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I always recommend yomitan and Anki to other intermediate Japanese learners, and if they try it they love it, but they only try it if I set it up for them.I combined an epub reader with a Japanese text parser and dictionary so that tap-to-lookup a word works with no setup. Then I added flash card creation and spaced repetition reviews. And a built-in 'explain' button that asks an LLM to...
That glossary also reads like this:
Why it matters Without a fabric, integration complexity grows quadratically with each new system. A capability fabric linearizes this growth by providing shared infrastructure for discovery, governance, and composition – turning integration from a liability into an organizational asset.
Anyways, I'm pretty sure the only reason you'd do this (watermarking) is to be able separate your own outputs from the internet. And if you can make it a law so all the other AI companies collude even better.
Today ChatGPT emitted a design doc that described our service to service messaging architecture as a "capability fabric". Notice the double noun, as if the a single 2-part word was thesaurused one word at a time. Unnoticeable they said.
I'm wondering if that would require a different UI or if... Say it just broke up the email for you into separate sentences and input them separately. Then you could click through the sentences one at a time in the existing chat carousel, would that work?
Reversing the flashcards wouldn't be much work, but I've heard that's less useful for learning, since for the English text there's be many ways to say it in Japanese. Happy to add features people will use though.
Goal was to make it easy to jump from textbook learning into immersion. I wanted to play video games in Japanese, and started by using LLMs and a notebook, but figured it would be easier to streamline it all in an app.- You input a sentence in Japanese (easier on mobile where you can handwrite kanji you don't know) - App translates the sentence, explains the grammar, and gives you a list of...