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Re:The Gentle Seduction on Sunday January 04, 2026 @11:21AM (#46489429)
Where in the story does NLP (I guess you mean "Neurolinguistic programming" and not "Natural Language Processing") factor in?
Re:The Gentle Seduction on Sunday January 04, 2026 @11:18AM (#46489391)
It is implied in the beginning: he expects to die before the singularity because of a tendency of heart problems in their family.
Re:How the Brain Parses Language on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:57AM (#46272849)
Ah, totally agreed. At least there is a clear auditory / motor part in the tasks that seems quite separate.

However, I find it also unlikely that the networks are totally separate, and I wonder if there are any evidence of areas that encode the "core/abstract" linguistic de/serialization (multidimensional and messy internal semantic information ←→ linear morphophonological information) both ways, or at least mechanism that manages to use gained input network competence to "train" or "manage" output network competence.

Why? Because even though, as you say, there is a differing performance in perception and production, there is also plenty of evidence of gaining linguistic competence from input, and then managing to convert that to performance in output.

Thanks for the correction!
It's a Rust library (comprised of a bunch of crates) that wraps a high-performance, high-accuracy syntax highlighter (called Tree-sitter) with vetted support for almost 100 programming/markup languages.

You can use it as a normal Rust library, or you can use the JavaScript/WASM wrapper to highlight source code on a web page.

Re:How the Brain Parses Language on Thursday December 11, 2025 @11:31AM (#46233491)
> language production and perception are quite separated in our heads

Do you have any evidence for this?

I am a former linguistics student (got my masters), and, after years of absenteeism in academia, interested in the current state of the affairs. So: "quite separated in our heads" Evidence for? against?

Re:How the Brain Parses Language on Thursday December 11, 2025 @04:24AM (#46229308)
I think it's obvious that she means that it's something _like_ LLMs in some aspects. You are correct in that rhythm and intonation are very important in parsing language. (And also an important cue when learning how to parse language!) It's clear that the human language network is not like LLM in that sense. However, it _is_ a bit like an _early_ LLM (remember GPT2?) in the sense that it can produce and parse language, not that it makes much deeper sense in it.
Re:Making macOS Bearable on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @10:33PM (#46213712)
"But for 90% of web browsing, lifting my hand to the mouse is unnecessary friction"

By this point, I realized that the OP uses a normal mouse. The MacBook trackpad is so good that I feel weird using a mouse these days. Also, the travel between the keyboard and trackpad is much smaller.

Re:What will enter the public domain in 2026? on Thursday December 04, 2025 @12:18PM (#46150085)
My e-mail is [email protected] in case you happen to be around.
Re:What will enter the public domain in 2026? on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @06:07AM (#46133075)
That's NEAT! I live in Japan myself, and I am a passionate Japanese learner (and used to be a teacher too) of multiple decades. Besides, I'm interested in natural language processing and language related technology, and used to study second language acquisition research back in the university. If you ever take part into any tech / language events or meetups, it would be nice to hang out and hear about the development of that app.
Re:What will enter the public domain in 2026? on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @04:49AM (#46119482)
Note that the copyright is not about the source country of the work, but where do make/distribute the copy. Do you live in Japan, or are you interested in Japanese works? (Or both, possibly.)
Re:What will enter the public domain in 2026? on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @01:51AM (#46118366)
Because that table is "Entering the public domain in countries with life + 80 years".
Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @11:48PM (#46065770)
Calling people monkeys and losers doesn't particularly tickle my sense of humor. If anything, it reminds me of Linus Torvalds from his toxic ages. Fortunately, he has matured well. Andrew seems like a smart guy, I hope that he will have the emotional maturity to realize that you can be no-bullshit and straight to the point without the need to call people names.
Re:I hate screenshots of text on Monday November 10, 2025 @11:46PM (#45884198)
What I usually do to share code, is send a link to GitHub or whatever VCS portal we are using. Of course, this doesn't work with local, new code, but that's why we also use liberally draft pull requests to share unfinished code.
Re:Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:27AM (#45758342)
I also grew up where 90% of TV was subtitled (Finland, where, incidentally, the author of the article is from too), but I find the "good" anime subtitles better – for the simple reason that they make it easier to see which translation corresponds to which text.

Note that anime has generally more text on the screen that many western shows, so I think subtitling practices of some subtitle-heavy western countries, while informed and proven by time, don't necessarily represent optimal practices for anime.

But I think you are correct about the subtitle preferences of anime fans. The "general wisdom" of audiovisual translations is that great translations manage to convey the important point very succinctly, and a professional translator knows how to shave off the fluff to achieve subtitles that are quick to read and "fade in the background" in the sense that you don't even realize that you are reading them.

