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Refuga Barcelona. 20 entrepreneurs and 7 days

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Apply for a spot now. 1 remote luxury house near Barcelona, 20 entrepreneurs and 7 days. Work, sessions and adventure. 16 Sep, 2016. An intensive work week and an experience of a lifetime. At Refuga Spain you will get a chance of talking, working and living with other entrepreneurs for a week. This event is for you, who want to get things done and enjoy talks and feedback sessions while combining it all with a bit of adventure. New and priceless insights. Get inspired and get new ideas. What former parti...

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Refuga Kenya - Explore the mecca of high performance

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Apply for a spot now. Explore the mecca of high performance with the world’s best runners in Kenya. 25 Sep, 2016. What you will do on this once in a lifetime experience. Explore Kenya with entrepreneurs from the whole world. Train with the best runners in the world. Talks by world champions. Live in Iten, the place where the worlds best runners lives and train. Visit a local school. Spend a day helping local entrepreneurs. Work on your project. Talks and feedback sessions with the other participants.

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Too much noise vs lack of information – qlaara blog

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Too much noise vs lack of information. October 30, 2015. April 12, 2016. Humans are good at ignoring noise. Image. Humans are good at ignoring background noise and retrieving only the information that they need. This ability is supported by generic learning mechanisms. And improves with age and life experience. The flip side of avoiding noise is leaving out relevant information that is. Also, if you find something in qlaara that you really don’t like, you can vote it down (or up, if that’s wh...You are c...

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Myth #1: Language is composed of words – qlaara blog

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Myth #1: Language is composed of words. December 4, 2015. April 13, 2016. This is as real as a word ever gets. So you believe you communicate using words? You may wish to reconsider. For a start, there seems to be no consensus about what a word is. This is the first in a series of posts about doubting the obvious in linguistics. Is one word, how many words is no one. How many words are there in don’t know. But then, how many in dunno. A form of walk. If yes, how about has walked. A form of good. Linguist...

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Custom dictionaries available now – qlaara blog

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Custom dictionaries available now. September 6, 2016. You can now have a custom dictionary automatically created from your texts. Any language, any text type. Just put in a sufficient amount of text and get out a dictionary of the words used there. The current default dictionary in qlaara. To get started, let us know what kind of text corpus you have and what kind of dictionary you would like to get. We’ll then take it from there. Myth #4: Vocabulary learning stops in adulthood. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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Myth #3: There is such a thing as literal translation – qlaara blog

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Myth #3: There is such a thing as literal translation. January 8, 2016. April 13, 2016. The cup is on the table. Which table? Translation is often divided into literal and free, making a distinction between translating the words of the original and conveying its meaning. In most applications, the former is frowned upon. But is it even theoretically possible? When the translator is uncertain about the meaning. Suppose you would have to translate this sentence to a language of your choice, literally:.

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Myth #4: Vocabulary learning stops in adulthood – qlaara blog

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Myth #4: Vocabulary learning stops in adulthood. January 29, 2016. April 13, 2016. Any exposure to texts results in vocabulary growth, also in adults. Image Dreamstime.com. By the time they reach adulthood, people know the words of their mother tongue. This is what allows us to communicate, right? The distribution is skewed and bursty. Starting from high counts for the most common words like the , and and in , word frequency falls off sharply towards the long tail of very infrequent words. This also appl...

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Redundancy is useful – qlaara blog

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October 16, 2015. April 12, 2016. Saint Jerome in the Wilderness. By Bernardino Pinturicchio. St Jerome is the patron saint of translators. I used to translate. At the time I honestly believed in the fixed code model of communication: that there is meaning in the source text and that the task of the translator is to convey that meaning in the target text as exactly as possible. That view of language also included the belief that it is possible to convey meanings precisely, concisely, economically. Econom...

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August 2015 – qlaara blog

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Q is for quantitative. August 31, 2015. April 12, 2016. Custom dictionaries available now. Myth #4: Vocabulary learning stops in adulthood. Myth #3: There is such a thing as literal translation. Myth #2: Words have meanings. Myth #1: Language is composed of words. Custom dictionaries available now. Myth #4: Vocabulary learning stops in adulthood. Myth #3: There is such a thing as literal translation. Myth #2: Words have meanings. Myth #1: Language is composed of words. Blog at WordPress.com.