On the other hand, I have a balcony with a seaview, lots of candles, God, a Russian doll that looks like Gorbachev (on the outside), a mother that buys me chocolate, hugging friends, freedom and wine, and a new package of vanilla-flavoured coffee.
And I signed up for an evening class in German today. I wanted to study French but no suitable classes were available. This is unexpected - and exhilarating. This may alter the course of my life!
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oh good.
I have a German labmate. we experimented with unsupervised learning: if i could pick up the language just by hearing her speak in the background.
(ended up developing a strong German accent in my own English, for a while)
Hilarious! As a linguist by trade, I think you probably did learn something, "passive" knowledge, i.e. you might (more or less subconsciously) recognize and understand some words next time you hear the language even if you can't use them yourself. Languages are so fascinating!
As a person in machine learning (that's a fancy word for AI, so that the human resistance don't off us when Skynet takes over), unsupervised learning can be surprisingly effective given enormous quantities of data. However nothing beats a strong supervisory signal to the learner.
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