Category: Language
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Pills, language tests, state control. Just... f*%$#CK everyone! (materialism included)
Until recently, it's been used exclusively in U.S. government agencies and military schools. But now, a test for how easily a person will become fluent in a foreign language could be made available for civilians. Nautilus - the site where the article appeared - calls the test "one of the first civilian benefits to come…
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Human-like computer language. Parmenides. Humans.
Stephen Wolfram wants to create a more human-like language for programming computers. (1) But how can anything we make be non-human? If we think with 1s and 0s this is because for some reason this is encoded into our existence. One and Nothing are the building blocks of the cosmos. From Parmenides to Leibniz, monads rule…
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Mathematics, Babel, 数学!
A Kazakh mathematician's claim to have solved a problem worth a million dollars is proving hard to evaluate – in part because it is not written in English. (1) Mukhtarbay Otelbayev of the Eurasian National University in Astana, Kazakhstan, says he has proved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, which concerns equations that are used to…
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Leibnitz, Polynesia, potatoes.
Polynesian islanders spoke the language of computers centuries before the first programmer was born. It seems that inhabitants of Mangareva island in French Polynesia created their own particular hybrid of decimal and binary number systems to do mental arithmetic. (1) Binary or decimal, one thing is for sure. We have the need to measure. We…
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Remembering. Singing...
A research suggests that our human language came from singing. (1) Music is a kind of an mystery. We like it, but without being able to really say why. As if it reminds us of somethings... Close your eyes. Listen to the music of silence...
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