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can we just collectively agree as a generation that we aren’t going to care if each other’s houses are clean when we visit bc im gettin real sick of the “the house has to be spotless or our guests will judge us” deal my parents got goin on
none of us in this generation is going to be able to afford a house.
Reposted this 8 years ago and man I had no idea how true it was.
I am sitting at my computer screen with my mouth open, because I just cannot fathom how someone writes something this amazing.
A psychological self-assessment test measuring 4 dimensions of aggression levels.
my results with scale 0-1 on each part:
Physical aggression: 0.29
Verbal aggression: 0.14
Hostility: 0.60
Anger: 0.44
Physical aggression: 0.57
Verbal aggression: 0.56
Hostility: 0.40
Anger: 0.41
Physical aggression: 0.43
Verbal aggression: 0.64
Hostility: 0.75
Anger: 0.59
Physical aggression: 0.61
Verbal aggression: 0.76
Hostility: 0.50
Anger: 0.56
Physical aggression: 0.79
Verbal aggression: 0.72
Hostility: 0.75
Anger: 0.50
Physical aggression: 0.11
Verbal aggression: 0.03
Hostility: 0.30
Anger: 0.28
okay everyone tag game. reblog this and tag with your first language and how you pronounce “aristotle.” my first language is english and i say “EHR-is-taht-uhl”
Dutch: aa-ris-TOW-tuh-less (Aristoteles) with the O as in bow.
Would it be possible to teach an intelligent artifical assistant like Google Home to code-mix? I’m annoyed that I have to ask for Dutch songs in Dutch, and for English songs in English (if I ask for an English artist in Dutch it proceeds to spell the artist’s name, because ‘speel’ (’play’) and ‘spell’ sound very similar, so now I’m wondering if Google would be able to improve this in the future.
If that was a movie blurb, it’d end in “hilarity ensues…”
I didn’t know that you could make them respond to more than one language. You can start speaking and it will dynamically know which language you’re speaking, rather than having to reset the settings? If so, that’s more than I thought it could do, though still baby steps in terms of real linguistic understanding
Yes, it’s really cool! You can set the Google Assistant to max. 2 languages I think (ours being set to Dutch and English) and it recognizes Dutch and English commands quite easily - it knows which language you speak. Sometimes it makes some mistakes, but only when we don’t speak clearly. Mixing them in one command is still impossible though.. so my question is not really criticism, I’m already impressed and just wondering whether that would be possible at all. :)
That’s really cool! I’m not really into home automation, but having a (somewhat) bilingual household this would be a necessary feature to me.
I think the code-mixing is probably a hard problem to solve. Getting a computer to recognize and interpret linguistic input from one language at a time is hard enough, and I imagine doing code-mixing would be even harder. Especially with the big data statistical methods that are used for this right now.
Yeah, I think so too, but it’s an interesting problem. If they are able to do solve it, it would make those machines amazingly human-like! If they won’t (in the near future), people will often want English to be one of the two languages as people listen to a lot of English-language music, and it’s the more advanced option. But that’s not great for non-English speaking bilingual households, so I really hope you can add more languages in the future.
(I’m not a big fan of paying Google to place a microphone in my house either, but I’m too fascinated by the technology not to love trying things out with it and thinking about the possibilities)
This is actually close to what I do in computational linguistics. In our field it's called "language identification", and there are other parties besides Google who do it. It turns out you don't need the words to pretty accurately distinguish a language from a small set of possible languages (in this case 2 but I've read that it's possible with at least 5). Only after the language is guessed, the recognition of words is started. This process will cause a very small delay but I expect you won't notice it.
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OH MY GOD whyyyy did no one tell me you’re supposed to send thank-yous after interviews?? Why would I do that???
“Thank you for this incredibly stressful 30 minutes that I have had to re-structure my entire day around and which will give me anxiety poos for the next 24 hours.”
