| bio | website | andrewjgrimm.wordpress.com |
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| location | Sydney, Australia | |
| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 5 months |
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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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Feb 28 |
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where can I find digitised versions of Japanese war documents in original Japanese? Are you trying to learn about Japanese history, or practice your Japanese? |
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Jan 23 |
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Is there a civilization that never believed in God in the ancient times? I once asked one the defunct Atheism Stack Exchange, and the consensus was that there weren't any that we were aware of. |
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Oct 20 |
awarded | Student |
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Oct 20 |
asked | Do onsen geisha still exist? |
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Aug 10 |
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Did Japan ever pay Russia a reasonable amount of war reparation after WW2? Why or why not? Technically, the two countries are still at war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan-Russia_relations |
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Aug 3 |
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Continent-wide common languages in human history Australia is a continent, and pretty much speaks a single language. |
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Apr 21 |
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Why didn't Russia help Saddam Hussein as it is helping Syria now? -1 per Dan Neely. |
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Apr 10 |
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Did anyone warn about the potential for stock market crashes in 1929, and if so why were their warnings ignored? cbc.ca/news/business/story/2009/10/26/f-langan-great-crash.html mentions the anecdote of Joseph Kennedy bailing the stock market because a bellhop gave him a stock market tip. Don't know whether it's true or not. |
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Dec 13 |
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Why did Meiji consider switching from Japanese to English? Which variety of English were they planning on using? British English, or American English? |
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Dec 13 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Dec 13 |
awarded | Autobiographer |