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Arabophone guinea pig in Colorado with a PhD who works on automatic speech recognition. Currently learning Old English.
Apparently cucumbers are actually a fruit, not a vegetable, because they have seeds in them. Same with bell peppers. So I basically don't eat any vegetables.
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Apparently cucumbers are actually a fruit, not a vegetable, because they have seeds in them. Same with bell peppers. So I basically don't eat any vegetables.
I made a little app to help myself remember German vocabulary. In the interest of efficiency and correct pronunciation, it uses the Google speech-to-text API.
It asks you for an English word and you respond with the German in the format
article + noun + pl or just the verb or uninflected adj.
It asks you for an English word and you respond with the German in the format
article + noun + pl or just the verb or uninflected adj.
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I made a little app to help myself remember German vocabulary. In the interest of efficiency and correct pronunciation, it uses the Google speech-to-text API.
It asks you for an English word and you respond with the German in the format
article + noun + pl or just the verb or uninflected adj.
It asks you for an English word and you respond with the German in the format
article + noun + pl or just the verb or uninflected adj.
Random fact, Leila Murad was born in Cairo in 1918 to Egyptian Jewish parents with the given name ليليان (Lilian I guess), but converted to Islam after she married Anwar Wagdi.
As an example, in Leila Murad's famous song satirizing classical Arabic grammar:
ان جاء زيدٌ او حضر عمرو
طب و احنا مالنا ان شٱلله ما حضرو
0:40
youtu.be/ROFw6yG-msk?...
ان جاء زيدٌ او حضر عمرو
طب و احنا مالنا ان شٱلله ما حضرو
0:40
youtu.be/ROFw6yG-msk?...
أغنية أبجد هوز لليلى مراد من كلمات حسين السيد ولحن محمد عبد الوهاب ( فيلم غزل البنات )
YouTube video by Dr. Hussein Kandiel - قناة العصر الذهبى لفن زمان
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Random fact, Leila Murad was born in Cairo in 1918 to Egyptian Jewish parents with the given name ليليان (Lilian I guess), but converted to Islam after she married Anwar Wagdi.
Everyone knows you say in shāʾ Allāh for something you hope will happen, but what if you don't want it to happen?
Egyptian Arabic elides the hamza and their typical post positional negation -/ʃ/
إن شَٱلله ما يحصل
in shallāh ma-yiḥṣal
Egyptian Arabic elides the hamza and their typical post positional negation -/ʃ/
إن شَٱلله ما يحصل
in shallāh ma-yiḥṣal
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Everyone knows you say in shāʾ Allāh for something you hope will happen, but what if you don't want it to happen?
Egyptian Arabic elides the hamza and their typical post positional negation -/ʃ/
إن شَٱلله ما يحصل
in shallāh ma-yiḥṣal
Egyptian Arabic elides the hamza and their typical post positional negation -/ʃ/
إن شَٱلله ما يحصل
in shallāh ma-yiḥṣal
I don't have the bandwidth for this unfortunately.
I can't context-switch right now.
I need to prioritize my core deliverables.
I can't context-switch right now.
I need to prioritize my core deliverables.
what's a professional way to say "i don't feel like it"
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I don't have the bandwidth for this unfortunately.
I can't context-switch right now.
I need to prioritize my core deliverables.
I can't context-switch right now.
I need to prioritize my core deliverables.
No matter how many times my guinea pigs, who are not poorly fed, are equitably granted treats, such as a cucumber slice (or three) apiece, they still grab said treat as if it's the only one they'll ever get in their entire life and defensively dash into a corner with their back to the other pig.
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
No matter how many times my guinea pigs, who are not poorly fed, are equitably granted treats, such as a cucumber slice (or three) apiece, they still grab said treat as if it's the only one they'll ever get in their entire life and defensively dash into a corner with their back to the other pig.
From today's run.
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
From today's run.