I HATE ETIQUETTE IT’S THE MOST IMPOSSIBLE THING FOR ME TO LEARN WITHOUT SOMEONE DIRECTLY TELLING ME THIS SHIT
NO ONE TOLD YOU???? WTF! I HAVE FAILED YOU. Also: Dear ______: Thank you so much for the opportunity to sit down with you (&________) to discuss the [insert job position]. I am grateful to be considered for the position. I think I will be a great fit at [company name], especially given my experience in __________. [insert possible reference to something you talked about, something that excited you.] I look forward to hearing from you [and if you are feeling super confident: and working together in the future]. Sincerely, @mellivorinae
THIS IS A LIFESAVING TEMPLATE
YOU ARE WELCOME
My brother got a really great paid internship one summer. The guy who hired him said the deciding factor was the professional thank you letter my brother sent after the interview.
should it be an email? or like a physical letter?
email, you want to send it within a few hours at max after the interview if you can so it’s fresh in their mind who you are.
Confirmed! I interviewed for a job right after arriving in NY. The interview went incredibly well, and I went home and immediately wrote a thank you letter and put it in the mail. I had a super good feeling about this interview.
I didn’t get the job.
However, a few weeks later, I was called in to interview with another editor in the same company, and I did get that job. I found out later from the initial editor (the one who didn’t hire me) that he had planned to offer me the job, but since I didn’t follow up with a thank you letter, he assumed I didn’t really want it. He offered the job to another contender–but when he got my letter in the mail shortly after the offer had already been made, he went to HR and gave me a glowing recommendation. It was based on that recommendation that I got called in for the second interview.
So: send an email thank you immediately (same day!) after the interview. If you’re feeling extra, go ahead and send a written one too. OR go immediately to a coffee shop, write the letter, and return to the office and give it to the secretary.
Either way, those letters are important.
Pro tip: If you really want HR to develop a personal interest in your application, publicly thank them on linkedin. Just make a short post telling your network about how X recruiter really went above and beyond to make you feel welcome, or about how be accommodating and professional they were, or whatever. Make sure to use the mention feature so they’ll get a notification and see it.
Flattery will get you everywhere… and public flattery that might make its way back to their manager, doubly so.
Obligatory plug for one of FreePrintable.net’s sites: ThankYouLetter.ws. They have a whole section with interview thank you letter templates, and a page with specific tips for interview thank you letters. (There are also tons of other letter templates if you browse around a bit.)
As a former professional recruiter and recruiting manager, I confirm, especially for entry-level positions, where you are competing with oodles of people. This little thing can make a difference. Also the fact that, maybe, you took time to google the “interview etiquette”.
SIGNAL BOOST
The post-interview thank you notes can be a good way to recover in case you got asked a question whose answer you either didn’t know or felt was super weak. So if you follow the above given template, jump in with something like “upon further thought to your question, here’s my revised answer.”
But yeah always send a thank you note after an interview. It’s a small thing but it makes a hell of a difference. And def send thank you messages to any recruiters who may have helped. And also after you get the job. Small things like that really go a long long way.
Reblogged this before, but now there's much more added to it. I love this and I won't deny you guys (and myself) having jobs you love.
Kind of gives you chills .
Good Lord, how delicious! I wanna do that! The next time I’m in a cathedral, I’m doing it.
As she stood inside an ancient and empty church in Montefrío, Spain, Malinda Kathleen Reese belted out one of the best Christmas carols of all time-“O Come, O Come Emmanuel” and the end result was just heavenly.
I’m obsessed with this because A. Victorian Christmas Carols B. European Cathedrals C. It’s gorgeous and fuckin choristers are my favorite
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Random Dutch saying
Alle goede dingen komen in drie
Lit.: all good things come in (with?) three
Meaning: pretty obvious I guess: when good stuff happens, there’s always three good things. Sometimes also used ironically, when three bad things happen.
Oh we have something similar in German, it’s:
“Alle guten Dinge sind drei“
And we also use it exactly as you described! :)
Same in Swedish!
Alla goda ting är tre
A similar Italian expression is Non c’è due senza tre, which means “there’s no 2 without 3″. The thing is it can refer to either good or bad things. For example, if you were talking about someone’s stealing several times, then saying Non c’è due senza tre would mean they’re most likely going to steal again. (Note: in that case we’d also say Il lupo perde il pelo ma non il vizio, which literally translates to “the wolf sheds its hair but doesn’t lose its vice”). Or if you were playing a game and you already won twice, then you could say Non c’è due senza tre.
