I used to pay a Mandarin teacher from Beijing to read academic and technical journals about databases with me on weekly calls.

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

I used to pay a Mandarin teacher from Beijing to read academic and technical journals about databases with me on weekly calls. I wanted to stay on top of developments in China. She said she was thankful for the easy money but it was an incredibly boring job.

#Languages

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

Thinking of her today as I’m going to reach out to her and ask her to do this again with me on AI ethics and safety in China

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

(I can read well but academic and technical Mandarin just isn’t something you can easily pickup unless you studied those topics in Mandarin, I feel)

I always love how database is 数据库 (shu4 ju4 ku4) or, data pants

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@skinnylatte Data pants

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@slothrop the open source alternative to Datadog. Data Pants.

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@skinnylatte @slothrop it's like the Pants build system, but for data.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@skinnylatte okay, how do you pronounce shu4 ju4 ku4? i’ve transliterations like that and have no idea how they should sound.

[shreyas@x0r.be]

@blogdiva @skinnylatte https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese_phonology#Tones

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@blogdiva video on the fourth tone

[xdydx@mastodon.social]

@shreyas @blogdiva @skinnylatte
This. Did. Not. Help!

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@xdydx @shreyas @blogdiva https://youtu.be/ssZvVExdeVo?si=tFNIqoyuh15jmtVx