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This podcast is for people who already have some basic knowledge of Catalan or speak some other Romance languages. Using the natural approach, I speak using comprehensible words and speed. Can’t wait for the next episode? You will find more than 50 videos to learn Catalan on my YouTube channel, including subtitles in English and Catalan: https://www.youtube.com/c/CouchPolyglot Aquest podcast és per a persones que ja tenen un nivell bàsic de català o que ja parlen altres llengües romàniques. ...
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Have you ever found yourself questioning your sense of identity or place in the world? In this space, we will explore questions of belonging, and navigate the space of living in-between countries, cultures, ethnicities, and faiths. Through open conversations with people from all walks-of-life, we will share personal stories about growing up in numerous places, coupling between different faiths, speaking multiple languages, and integrating into diverse cultures. Join me, your host, Beatriz No ...
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Love, Joy, and Languages is a Podcast where you can learn about language learning, supporting your children in their language journeys, and overcoming the many challenges faced by adult language learners, parents raising multilingual children, and expat language learners. I sit at the intersection of these three worlds, and I want to share my own journey navigating this crossroads while inviting you to discover your own, unique language learning journey. Music used as intro & outro in this P ...
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Learn a Language...Or Maybe Three! The Fluent Show is on a mission to help you get excited about language learning. We learn languages every day in our lives, and have learnt over 15 different languages between us. We share stories, news, tips, and ideas that will make you fluent...eventually. Subscribe to the show today to get your regular dose of Fluent love. It is worth clarifying that we actively want to support anti-racism and will highlight and advocate for the equality of all. Languag ...
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Hello! My name is Ralph Valentino Jean. And my podcast is about language learning. I am a polyglot, I want to share my techniques with you you. And I also want to teach Haitian creole language, English, and French. So have fun with the podcast "Self-Taught POLYGLOT" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-x4mbvzo-Vfq5dxI5XV2xA
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Bi/Multilingual Stories tells the stories of people. Mostly, but not only artists, who speak two or more languages. The stories take us to physical and emotional places, spaces. Please consider to support my work via a one time or monthly contribution at: https://flattr.com/podcast/bimultilingualst Sound by Hernán Giorcelli Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This is a podcast about languages and language-learning from a unique perspective. Since 2018, I have spent thousands of hours studying (to varying degrees) 16 languages (!), and I have learned a lot about what works and what doesn't, from apps to websites to books to YouTube channels, podcasts and more. Join me as we explore the process of language learning, as well as the languages themselves (the true stars of the show!).
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Easy Stories in English

Ariel Goodbody, Polyglot English Teacher & Glassbox Media

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Learning a language is hard, but Easy Stories in English makes it easy! Ariel Goodbody introduces each story, explaining difficult vocabulary and talking about their life. Thanks to their high energy and clear pronunciation, the stories are entertaining and simple to understand. Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced learner, there’s something for everyone. The stories cover a wide range of genres, such as fairy tales, myths and legends, drama, comedy, romance, horror, science f ...
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What’s special about this podcast for Italian learners? I’ll tell you! It combines your love for the Italian language and culture with your thirst for knowledge. All its episodes are organized into big categories (which you’ll find on my website) that go from Italian culture, society, geography, history, cinema, music, television and food to science, technology, philosophy, literature, linguistics and all the subjects we Italian students learned in school. You’ll be practically walking in an ...
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Software Engineer and Developer Advocate, Nic Raboy, shares all his tips and tricks to becoming a polyglot developer. Learn about the latest trends in web, mobile, and game development and how you can quickly get ahead in becoming an incredible developer. With a background in programming languages such as Java, Android, Node.js, and Golang and a background with frameworks such as Express, Ionic Framework, NativeScript, Zend Framework, and Apache Cordova, Nic Raboy is a polyglot with a lot to ...
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I speak 20 languages. I've been learning languages for over 50 years and I've tried all kinds of approaches. I talk about my experiences, my approach to language learning, what I enjoy about learning languages and all manner of other topics related to language. If you love languages, or think you would if you hadn't been discouraged by past experiences, this is the podcast for you. Anyone can learn a language. You just need the right attitude and the right approach!
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Learning a new language? Get your language learning questions answered by polyglot Olly Richards, who speaks 8 languages and is the founder of the StoryLearning® method. Whatever's holding you back on the path to fluency, tune in twice a week to get your regular dose of language learning motivation, with Olly and other polyglot guests, such as Benny Lewis, Luca Lampariello, Richard Simcott and Alex Rawlings. Learn Spanish, Learn French, Learn German, Learn Italian, Learn Portuguese, Learn Ar ...
