Brad Aiken

I really appreciated how Thompson started off the article by recounting a history of technological progress and the fears that it produced. Especially, I like that he included the anecdote about Socrates worrying that writing would destroy the tradition of verbal debate, since that example demonstrates very well the silliness of a lot of fears […]

For the DS106 assignment, I did the one about Google Translate (of course). Basically, the assignment was to find some text in a foreign language (preferably one you know) somewhere on the web, copy/paste it into Google Translate, then laugh heartily about how awful it is (and also write up a better translation and/or explain […]

“…I picked up computer programming at a very young age, I self taught the language to myself because there really wasn’t any other option for me, Nigeria did not have a ton of resources and the internet opportunity was really limited, I figured my only option really was to watch youtube videos.” — Adoba Yua […]

Instead of writing my own original Wikipedia article or adding to another, I decided I would try translating an existing Wikipedia article from another language into English. Although English Wikipedia is by far the largest version, there are still some articles on obscure topics that need translation into English. I actually came up with this […]

Here is the PowerPoint presentation I made on the topic of language learning. I chose this topic because I’ve been meaning to write something about learning foreign languages to this blog, as it’s a passion and hobby of mine. Also, I thought it might be helpful to add some information for anyone who might be considering […]

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