May 14th, 2009
Quando esta aprendendo escrever em uma lingua estrangeira, voce encontra um paradoxo.
Voce nao pode aprender uma lingua somente nos livros; voce precisa de se expressar (fala o que voce quer). Entretanto, quando voce e se expressando em uma lingua estrangeira, ha limitacao em como voce pode escrever. Ha um balanco entre humildade e ambicao, e isto da a voce o orgulho para suas realizacaos. Em entendendo isto, eu acho que voce pode aprender eficazmente.
Eu acho que e melhor comecar aprendendo os fundamentos de gramatica e vocabulario. Isto precisa de disciplina.
Depois de cada licao, eu gosto de escrever o que eu posso, e tento aplicar a licao.
Em escrevendo, voce pode aprender muitas palavras novas, e sua intuicao aprende a gramatica.
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April 18th, 2009
One dollar toothbrushes.
I wondered how different people would respond to this. The theft of toothbrushes, that is. Of course, I don’t want to be the one doing the ‘over-analyzing’, or the ‘one who makes general statements’… but these are actual responses and character evaluations. Well i might have added a couple euphemisms here and there… :p
“I think toothbrushes should be free for everybody”
- A jobless student at BCC, a liberal arts college
“I worked for my toothbrush, so should they”
- A person who’s earned everything s/he has (whether or not it is true is another case)
“That’s so sad that people can’t afford toothbrushes”
- Someone who is about to start a non-profit organization for handing out donated toothbrushes (or not)
“They steal toothbrushes but not toothpaste? What’s the point, they may as well use their fingernail”
- A smart ass
And to the average San Franciscan (and perhaps a large-city dweller), people stealing toothbrushes has become a normal fact of life:
“Yeah and so what?”
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April 18th, 2009
So here’s the schematic gist of what I’ve learned in the past 2 weeks. (I virtually knew nothing when I started).
Front: Application Form, the interface that handles events and objects, such as one written in C#
Server: Transmission of data, requested in strings from languages such as MySQL queries
Back: Database, sets of data organized in tables, in an architecture such as Oracle
So in creating something like a Verb Conjugation dictionary, it would look function something like this (user end):
Type in an English verb, select which pronouns for which to conjugate, and then press submit. The data will show up according to the parameters of the user.
Front: submit_onClick()
Server: sql query = SELECT present_tense, past_tense…FROM (the english verb)….WHERE (the pronouns the user selected)
Back: well, this is where all the data is… the table name is the english verb, columns include pronouns and tenses. the pronoun is the “key”, which is an identifier of the rows.
You may notice applications at work online too. For example, car reservation websites have a search query box for the user, and then it shows available inventory and price. That’s just one small example though.
You could potentially do more, such as updating information (both server side and front side). So in real world example, selecting and submitting a reservation for a car, or even changing incorrect information / updating to new information.
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A lot of people find databases boring. I am not too sure yet… I think it could be interesting to apply it to linguistics. The merging of computer logic with linguistic logic would be a fun one to get one’s hands in. Too bad I couldn’t afford to go to Evergreen. Oh well.
Tags: definition of computer applications, definition of web application, definition of web applications
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April 18th, 2009
Imagination, it is the space between current reality and fantasy. The object is tangible, the way conceivable, the learning process continues…
The questions and lyrical description involved in creation brings us to the edge of what we know, err to the least, what we think we know.
Life on the edge: pretexts meet the free flow, innovation is a world of possibilities, suggestions…
or even if it is in awe. man with small understanding, religiously pressing his man-made questions to nature
We boldly take the first step to our imagination, or return to what we were doing.
Tags: imagination, religion, space out
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April 15th, 2009
Well not really.
By the way, I will be building my own theme soon.
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