Hoimo

Thought I was looking at

Miku is a boy because she's blue. Luka is pink, she's a girl vocaloid.

Connections
Puzzle #732
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Where is she keeping her Yu-Gi-Oh cards?

Be careful, you can't breathe in bubble mountain. This kid was smart and made a little window in a tall and narrow bubble stack, but in a large pool it's easier to lose track of the edge of the bubbles.

I paid for Lingodeer Lifetime, which was $120 at the time. I thought that was pretty hefty already, but it was like 8 months of monthly subscription, and I figured I would need that much time to get through the course anyway. "Regular" price for lifetime is apparently $300, but they constantly run sales that take it down to more reasonable amounts.

On the other hand, I have to admit that the quality of the course is worth the $300 and I too learned more from a few months of Lingodeer than 2 years of Duolingo. They're also honest in that they teach you all the grammar fairly quickly with a minimal vocabulary and then just end the course with the advice to start reading books. They're not trapping you in language purgatory like Duolingo does.

Early Duolingo was curated and corrected by the community. Clearly people were volunteering to do it, so I don't know why they removed all the community tools and are now using AI to fill the gap.

I think orange has a secret crush on blue and is very annoyed to find out that blue might be straight (or bi). "Why? (Please tell me you love them like a sister)"

I think if you look at child development research, you'll see that kids can learn to do crazy shit with very little input, waaay less than you'd need to train a neural net to do the same. So either kids are the luckiest neural nets and always make the correct adjustment after failing, or they have some innate knowledge that isn't pattern-based at all.

There's even some examples in linguistics specifically, where children tend towards certain grammar rules despite all evidence in their language pointing to another rule. Pure pattern-matching would find the real-world rule without first modelling a different (universally common) rule.

The Ox: Playing your most played hand this run sets money to $0

Me, with Bull and Bootstraps: Do I look like I care about money??

Also me, when the Ox sets money to 0 before my score is calculated: Ohhh, you said "Playing your most played hand this run sets money to $0"...

This one?

How do prescriptions for glasses even work on your side of the pond? I assumed it was just jargon of a sort, because round these parts I just go to a glasses seller and ask him for his strongest glasses. Then he says "no traveller, my strongest glasses are too strong for you, you can't handle my strongest glasses" and does the eye test with me before making lenses at the proper strength.