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by tkgally 4y ago
I made a video last week about why ChatGPT is better in some ways than current dedicated machine translation systems like Google Translate. If anyone is interested: https://youtu.be/najKN2bXqCo
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Thanks for posting that. The results do look good. The examples are all short and from expository prose passages, though. Do you have any longer examples that include dialog, so the translator has to infer pronoun reference, the identities
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I worked as a translator for many years and have been following developments in machine translation closely. In my opinion, ChatGPT does represent a significant advance for machine translation. If you have the time to watch it, I made a vid
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An American journalist named Bayard Taylor was in Shanghai in 1853 when Perry stopped there on his way to Japan. Taylor enlisted in the U.S. Navy so that he could join Perry’s expedition as a clerk [1], and the notes he kept were later inco
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I just tried the same thing with an unscripted 23-minute video I recorded and put on YouTube in December. If I were to use Kagi’s summary myself, I would want to make minor changes to the wording in a couple of places; otherwise it is perfe
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My reaction, too. For an interview as long and wide-ranging as that one, the lack of any mention of safety or ethical issues stood out. And the potential impact on employment was just waved away with “I am confident that the sum total of va
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One method for doing that is catalytic cracking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_catalytic_cracking https://www.britannica.com/technology/petroleum-refining/Vis...
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Reminds me of “Books As Furniture,” a 1995 essay by Nicholson Baker. It appears in his book The Size of Thoughts. An excerpt: “Isn't the Book supposed to be in decline—its authority eroding, its informational tax base fleeing to subu
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I enjoyed this rant at the end of the article: “[T]he people who criticize the passive the most tend to use it more than the rest of us. George Orwell warns against the passive in his dishonest and rhetorically overblown essay "Politic
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I heard of an interesting case. A red-haired friend of mine who was born in Russia and, after living in Japan for many years, took Japanese citizenship was detained and questioned when trying to enter Canada on her Japanese passport. The Ca
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> You would have to make the rounds yourself informing the governments concerned you renounced their respective citizenship. The Japanese government requires that you have renounced your other citizenship(s) as a condition for acquiring
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Learning and teaching second languages. I posted a video to YouTube last month showing some ways ChatGPT might be used by people learning and teaching other languages [1]. From the comments, it seems that some people have already started us
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Where is “over here”?
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Thanks! That makes sense.
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The linked video is on a Japanese YouTube channel called Process X [1]. A couple of similar Korean channels are All Process of the World [2] and 프로세스 케이 Process K [3]. For the last couple of months, I’ve been watching a lot of these videos.
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Yes! Here is his 1919 book The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism, also self-published and also courtesy of the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cu31924026364251/page/n3/mode/
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This article made the HN front page without any comments, so here are mine: I knew about Upton Sinclair and read his The Jungle many years ago, but I had never heard of Mammonart. According to the linked Wikipedia article, “ Mammonart
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Your context-aware TTS is already sounding very good. If I were using it to produce a narration that other people would be listening to, I would want to make at most couple of minor adjustments every few sentences. Most of those adjustments
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Since starting working from home, I've tried a lot of different kinds of indoor exercise and have benefitted from nearly all of them. One I've been enjoying lately is using heavy metal rolds as swinging implements. Last month, I w
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I listened to a few samples, too, and my impression is the same: a few sound AI-ish in spots, but often I would not be able to tell that the reader wasn't human. I’ve heard better human-read audiobooks, but I’ve also heard worse. Most
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Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks(theguardian.com)
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A related problem is when a child is available to take over the company but turns out not to be competent and the company ends up failing. I’ve been living in Japan for forty years, and I’ve known a half dozen such cases personally. Several
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Just a personal note of praise for YouTube itself. I’ve watched videos on YouTube since it began, but it’s only in the past few years that I’ve come to appreciate what a great medium it has become. By allowing people to share content on all
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I tried it with several paragraphs of text. The many options offered—various voices with adjustable pitch, speed, and pauses, and customizable pronunciations for specific words and names—are attractive, and I can imagine a lot of potential
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David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy [video](youtube.com)
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> I think a true fan only applies to creative works that people consume for the sake of enjoyment. That was my thought, too. And not all creative works, either—rather, creative works where the personality and individuality of the creator
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You can also find someone else who wants to become a better writer and offer advice to each other. Reading another person’s writing while thinking about how it might be improved, and discussing your suggestions with the author, might benefi
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> School essays and actual essays aren't even the same thing. Yes. And one interesting thing about ChatGPT is that, when asked to write an essay about a topic, it defaults to the standard introduction-body-conclusion organization of
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Apparently not. I compared the result of the linked site to a Whisper transcription of the same video. While the word-by-word accuracy of the two transcriptions was about the same, the Whisper transcription was punctuated nearly perfectly a
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There are many types of contributions to discussions on HN, of course. But I will tell you the contributions that resonate most with me: Personal experiences and anecdotes that illuminate the general issue being discussed. Sometimes a singl

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