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For history lovers who listen to podcasts, History Unplugged is the most comprehensive show of its kind. It's the only show that dedicates episodes to both interviewing experts and answering questions from its audience. First, it features a call-in show where you can ask our resident historian (Scott Rank, PhD) absolutely anything (What was it like to be a Turkish sultan with four wives and twelve concubines? If you were sent back in time, how would you kill Hitler?). Second, it features lon ...
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James talks to creatives and wellness experts about their creative process and role of play and creativity in their personal growth journey. James runs a company in Barcelona called PlayfulGrowth which organizes events based around creation, wellness and communication. James is a sober Irish polyglot with 20 years experience travelling the world.
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In the Speakly Podcast we have awesome conversations with inspiring polyglots and language experts to help you learn languages much faster. Here you will find useful tips and tricks to bring your language-learning game to a whole new level! Find out more about Speakly at www.speakly.me
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Welcome to DataNext Podcast, every week our CEO Zeeshan Baig talks about latest Tools and Technologies, shares his experience, Best practices on Cloud computing, Big data, DevOps, Security. Tips on work-life balance, Professional Career and much much more. Subscribe and stay up to date with what's Next in Enterprise IT.
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This podcast is based on my work coaching some of the world's most famous actors and my accumulated knowledge of over 10 years. "Learning French by Accident," emphasizes training your ears and subconscious to detect and retain language through context. I believe that everything begins in the mouth – how to shape and control it, and how it influences our physical behavior. Throughout this series, we'll explore various aspects of pronunciation, including phonetics, accents, and the nuances of ...
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A podcast about language, language learning, and sociolinguistics from a polyglot's point of view! Be sure to follow @PolyglottalPod on Twitter and Instagram! Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/angeliquevoices. Join the Patreon family: https://patreon.com/angeliquevoices Happy Learning!
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Polyglot Erin shares her thoughts on languages, linguistics, and the language learning journey. Erin Morgan is a Western & Central Asian linguist and academic, translator (Arabic & Persian), and teacher (Arabic, Spanish, & French). Raised in a rural part of the US, Erin used languages to explore the world and communicate with other outside of her monolingual hometown. Now Erin shares her experiences with others, hoping they find the same love and passion she has. Find Erin on IG, TW, FB, YT ...
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Musings of a Third Culture Polyglot - Learn English through the medium of... well, English, taught by someone who learned it from scratch and now teaches (ironically!) American native speakers how to use their own language. This podcast will mix Japanese, Korean, and English to bring you a unique look at the phenomenon that is language and communication. In the process, I will invite you to step out into new horizons and not just grow in your English abilities, but also towards making your l ...
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Who said language learning has to be difficult? Join Rita, Raffaele and the teams from the Easy Languages network as they share their stories of language learning and answer your questions. Members get bonus content, monthly Q&As, discounts and many more perks. Learn more at easy-languages.org/podcast!
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Polish with John is a weekly show with short podcasts in simple Polish that will help you learn this beautiful and challenging language. The topics vary from standard ones like family or home to less standard and more interesting like space exploration or Polish history. Regular listening will help you master vocabulary and everyday phrases. For each episode, the transcript is provided on my blog. Everything is kept on A2 and B1 levels. New episodes are published on Mondays.
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Are you currently studying a foreign language? Or do you feel you are making no more progress? Then you have found the right podcast. Psychologist, author, polyglot and language teacher Gerhard Ohrband shows you tips and strategies on how to take your language skills to the next level. Intro music: “Go down fighting” by Cleveland classic metal band Shok Paris, from the album “Steel and Starlight”. With kind permission from Bill Peters (Auburn Records). Please check them out: https://www.face ...
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He's a 60-year-old fisherman who loves to cook. She's a 32-year-old polyglot who loves all things tech. Tune in to this odd couple as they slow travel their way around the globe. This is Lucky Dippers, the podcast where you never know what you're going to get. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLQYSKOK5F9uNu0boR6LVDQ
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Finally a podcast in Italian designed for students of Italian! Listen to interesting topics and learn about Italy, all while practicing your comprehension, expanding your vocabulary and improving your pronunciation! Manu Venditti, the founder of Italy Made Easy, is a native Italian polyglot, with a passion for helping people like you learn, improve and master the Italian language!
