closetkantian

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   by closetkantian 19d ago

   Aldaily.com, metafilter.com, economist.com, some subreddits, nytimes.com, lrb.co.uk, and my own websites
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   by closetkantian 2mo ago

   Both. I do classroom teaching as well as SAT / ACT verbal tutoring.
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   by closetkantian 2mo ago

   Okay, thanks for the extended response. I suppose I would have to look at more questions, but I'm really surprised by what you chose to include on the front page, where you'd presumably want to highlight your best work. That passa
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   by closetkantian 2mo ago

   So, professional educator here, with fifteen years of high school teaching experience. If the sample passages and questions on the front page accurately reflect what's inside this, I would not let my kids go anywhere near it. You'
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   by closetkantian 3mo ago

   Interesting. Building something similar myself. Very interesting to see what people are cooking up for language learning using the latest tools.
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   by closetkantian 4mo ago

   I first read about this in The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence by Gavin McCormick. Really good read.
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   by closetkantian 5mo ago

   Frankly, I think if you're going to do something like this you're going to need to use well constructed critical reasoning items from graduate level exams like the GRE and LSAT.
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   by closetkantian 6mo ago

   I find the "unverified download" thing in Chrome so annoying, too. Remember when computers used to treat us like adults? I miss those days.
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   by closetkantian 6mo ago

   I love it
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    by closetkantian 7mo ago

    Source? I've seen studies that suggest the opposite.
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    by closetkantian 7mo ago

    Really wish someone would do this for Alpha Centauri, my favorite game of all time
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    by closetkantian 7mo ago

    I like the concept, but it doesn't work for me. I just see a red circle with a line through it when I hover over the text boxes.
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    by closetkantian 8mo ago

    I like the concept, but I'm not going to be reading Simple English Wikipedia.
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    by closetkantian 8mo ago

    It seems that you're not very familiar with what actually happened. The phrase "It's okay to be white" had become associated with white supremacists, And black people's responses to the pole had nothing to do with t
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    by closetkantian 9mo ago

    This is genius! I love it.
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    by closetkantian 9mo ago

    If you're studying Chinese, maybe you realized that Chinese writing works in a very similar way.
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    by closetkantian 9mo ago

    I'd recommend Careless People, if you haven't read it.
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    by closetkantian 10mo ago

    I had one of these break within a few days of purchase. It's a no for me.
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    by closetkantian 10mo ago

    I just released my SAT Writing textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Matthews-Guide-Digital-SAT-Writing/dp... It took me two and a half years to finish. Now I've got to market it.
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    Ask HN: What is best LLM-powered OCR?

    3 points by closetkantian 11mo ago|0 comments
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    by closetkantian 1y ago

    Very well said. There really should be a public option. Large scale PBS for the internet.
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    by closetkantian 1y ago

    Recently I've been thinking about deconstructing a ThinkPad and putting the internals inside a MIDI controller. We're at the stage where VSTs/DAWs easily sound better than any synthesizer with internal sounds. But, it's
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    by closetkantian 1y ago

    Can I run this on my laptop?
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    by closetkantian 1y ago

    I'd love to see this for English grammar
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    by closetkantian 1y ago

    Well it was founded as a non-profit
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    by closetkantian 1y ago

    I think one thing that this article misses out on is that people are more and more likely to have many careers over a lifetime. In my case, I was a teacher, then a technical writer, then a teacher again. And now I'm shifting into curri
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    by closetkantian 1y ago

    My first thought when I read this, and it may very well be misinformed, was that she is probably using a team of ghostwriters. Many novelists at that level are. Your name just becomes a brand at a certain point.
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    by closetkantian 1y ago

    Would it be possible to create a web browser where different tabs are running other browsers? Like I could have chrome in one tab and Firefox in another? Almost like a VM?
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    by closetkantian 1y ago

    This looks like a great project. What are the system requirements? And shouldn't they be listed on your website?
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    by closetkantian 1y ago

    Great job!