Justin Douglas

Клаворешалка (KeySolve-ru) Keyboard layout analyzer for Russian layouts

Quick and dirty side project this week—I forked the repo for the KeySolve web app (grassfedreeve.github.io/keysolve-web/) and adapted it so that it can be used to evaluate a few different Russian #keyboardlayouts.

A link to the readme with a more in-depth explanation is at the bottom of the page.

I just realized that I am double-jointed in my left pinky. 🤨

My Colemak skills have progressed to the point where I am losing the ability to type fast in QWERTY (or I need to look at the keyboard often) and Rulemak is becoming easier than ЯШЕРТЫ

App is launched, payment processor is integrated, so now I can finally do things other than work on the app... such as use it!

Recently started: "The Origin of Language” (Происхождение языка) by linguist Svetlana Burlak (2019).

640pp 😱 good thing you can’t see how thicc a Kindle book is

#langsky

ANA is running some wild fall deals from the US. I booked a one-way from Tampa to Saigon for less than $450! 😱

The route is TPA>IAD on United, IAD>HND>SGN on ANA. The layover time is minimal.

I’ve always wanted to fly ANA’s flagship IAD>HND route, too. It’s on a Boeing 787, but… YOLO 😆

YouTube video by Netflix Nordic Pardon My Icelandic – Italians of the North Clip

"Tonight? No I can't tonight. I planned to stay at home tonight."
"You planned...?"
"Yeah, I planned it six weeks ago, I was gonna stay at home tonight"
"What are you going to do?"
"Nothing, but I planned to do nothing, so that's the plan"

youtu.be/BzxCIw26NTs

Sunday getting off to a good start!

- Sent out a bunch of cold emails to Russian content creators in the "teaching Russian as a foreign language" space; 2 replies received so far, 1 positive, 1 VERY positive!

- Hit 50wpm on Colemak on Typecelerate

I posted about my app on r/russian and the trolls wasted no time in coming after me 🙄 I probably should have posted in the middle of the night UTC+7 (morning in US, evening in Russia), but still… kind of a shame because there are some genuinely helpful and knowledgeable native speakers on r/russian

German articles are pretty tough, and German gender is usually not predictable. I actually think that part is harder than Russian, because only the article changes, not the noun itself.

Of course, if you made an appointment to hang out with Mr. Higashi in Tokyo to buy 3 bundles of something, then it could be complicated lol

They seldom appear together and 束 rarely appears alone, so you can safely assume 東 almost always.

The most common word with 束 is 約束, and the only other word I can think of is 束縛 (a distant second!) or a counter word for bundles.

Huge relief: now I can finally retire the ENTIRE folder that contained the egregiously messy codebase for creating and manipulating the dictionary data over the past 10 months.

Back in May I did this with one part of the data, but now that the app is live, I can zip the whole thing 🎉

🤦🏻‍♂️ I don’t mind if the feature is there but YT shouldn’t automatically make it the default when it is. It also potentially makes the creators look bad(?) if they weren’t aware that they had to turn it off, so a double disservice

Huh. I hope it’s not something that individual creators are allowing or disallowing 🤔

I get this on the computer:

Go to the gear, then “soundtrack” or something similar should be an option, then “ABC (original)”

I have my YouTube in Swedish so I don’t know the exact wording

Спасибо большое за поддержку! 🫡

Slovarish | Словарищ Revolutionize your Russian with Slovarish, the Russian-English dictionary of the radiant future!

after 10 months of work... the app has (soft-)launched!

Revolution your Russian with Словарищ / Slovarish, the learner's Russian-English dictionary of the светлого будущего™ (Radiant Future™)!

slovarish.com

#langsky

I can't even understand *that*. The tone of the AI voice doesn't match the original voice at all! It's so noticeable on the Japanese videos I've seen with dubbing—the original creators are soft-spoken, while the AI is on full blast, lol

also, at first I thought the repetition of words on keybr would be good but after a while I realized I was just memorizing patterns for words, because when I went to do free typing, I had to think about each key individually

I recently started learning Colemak but keybr is way too difficult to learn on (vs. improving at a familiar layout). After 80 lessons I progressed from ARLINE to add T but could not get further even after 120 more lessons. You need to be perfect AND fast to add new keys, which is unrealistic

I just discovered a very important component of a complete Colemak layout: Caps Lock remapped to Backspace.

I've already done it via Karabiner, although my left pinky is significantly weaker than my right, so that may offset the distance my right hand travels to hit Backspace anyway.

I've never had wrist pain but my frustration with typing SQL and Russian (phonetic ЯШЕРТЫ layout) has finally reached the point of making me learn Colemak-DH (for English) and Diktor (for Russian).

If I keep going down this rabbit hole, I might even buy an ortholinear keyboard :D

I can type 100~110wpm on QWERTY but noticed my finger usage is all over the place:

L pinky: left shift only
L ring: QAZ
L middle: WSX
L index: ERTYDFGCVB

RH types like Django Reinhardt
R index: UIHJKNM
R middle: OPL, all punctuation
"ph": R mid, L index
"pl": R mid, R index

Chase raising its annual fee for the Sapphire Reserved to $795 is pretty outrageous. Definitely gonna be downgrading to the $95/yr Sapphire Preferred until I spend all my Rewards points. Then downgrading to the Freedom Flex (no fee).

Points game not worth playing anymore anyway.

I think you were born in the wrong country. How do you even survive there??

Don’t worry, there’s people out there more sensitive than you (me). 20°C is chilly for me and I stop feeling my hands at 12°C 😅

GitHub - tabidots/ru_roots: Data from Kuznetsova's Dictionary of Morphemes Data from Kuznetsova's Dictionary of Morphemes. Contribute to tabidots/ru_roots development by creating an account on GitHub.

I created a dataset of Russian word roots based on Kuznetsova's "Dictionary of Morphemes of the Russian Language." More details in the repo's README.

If you're interested in derivational morphology, know some Russian, and are handy with a scripting language, enjoy!

#langsky

using regex to find likely equivalence classes among Russian etymological/morphological roots in my dataset.

example:
медвед, медведь, медвеж, медвежь

this is the kind of stuff I'm good at—too bad there's not much room in the NLP field for it anymore

#langsky

Oh man, I feel so old. This book was first published in 1991 and I probably got my hands on it sometime around 2000, the time I started high school.