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Jach's personal blog

(Largely containing a mind-dump to myselves: past, present, and future)
Current favorite quote: "Supposedly smart people are weirdly ignorant of Bayes' Rule." William B Vogt, 2010

Posts with tag "language"

Why I think English is Easy - 2009-11-27 10:53:19

Sociology Memo: Should the World's Libraries Be Digitized? - 2010-05-17 11:29:39

Is Environmentalism a Religion? - 2010-06-07 18:36:53

Japan Trip Part 1: Planning and Costs - 2018-01-08 05:53:58

Learning a new language when older is like learning Dvorak - 2022-03-16 00:38:26


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