entwife

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Comment · 1 month ago
Back in 1998, I specifically started using Google because it somehow managed to avoid spammy search results, unlike its competitors. Today, unfortunately, I find that a lot of Google's search results are spammy, useless information that is there for clicks and advertising only.
Comment · 2 months ago
"It takes thousands of hours of practice before someone is authorized to use it on human skin,"

This is not true, or at least, the practice that medical students do leading up to their first involvement in a surgery is not with a surgical scalpel.

Comment · 5 months ago
A simple improvement to existing social media would be to allow users to see other users' feeds. Just seeing things from a different perspective.
Comment · 8 months ago
It seems like Angela Lipps needs some help. There's no "Go Fund Me" or similar information associated with the article. Perhaps her (former) attorney could provide more information.
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Yes, doubling the price of oil, and setting random maybe-not-enforceable tariffs and embargoes, is a net positive because it has the unintended effect of reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Comment · 8 months ago
For toddlers who are able to communicate, simply add an absorbent layer into the disposable diaper to give them sensory feedback about moisture. Gauze squares from the first aid aisle work well and are very cheap.
Comment · 9 months ago
The Lexical whitepaper is insightful, interesting, and resonates with my experience in language learning. I'm looking forward to finding out whether Lexical supports my target language.
Comment · 9 months ago
The short intro video is helpful in understanding what Phrasing does. The promised walk-though video would also be helpful. I am interested in software for aiding language learning, but after reading your original landing page I could not understand what exactly Phrasing is or what it does. I'm looking forward to trying this out some time this week with my target language. Nice work!
Comment · 1 year ago
I have used TalkPal for Catalan. I found it slightly superior to ChatGPT, especially, I find the feedback about performance, daily/weekly summary emails, the suggested responses, and the gamified experience to be motivating. The conversations use voice and text input, and audio and text output. I believe they also have a Dutch version.

It is not quite what you are looking for, but I also liked Lingoclip for both Catalan and Spanish. I had exceptional difficulty training my ear to distinguish speech sounds, so recognizing words in song lyrics was helpful.

Comment · 2 years ago
Use cases: health indicators, avoiding conception, achieving conception, and accurate pregnancy dating.

A well developed period tracking system with a long history is the Creighton Method. Briefly, individuals are trained person-to-person to collect consistent, reliable repeatable data. This can be compared between users, and has many uses. However, the data collection is inconvenient or in some cases impossible, and they will only train married women.

Comment · 2 years ago
It's ironic that a cartoon that depicts musical improvisation is such a symbol of passively consumed culture.
Comment · 3 years ago
I agree with Auromis. The reported research is interesting, and yet is not yet ready for application to human health. It's tempting to leap to conclusions. The top poster takes this too far.

I hope that NIH funds a lot more Alzheimer's research looking for microbial causes, and also, that the technology for understanding gut microbiome continues to develop.

Comment · 3 years ago
It is news in Spain because, in Spain, there is a 1000+ euro fine for transmitting intimate photos of a person (of any age) without their consent. This applies to anyone who transmits the photo, including third parties. The controversy and legal question is whether or not these photos constitute intimate photos.

This probably happens elsewhere, but there is no legal mechanism to prevent it.

Comment · 3 years ago
I also came to comment that the software's name might cause confusion with the human language, Catalan.

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