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by madsbuch 3y ago
I am realising that this is what taxes pays for in Denmark. I have a masters in computer science (5 year, postgraduate + thesis, Aarhus University which is top 100 and even higher for PL + semantics, which is my thesis subject) that I recei
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> Every comment I’ve read from someone employed as a translator says it still doesn’t get the human nuances of languages. Yet, it perfectly knows this language? Wouldn't it be fun to make a bind test on these people? I would be surp
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by madsbuch 3y ago
Well, in my example of a company being reduced from 400 to 200, you can still fill out a couple of more layers ;) – I think you are good in that company with meaningful bonds.
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> ... it can infer gender from signals earlier in the text Or even later in the text. Which is one of the great thing about transformers.
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Unless you consider all people you ever talk to for tutors, I think that statement is a, well, stretch. In language learning you rarely learn alone from you tutor. The same is the case here: I also watch videos, movies, listen to music, pra
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by madsbuch 3y ago
Can you give just a single example of these 5%?
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For me to have a foreign spouse requires that person to be able to sit around a dinner table in my home country and not force the entire tables to speak English. These technologies allow me to get started on languages so fast, that national
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by madsbuch 3y ago
This publication is from february 2022 and can probably mostly be invalidated by modern software. First try on a translation: "Je suis étudiant(e). J'aime lire des livres et je suis très joli(e) en robe." (Note
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by madsbuch 3y ago
There is no confusion. I am just challenging that machine translation is incapable of inferring genders. Danish is also a gendered language. The genders are difficult to learn because there rarely are any rules to the genders. Ie, you can n
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by madsbuch 3y ago
Interesting, why?
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She corrected usage. Eg. when to use mama and matka where it is super hard to intellectually learn how formal one should be. But again, in english, when is it appropriate to use mom and mother? It really depends on the context, culture, and
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Dunbar is also talking about his layers of emotional closeness, where 5 is the innermost layer.
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Can you give an example of this? In my experience (learning Polish) ChatGPT can usually derive the gender when the subject is a common name: Sure, here are the translations of your sentences into Polish: "You are beautiful Na
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by madsbuch 3y ago
This is also my own experience. In particular, ChatGPT has deeper knowledge on complex grammatical structures (like the 7 cases polish have) than I can expect from a regular tutor – my friend was not able to explain complex consonant cluste
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by madsbuch 3y ago
No human person has the stamina to spend 3 hours fixing basic conjugation tables and still encourage me. As a European I have received extensive language tutoring and know how people teach. I also know enough Polish people that I can cert
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by madsbuch 3y ago
> But the learn rate is so fast, that you get sufficient coverage to fix it up in actual conversation. This should really be emphasised. Correctness might not be entirely on every time. But learning pace and engagement is so much higher,
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by madsbuch 3y ago
The same response as to the sibling comment that asks the same. I think this question is mostly asked by people who have no idea how it works. ChatGPT can actually on demand give me a list of 20 idioms related to finding directions, somethi
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by madsbuch 3y ago
I know that as well as with any human tutor. The main difference is that I am motivated to check the answer, eg. by asking the woman who is my main reason to learn Polish. Also, the value of a tutor that in and encouraging way corrects my v
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by madsbuch 3y ago
This is not really related to AI though? A company that was before 400 people, can now be 200 people. But people will rarely make meaningful bonds outside of those 5 people closest to them (Dunbar's number).
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by madsbuch 3y ago
I am learning Polish, and find that ChatGPT provides a much better tutor than any human. Ie. I would rather use ChatGPT than a human tutor, indifferent to the price. I am also developing my own app to learn languages, and I can get to Duoli
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by madsbuch 3y ago
I don't know if it is a bad rule. I am just questioning the return of investment on human written documentation. From my perspective, it seems to have diminishing value as we are getting other means of disseminating software documentat
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by madsbuch 3y ago
You beautifully highlight the economics behind why this is the future of documentation: > the documentation is terrible and LLMs summarising snippets from dozens of different forum questions and blog posts is the only alternative they ha
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by madsbuch 3y ago
Yep, you are right. I was not precise enough.
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I think that is a dogma future software developers seriously need to reconsider. Naturally, you are free to impose whichever dogmas you believe in for your own code bases.
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by madsbuch 3y ago
My expectation is that a LLM can assist with exactly this. It would even be able to be lead by what you tell it that you know – and it can do it much more cheaply than humans.
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by madsbuch 3y ago
Wow, that was indeed a hot take in my original comment. Net 5 downvotes for a comment that is not at all slurs and represent a genuine opinion about the future of software development. Anyhow, I am concerned about how the new wave of AI tec
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by madsbuch 3y ago
It might be a hot take, but I think documentation is mostly obsolete. Nobody wants to write it, and nobody wants to read it. How the future works is probably: 1. Tutorials / case specific guides 2. documentation-annotated code base rea
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by madsbuch 3y ago
This is only true for systems where comparative advantage applies. Academia is not one of these places (as they explicitly don't want to be a part of the economy, which I understand).
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by madsbuch 3y ago
> but that doesn’t make them a great author This is also widely considered a huge issue in academia. The dissemination is so bad that a lot of great research is never read by others. Academia is not a business. They barely can sustain
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by madsbuch 3y ago
If the bad wood working would jepordize the results of his, professional salary earning, work then he should probably consider learning wood working, no?

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