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Ok it is definitely a clickbait. But as a native speaker of a language (Cantonese, Hong Kong/GuangZhou dialect) that does not have voicing constracts in its consonants, I had a real hard time in differentiate voiced and voiceless consonants when I started learning Japanese (which has the voicing constracts, and the voiceless consonants are unaspirated in native speakers’ mouths most of the time). It was >10 years ago and I still remember how many times I listened and pronounced voiced and voiceless consonants with a Praat installed in my computer, and looked at the spectrograms allllll day long. ...

I asked Deepseek to draw the Schlegel diagram of a hexahedron — should be a very simple task right? Just 2 squares and link up their vertices. And yet I noticed something interesting: it tends to overthink and end up outputting nonsense answers when DeepThink is on (which is supposed to be more powerful and “clever”), but getting the task done correctly when DeepThink is off. Huh. So this is the prompt I gave Deepseek: ...

That’s why I love Arnold’s books.

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