Category: All Languages

Coding knowledge to “Standard Internet” can save years each for billions of learners

I spent much of the day tracing out software used by the Fu Ori teams mentioned in https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad31a1. It is badly organized by my lights (My first full time job was “scientific programmer” for satellite orbit determination in 1970) and I spent much of the last 26 years every day looking at ways to simplify
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Give Grok a public icon, force the Grok Team on X to be open and responsible

Dulwich Quantum Computing @DulwichQuantum BREAKING: Travelling salesman problem is in BQP! * We all trust IACR preprints these days. https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/626 Replying to @DulwichQuantum Give Grok an icon so its postings are clearly and immediately identified. Make the humans behind the green curtain (Wizard of Oz) an identifiable “Grok Team” where they can get credit and recognition
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RobWords about preserving rare languages, rare sounds, speech sounds, singing sounds, human sounds

RobWords: Britain’s Celtic languages explained at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mroBpgBw0gU This was very interesting, if a little “jumping around”. You said to learn languages to preserve them, but human memories are not good storage devices. Even if we learn to recognize, we are mostly not very good speakers or teachers. Not with 8.1 Billion humans to coordinate with,
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There is only one language for humans, but not every human has learned all words and related experiences,

Emily, Reading a paper, “The Languages of the World” and thought of you Languages of the World by Radoslaw Wojtowicz at http://languagesindanger.eu/book-of-knowledge/languages-of-the-world/ He is speaking about languages being lost and I was thinking that you are talking to native groups and cultures that might be dying out.  He mentions the Tobian language of Palau, where
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King Sejong and Hangul transformed Korean society and human potential

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Seeking_Research_Collaboration_in_the_field_of_Computer_Science_and_Engineering2 Jawad Khan, Have you found someone yet? King Sejong created the Hangul alphabet, and it allowed all people to write down their sounds, and to read them aloud. It broke the monopoly of Chinese script and enabled communication, long distance commerce and a stable society.   For the Internet Foundation I am considering a
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Speech encoding creates a permanent copy for sharing, record keeping, training humans and AIs

I asked ChatGPT to review a draft proposal I am making for the Internet regarding spoken language preservation for all languages, global continuing improvement of speech to codes for all languages, introduction of a compact but flexible method for encoding sounds, prosody, and phonology (encoded speech sufficient for meaning, for exact reproduction of speakers sounds
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