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The goal of the Add1Challenge podcast is to inspire and educate that anyone can add 1 language in their life. We will bring polyglots who can speak more than 5-30 languages to share their lessons learned, tips and tricks compiled over the years. We will also feature language learners who just started to learn their first language in the Add1Challenge to demonstrate that anyone can add a language with the right materials, support and motivation.
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The Language Mastery Show brings you conversations with the world's best language learners. Get an inside look at how polyglots, linguists, and everyday people master languages the smart way, and how YOU can, too. I'm your host, John Fotheringham, a linguist, teacher, and the author of Master Japanese and Master Mandarin. For more language learning tips, tools, and immersion resources, visit LanguageMastery.com.
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Welcome you all! My name is Camilo and this will be the perfect place for you to learn Spanish. Throughout this journey, I will have two weekly episodes.The first season (English) will be oriented to people who are beginners in this language. That means learning Spanish from scratch with exercises and all the content you need from the very beginning, but also with all the cultural aspect that you don't see that often.In this season, I want you to know not only grammar, but also a bit more ab ...
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Graph Neural Networks Use Graphs When They Shouldn't Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization OpenBA: An Open-sourced 15B Bilingual Asymmetric seq2seq Model Pre-trained from Scratch Baichuan 2: Open Large-scale Language Models Language Modeling Is Compression FoleyGen: Visually-Guided Audio Generation Support the show…
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Hola, com va tot? avui parlem d'una pregunta interessant: "què faries si et toqués la loteria?" Deixaries de treballar? Continuaries fent el mateix que fins ara? Com et sentiries? Em pots enviar un missatge per explicar-m'ho! Jo t'ho explico en aquest episodi. Com em pots ajudar? Subscriu-te al meu canal de YouTube aquí. Hi trobaràs, entre altres c…
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🙀 Popular entertainer and polyglot @LanguageSimp joins me to talk about why language learning should be fun and how he got started in languages, TikTok, and YouTube. He also teaches this 77-year-old language grandpa the meaning of the Gen Z term "simp" (it is NOT what I assumed)...By Steve Kaufmann
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Perhaps the most consequential expedition in North American history wasn’t the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It was one that happened 130 years earlier and undertaken by a Catholic priest fluent in multiple Indian languages and a philosophy-student-drop-out-turned fur trapper. This was the 1673 Jolliet and Marquette expedition – in which French explo…
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Parallelizing non-linear sequential models over the sequence length Fast Feedforward Networks LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models A Paradigm Shift in Machine Translation: Boosting Translation Performance of Large Language Models Boolformer: Symbolic Regression of Logic Functions with Transformers Support the show…
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In this special compilation episode, Josh Cohen of Eyewitness History shares his favorite interview moments and stories from people who witnessed some of history’s most extraordinary events. First up, revisit his conversation with Frank DeAngelis, former principal of Columbine High School, recounting the harrowing events of the 1999 massacre.Apple …
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At the height of the Civil War in November 1864, nine Union prisoners-of-war escaped from a Confederate Prison known as Camp Sorghum in Columbia, South Carolina. They scrambled north on foot in rags that had once been uniforms of blue. Traveling in brutal winter conditions more than 300 miles with search parties and bloodhounds hot on their trail. …
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FreeU: Free Lunch in Diffusion U-Net Neurons in Large Language Models: Dead, N-gram, Positional DreamLLM: Synergistic Multimodal Comprehension and Creation Kosmos-2.5: A Multimodal Literate Model End-to-End Speech Recognition Contextualization with Large Language Models The Languini Kitchen: Enabling Language Modelling Research at Different Scales …
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This is part 1 of 2. Antonello Zanini from Italy is quite an inspiration to me. He is a software engineer and technical writer and is a succesful writer on Medium. Spreading knowledge through writing is his mission Daniel and Antonello discuss the importance of building a writing habit in order to improve your English writing skills (and other skil…
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🇷🇺Внизу // In this episode, we explore Stoicism, an ancient philosophy that presents four important ideas on how to live a better life. By diving deep into the heart of this ancient philosophy, we discover how these principles serve as a roadmap for living a resilient and meaningful life in today's world. Whether you are new to Stoicism or not, com…
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The inbetweenish is back for Season 2: First episode launches Tuesday, October 3rd. Get ready to embark on a captivating journey exploring the fundamental concepts of roots, home, and belonging all while embracing the beauty of being different. This season we travel through the bridges we’ve built across cultures — understanding the decisions that …