However, many anime fans actually LIKE so-called foreignizing translations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_and_foreignizati... ). I think this plays into the fancier subtitle preferences too.

Re:Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:12AM (#45758248)
The difference is that when there is text on the original video material, in the good examples the translations are positioned in the proximity of the original texts, and styled similarly, which makes it easier to understand what is translation of what, and generally improves immersion.

In the bad examples, the translations for the texts are mixed with the lines the characters are speaking, which makes it harder to follow.

Re:A Definition of AGI on Sunday October 26, 2025 @08:16PM (#45716174)
Note that Turing test allows a lot leeway for the test settings, i.e. who interrogates it, how much they know about the weakness of current SOA models, are they allowed to use tools (I'm thinking of something like ARC-AGI but in a format that allows chat-based testing), and how long a chat is allowed etc. Therefore there can be multiple interpretations of whether the current models pass the test or not.

One could say that if there is maximally hard Turing test, and a "sloppy" Turing test, we are somewhere where the current models pass the sloppy version but not the maximally hard version.

Re:Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @02:57PM (#45596937)
Also, Rust is not going to have it for the long run that pointers can be, in fact, disguised as integers. There is this thing called pointer provenance, and some day, all pointers are required to have provenance (i.e. a proof where they did come from) OR they are required to admit that POOF this is a pointer out of thin air, you can't assume anything about the pointee. As long as there are no POOF magicians, the GC can assume that it knows every reference!
Re:Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:15AM (#45592928)
I agree specifically with regards to GC; I think that focusing on being an excellent language for low-level programming (linkable language-agnostic libraries, embedded systems, performance-sensitive systems, high-assurance systems etc.) should continue being the focus.

However, this is 3rd party research. Let all flowers bloom!

Re:Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:46AM (#45592467)
The mechanisms that Rust provide for memory management are various. Having a GC as a library for usecases with shared ownership / handles-to-resources is not out of question. The problem is that they have been hard to integrate with the language.
Re:Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @08:41AM (#45502388)
That depends on the intent of the sentence, and the intent was only a guess of the GP. But you can analyze だけに in two ways:

英語に吹き替える to dub in English (the base case of 吹き替える)

英語だけに吹き替える to dub just in English (だけ + に)

アメリカだけに吹き替える to dub, just because it's America / as you'd expect of America (だけに grammar https://tanosuke.com/n2-dakeni)

Re:Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @02:33AM (#45499981)
Those were the days.
Re:Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @12:21AM (#45499358)
Not the GP, but I watch all my anime raw (often enabling Japanese closed captions), and I struggle to understand the above...
There is something off with the explanation.

At first, there is 16 fetches per row x column, 1024 in total. Then, it is observed that an input row needs to be fetched only once per output row, reducing the amount to 8 fetches per row, plus 8 per row x column, 8 * 8 + 8 * 64 = 576 in total. This requires the same amount of 16 numbers to be kept in registers.

But then it is claimed that by doing one quadrant at a time, all that is needed is 64 fetches per quadrant or 256 fetches in total. But that assumes we can keep 4 rows and 4 columns, 8 numbers per row or column = 64 numbers in registers! If we can only keep 16 numbers like above, each row of the quadrant is going to take 40 fetches, and we get 160 fetches per quadrant or 640 fetches in total, a pessimization from 576 fetches!

Re:Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? on Monday October 06, 2025 @09:24PM (#45498403)
It gets even worse, when the original mangaka typoes the name, and people follow a single typo like a religion. This happened with Kaoru Mori's "Emma", where a common English surname "Jones" was accidentally spelled "Jounse" by the author, and used in translations without questioning it too much, only later found to be written correctly "Jones" in a later chapter by the author herself.
Re:Identity Types on Thursday September 25, 2025 @10:32PM (#45381961)
However, that leaves you without any tools to check whether two things are equal or not, save for trivial, syntactic equality. It's like, in a programming sense equality declared to exist, but not actually defined.
The search within page functionality of my browser doesn't even find the word "tangential" in the document...
Re:I'm Not a Robot Game on Sunday September 21, 2025 @01:07AM (#45320213)
Okay, so number 8 got me...
Re:I'm Not a Robot Game on Sunday September 21, 2025 @01:07AM (#45320211)
Huh, Mr. Potato? Clearly that is a toy, not a vegetable?!
Re:I'm Not a Robot Game on Saturday September 20, 2025 @08:43PM (#45318995)
I made to the vegetable level. Tried various combinations but didn't managed to pass. Could someone tell the correct answer?

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