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ftyers··on The debt problem is enormous, and the system for fixing it is broken
https://archive.ph/tbx1Z
ftyers··on Common Voice
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ftyers··on Common Voice
> If you want to maximize the utility of a dataset like this, you really would want to let each speaker at least assign a lot of tags/labels to their profile; even if you don't want to deal with the hornet nest of trying to figure out all the distinctions, even unstructured labels would be a start, and ideally allowing people to tag individual recordings as well, because there are a lot more variations than just "language" and "accent" here.

This is exactly what the freeform accent (actually "variant") field is. You can add as many tags as you like. https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/how-we-are-making-com...

ftyers··on Common Voice
Target segment was a was of including specific subdatasets. For example the digits dataset which was just the digits 0-9 and yes/no.
ftyers··on The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge
That's what I thought... The price amortises over the length of the marriage, so it actually works out fairly reasonably.
ftyers··on Codex documenting Aztec culture now digitized
They're generated from a tonne of Python scripts, but feel free to get in contact and I can take you through how it works ! :)
ftyers··on Codex documenting Aztec culture now digitized
It's also available online at UNAM, https://temoa.iib.unam.mx/ along with a lot of other texts (see pages beginning with CF "Códice Florentino"), e.g. https://temoa.iib.unam.mx/cf_05_v
ftyers··on Codex documenting Aztec culture now digitized
Yeah, that's what I mean, e.g. it's mostly existing published stuff. The new stuff is some partial summarisation in Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl, and some spoken audio (by EHN speakers), although, it's unclear what the audio gains. Without training, it's not really intelligible to most speakers of modern varieties.
ftyers··on Codex documenting Aztec culture now digitized
True, but it's also interesting to see what survived. My wife is a Nahuatl speaker, and some of the stuff in the book on Omens is still part of the culture, e.g. About owls being a sign of death.
ftyers··on Codex documenting Aztec culture now digitized
Note that the annotation is alignable with images of the original manuscript, which are online at the Library of Congress. I.e. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667850/

The [orig] contains all the original token and line breaks.

ftyers··on Codex documenting Aztec culture now digitized
Here is an example of what were producing so far for book 5 "the omens": https://github.com/ftyers/UD_Classical_Nahuatl-FloCo/blob/ma...

The repo is kind of messy, it's mostly me and some students working on it, but we're pretty passionate. Let me know if you'd like to get involved! :)

ftyers··on Codex documenting Aztec culture now digitized
The sad thing is that there isn't really anything new here. It's the Anderson and Dibble translation, and some random extra stuff. For 15 years work it's quite a limited contribution. In addition, it's not freely licensed. I'm working on a free/open-source licensed edition with linguistic annotation. If anyone is interested, ask for the link, it's on GitHub.
ftyers··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I meant for work-based ones. E.g. employer sponsored (by public university) ... But yes, with additional spouse dependent. (Both non-citizens, with H1B and H4 respectively)
ftyers··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
What are the main things that USCIS looks at when deciding to approve an LPR application? Do they really require affidavits? How long are applications taking at the moment? And for advanced parole too?
ftyers··on A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends
Drew Devault: https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/05/Dont-sign-a-CLA.html
ftyers··on 'Not of faculty quality': How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó
NSF definitely does, and it's often (at least at R1) of >50%
ftyers··on A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D
Very cool that you have the site translated in Nahuatl! Was the translator a native speaker? If so, of which variety?
ftyers··on How will states pay for roads when gas taxes evaporate?
https://archive.ph/qA8AK
ftyers··on ArXiv receives $10M for upgrades
Hope it stretches to installing a TeX distribution that properly supports Unicode ...
ftyers··on Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator
I've not used it, is it good?
ftyers··on Contour: Modern and fast terminal emulator
Does it support Arabic/Devanagari and not do crazy things with BiDi? If so I'm sold!
ftyers··on Americans Are Still Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow
https://archive.ph/02xw3
ftyers··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
https://archive.ph/n9dHT
ftyers··on Is the end of AIDS in sight?
https://archive.ph/vNEMG
ftyers··on Some new snippets from the Snowden documents
Wow djb was on his committee, cool.
ftyers··on Shrinkflation Tracker
Yeah, this is insane e.g. I've seen cents/fl.oz, dollars/litre, cents/ml, dollars/unit. For the same product. And yes, totally malicious. Fresh Thyme does this. It's ugly.
ftyers··on FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”
Paying vehicle tax/registration at the Indiana BMV online is still easy and convenient. They even have a cute spinner of a car driving down a road... And no surprise extra charges.
ftyers··on Public restrooms are hard to find in America
https://archive.ph/FYK9P
ftyers··on Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs
I wonder if it's different in the public sector? I'm at a university and (pay transparency) earn pretty much equivalent to equivalently experienced colleagues. (Edit: in the Midwest)
ftyers··on Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs
For H1B don't they have to show that they are paying at least market rate? And isn't it a factor in awarding the visa?
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