In the US, you can generally specify to your certified translators how you want proper names and place names written. I would suggest you or your friend talk to the translators again so that everything matches. It will also minimize future pains.
Also, USCIS usually has an "aliases" field on their forms, which would be a good place to put German government misspellings.
There are ... speculations that King Sejong was not fully independent in the creation of Hangeul. He may have delegated parts of the task to courtly scholars. (But all the evidence either way has been lost to history, and so speculation it remains.) There are a few "historical" dramas which make this their premise.
In many ancient and medieval monarchies, any major project that occurred with the king's approval was attributed to the king personally, regardless of his level of participation. Kings built plenty of castles, but they probably didn't move a single stone with their own hands.
The academic consensus seems to be that Sejong had a lot of personal involvement in the creation of Hangul, though. He was a quintessential nerd, after all, who didn't have much patience with the conservative officials who got in the way of his nerdy projects.
My understanding is that there are two possible unicode encodings of Korean, one of which (MacOS) is sound by sound instead of syllable by syllable (Windows). This is why Korean UTF-8 filenames from MacOS appear broken on modern Windows machines.
Yeah, it's stupid that Windows can't normalize the two completely valid ways of expressing Hangul in Unicode. If they can process e + acute accent = é, they should be able to do ㄱ + ㅏ = 가.
Having said that, MacOS also made the strange choice of expressing Hangul using the Hangul Jamo (by sound) Unicode block even when there are equivalent precomposed symbols in the Hangul Syllables block. Encoding each sound individually takes up 2-3 times more storage, just like with accented characters in Latin. Besides, if you just list sounds and rely on them to be combined automatically, what do you do when you legitimately want to write a sequence of uncombined sounds, like ㄱㅏㅁ instead of 감?
I must be missing something. The article claims that $1000 of compute (hardware?) was supposed to surpass an insect brain about 23 years ago, and we hasn't achieved that benchmark yet.
But $1000 of time on Claude Opus will buy 13 million tokens of output, or about 52,000 human hours of output content at typical human author writing rates. The content will be well-formatted, logical, and if well-prompted, virtually indistinguishable from that of an above-average human writer.
$1000 on DALLE-3 will generate 8300 images, some fraction of which will pass an artistic turing test.
And $1000 on AlphaFold will do things that no human can do.
So it seems Kurtweil was right on target, and AI did surpass human capabilities around 2023?
In both the article and Kurzweil's case, it just depends on how you want to set up the goal posts (which the article somewhat alludes to). If you want to measure flops and compare that way (which is similar to what you're suggesting), sure, we've surpassed human-level intelligence. If you want to measure capabilities like autonomous navigation (like the article does) there is still a ways to go before we have animal-level capabilities. Both discussions have merit. But it's a question of measurements and goal posts.
Umm.. this is a severe recency bias. What about all the things that humans can do that robots/AI haven’t yet shown promise in at all. Like basically any sculptural art, glass blowing, knot tying, or almost any athletic sport at competitive level like soccer. While you might say “that’s just a hardware problem not an intelligence problem”, you ignore the fact that robotics researchers have been working on this problem for decades and are nowhere near this goal. Even in simulation, we don’t have a compelling mechanism for autonomous completion of a task like driving cross country if it involves fixing a tire.
I personally consider the physically embodied tasks extremely challenging for AI because it involves continuous real time sensory integration and extensive nuanced tool use
Never heard of this before, but watching a few videos, the difference between small league and standard platform league is shocking, and highlights why the small league seems so impressive. Basically, in the small league the interaction with the real world is as sanitised as possible. It all seems tailored to make it easier to build those robots, so of course they're pretty good at it.
> games progress faster than humans can really follow, let alone participate in
Call me when Standard Platform League is like that ;)
> It all seems tailored to make it easier to build those robots, so of course they're pretty good at it.
They didn't used to be very good at all. There's a lot of achievement you're describing with that 'of course'. Progress was made where progress was available.
