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| bio | website | andrewjgrimm.wordpress.com |
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| location | Sydney, Australia | |
| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 10 months |
| seen | 25 mins ago | |
| stats | profile views | 171 |
I work at the University of New South Wales, where I use Ruby to analyze biological data.
In part of my spare time, I work on fun programming projects. One was trying to analyze what underlies Wikipedia's Get to Philosophy game. I also worked on one called the "Small Eigen Collider".
I'm currently learning Japanese, and I'm an active participant in lang-8.com, a website where you write journal entries in a language you're learning, and get corrected by native speakers of that language. In return, you correct people writing entries in your native language. Recently, I've been asking a few questions prompted by slightly incorrect English I've encountered on lang-8.
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10h |
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Can you still buy used panties in vending machines as a souvenir from Japan? I asked on lang-8.com . The people who replied (all Japanese) said that they'd never seen one. |
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What techniques, tricks or otherwise have you used to get upgrades on flights? @AnkurBanerjee if it's an international flight, I'd be more worried about getting them through quarantine! |
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May 15 |
answered | Are there Onsen towns with both skiing and geisha? |
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May 13 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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May 9 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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May 8 |
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Is €16 per gelato a common scam for Rome? @jwenting Japan would be an tempting place to add an extra zero, but I haven't encountered that. May keep it in mind the next time I go to Zimbabwe, though! ;) |
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May 8 |
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Is €16 per gelato a common scam for Rome? @MarkMayo The owner claims that the prices were displayed everywhere. |
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May 8 |
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Is €16 per gelato a common scam for Rome? @MarkMayo common enough that it's worthwhile taking precautions to avoid it happening. |
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May 8 |
asked | Is €16 per gelato a common scam for Rome? |
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May 6 |
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How do you know if a Japanese person means no when they say yes? "stay-at-home parents" - do you mean "homestay parents"? ( en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stay-at-home versus en.wiktionary.org/wiki/homestay ) |
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May 6 |
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How do you know if a Japanese person means no when they say yes? I know enough Japanese to say "I like that tie", but not enough to say "you have good taste". What options do I have? |
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May 5 |
accepted | Is it considered “cheap” to not eat dinner at your ryokan? |
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May 2 |
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Is it common that hostels charge more for woman only dorm rooms? edited tags |
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May 2 |
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Why SOME Israeli groups are so impolite and what to do? I'm thinking of asking on Skeptics Stack Exchange whether Israeli travellers are more likely to be impolite. However, I'd like to know which nationalities they're being compared against. Are they being compared against other Europeans, or against Japanese people, or against people from the Vatican city? |
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May 1 |
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Tasting typical Icelandic cuisine in Reykjavík Did you try looking at the Wikivoyage page on Reykjavík, or on Iceland? |
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May 1 |
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Is it common that hostels charge more for woman only dorm rooms? Some capsule hotels in Japan don't accept women. I think their rationale is that they don't want the area to be mixed-gender, and they don't think there's enough women to make a woman-only floor of a hotel economically viable. My suspicion is that in Georgia, there aren't many females using hostels, so women-only rooms would have fewer users than mixed-gender, so they charge a premium. I don't think that's fair or rational, but that'd be my guess. |
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Apr 29 |
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Learning a bit of French with not much time @uncovery if I changed it to be less specific to French, would it still be off-topic? |
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Apr 29 |
asked | Learning a bit of French with not much time |
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Apr 25 |
revised |
Guided tours of Japanese nuclear power plants deleted 423 characters in body |
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Apr 25 |
asked | Guided tours of Japanese nuclear power plants |
