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Why Modern Chinese is Just ‘English with Hanzi’ – by JingYu Looking at the fundamental architecture of language. Traditional Chinese is a language of parataxis (意合, idea-joining). It is like a traditional landscape painting; elements are placed side by side, and the relationship between them is inferred by context, intuition, and white space. There are…
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Bird brains — Dhanish We default to thinking intelligence scales with brain size, that it's a mammal thing, that it correlates with being "higher" on some imaginary evolutionary ladder. Turns out it's about neuron density and architecture, not mass. A 10 gram raven brain running 1.2 billion neurons is doing more per gram than almost…
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The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing — The Message — MediumHour after hour, this terrible fever. What the hell am I doing? I kept asking myself. Why am I forcing a fine new machine to pretend it is a half-dozen old, useless machines? Dit is de beste Belgische strip – De StandaardMBWAHAHAHAHAHA. “De Kiekeboes:…
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Gamasutra – The History of CivilizationGamasutra is proud to be partnering with the IGDA's Preservation SIG to present detailed official histories of each of the first ten games voted into the Digital Game Canon. The Canon "provides a starting-point for the difficult task of preserving this history inspired by the role of that the U.S.…
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The Last Two Veterans Of WWI | The AwlThere are two veterans of the First World War left in the world. Of all the parts of the world that move on without you, of all the borders beyond the horizon, of all the varying speeds and trajectories and characters and stories colluding together in giant…