That exact saying exists in Dutch too! "Een wolf verliest wel zijn haren, maar nooit zijn streken." In the comments I saw "third time's the charm", and it also exists in Dutch as "driemaal is scheepsrecht" (thrice is ship's law) but I'm not really sure what that could mean.
“hi, I’m not from the US” ask set
given how Americanized this site is, it’s important to celebrate all our countries and nationalities - with all their quirks and vices and ridiculousness, and all that might seem strange to outsiders.
1. favourite place in your country?
2. do you prefer spending your holidays in your country or travel abroad?
3. does your country have access to sea?
4. favourite dish specific for your country?
5. favourite song in your native language?
6. most hated song in your native language?
7. three words from your native language that you like the most?
8. do you get confused with other nationalities? if so, which ones and by whom?
9. which of your neighbouring countries would you like to visit most/know best?
10. most enjoyable swear word in your native language?
11. favourite native writer/poet?
12. what do you think about English translations of your favourite native prose/poem?
13. does your country (or family) have any specific superstitions or traditions that might seem strange to outsiders?
14. do you enjoy your country’s cinema and/or TV?
15. a saying, joke, or hermetic meme that only people from your country will get?
16. which stereotype about your country you hate the most and which one you somewhat agree with?
17. are you interested in your country’s history?
18. do you speak with a dialect of your native language?
19. do you like your country’s flag and/or emblem? what about the national anthem?
20. which sport is The Sport in your country?
21. if you could send two things from your country into space, what would they be?
22. what makes you proud about your country? what makes you ashamed?
23. which alcoholic beverage is the favoured one in your country?
24. what other nation is joked about most often in your country?
25. would you like to come from another place, be born in another country?
26. does your nationality get portrayed in Hollywood/American media? what do you think about the portrayal?
27. favourite national celebrity?
28. does your country have a lot of lakes, mountains, rivers? do you have favourites?
29. does your region/city have a beef with another place in your country?
30. do you have people of different nationalities in your family?
ask me these !!!
Pretty please, send me some! ♡´･ᴗ･`♡
Finland: ok so our country is called Suomi
Afrikaans: Finland
Albania: Finlandë
Amhara: Finlanidi
Arabia: Finlanda
Armenia: Finlandia
Catalan: Finlàndia
Czech: Finsko
Danish: Finland
Dutch: Finland
English: Finland
French: Finlande
Galician: Finlandia
German: Finnland
Hungarian: Finnorzàg
Icelandic: Finnland
Indonesian: Finlandia
Irish: An Fhionlainn
Italia: Finlandia
Norwegian: Finland
Polish: Finlandia
Portugese: Finlândia
Romanian: Finlanda
Slovak: Finsko
Slovenian: Finska
Spanish: Finlandia
Swedish: Finland
Tagalog: Finland
Turkish: Finlandiya
Finland: um no
Entonian: okay, we’ll call you Soome
Finland: Thank you Viro! Estonia: :|
Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?
not gonna lie that still looks intimately real
I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.
Fucking witchcraft, man.
fucking look at this shit though
Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:
THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.
amazing
And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.
They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.
The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.
And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.
One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?
Motherfucker randomly started moving.
So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.
(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)
Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.
So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.
And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.
So of course, the power goes out.
And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.
Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.
And this guy hoped for the best and got it.
Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.
This is getting better and better.
I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI
I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.
@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?
Realism comes at a cost, it seems.
i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:
It’s a three piece raptor suit.
Old movies had the best special effects
The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.
@jurassicparkandrecreation
@shepfax
Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time. They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers. Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before. It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them. Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.
So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”
The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass. They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that. And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that. One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”
He called up film of a chicken walking. Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”
Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent. Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.
That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian
This post just gets better and better with time
Een jaar geleden blogde ik over het 3D zebrapad in IJsland en sindsdien heb ik meerdere berichten gezien dat diverse gemeenten in Nederland ook een degelijk zebrapad willen. Zo ook recent een bericht dat er op de Witte de Withstraat in Amsterdam een dergelijke oversteek gewenst is. Niet erg creatief om precies hetzelfde te willen. Je kan ook OakOak uitnodigen, die een breder pallet aan ideeën voor het zebrapad heeft.
nem sirok csak 65ezren belementek a szemembe
A crowd of 65,000 sings ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ perfectly while waiting for a Green Day concert
Nice.
