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by tkgally 3y ago
I worked as a freelance Japanese-to-English translator for twenty years, until 2005. After a break in academia, I am now semiretired, doing translation part-time and following closely developments in machine translation and in AI in general
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That is an interesting read indeed. I found the parts about not showing anger and not pretending to write like a lawyer to be particularly illuminating.
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I was going to mention ElevenLabs, too. Their samples are very impressive in how the intonation and word stress are varied based on the text’s meaning. Their pricing is a bit high for personal use, though. (The link you posted seems to have
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> Finding it at a cafe that doesn't also allow smoking was harder. As a long-time Japan resident, I had the same problem for many years. But smoking indoors in public places was finally banned nationwide in Japan effective April 202
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> Even with all of the online resources now, nothing beats learning from playing over the board, so it’s been heart-warming to see the gradual yet real strides chess in Japan is making so people can ... find more chess clubs near them
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by tkgally 3y ago
> ChatGPT is great at executing, but it’s not so great at coming up with new ideas. I’m not sure if I agree with the second half of that statement. Several times I’ve asked GPT-4 to suggest ideas, and it came up with some very good ones
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That sounds like the source! Thanks.
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Interesting example. I ran your prompt five times through GPT-3.5. While it didn’t use the name Hogwarts in those cases, three of the results had the character going to either the Academy of Arcane Arts (twice) or the Royal Academy of Arcan
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I’m not sure if it reaches the level of hype, but in at least one country where English is not the dominant language—Japan, where I live—using LLMs for language learning is frequently mentioned in the press and elsewhere. Some educators are
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> I'm wondering if humans are mostly incapable of producing great things without (artifical) restrictions. Here is an opinion to support your hypothesis from a couple of different domains: poetry and music. While some people prefer
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An article by a computer-science teacher published in August 2023 should specify the LLM used. Was the author using the free version of ChatGPT? If so, did he run the same questions by GPT-4, Claude 2, or any of the other LLMs now available
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> I think it's definitely possible, but it's up to them. I’ve been following public discussions about the Japanese language in Japan for nearly forty years, and I think it’s safe to say that there is currently no significant ad
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San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment(sfdora.org)
1 points by tkgally 3y ago|1 comments
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An academic institution I’m affiliated with is now discussing whether to sign this declaration, and I’d be interested in reading people’s thoughts about it. Here are some excerpts: “The signatories of the San Francisco Declaration on Resear
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You might want to start in Yokohama and walk north to Tamagawa Station. Then you won’t have the sun in your eyes so much. (That factor is more important to consider in the winter, though, when the sun is low and the sky is often very clear.
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Yes, building a mental map was one of my original motivations for walking from Yokohama to Tokyo. When I did the walk for the first time, in 2006, I was working in Tokyo and had traveled between it and my home in Yokohama hundreds of times,
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That’s quite a walk! Where did you start and end? For about ten years, I walked every New Year’s Day from my home near Yokohama Station to somewhere in Tokyo—Ikebukuro or Ueno or Asakusa, about 35 kilometers one way. Very memorable, as you
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@dang kindly replied to me as follows: “[AI-generated summaries are] definitely discouraged. We haven't added it formally to the guidelines (mainly because I think it follows as a corollary, or maybe a lemma, from what's already t
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by tkgally 3y ago
Thank you for the comment. That was the first time I have posted such a summary, and I wasn’t sure if I should or not. This was my thinking: The linked article is long and paywalled, and the title is provocative and possibly misunderstood.
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Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule(newyorker.com)
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I went recursive or meta or something and submitted the title and description of this submission itself. Some of the results: cyberXplorer on Mon Aug 21 2023 Wow, this is such a cool idea! It's great that you're providing a platfo
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Inspired by this discussion, I decided to see if I could get Anthropic’s Claude 2 to write a similar book about an ongoing news event—the tropical storm that is (as I write) approaching Southern California. It did very well—good enough to b
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If anyone is interested in how Western visitors viewed Japanese baths and onsen in the 19th and early 20th centuries, I compiled some accounts here: https://www.gally.net/jatsi/culture/bathing.html
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Related article: https://www.ft.com/content/1f0cee71-2a44-4080-8c79-b037243ac...
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Ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in Tokyo(reuters.com)
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This article was published in 2018. How much has changed since then?
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I can give an example of why some English learners’ writing might seem to be ChatGPT-generated. (I have been involved with education and research on second-language academic writing in Japan for the past two decades.) When you ask ChatGPT t
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I wonder if anyone has compared the impact of crossborder online services in English-speaking countries with non-English-speaking countries. The linked article focuses on the United States and on services provided in English. Countries wher
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If you’re writing in your native language and you are already reasonably literate, GPT-4 won’t help much. But if you are a scientist whose first language is Japanese or Polish or Tamil, you need to write papers in natural-sounding scientifi
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From the paper [1]: > For each of the 517 SO questions, the first two authors manually used the SO question's title, body, and tags to form one question prompt and fed that to the Chat Interface of ChatGPT. The generated answers by

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