AltSci Mexico

As always, I have to post photos of my travels.

Day 1: Beautiful sunset from a house on a hill

Day 2: Me in front of a church

If you see any exif data in these images, let me know. I went to lengths to remove all the exif data from these images. For reference, the commands necessary were:

jpegtran -optimize static/images/IMG_20131118_180118.jpg >static/images/IMG_20131118_180118a.jpg
exiftool -overwrite_original -All= static/images/IMG_20131118_180118a.jpg
mv -i static/images/IMG_20131118_180118.jpg ~/private/

Figure 1: Español Attack v0.1
by Javantea, AltSci Concepts
Text version
Histogram version

I produced this learning tool before coming to Mexico. From basic knowledge of the language to a set of words and sentences I can throw together, this page of common words can help you train yourself what to learn first. I have done this type of language learning guide before. I also created a very nice Twitter - Google translate mashup, but both services were modified, the Google translate API became a pay API which broke my mashup.

This page represents the output of a histogram of words used in a small corpus of Spanish. This mathematical concept is quite easy to understand for linguists: tally each word used, sort by highest tally. I wrote a piece of software that does this for any corpus, including HTML and foreign texts.

Javantea out.