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happy pride everyone
ohtori academy group chat getting into heated discourse over whether utena can use he/him pronouns as a lesbian that becomes utter chaos when utena chimes in with "im not a lesbian though I'm just a normal girl"
if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal
can't believe the only options are 30 minutes early or 10 minutes late. if only there were some other way. but what can you do
69ers but..... their keys
wtf are borders anyway. like yeah u were born on this beautiful earth buuuuut 😊 u cant go here. or here either
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spent too long baking an unnecessarily complicated cake for the birthday of a fictional character who hates cake. fantastic time would do again
HAPPY 4/13
neil banging out the tunes is 20!!!!!!!! heres my yearly redraw yay (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023)
17776 day of immortality + project hail mary + artemis ii is a crazy cocktail. drunk af off of the wonders of space and humanity’s unending will
It's a free play, buddy. Clock's all zeroes. It's after the end of the world.
A selection of strange and cryptic personal ads from The New York Herald, 1860s to 1870s. 17/?
having 40 minutes to leave the house is terrible because 40 minutes is basically 30 minutes and 30 minutes is basically 20 minutes and 20 minutes is basically fifteen seconds. but 50 minutes? 50 minutes is an hour, and an hour? ooobh thats plany off time
I don't want to be overly dramatic and overly negative about the AI translations I've been working with. They are bad, yes, but I don't want to overstate their badness because that would obscure the specific points I'm making. Some AI translations, the best AI translations, are not that bad. Some of them are still bad to the point of being unusable, but others are better. They're not good, but they're mostly serviceable, and it's extremely impressive that a machine can come up with something serviceable, something comparable to the work of a very mediocre human translator.
A client who hires a subpar translator who accepts being underpaid, in order to avoid paying professional rates for a professional, is getting subpar work. A client who uses AI to get work cheap and fast is getting worse than subpar work. But AI is getting better, it might soon be at the point where laymen can't tell the difference, and then, using AI instead of paying a human will mostly be a labour rights issue, and that's a far thornier question. (Note that I'm not talking about using AI translators to read something for yourself, or to communicate in your daily life: I'm talking about AI translation for publication, using AI for something you expect other people to pay money for.)
My actual point about AI translation is that even when it's fairly good, when it makes few errors and conveys the message intelligibly, it lacks something. I'm not talking about heart and soul here, nothing to do with some intangible human quality: I'm talking about specificity. AI works with great averages, and so it automatically irons out nuance. If you write something unusual, AI will assume it's an error, instead of an intentionally unusual statement. This is regression to the mean, and based on the texts I'm working with, it's an Anglophone, American mean. If you say something that's true of 1980s Hungary, it might slightly alter the sentence to "make sense" for 1980s US. Some alterations are factual, these are more serious errors but also easier to edit out. But other things are harder to catch, slight shifts in tone and valence, an erasure of the original, specific, non-American perspective, and the end result is a text that doesn't have anything wrong with it, but is markedly simpler and dumber than it should be. And flattening complex, knotty, peripheral perspectives into something closer to a monoculture is, in the long term, intellectually devastating.
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