We are through the coldest of this cold snap.
Still cold as fuck out there, but highs in the teens are a whole lot easier to deal with than subzero highs are!
My university cancelled classes for today.
I'm taking my classes remotely and I take Monday and Tuesday off anyway because due dates are Wednesday through Sunday.
So much for an unplanned day off. Wankers 😅
I'm on a Stargate SG-1 marathon and I'm at the Ori seasons.
The most unrealistic thing in the entire series is the president quarantining the whole country in response to the Ori plague, and the people of the country just going along with it.
I started teaching myself how to read Chinese in 2023.
Reached a level of comprehension within six months where I could read news articles and novels in the language.
I'm currently on my second semester of Spanish, which is a gen ed requirement for my degree.
I decided when starting these Spanish courses to just stick to what was being taught in the classes, nothing extra beyond the study materials provided.
I cannot read articles beyond the very basics and can barely understand any spoken English.
If I'd followed my own method for learning a language?
I'd be far more advanced than I am now, but being advanced actually gets penalized in formal courses.
I'm half-tempted to get a master's in foreign language instruction just so I can start creating language learning content that actually works.
NotebookLM is a lifesaver for studying for Spanish quizzes.
All I had to do is load up all the pdfs from the course into a notebook, and now I can have it generate flashcards and quizzes for me.
Sure, I could create those on my own, but it's tedious as fuck and I'm busy.
Going to web sources isn't all that helpful because the quizzes are specific to the class.
ChatGPT and Claude are also too general.
But NotebookLM pulls ONLY from the sources you give it, so I'm getting quizzes that are targeted to the material we're actually covering.
