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I promise this post isn't about Japanese
... at least, not 100%. I'm amazed at how productive it's made me, though, and how much parts of my brain that I haven't used in 5 years have suddenly reactivated. In the last week I have:
* Read a whole article of Japanese end-to-end with minimal dictionary lookup and at least got the jist of it;
* Written a lesson that even I don't think is absolute crap;
* Got back on Lang-8, burning all embarrassment I have to the ground in the process and finding that it helps tremendously to be shameless. I am sad that they no longer accept new users: it's tremendously helpful
In non-Japanese-land, I have:
* Failed to do any canon viewing for my Chocolatebox assignment, but have reserved the weekend for it;
* Read Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson, a 1984 article on why you, well, can't trust anyone but the ones you trust. It's very short, very funny, very articulate, and accessible to most anyone: even if you can't read code, I encourage you to give it a look. It's got me interested in compilers-compiling-themselves, and just the lower layers of code in general. I am such an utter generalist it is absurd, but maybe this will be the start of some proper computer science reading for me.
* On that same note, I recently read this blog post by the (Italian, I believe) dev behind Redis. You don't need to know or care about Redis: this is a non-technical post about him learning English, and by god. I want to incrementally get to this point with Japanese: jambalaya, but intelligent and information-dense flailing. The quip on accents and UK English makes me cackle, too.
* I have made absolutely shit progress on anything else in my life, except hitting up the gym twice and mangling/unmangling the easy part of a sock. Sometimes you just take the little victories.
What have y'all been up to?
* Read a whole article of Japanese end-to-end with minimal dictionary lookup and at least got the jist of it;
* Written a lesson that even I don't think is absolute crap;
* Got back on Lang-8, burning all embarrassment I have to the ground in the process and finding that it helps tremendously to be shameless. I am sad that they no longer accept new users: it's tremendously helpful
In non-Japanese-land, I have:
* Failed to do any canon viewing for my Chocolatebox assignment, but have reserved the weekend for it;
* Read Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson, a 1984 article on why you, well, can't trust anyone but the ones you trust. It's very short, very funny, very articulate, and accessible to most anyone: even if you can't read code, I encourage you to give it a look. It's got me interested in compilers-compiling-themselves, and just the lower layers of code in general. I am such an utter generalist it is absurd, but maybe this will be the start of some proper computer science reading for me.
* On that same note, I recently read this blog post by the (Italian, I believe) dev behind Redis. You don't need to know or care about Redis: this is a non-technical post about him learning English, and by god. I want to incrementally get to this point with Japanese: jambalaya, but intelligent and information-dense flailing. The quip on accents and UK English makes me cackle, too.
* I have made absolutely shit progress on anything else in my life, except hitting up the gym twice and mangling/unmangling the easy part of a sock. Sometimes you just take the little victories.
What have y'all been up to?
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If you're interested in lower-level stuff, I can see if I still have the course materials for my high-level CS classes - there was one on implementation and some compiler stuff, though I didn't take the full compilers class. Still very interesting, and I learned a lot about structure doing it. Also the professor was this older Linux-hippy type who wore lots of ugly scarves and referred to C as 'God's language'.
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I just shook my gift and it looks amazing so I have a lot of incentive to finish now!