Category: All Languages

Cheaper by the Dozen, compiling the Internet, the value of global collaboration

Continuing my analysis of the paper at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad31a1   I have been treating it as a blob of text and links. The 5+ Billion humans using the internet can find it with their browsers, but it is not easily absorbed as a piece of knowledge. There are different versions – the HTML+images at that URL.
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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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