xkcd: Language Acquisition
Source: https://xkcd.com/2839/
Explain XKCD: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2839
Title text: My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'
Source: https://xkcd.com/2839/
Explain XKCD: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2839
Title text: My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'
I wish my future child would send remote log for easy management.
timestamp | hostname | process | level | text |
---|---|---|---|---|
[DT] | child1 | shit | WARNING | child1 shat. Refresh diaper. |
You keep child0 unassigned in case the girl you met at the club three years ago starts looking for you
I just name my children using GUIDs. To keep things simple I normally call them by the first 32 bits, but when they're getting into trouble I use all 128.
Well their full names are 128-bit. I just use the last 32 bits to store timestamps, demographic info and checksum bits.
We have solid reason to believe numbers are a pretty distinct symbolic category. We don't use the same part of the brain we use for speech to process numbers. We use a different distinct part of the brain that is not used for speech and is more related with visual processing. Both, speech and number areas, are activated when we read spelled out numbers, and even homophones pointing to the theory that numerals develop into their own thing inside our brains.
It's more like, they can exist in our head without being words. So they are a distinct thing.
Yeah, I immediately thought of that scene in the West Wing.
President Josiah Bartlet : Sweden has a 100% literacy rate, Leo. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry : Well, maybe they don't and they also can't count
Actually, I've always had a rather extensive vocabulary, not to mention a phenomenal grasp of grammar and a superlative command of syntax. I simply chose not to employ them.
For the uninitiated, uh huh had only ever said uh huh throughout the movie till he drops this.