Estimates for achieving intermediate fluency in Mandarin Chinese range up to spending years and around 4000 total hours (2,200h classroom hours, 1,800 outside). I did it in 1500 hours total and less than a year.[1]






1. There is a lot of disagreement…

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The speed of light is much faster, and the energy in ordinary objects far greater, than what daily life accustoms us to. Why? Step 1: new perspectives

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ESP8266 Analog Broadcast Television Interface. Contribute to cnlohr/channel3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Today we are launching the Tech for Palestine Incubator. The incubator helps pro-Palestine advocates build, grow, and scale their work towards a Free Palestine. We support projects — whether collections of individuals, registered non-profits, or even companies…

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However, the CPU and GPU requirements do seem a bit more reasonable.

Connect to remote ffmpeg servers. Contribute to steelbrain/ffmpeg-over-ip development by creating an account on GitHub.

Introducing the new data-type for Numpy providing cross-platform support of quadruple precision.

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As a Computer Science graduate withou...

The long read: It used to be that Brits would complain about Americanisms diluting the English language. But in fact it’s a two-way street