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Re:Banned math book by bobcostas55 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:20AM (#23976698)
Someone could produce a new, free version from the now-liberated original German though.
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Re:Banned math book by bombastry on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:11PM (#23977233)
That's true.

I found a copy of the original German (unfortunately in scanned, DJVU form), but it was somewhat tricky to find. This comment inspired me to upload it to the Internet Archive so that others can access it more easily (https://archive.org/details/methoden-der-mathematischen-erst...).

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Re:Banned math book by TomMarius on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:44AM (#23976941)
Someone with GPT-3 access could give it a go - it is able to translate, right?
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Re:Banned math book by snazz on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @02:23PM (#23979030)
GPT-3 guesses the next word or words after a given input, allowing it to write articles that make at least some sense. Translation of a textbook (especially math) would be way out of its wheelhouse.
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Re:Banned math book by bobcostas55 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:30PM (#23979726)
https://www.johnfaben.com/blog/gpt-3-translations

Or check section 3.3 in the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf

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