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What about Australia! Nope also reducing foreign student numbers. Maybe China can become the destination for ambitious smart people. There is a big opportunit

• ben_w 1y ago
  > Maybe China can become the destination for ambitious smart people. Don't underestimate the language barrier. All those stereotypes about Chinese people mixing Rs and Ls? That works both ways, not just tongue twisters like Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den*, but even "Hello": https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=“你好”%20%2F%20“泥壕”%20%2F%20%22你号%22&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=“你好”%20%2F%... And machine translation is currently so bad, that the last few time I tried giving an example here, people who actually speak Chinese would respond with something along the lines of "I have no idea what you tried to write, that is nonsensical". * https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vExjnn_3ep4&pp=ygUhTGlvbi1FYXRpbmcgUG9ldCBpbiB0aGUgU3RvbmUgRGVu https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vExjnn_3ep4&pp=ygUhTGlvbi1FYXR...
  • int_19h 1y ago
    > And machine translation is currently so bad, that the last few time I tried giving an example here, people who actually speak Chinese would respond with something along the lines of "I have no idea what you tried to write, that is nonsensical". Have you tried LLMs for that?
    • ben_w 1y ago
      Yes, and not just in the well-technically sense of Google Translate being a Transformer model.