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About language learning

 I found it interesting how different people’s English knowledge at my university is. Some sound like they’re fluent, and some sound like my classmates at the beginning of high school. Or throughout high school, actually. Because I grew up in a country where education is not just not a priority of the government, they seem to be working on dismantling it as much as possible, so for most of those around me had not the option to learn English in school. So how did we do? Well, differently. Majority did not learn English well enough so they could speak it confidently. For me, I really had to. I knew I was going to head out and continue my studies in the universal language. When I entered high school (at the age of 14), I had been studying English for 4 years, but struggled to understand even the different future and past tenses. Then on the very first day of school in September, my new teacher drew a line on the board, and explained the whole thing in about half an hour. What a wasted...
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Some naive thoughts

 My current fields of interest change all the time. From home servers to quality audio to networking, it can vary on a weekly basis. That is why I chose an article titled “Toward 6G: A New Era of Convergence” by Amin Ebrahimzadeh and Martin Meier. I only read the first big chapter, but even that had a lot of interesting takes and ways the future can be imagined.  Firstly, it starts off by stating that current (4G) networks can’t provide sufficient latency for certain IoT devices to operate safely. For example self-driving cars must have access to the lowest latency internet possible, so they can have real-time information about road conditions and react to it. One of the reasons why it is difficult to reach on 4G is because distance and the number of devices greatly affects the latency. I don’t see this changing radically with 6G, though. The authors then go on to speculate on what the future holds for us in terms of everyday technology usage, which requires significantly bett...
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Nightwish My favourite band. The topic of my best poem, and more importantly, my first ever website. It was a school project back in high school, the first time I started learning HTML and CSS. It became a pretty basic website with minimal designing and mostly text. Then for the next two years, I pretty much forgot everything about web design. Before joining the university, I bought my first domain. Damn, I wrote first, even though I only have one… I guess I plan on more projects later. I grew to like this overall. So with my new domain, I created an email alias, so now my email is cooler. Fantastic! But how else could I use it? A personal website, or course. First I looked at website builders, but I was sure about one thing – I’m not going to pay for something I can do myself a hundred thousand times the time. I actually built a cool website design with Canva, only to find out that I have to pay if I want to actually publish it. Sounds a little bit like a borderline illegal marketing ...
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My first blogpost    I was 16 years old – a tenth grader. The date was nearing by the hour. The date when I had to choose the optional subjects for next year, which was basically to decide what am I going to do with my career. It was the second time to choose careers and I wasn’t closer to the answer than last time. I knew last time I didn’t make a great decision, studying biology and chemistry turned out to be not for me. So what is for me then? My decision was not much more responsible and thought-through than 3 years prior, but there is one difference. Here I am almost five years later, still with the same path. I grew to like it. I chose informatics. And now I am studying (mostly) software engineering in university. The reason wasn’t sympathy towards it, but rather I saw future in this field. With the rapidly developing AI sector, it is not that sure now. I learned HTML and CSS, and I am in the process of learning JavaScript and React. These are some of the go-to tools for...
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