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False Cognates in Spanish

Spanish and English have a lot of words that look very similar and share the same meaning. For example, el restaurante = restaurant maravilloso = marvelous decidir = to decide However, ...

Posted by Tori on May 23, 2020

Learning Go: Effective Go

Formatting and Naming Conventions Flow Control Statements Data and Structures Allocation Arrays, Slices and Maps Printing Methods and Interfaces Concurrency...

Posted by Tori on May 14, 2020

Learning Go: Getting Started

Why Go? Go Basics Packages and Functions Variables and Types Flow Control Statements More Types: Structs, Arrays, Slices, Maps Functional Programming ...

Posted by Tori on May 13, 2020

世界的语言（七）：其他语言

Languages of the World (VII): Other Languages

Chapter 14: 其他语言的讨论语言的接触、诞生与灭亡手语及人造语言 Chapter 14: 其他语言的讨论语言的接触、诞生与灭亡语言接触language contact：语言之间的交互与影响不同语言的相互接触可产生语言趋同convergence、词汇借用loanword，词汇重构relexification...

Posted by Tori on May 6, 2020

世界的语言（六）：美洲语言

Languages of the World (VI): American Languages

Chapter 12: 美洲语言：概述北美洲语言拉丁美洲语言 Chapter 13: 美洲语言：尤皮克语简介 Chapter 12: 美洲语言：概述美洲Americas在自然地理上分为北美洲和南美洲，在人文地理上分为盎格鲁美洲（多使用英语）和拉丁美洲（多使用西语和葡语）。美洲领土北至卡菲克卢本岛（地球最北端），南至南图勒群岛...

Posted by Tori on May 5, 2020

Interpretability in AI Systems

Artificial intelligence (AI) and especially machine learning (ML) has seen rapid progress and wide applications in every possible aspect of people’s lives, ranging from movie recommendation and sma...

Posted by Tori on December 15, 2019

My Google Internship (I): Get the Offer

I’m so excited to get a summer 2020 software engineering internship at Google! This is a post that records my experience along the way, from application to final offer. 9.17 Application submitted ...

Posted by Tori on November 26, 2019

Quick Start on Java for C++ Programmers

Reference: https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis1xx/resources/JavaForCppProgrammers/j-javac-cpp-ltr.pdf Compile and Run: an Example The Java Language Java Classes Inheritance in Java ...

Posted by Tori on November 18, 2019

A Trip in California

Didn’t have time to write in detail Also too lazy to post photos Day 0: Shanghai -> Los Angeles 12 hours of flight, really exhausting Customs, baggage claim, car rental and have a good...

Posted by Tori on August 1, 2019

世界的语言（五）：大洋洲语言

Languages of the World (V): Oceanian Languages

Chapter 10: 大洋洲语言：概述 Chapter 11: 大洋洲语言：噶玛兰语简介 Chapter 10: 大洋洲语言：概述大洋洲地理概述地缘政治学上的大洋洲包括澳大利亚Australia、新西兰New Zealand、美拉尼西亚Melanesia、密克罗尼西亚Micronesia和波利尼西亚Polynesia（”nesia”来自希腊语，为”岛屿”之意） ...

Posted by Tori on June 14, 2019

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