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by tkgally 4mo ago
As it happens, the current number-two article on HN is about a similar consequence of Chinese export controls--a car manufacturer developing electric motors that do not use rare earths: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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As a former freelance translator (1986 to 2005, Japanese to English), I have much sympathy for the writer. But I wouldn’t be so confident that AI cannot do professional-level translation. She writes: “I adapt, I localize, and I find the bes
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by tkgally 4mo ago
My first came in late 2016, when Google Translate switched from statistical machine translation to a neural-network-based system. I had worked as a Japanese-English translator and lexicographer for two decades, and I had been testing variou
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The focus of the course wasn't writing criticism or particular authors. It was on how writing teachers can teach current and future researchers how to write research papers. A narrow field, perhaps, but at the research university where
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by tkgally 4mo ago
> There is danger in evaluating for language patterns over its content I agree, but it’s worth noting that that has been done since long before LLMs. Fifteen years ago, I used to teach a graduate course on academic writing pedagogy. The
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Virtual Railfan(virtualrailfan.com)
2 points by tkgally 4mo ago|0 comments
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by tkgally 4mo ago
Quite token-intensive. I pay for the Max plan, and the regular dictionary runs consume maybe 20 percent of my weekly quota.
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by tkgally 4mo ago
Very, very nice. Since January, I’ve been having Claude build a static Japanese-English dictionary in which all of the kanji and jukugo can be displayed either with or without furigana: https://www.tkgje.jp/index.html I hav
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by tkgally 4mo ago
I was curious whether the distribution would vary from model to model. Here are the results for 1,000 queries each for smaller models in the Gemini, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek, and GLM series: https://gally.net/temp/202605
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by tkgally 4mo ago
I really like working from home myself, but I am starting to suspect that the organizations that thrive in the years ahead will be those with lots of face-to-face interaction. If most people are working remotely and having AI agents communi
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by tkgally 4mo ago
His LLM-wiki framework has been very useful for me for some personal research and knowledge-building projects I've been working on recently. When I get an idea for a new project, I first give it to Claude together with LLM-wiki.md and
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by tkgally 4mo ago
I’m teaching a class at a university in Japan (on AI-related issues, as it happens). I’ve been teaching for more than 40 years, but at 106 registered students this is by far the largest class I have ever taught. AI tools are very helpful fo
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by tkgally 4mo ago
I created a poster for Japan, where I live: https://www.gally.net/temp/20260518-japan-transmission-grid/... The image produced by the program seemed unbalanced because Japan’s southernmost islands were included ev
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by tkgally 4mo ago
Like what? Are you accusing me of being a bot?
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by tkgally 5mo ago
Same here. Presumably it will be possible to adjust that behavior with settings, the system prompt, etc. Not that most users will make such adjustments, though. I'm currently teaching a class on AI-related issues at a university in Tok
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by tkgally 5mo ago
I did that once about twenty years ago. I was in Seoul for a few days for work, and I had the last day free before my plane out in the evening. Without checking a map or guidebook, I got on the subway, rode a few stops, went up to street le
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Bonsai of the Imperial Palace [video](youtube.com)
1 points by tkgally 5mo ago|0 comments
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by tkgally 5mo ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I gave Opus the same prompt again, incognito with no search. It once again replied noncommittally: “I can't identify either author with confidence, and I'd rather say so than guess and risk attributing w
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by tkgally 5mo ago
I tried the same thing with a back-and-forth exchange that a colleague and I wrote more than a decade ago. We were thinking of trying to get the conversation published, but the project ended up going nowhere and the text has been sleeping o
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by tkgally 5mo ago
About thirty years ago, I was given a personal tour of an oil refinery in Yokohama, Japan. I was doing freelance translation then for a Japanese oil company. I mentioned to one of my contacts there that I would be interested in actually see
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by tkgally 5mo ago
I should have noted that it was twenty years between my second, unsuccessful attempt at the book and my ultimately successful one. Maybe sometimes one has to become a different person to get it.
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by tkgally 5mo ago
I couldn’t get through the book, either, the first couple of times I tried to read it. But on my third attempt I came to think that the obsession with whales itself, both Ahab’s and the author’s, was maybe more important than the plot. In a
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by tkgally 5mo ago
Side comment: I have recently used Claude Code to make a few sites for testing purposes. In the prompt I added "don't make it look vibe coded," and it worked pretty well: No purple gradients, bento box layouts, etc. Nothing s
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Ukraine's drone commander has Russian oil, troops and morale in his sights(bbc.com)
57 points by tkgally 5mo ago|38 comments
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by tkgally 5mo ago
Drop me an email; I’ll be happy share the code privately. My contact information is on my website, which is linked from my HN profile.
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by tkgally 5mo ago
> Claude Code is brilliant for personal apps. Agreed. The clipboard manager I had been using on my Macs for many years started flaking out after an OS update. The similar apps in the App Store didn’t seem to have the functionality I was
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by tkgally 5mo ago
Here's one person's feedback. After the release of 4.7, Claude became unusable for me in two ways: frequent API timeouts when using exactly the same prompts in Claude Code that I had run problem-free many times previously, and abs
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by tkgally 5mo ago
I had it produce a two-page manga with Japanese dialogue. Nearly perfect: https://www.gally.net/temp/20260422-chatgpt-images-2-example...
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by tkgally 5mo ago
If it’s any consolation, this problem of discrepancies in rules is very common at universities now. I teach at two universities in Japan and occasionally give lectures on AI issues at others, and the consensus I get from the faculty and stu
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by tkgally 5mo ago
That's my guess, too. I live in Japan and eat at fast food places from time to time. One feature of McDonald's is that the food preparation area is almost always visible from the customer area; I can see the people assembling the

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