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PointyOintment112 karma

What's 251?

Edit: Never mind. I figured it out. It seems to be a university course that Luis von Ahn taught.

PointyOintment86 karma

I have fallen into lava and lost all of the things I was carrying as well as all of my XP. Very inconvenient death; 0/10; would not recommend.

PointyOintment57 karma

I have actually found the speech synthesizer works incredibly well for German. It sounds almost exactly like a human both speaking normally and word-by-word. Sometimes, though, two words get smushed together and are difficult to discern (but maybe native speakers do that too, and I need to learn to listen for that).

How was the speech synthesizer developed?

PointyOintment45 karma

Do you think Mars One is for real? The consensus on reddit seems to be that the whole thing is a scam.

How will what you hope to learn about lettuce be applicable to other crops?

PointyOintment28 karma

I've read that there's a hands-free technique…