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by pjfin123 6y ago
I agree I think especially for supporting a large number of languages your going to want to use online APIs so you don't need to store a lot of models locally. For common language pairs, or ones you use frequently it would be nice for
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Yes Apertium is great! If you go back in the commit logs my project actually started as a GUI for doing Apertium translations. Apertium does "rules-based" translations which works best for translating between very similar language
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by pjfin123 6y ago
Shameless plug for my open source neural machine translation project. A Python library and GUI with pre-trained models that packages the files needed for machine translation and makes them usable through a simple interface. https:/&#x
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by pjfin123 6y ago
I recently setup Emacs on a Windows work computer and the install process is definitely needlessly difficult. Other "popular" editors have a big download link on the homepage while Emacs you have to scroll through the lecture on n
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by pjfin123 6y ago
Is there ever going to be a production ready BitTorrent application implementation in Python or is just not feasible with the GIL? It would be nice to be able to use BitTorrent for basic p2p capabilities in a pip installable fully Python ap
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by pjfin123 6y ago
Interesting, I think I largely agree. However, I think the polyglot community is probably not a great representation of what would work for most people. For a lot of people, myself included, I think the choice is realistically between lower
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by pjfin123 6y ago
Yeah I agree (sorry I edited the original post to essentially say this while you wrote the comment). I also took a semester of Spanish in college and Duolingo let me (barely) place into the second level class. I've also been watching S
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I understand that and definitely a valid point especially for kids. I'm just making the point that in some situations there can be real benefits of using gamification. Like most things balance is important.
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The gamification of Duolingo is something that has really worked for me (as an adult). It has all the parts of an addictive mobile game that keep you coming back: a streak that notifies you if you're in danger of losing it (this is the
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This seems like something Apple may regret if it leads to anti-trust action.
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I you think projects like Mozilla and Firefox are important donations can really go a long way. If enough people even donated ~$5/mo to projects like this, which is less than lots of people spend for Spotify or buying coffee, it would
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by pjfin123 6y ago
Even the guestbook still works, just signed it!
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I can't easily link to it because it's still live streaming but at 4:10 in they seem to be debugging a local internet/HTML error on their iPads. Next level debugging in production.
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Ally bank (an online bank) has very competitive savings rates and great online banking/support.
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No one is offering to build an alternate store for snaps, Flatpak is building an entirely different executable.
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by pjfin123 6y ago
If desktop Linux is ever going to be mainstream there needs to be an easy to use "app store" where users can use a GUI to install apps which need to be sandboxed like on a mobile phone with defined permissions. Snapcraft is way ah
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They make it really easy to contribute! You don't need to make an account (you can though) and you read/review short sentences. I just added 75 recordings and it only took ~30 minutes. Also if you speak other languages you can con
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by pjfin123 6y ago
At least in the U.S. game rules aren't covered by copyright even though the art and any expressions of the rules are. https://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.pdf
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Argos Translate, an open source Python application for translating between languages locally without an internet connection. https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate
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"In 2015, Google was able to steal over 550 million clicks from Wikipedia in six months" As someone who has contributed content to Wikipedia and makes a (small) monthly donation this seems like a good thing. I support Wikipedia so
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If Linux is going to have any chance of replacing OSX or Windows for the vast majority of users it needs to have a uniform executable which Snapcraft seems like the best candidate for. Without a uniform executable a lot of developers won&#x
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by pjfin123 6y ago
Wikipedia says 2: "the countdown timer reached zero and ended 2 months and 4 days after it had begun" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)
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If you're a North American native English speaker with a college degree you can pretty easily get certified to teach English online to Chinese children with VipKid
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In Firefox I set all my bookmarks with a blank title so the bookmark bar is just a list of icons from my top sites that I can click on easily + a couple of folders.