My son was just trying to name the King's Guard at Buckingham Palace and he called them "the Nutcracker-looking dudes that hang out in castles."
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
My son was just trying to name the King's Guard at Buckingham Palace and he called them "the Nutcracker-looking dudes that hang out in castles."
My son spelled disguise as "descise" in a school project, which made me realize we often devoice the g:
[dɪˈskaɪz].
Also of course metal is "medel" to represent the N. American tapped t
[dɪˈskaɪz].
Also of course metal is "medel" to represent the N. American tapped t
November 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My son spelled disguise as "descise" in a school project, which made me realize we often devoice the g:
[dɪˈskaɪz].
Also of course metal is "medel" to represent the N. American tapped t
[dɪˈskaɪz].
Also of course metal is "medel" to represent the N. American tapped t
I got an awesome new book
November 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I got an awesome new book
People blame the time they live in;
there's nothing wrong with our time but us.
We blame the time, the fault's in us;
if the time could speak to us it'd cuss.
We're wolves dressed as people;
God made us like this, glory be!
Wolves disdain each other's flesh;
we eat each other for all to see.
there's nothing wrong with our time but us.
We blame the time, the fault's in us;
if the time could speak to us it'd cuss.
We're wolves dressed as people;
God made us like this, glory be!
Wolves disdain each other's flesh;
we eat each other for all to see.
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 AM
People blame the time they live in;
there's nothing wrong with our time but us.
We blame the time, the fault's in us;
if the time could speak to us it'd cuss.
We're wolves dressed as people;
God made us like this, glory be!
Wolves disdain each other's flesh;
we eat each other for all to see.
there's nothing wrong with our time but us.
We blame the time, the fault's in us;
if the time could speak to us it'd cuss.
We're wolves dressed as people;
God made us like this, glory be!
Wolves disdain each other's flesh;
we eat each other for all to see.
16th St, Denver
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
16th St, Denver
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We recently received this punishment book from Dorney School from 1901 and it's an amazing little window into school life in the early 20th century! Here's one page with several students, including Jane Hubbard and Dolly Tullman who were writing obscenities on their slates.
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We recently received this punishment book from Dorney School from 1901 and it's an amazing little window into school life in the early 20th century! Here's one page with several students, including Jane Hubbard and Dolly Tullman who were writing obscenities on their slates.
This shows the words that most distinguished each set of resumes using a log-odds ratio with an informative Dirichlet prior.
Top 3 words distinguishing human resumes: "using," "html," and "css." For the AI resumes: "science," "solutions," and "ensuring."
Top 3 words distinguishing human resumes: "using," "html," and "css." For the AI resumes: "science," "solutions," and "ensuring."
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This shows the words that most distinguished each set of resumes using a log-odds ratio with an informative Dirichlet prior.
Top 3 words distinguishing human resumes: "using," "html," and "css." For the AI resumes: "science," "solutions," and "ensuring."
Top 3 words distinguishing human resumes: "using," "html," and "css." For the AI resumes: "science," "solutions," and "ensuring."
More on my comparison of AI-generated vs. human resumes (2k each). I've been running them through BERTopic today and as you can see, the human-generated resumes show more dispersion over a wider area, while the AI-generated resumes are more uniform, tightly clustered in discrete groups.
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
More on my comparison of AI-generated vs. human resumes (2k each). I've been running them through BERTopic today and as you can see, the human-generated resumes show more dispersion over a wider area, while the AI-generated resumes are more uniform, tightly clustered in discrete groups.
Coloradans in the news: my representative Jason Crowe is one of the six Democrats who made this video. The president called for them to be executed for sedition.
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Coloradans in the news: my representative Jason Crowe is one of the six Democrats who made this video. The president called for them to be executed for sedition.
I wanted to try to tell AI from real writing so I generated 2k resumes with Gemini 2.5 and sampled 2k from a 5-year-old dataset on Kaggle and trained a Naive Bayesian algorithm to distinguish them. It was quite accurate and my conclusion is: that is because the real resumes are very poorly written.
