Another example of “I was running a less general and more hacky algorithm than anticipated”.
On a bike trip through Vietnam, very few people in the countryside spoke English. Often, we’d just talk at each other in our respective languages and gesticulate wildly to actually make our points.
I noticed that I was still smiling and laughing in response to things said to me in Vietnamese, even though I had no idea what was going on. This has lead me to see the decision to laugh or smile to be mostly based on non-verbal stuff, and not, “Yes, I’ve understand the thing you have said, and what you said is funny.”
Another example of “I was running a less general and more hacky algorithm than anticipated”.
On a bike trip through Vietnam, very few people in the countryside spoke English. Often, we’d just talk at each other in our respective languages and gesticulate wildly to actually make our points.
I noticed that I was still smiling and laughing in response to things said to me in Vietnamese, even though I had no idea what was going on. This has lead me to see the decision to laugh or smile to be mostly based on non-verbal stuff, and not, “Yes, I’ve understand the thing you have said, and what you said is funny.”