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It’s been less than a year since the release of GPT-4, which seems to have been what prompted that claim. Even if the claim is true, many employers might not know it or believe it yet. Also, it would take time for employers to adapt their w
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Japan: It's very hard for companies to lay off employees here, and I haven't seen any reports of large layoffs in the Japanese business press. However, a lot of IT work is subcontracted to smaller companies, and cutbacks in subcon
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Stamps are still widely used, but these particular postcards ask for a handwritten signature. I suspect that the choice was made to require signatures rather than stamps not because forged signatures are easier to catch but because family m
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One result of that incident and the others described in the Wikipedia article is that insurance companies in Japan have become more diligent about checking that pension recipients are still alive. I am sixty-six and have lived in Japan for
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LLMs offer a big advantage over other types of machine translation: they can translate the source text in multiple ways. You can then pick and choose from among those versions to produce the final wording that you like best. Here are five t
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> At his last school, the philosophy teacher had become irritated. Deciding Georgios was a show-off, he shouted at this meek boy. After that, Georgios never raised his hand again. > Several teachers told me, “I don’t know how you do i
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by tkgally 3y ago
> I've never been to a 24 Hour Fitness, LA Fitness, or Gold's Gym that wasn't a sea of equipment hoggers, broken machines, random dirty towels, occupied lockers, and screens with CNN or daytime TV on. I was a member of Gol
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It’s not very common in HN posts, though. I also suspected assistance from ChatGPT. It’s interesting to read that the author is consciously learning from it.
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I was talking about randoseru with my daughter just the other day. She and her sister both attended Japanese public elementary schools and used the same randoseru for all six years. Though she was tall for her age, she complained about
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Yokohama here. I was exercising at home when the biggest one hit, and I didn’t notice it. I probably would have if I had been sitting down. I found out about the earthquake and tsunami only an hour later, when I got an e-mail from my sister
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Some other New Yorker typographic peculiarities: (1) Putting a semicolon before a closing quotation mark: ... did not hide their sympathy for Eichmann or their regret that he had not “finished the job;” a broadcast from Cairo ...
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When Silicon Valley's AI Warriors Came to Washington(politico.com)
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Major place names in Japan are romanized with the Japanese readings, but minor places use Mandarin readings. For example, a nursery school in Yokohama called 野毛山幼稚園, which is read Nogeyama Yōchien , has the label yě máo shān yò zhì yuán
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Thanks! We found each other without any problem. My friend was a bit miffed that I seemed to think that he would get lost. Otherwise we had a pleasant lunch. Later, I walked through Shinjuku and Kabukicho up to Shin Okubo to see how the cit
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I moved to Japan in 1983, and for the first few years I lived and worked near Shinjuku Station and passed through it every day. I also spent most of my free time in the Shinjuku area and wandered around exploring a lot. It took a full year
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> It’s also acceptable, when listening to a seminar, to ask “dumb” but constructive questions to help clarify some basic issue in the talk. I think this is one of the reasons I hit a wall in my study of mathematics forty-five years ago.
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If you’d like to discuss these issues, feel free to get in touch. My website URL is on my profile page. I’m not a programmer or expert on natural language processing, but I have worked on over a dozen Japanese-English and English-Japanese d
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That’s a great idea. I hope it can be done for other languages, too. I used to help prepare study materials for Japanese learners of English. The other editors and I would try to adjust the vocabulary to keep it at an appropriate level for
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Statement from the company: https://www.daihatsu.com/news/2023/20231220-4.html
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Daihatsu to stop all vehicle shipments over improper safety testing(mainichi.jp)
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https://web.archive.org/web/20231220061609/https://www.nytim...
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Seeking a Big Edge in A.I., South Korean Firms Think Smaller(nytimes.com)
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Yes, that’s an important point. When my kids were small, I remember being struck by how much public-domain material I noticed in Disney videos and at Disneyland. Few of the Disney properties were based on original ideas; almost everything w
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I enjoyed that sentence, too. It may be what led me to keep reading to the end of the piece.
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Thanks for the clarification!
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A web search for tortured phrases computer science papers suggests that this problem was first widely noticed and discussed in 2021. The reason seems to have been the use of machine translation from languages like Chinese and, maybe, writ
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I agree that Moby-Dick [1] is “far funnier, weirder, and gripping than you likely imagine.” But that is in contrast not only to contemporary novels that might—or might not—have been influenced by television. The vast majority of English-l
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Sam Altman interviewed as Time's CEO of the Year [video](youtube.com)
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The Price of a Passport(foreignaffairs.com)
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You are making a lot of sense to me. Thanks for the link to that essay, too. The point about programming-language nonambiguity is a good one. After I started using ChatGPT a year ago, it took me a while to realize that I didn’t have to be c

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