I don’t recall a dream conversation! I will add that I’m not particularly in touch with my dreams (I know some people keep a journal and such). None of the handful of ones I can recall include speaking though.
I don’t use it because I learned about it from my boss’s middle school girls soon after it was released when that was the main demographic so I still feel super weird about adults using it.
That said banning a social media platform at the federal level is a super authoritarian move and is rather unprecedented. Federal book banning will be next (oh no a chinese author!).
I think it depends on your proficiency. I had typical classes for German and Spanish in middle and high school and found Duolingo fine for learning vocab (though I haven’t used it in a few years so ymmv).
Switched to Busuu (premium) two years ago and I definitely felt like I was progressing faster than with duo. I especially like the review feature for both vocab and grammar. Grammar in particular is taught directly whereas (at least when I was using it) duolingo meant for you to infer grammar via usage which limited my understanding.
Busuu also has a feature (one lesson in each module) where you can practice speaking or writing and a native speaker will give you feedback. I personally didn’t find this feature super useful and sometimes skipped the lessons using them.
They’ve just introduced an AI conversations feature for a few languages (english to german french and spanish I think) but I haven’t figured out how to update to that version yet. Potentially useful since I feel awkward about messing up in front of real people even if they’re on the internet.
Before subscribing to premium you could only sort of use the app because it would get stuck on a “do you want to upgrade” screen without a way to x out and you would need to close and open the app. Not sure if they fixed it or meant it to be that way for free users but it was rather annoying.
Do you guys think the US military would, by and large, turn its guns inward on US soil?
Personally I’m a bit skeptical—they’re our brothers and sisters after all. I think a good 60% of the military would quit if they were asked to fire on US citizens.
Even if it was a civil war roughly along party lines and no military quit on either side, the distribution of of military seems like it would be closer to a 60/40 or a 50/50 distribution than it would be 100% of the military on the conservative side vs a civilian army on the other.
Scientists are still figuring that part out! They have found statistically significant differences in how people experience illusions like the above one. They think it might say something interesting about perception and variance in perception across individuals.
People working in AI are highly interested for the same reason (understanding how humans perceive the world might help them build AI that can too).
Merav Ahissar is a big name on the cog sci side of this research if anyone wants to dig into the (rather dense) science.
Depending on your brain you will see different things! This experiment relates to visual cognition. If you see a dark orange circle your brain leans high-level vision and the dimmer the orange circle is (or if you don’t see one at all) the more you lean low-level vision.
The internet is suffering from commodification not irony. on top of all the ads people are happy to commodify themselves as if they don’t put in enough time doing that at work already
That’s why I asked, wanted to hear people’s varied experiences