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Animal Farm

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My favourite book is Animal Farm. I used to read it when I was a kid all the time. However, when I grew up I could tell this book was connected with many historical events. Besides, It made me think about the natural behaviour of humans beings. In one way or another, this book opened me eyes. I started to be more critical towards political parties, and people in general. Moreover, Napoleon speeches and the way  they change throughout the story,  improved my “reading between lines” skills. This book is, beyond doubt, one that has had a strong impact in my life. There’s a before and after reading this book. However, my biggest complaint about the story is that animalism principles are shown as some sort of utopía which at the end fails. But the very first part in the book shows how animals could gathered to make a rebellion.  So, even though Napoleon completely betrayed the animals, there could have been a different outcome if Snowball hadn’t gone to exile. What I mea...
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Google’s AI translation tool seems to have invented its own secret internal language

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All right, don’t panic, but  computers have created their own secret language and are probably talking about us right now . Well, that’s kind of an oversimplification, and the last part is just plain untrue. But there  is  a fascinating and existentially challenging development that Google’s AI researchers recently happened across. You may remember that back in September, Google  announced that its Neural Machine Translation system had gone live . It uses deep learning to produce better, more natural translations between languages. Cool! Following on this success, GNMT’s creators were curious about something. If you teach the translation system to translate English to Korean and vice versa, and also English to Japanese and vice versa… could it translate Korean to Japanese, without resorting to English as a bridge between them? They made this helpful gif to illustrate the idea of what they call “zero-shot translation” (it’s the orange one): As it turns out — y...
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Select one or two pedagogical tasks and elaborate them in terms of macrofunctions, microfunctions and grammatical exponents.

Tasks           Macrofunctions          Microfunctions               Grammar Open Google Maps on your smartphone. Ask your partner for directions to find his/her favourite place in the world. Socializing Asking for and giving directions. Wh - questions Imperatives Chose a place you and your friend would visit together. Your partner is the travel agent. Calculate how much the trip will cost you.   Exchanging goods and services  Asking about and stating prices. How much/how many? Wh - questions Yes/No questions Now, you and your friend are in a plane going to your favourite travel destination. There, you meet a friendly group of people from Indonesia. Describe your life to them. ...
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