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I wanted to try to tell AI from real writing so I generated 2k resumes with Gemini 2.5 and sampled 2k from a 5-year-old dataset on Kaggle and trained a Naive Bayesian algorithm to distinguish them. It was quite accurate and my conclusion is: that is because the real resumes are very poorly written.
The word pig appears to come from Old English *picga /'pig.ga/ but it's only attested in compounds like picgbrēad /ˈpiɡɡˌbræ͜ɑːd/ ("pigfood" ie acorns and such). However OE swīn was the word for pig, when pigge appears on its own in Middle English it means piglet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The word pig appears to come from Old English *picga /'pig.ga/ but it's only attested in compounds like picgbrēad /ˈpiɡɡˌbræ͜ɑːd/ ("pigfood" ie acorns and such). However OE swīn was the word for pig, when pigge appears on its own in Middle English it means piglet.
I'm thinking again about writing a History of Guinea Pigs for my second book.
November 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I'm thinking again about writing a History of Guinea Pigs for my second book.
A hump day treat
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
A hump day treat
Repentance is a duty;
abandoning sin is more so.
Patience through trials is hard;
loss of God's favor is harder.
Fate's caprices are strange;
people's blindness to that is a marvel.
All that you desire is near;
but death is the nearest of all.
—Attributed to Imām Shāfiʿī
abandoning sin is more so.
Patience through trials is hard;
loss of God's favor is harder.
Fate's caprices are strange;
people's blindness to that is a marvel.
All that you desire is near;
but death is the nearest of all.
—Attributed to Imām Shāfiʿī
November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Repentance is a duty;
abandoning sin is more so.
Patience through trials is hard;
loss of God's favor is harder.
Fate's caprices are strange;
people's blindness to that is a marvel.
All that you desire is near;
but death is the nearest of all.
—Attributed to Imām Shāfiʿī
abandoning sin is more so.
Patience through trials is hard;
loss of God's favor is harder.
Fate's caprices are strange;
people's blindness to that is a marvel.
All that you desire is near;
but death is the nearest of all.
—Attributed to Imām Shāfiʿī
The Saudi Arabic pronunciation of Jamal Khashoggi's last name — خاشقجي in Arabic — is /xaʃuɡd͡ʒi/.
It is a craft name. The Saudi word for teaspoon, خَاْشُوْقة /xaːʃuːɡa/, comes from the Turkish kaşık, and /xaʃuɡd͡ʒi/ would be someone who manufacturers spoons. The -jī suffix is also Turkish.
It is a craft name. The Saudi word for teaspoon, خَاْشُوْقة /xaːʃuːɡa/, comes from the Turkish kaşık, and /xaʃuɡd͡ʒi/ would be someone who manufacturers spoons. The -jī suffix is also Turkish.
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The Saudi Arabic pronunciation of Jamal Khashoggi's last name — خاشقجي in Arabic — is /xaʃuɡd͡ʒi/.
It is a craft name. The Saudi word for teaspoon, خَاْشُوْقة /xaːʃuːɡa/, comes from the Turkish kaşık, and /xaʃuɡd͡ʒi/ would be someone who manufacturers spoons. The -jī suffix is also Turkish.
It is a craft name. The Saudi word for teaspoon, خَاْشُوْقة /xaːʃuːɡa/, comes from the Turkish kaşık, and /xaʃuɡd͡ʒi/ would be someone who manufacturers spoons. The -jī suffix is also Turkish.
Old English word of the day:
ċicen
/ˈt͡ʃi.ken/
"chicken"
ċicen
/ˈt͡ʃi.ken/
"chicken"
November 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Old English word of the day:
ċicen
/ˈt͡ʃi.ken/
"chicken"
ċicen
/ˈt͡ʃi.ken/
"chicken"