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Teddy Roosevelt faced many challenges at the end of his life. Racked by rheumatism, a ticking embolism, pathogens in his blood, a bad leg from an accident, and a bullet in his chest from an assassination attempt. But none of that stopped Roosevelt from attempting to reassemble the Rough Riders for a final charge against the Germans in World War One…
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Though "parent" is in the title, this is an episode for all. Language learning was the first area in my life where I started being able to face some of my personal demons and really start on a path to self-acceptance and growth. The skills I've gained through this journey of learning languages have absolutely been useful in other areas of my life, …
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Coach Stéphane Angeles is a language coach who helps expats speak better Spanish through expert habit formation strategies, accountability, and one-on-one guidance via Zoom and audio check-ins. In the interview, we discuss: Why you should use a walkie talkie app to practice listening and speaking. Why you should practice writing daily (and how it c…
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When the Iron Curtain fell in 1990, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this w…
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Hola, com anem? Aquesta és la segona part d’una conversa força llarga que vam tenir amb en Gabi, que té un podcast sobre lingüística en anglès. En aquesta segona part parlem amb ell sobre els temes següents: Es pot practicar una llengua sense viatjar? Hi ha altres avantatges d'aprendre altres llengües? Quina és la millor tècnica per aprendre llengü…
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Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report DiffBIR: Towards Blind Image Restoration with Generative Diffusion Prior When Less is More: Investigating Data Pruning for Pretraining LLMs at Scale MADLAD-400: A Multilingual And Document-Level Large Audited Dataset FIAT: Fusing learning paradigms with Instruction-Accelerated Tuning Optimize …
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🇷🇺Внизу // Shalom again. I am back from my summer holiday and ready to create new episodes. This episode is about Rosh Hashana, which is the Jewish new year celebration. What is it and how is it celebrated? Let us explore it together. To get access to the full transcript please consider becoming a member on KoFi or Patreon (They are the same. KoFi …
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Mit dem Code easystories erhältst du das 12-Monatsabo von Babbel zum Preis von nur 6 Monaten. Das Angebot gilt bis zum 31. Dezember 2023. Einfach auf babbel.com/audio einlösen und loslegen. Get episodes without adverts + bonus episodes at EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Support. Your support is appreciated! Simon gets a new job, but everything goes wrong.…
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Nearly a century before the COVID-19 pandemic upended life as we know it, a devastating tuberculosis epidemic was ravaging hospitals across the country. In those dark, pre-antibiotic days, the disease claimed the lives of 1 in 7 Americans; in the United States alone, it killed over 5.6 million people in the first half of the twentieth century. Nowh…
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Large-Scale Automatic Audiobook Creation CityDreamer: Compositional Generative Model of Unbounded 3D Cities From Sparse to Dense: GPT-4 Summarization with Chain of Density Prompting Mobile V-MoEs: Scaling Down Vision Transformers via Sparse Mixture-of-Experts High-Quality Entity Segmentation Support the show…
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In today's episode I'm talking about building habits and routines. This all started with me wanting to make a habit out of going to the library every week with my kids, getting books, and reading them. Sounds simple, right? But after a few weeks of the kids complaining and us bringing home books that were then never opened, I started to feel like t…
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Welcome to episode 242, introducing a very special guest. I'm pretty excited for this interview with my friend Josh Goldsmith from techforword. Josh is a super impressive person: UN and EU interpreter, successful entrepreneur, and an all-round sunny soul. In this episode, you'll learn about Interpreting - what's it like and how do you get the good …
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Large Language Models as Optimizers FLM-101B: An Open LLM and How to Train It with $100K Budget XGen-7B Technical Report Tracking Anything with Decoupled Video Segmentation DoLa: Decoding by Contrasting Layers Improves Factuality in Large Language Models Support the showBy Marcus Edel
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📚 In this video, I explain the best way to improve your speaking skills, why vocabulary tends to be more important than grammar, why second-guessing grammar harms your ability to communicate, and why you don't need to STUDY grammar rules to correctly FOLLOW them.By Steve Kaufmann
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SLiMe: Segment Like Me Matcha-TTS: A fast TTS architecture with conditional flow matching Physically Grounded Vision-Language Models for Robotic Manipulation Scaling Autoregressive Multi-Modal Models: Pretraining and Instruction Tuning Support the showBy Marcus Edel
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One Wide Feedforward is All You Need Efficient RLHF: Reducing the Memory Usage of PPO PromptTTS 2: Describing and Generating Voices with Text Prompt AniPortraitGAN: Animatable 3D Portrait Generation from 2D Image Collections Support the showBy Marcus Edel
