How do I improve my English speaking skills in a very short time?

This is a technique known as 'shadowing' that I learnt in Japanese class, which I find tremendously helpful for short-term oral fluency improvement. Watch your favorite English language TV show or movie, and as the characters speak, repeat loudly the exact words they are saying the moment you hear them. In other words, 'shadow' their dialog in real-time. Don't worry about getting every word or sound right - focus on listening carefully, moving along quickly and keeping pace. After the...

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The Disciplines of Artificial Intelligence

The Disciplines of Artificial Intelligence The subject of artificial intelligence spans a wide horizon. It deals with the various kinds of knowledge representation schemes, different techniques of intelligent search, various methods for resolving uncertainty of data and knowledge, different schemes for automated machine learning and many others. Among the application areas of AI, we...

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General Problem Solving Approaches in AI(artificial intelligence)

General Problem Solving Approaches in AI To understand what exactly artificial intelligence is, we illustrate some common problems. Problems dealt with in artificial intelligence generally use a common term called 'state'. A state represents a status of the solution at a given step of the problem solving procedure. The solution of a problem, thus, is a collection of the problem states. The...

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Intel 8086 Microprocessor Architecture Notes

Intel  8086 Microprocessor  Architecture Introduction The 8086 was the first 16-bit Microprocessor to be introduced by Intel Corporation. The word 16-bit means that its arithmetic logical unit, internal registers, and most of its instructions are designed to work with 16-bit binary words. The 8086 has a 16-bit data bus, so it can read data form or write data to memory and ports...

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