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Garbage in, garbage out. The system probably didn't have the lorem ipsum placeholder text in its dictionary for all languages, so just mapped to whatever its al
by lnanek2 12y ago
Garbage in, garbage out. The system probably didn't have the lorem ipsum placeholder text in its dictionary for all languages, so just mapped to whatever its algorithms could guess. Since there is no right guess, it's pretty random.
The rest of the conspiracy nonsense in the article is pretty silly and stupid, honestly. There are a huge number of government documents translated into other languages that were probably used as the training set. I have programs of my own that rummage through SEC filings, for example. So NATO and countries being common mappings if you pick a random one isn't odd at all.
- broolstoryco 12y ago> The rest of the conspiracy nonsense in the article is pretty silly and stupid, honestly. Was also surprised to read something like this on Krebs
- tzakrajs 12y agoBrian is going off the deep end I guess?
- j_s 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152663 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8152663 Evaluate for yourself whether or not he may have fallen a few notches lately.
- RexRollman 12y agoI have to admit that recent events have altered my opinion of him, which is sad because I have enjoyed reading his site.
- panarky 12y agoThe comments to the article show a lot of funny results of statistical translation. Even though most of the lorem ipsum examples are now fixed in Google Translate, as of now you still get 'lorem ipsum dolor' when you translate 'China' from English to Latin.