Of course humans are good at real soccer. We are duration-running social tribal animals with incredibly efficient actuators and energy storage. It seems tailored for us. Robots are good at other things.
Edit for footnote: The space of things robots are good at is not very large compared to humans. I've been in the robot business thirty years and watching their ecological niches grow oh-so-slowly.
I am not arguing that humans are better than AI at everything. But if you set the goal post at human-comparison you have to go apples to apples. Even non AI, even a digital calculator is better than every math genius combined at finding the 10 billionth digit of pi.
You're being sarcastic but there was a video from Ohio posted a year ago and retweeted by Rufo after the debate. In it, the cameraman in an African American accent was exclaiming that his neighbors were grilling cats. Hard to verify that they were cats from video resolution and distance to the grill, but they were distinctively four-legged, skinned, and three of them fit on the grill at once...
Unfortunately, there is no confirmation that it's actually cats on the grill, or that the cats were someone's pets, or that the grill belongs to a Haitian immigrant, and the video says it's from Parkwood, Pennsylvania.
I really wanted it to be true so that I had something to believe in, seeing as Trump doesn't have any policies for me to believe in.
It is quite depressing to see so many people take low information media, make very consequential inferences from it, and then share those inferences as fact. Humility is indeed a lost virtue.
- Eliminating vaccines is a terrible idea, but public school vaccine requirements are state law in my state. RFK won't be touching them.
- Gutting the health care industry? That's not necessarily a bad thing. Wasteful health care administration (passing the buck) was something like 30% of health care costs pre-ACA, and health care is now 17.3% of GDP. Shedding 1/3 of health care costs would bring our health care expenses to the same ratio of GDP as the UK. Of course it would also cause an unemployment crisis...
Pre-ACA it was hard to near impossible to get healthcare with an existing condition. Additionally, most healthcare costs are later in life. My fear is shedding costs is going to equate to only covering people who are young and healthy. But hey, it'll be cheaper.
> Nineteen of those studies were considered to be high quality; of these, 18 reported an inverse association between estimated fluoride exposure and IQ in children. The 18 studies, which include 3 prospective cohort studies and 15 cross-sectional studies, were conducted in 5 different countries. Forty-six of the 53 low-quality studies in children also found evidence of an inverse association between estimated fluoride exposure and IQ in children.
Looking at 12 month running averages from FBI UCR since 2012, crime has been in a generally increasing trend from the last minimum, which was in the 12 months starting Jan 2020, to a maximum in the year starting Dec 2022.
Depends on the context and social circle, like lots of post-slang terms for a class. It can be endearing (or endearing and patronizing), a general insult, a common adjective…
Some words imply the person you're insulting is unsavory. Some words imply "I have power over you such that I can do anything I want and you can't stop me."
The degree to which this violence is allowed in a culture also conveys the power of the word in play.
Another large client base for paper mills are doctors in countries where English is not a common language, and doctors are ranked based on publications rather than clinical work: they don't have time or training in research, their clinical work is in their native language, but promotions being entirely tied to publication count sets up a strong incentive to launder publications. Hospital admins aren't the most savvy about which articles in which journals are respectable, so they check boxes based on impact factor. The doctors write one paper themselves (to give seminars on) and pad their resume with a few papers nobody will ever ask questions about.
The model of PE in dentistry / veterinary clinics is to buy out all the private clinics in a region, then gradually raise prices. Small businesses would pop up, but the training horizon for new dentists / vets is quite long.
It isn't really about economies of scale so much as using local monopolies to set prices. They have a good moat because regulatory bodies have not regulated monopolies for 30 years, and professional organizations limit entry to each field.
Curious discovery on my part that VCA Animal Hospitals is now owned by Mars Inc (as in, chocolate bars), technically not PE as it's a private family-owned company.
Also, USCIS usually has an "aliases" field on their forms, which would be a good place to put German government misspellings.
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