elucubra
@elucubra@piefed.social
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I got Disney with a telecom package. Then they added a surcharge because Disney raised their price. I cancelled my plan and got the bare bones fiber+mobile plan, got a parrot, grew a beard, cut one of my legs, one of my hands, and got a peg leg and a hook. Best decision.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You are driving your point home there.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I believe someone downloaded all the the part’s files and 3D printed one.
- Comment on Google Gemini’s AI image model gets a ‘bananas’ upgrade 4 weeks ago:
What do you mean? It looks like it finally got back pinkies right.
- Comment on AI Killed My Job: Translators 4 weeks ago:
Not really our case. We do English->Spanish, where we try to achieve the most neutral Spanish, as there are many local variations. Think truck/lorry, for example.
It's more translating expressions or phrases that don't convey the same concept. For example, "by the way" could be translated to "por el camino" which doesn't usually have the same usage. - Comment on Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 4 weeks ago:
LibreOffice also includes Base, while it's now missing in some 365 editions.
- Comment on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 4 weeks ago:
What the hell does the house oversight comitee have to do with a private endeavor?
Even if there was such bias, doesn't the 1st amendment cover it, as it does Fox, for example?
- Comment on AI Killed My Job: Translators 4 weeks ago:
What most people managing translations don't get is that they are essentially using the tools that translators use, but skipping the value adding step.
I've been doing translation as a side gig for years. Lately I've been doing some translations for an NGO that deals with addiction management, of which I'm part.
The materials have a lot of nuances, and need the translator to understand them, to properly convey the concepts.
The usual process for translation is to feed the original to a machine language translation software, and then work with both versions side by side, in a translation management software, tools that make editing and proofing faster and easier by a human, to achieve the best result.
Last time, someone in the organization, mono lingual, decided to do a handbook translation with ChatGPT, or something like that.
The they gave the result to a colleague and me.The resulting translation was exactly what we expected.
A problem was that some bilingual people were shown the results, and reported that the results were amazing, without realizing that they were commenting on the wow factor, not on the accuracy of the result, especially because they had not done a critical side by side comparison.
My colleague and I did the editing work, were paid less, but the end result was the usual translation quality.
The commissioning person at the org boasted that AI translation was great, obviating our work, to get their brownie points.
TLDR: translation has used machine translation as a first step for a long time, with results edited and polished by humans. Ignorant decision makers are skipping that crucial step, getting sub-par results, oblivious to the fact.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 5 weeks ago:
Ex university prof here (instructor actually. Lowest monkey up the tree).
Duuuh! No shit Sherlock! - Comment on Google CIO Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic” | Ruth Porat called for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear 5 weeks ago:
Don'tbe evil - Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 5 weeks ago:
I think there is. Letting the actual professionals guide, instead of the money people is a big step.
Something like McDonnell, and later Boeing, basing all decisions on economic short gains, instead of engineering criteria.
Bean counters shouldn't make decisions.
- Comment on AI’s Impact on Job Growth: AI is poised to displace jobs, with some industries more at risk than others. Is the paradigm shift already underway? 5 weeks ago:
While I'm 110% in favor of unions, they should concentrate on retraining. Those jobs won't come back, and forcing companies to keep using labor will make many companies less competitive, and will kill many of them, being counter productive in the long run.
We need different strategies.
- Comment on AI’s Impact on Job Growth: AI is poised to displace jobs, with some industries more at risk than others. Is the paradigm shift already underway? 5 weeks ago:
Something similar happened when computers appeared, in the span of a few years a number of jobs almost disappeared, like typists.
Companies had floors of people, mainly women, typing out documents, accounting departments, document distribution Airplane crews (first the radio/navigators, then then engineers, 50% of flight crews) etc.
When CAD appeared, most of the draftsmen lost their jobs,
When internet appeared, many others went out the windows, like travel agencies, many retail jobs, banking, and many more.
Robotics killed millions of jobs in manufacturing, and so on.
The switch to cleaner or more efficient modes of energy production killed millions of jobs in the coal industry, mechanization in agriculture...
Disruptive technologies do that.
The large picture is generally good for society, but for individuals it's devastating.
Not an easy problem to solve.
- Comment on Bird Calls 1 month ago:
Had a bishop singing outside my window the other day. He managed to snare a 12 yr. old choirboy.