-beer if not free-speech.
While you're on-line, there's the free-beer Rikai, which, like those mozilla plugins, should help you get through Japanese pages (try asahi.com or 2chan.net for a laugh)
Anyway, presumably the mozilla plugins would let one have a working solution on higher-end palmtop devices.
But there are several non-obvious ways to tell that some of the password is correct. E.g., a system may check the password left-to-right, and bail out when it finds a difference--in which case accurate and/or repeated timing can tell you how many digits are correct.
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Or perhaps this isn't a biological trait in humans at all. The human children subjects that this study used have spent years flicking light switches, using remote controls for television sets, avoiding hot irons and spinning fans, and otherwise obeying all sorts of random magical rules imposed by adults. Maybe long before this experiment, they learned not to trust their knowledge of physics and just to do what they're shown/told. Just one more physchological study that doesn't actually show what it claims (link is to Feynman's "Cargo-Cult-Science").
Yes, but if it's shown that syntax can be learned with general learning abilities rather than UG, then Occam's razor comes into effect and I call bulls**t on any kind of innate UG. The biological arguments for innate-language-learning abilities are red-herrings. Sure, of course we have some biology to help with language--Chimps don't learn to speak, after all. But that's a far cry from UG and any of Chomsky's grammar systems (Plus, they're always overstated. The fact is, adults who are *completely* immersed learn language in 6 months or so--i.e., FAR faster than children)
Is The Age of Accountability a Biblical Doctrine? discusses this, so I think you're being a bit dishonest. You may be the kind of "half-ass" Christian who believes the young can get into heaven without Jesus, but then you should be for killing them, before they get corrupted.
Yup, Christians believe that a good God sends innocent babies (unborn or not) to burn in fire for all time.
Futhermore, let's suppose that your just a half-ass kind of Christian and believe that such unborn souls go to heaven. Well, then, aren't we doing them a great big favour by killing them before they live long enough to get tempted by those evil evil dinosaur bones and neo-darwinists?
Yes, and moreover, serial killers who ask a 2000-year-old dead Jew and his invisible father for forgiveness go to paradise when you kill them. Unborn children burn screaming in hell for all eternity because a 5000-year-old dead guy ate an apple. This is because God is good. He's also his son. But His son is not good, because only God is good. And you can eat him every Sunday.
So you see? Now does it all make perfect sense?
Because to me it looks like an etch-a-sketch, i.e. metallic gray low-resolution text on a silverish background. I was expecting something more like black text on white paper. As it is, a backlit LCD with much higher contrast and resolution than this thing in normal lighting is easier to read, so the only advantage is battery life. It should be fine for a clock or watch though.
It's already used in an e-book product from sony. It looks absolutely terrible--sort of a high resolution etch-a-sketch. My guess is that maybe in five years this technology will look about as good as a cheap newspaper, for only 1000* the price. Still, it's probably a good technology for large print uses like this or advertising billboards.
I'd gain an extra 500 words of vocab that I'd loose just as fast. For me, only words that I saw all the time really stuck.
I've been using Supermemo for the palm pilot now for about a year (mostly with my own Japanese sets), and I'm not sure the author gave it a fair try. It's not really a program geared towards initial studying like most flashcard programs. It's main purpose is solving this exact long-term retention problem--it figures out for each card the next day you need to see it such that you'll remember 90% (configurable) of the cards you see. Not sure I'd call it magic, but it's been a real breakthrough for me. And yes, of course memorizing vocabulary isn't learning a language--but it's certainly a necessary step.
My Rikai website can do the same mouse-hover thing online, mediating/translating existing web-pages/news-sites/etc. See: http://www.rikai.com/perl/HomePage.pl?Language=Zh
Dear Applicant. As you may be aware from news reports, recently a security issue has come to light regarding our use of the ApplyYourself service for application processing. Some sensitive student and applicant information may have been inadvertantly exposed to the public. We take this violation of your privacy very serious. Though the site was not built by Harvard itself, we of course take full resposibility for our decision to outsource the work, and feel we should have done more to audit the work afterward. We are currently reviewing our procedures to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future. In your particular case, an initial investigation has shown that your account was indeed accessed, and your private information exposed to the public. We sincerely hope it was only you checking to see if this was indeed the case. In any case, we will keep in contact and forward you any information as soon as we get it, concerning possible identity theft or other misuse. Again, you have our sincere apologies. Harvard Business School.
Ughh. What's the hardest thing about learning Japanese? Kanji. Try looking up 1 character a sentence while reading and see how quickly you become "lazy". Here are some recomendations: Some version of supermemo to help them memorize/study kanji and vocab. Or Stackz, KingKanji, learnAlphabets, etc. Use a version on a PDA and they can/will study on the train, on line at the bank, etc. Get a Japanese model so it'll have handwriting recognition, and you have a character dictionary that'll beat Halpern &/or Nelson hands down. There's a thread on this at Jim Breen's site. And, lastly, for intermediate learning, get them reading news with my own rikai, or better yet, finish the moji/rikai plugin for mozilla!
No I'm not kidding, I remember this as a real historical anecdote. Think 1960s. Also think timing something locally, with automated repetition to gain precision.
I gather there are analogous attacks for today's sophisticated encryption schemes using time or even heat to gain some knowledge of how much work has been done.
Anyway, it's a movie (Wargames)--I look at it as my job as a viewer to find a scenerio under which it makes sense.* That just got MUCH easier I think, both for Wargames and Dr. Strangelove.
* WARNING: do not try this with the Matrix Reloaded.
Wheh!!! Thank goodness that the guys in charge of the WOPR knew what they were doing! Not like those butt-nuggets who chose 00000000 for the minutemen passwords (in real life).
So should I laugh or cry?
But there are a couple of open-source mozilla plugins that may be of some help:
Moji
rikaixul, my own project which was functional a year ago but noone's touched in some time.
Jim Breen runs a really great list of online resources for Japanese, most of which are at least free-beer if not free-speech.
While you're on-line, there's the free-beer Rikai, which, like those mozilla plugins, should help you get through Japanese pages (try asahi.com or 2chan.net for a laugh)
Anyway, presumably the mozilla plugins would let one have a working solution on higher-end palmtop devices.
But there are several non-obvious ways to tell that some of the password is correct. E.g., a system may check the password left-to-right, and bail out when it finds a difference--in which case accurate and/or repeated timing can tell you how many digits are correct.