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Hola, com va tot? Aquesta és la primera part d’una conversa força llarga que vam tenir amb en Gabi, que té un podcast sobre lingüística en anglès. En aquesta primera part parlem amb ell sobre els temes següents: Qui és i de què tracta el seu podcast? Quins idiomes parla? Com va aprendre francès? I rus? Ha traduït un llibre del rus al català? La par…
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Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding YaRN: Efficient Context Window Extension of Large Language Models VideoGen: A Reference-Guided Latent Diffusion Approach for High Definition Text-to-Video Generation RLAIF: Scaling Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with AI Feedback Support the show…
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The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their impact has gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. And their deeds still resonate today. These nomads built long-lasting empires, f…
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In today's episode, I’m chatting with German teacher Kris of Deutsch mit Kris. Kris shares her story of how she got into the German language as a high school student from the Southern United States. She had the typical story many of us know growing up in a place where only one language is spoken, taking a few years of language in school, and perfor…
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The Belebele Benchmark: a Parallel Reading Comprehension Dataset in 122 Language Variants Any-Size-Diffusion: Toward Efficient Text-Driven Synthesis for Any-Size HD Images BioCoder: A Benchmark for Bioinformatics Code Generation with Contextual Pragmatic Knowledge MVDream: Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation Can Programming Languages Boost Each …
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⏳ Some people swear by "spaced repetition systems" (SRS). Others think they are waste of time.What's my take? I've learned 20 languages so far in my life, but have only relied on spaced repetition for a few specific needs in language learning. Watch on to see what those use cases are and what approach I think is generally more effective than using …
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The Dutch–Indonesian War was one of the first postwar struggles that followed the Japanese surrender in September 1945, which left a power vacuum in the colonial Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). The infant nation didn’t have a normal standing army but was a fragile coalition of various forces involved in the struggle: the Indonesian nationalists who …
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Hola, com va tot? Avui parlem d'una cosa molt especial que m'ha passat: m'han entrevistat a Rac1, al programa "Via Lliure". En aquest episodi us ho explico i us en deixo un fragment. Vaig demanar permís i em van dir que podia fer servir l'àudio. En aquest enllaç hi podeu trobar l'àudio complet: https://www.rac1.cat/via-lliure/20230827/112711/lingue…
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Can someone pretend to be an actor? Sure, but who would believe in it? Maybe just some naive people but not big media. Well... Everything is possible, so let's listen to the story of Natalia Janoszek and try to find the answer if she made up her career or not. Enjoy listening! :) You can find a full transcript of this episode on Patreon: https://ww…
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We're wrapping up an incredible season of inbetweenish pod! From vulnerability to raw reflections, these stories of belonging have been quite the journey. In this episode, I take you behind the scenes of the season, sharing highlights, learnings, and even some embarrassing bloopers. Oh and guess what? Season 2 is on its way! So, stay tuned for more…
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Break-A-Scene: Extracting Multiple Concepts from a Single Image The Poison of Alignment MedAlign: A Clinician-Generated Dataset for Instruction Following with Electronic Medical Records ORES: Open-vocabulary Responsible Visual Synthesis Support the showBy Marcus Edel
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Mit dem Code easystories erhältst du das 12-Monatsabo von Babbel zum Preis von nur 6 Monaten. Das Angebot gilt bis zum 31. Dezember 2023. Einfach auf babbel.com/audio einlösen und loslegen. Get episodes without adverts + bonus episodes at EasyStoriesInEnglish.com/Support. Your support is appreciated! In this episode, I explain the theory behind sec…
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It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are teetering on a knife-edge as leaders on both sides of the Pacific strive to prevent war between them. But failed diplomacy, foiled negotiations, and possible duplicity in the Roosevelt administration thwart their attempts. Drawing on now-declassified original documents, today’s guest, Dale Jenkins, author of…
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PMET: Precise Model Editing in a Transformer Interpretable Graph Neural Networks for Tabular Data Nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents Relighting Neural Radiance Fields with Shadow and Highlight Hints Support the showBy Marcus Edel
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In today's episode I share 4 (or 4.5) tips for creating benchmarks along your language journey to guarantee that your future self will recognize and believe that you're making progress. In language learning, it's really easy to be so down in the weeds and the details of studying and practicing that progress feels slow or even stagnant. Yet, every s…
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