#video about fake-video-maker Hank Green quitting YouTube because he got caught using #AI to write his scripts. The video seems to be 100% talking-head filler interspersed with screenshots of text. Except for a brief Simpsons stock quip
#Gwern on the #history of #China’s Cultural Revolution via a review of Frank Dikötter’s book
#humor #video on Japanese product names in English that are unintentionally suggestive
#video on 99 common #Chinese phrases #toread from #Mandarin-Blueprint
#video of #Japatonic showing his Japanese wife #Argentina for the first time #formina #toread
This online test claims my #Spanish vocabulary is about 5900 words, including virtually all of the 2000 most common words, roughly CEFR C1 level. This is based on me claiming to know 32 of their stratified 50-word sample.
“A2 = circa 3,000 (in theory) B2= circa 6,000 (in theory) C2 = circa 9,000 (in theory) (...) I recently [took] an A2 exam, having only learned circa 2,200 words (of which I had about 90% retention). I passed with 73%. Better yet, I did not study their curriculum and thus this mark is derived only from the overlapping area of my curriculum and [theirs]. That is to say that reality is less than 2,200. So my real guess -though it is just a guess - is the truth is closer to 2,000 - 4,000 - 6,000 maybe 7,000 if you want to be generous.” #Spanish
#Spanish vocabulary size:
> - 750 words constitute those that are used every single day by every person who speaks the language.
> - 2,500 words constitute those that should enable you to express everything you could possibly want to say, albeit often via awkward circumlocutions.
> - 5,000 words constitute the active vocabulary of native speakers without higher education.
> - 10,000 words constitute the active vocabulary of native speakers with higher education.
> - 20,000 words constitute what you need to recognize passively in order to read, understand, and enjoy a work of literature, such as a novel by a notable author.
So I guess I’m still not speaking Spanish at an educated level.
#history of #USA #energy programs from 01971 to 01980, with a focus on #Nixon and his #Project-Independence.
#Nixon’s speech announcing #Project-Independence for #energy in the #USA, on November 7, 01973, a couple months after the Yom Kippur War. #history
Stub article about #Project-Independence. #energy #history #USA
Chevron deference was overturned in the #law of the #USA by Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimundo in 02024. #history
#video #interview with Jill Price, who has extremely powerful autobiographical memory, but can’t instantly memorize poems and whatnot.