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Translatewith.wiki: Translate complicated concepts between languages
- abrudz 4y agoI've often done this manually, and have wanted to automate it. Awesome!
- unhammer 4y agoMe too, all the time (even by downloading dumps and scripting, long time ago). This is really handy, well done! bookmarking :-)
- irl_chad 4y agoI entered EN to RU simply “distributed systems engineer” and the results were totally off. It returned something about distributed energy management.
- lionkor 4y agoSame for EN to DE - something about energy. Completely wrong, but with pictures!
- tazjin 4y agoIt probably just looked up the first match for that literal string in the English wiki, which is the article about "Distributed generation" (of energy). I asked ChatGPT to translate "Distributed Systems Engineer" into Russian and to explain it. It chose "Инженер распределенных систем" as the translation (literal, but fine!), and proceeded to give a spot-on explanation in Russian. As a polyglot these new language models seem very promising for translation work, especially as well-constrained tasks leave them little room for "hallucination".
- zeckalpha 4y agoThat isn't necessarily wrong. Many distributed systems engineers work in the energy sector, which is a giant distributed system.
- jtvjan 4y agoOh, neat idea. My go-to for this trick is to look up the Wikidata entry for a concept and look at the table of labels in different languages.
- paradite 4y agoThis is not good for nuanced Chinese tech terms, which rarely appears on Wikipedia. I tried a few terms that I have written about [1], but no relevant results showed up. https://16x.engineer/2022/10/18/chinese-tech-terms.html https://16x.engineer/2022/10/18/chinese-tech-terms.html
- thrdbndndn 4y agoGreat article! A small nitpick, I personally don't agree with > "Maidian literally means “embedding seeds” or “burying seeds”". Dian, literally speaking, should be point, and it's actually used similarly in English (e.g. 'break point') in this context (and the practice of maidian kinda resembles debugging process too).
- paradite 4y agoYeah good one. I think I actually had "points" originally but removed them for some reason. Maybe they make more sense as an individual word, but not in a phrase (burying points)? Will have to think about it further.
- zeckalpha 4y agoWould Chendian be similar to the English idiom of distilling ideas?
- paradite 4y agoYeah it is quite similar. I will add this. However, chendian lacks the "filtering" aspect of distilling.
- dejj 4y agoGreat! Can you add the Chinese sentences of the translation examples too?
- paradite 4y agoOh no. I think I didn't save the sources. Gonna have to find them again.
- splatzone 4y agoGreat idea for a website. I tried it with ‘jeopardy’, ie the concept of being in perilous trouble, but it only suggested things related to the TV show
- huevosabio 4y agoI love this idea. When I was an exchange student in Germany, I took civil engineering courses in German. Traditional dictionaries were not really useful for filling my gaps of technical vocabulary. Instead, my approach was to have the German textbook (or course notes), a textbook on the topic in English and Wikipedia open. I would try to go through the German content as far as I could. Often I would be stuck because I did not know some terms, so I would search on Wikipedia and then change the language to English. If the wiki article wasn't enough then I would go to the English textbook and fill in the gaps. I would have loved to have this then!
- iakh 4y agoReminds me of a project I made several years ago to translate different proper nouns into multiple languages: http://adamhwang.github.io/wikitranslator/ http://adamhwang.github.io/wikitranslator/ Simple open source all client based: https://github.com/adamhwang/wikitranslator https://github.com/adamhwang/wikitranslator
- axpy906 4y agoI was hoping this was programming languages.
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