Here’s an interesting piece on trends in and the future of machine translation: “How do scientists see the immediate future of translation automation?“ The general feeling among researchers is that translators will continue to play a central role in production of the high quality translation well into the future. They will also inevitably contribute to [...]
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The latest from the crowdsourcing gang!
When we get a lengthy translation job from a client with a tight deadline—a 30-page speech by a minister to be given the next day, for instance—we can’t have just one translator deal with the whole thing. We split it up among a team of translators, match each of them with a native Japanese-speaking checker, [...]
On chess and computers
A quick quote from “The Chess Master and the Computer” in the New York Review of Books: The AI crowd, too, was pleased with the result and the attention, but dismayed by the fact that Deep Blue was hardly what their predecessors had imagined decades earlier when they dreamed of creating a machine to defeat the world [...]
How dare he dislike my gadget!
The bloggers and Twitter users and whatnot are up in arms about an affront to their 2010 sensibilities: Hayao Miyazaki Compares iPad Use To Masturbation. Kotaku delivers the goods in an article that covers a wildly popular animator, a wildly popular bit of new tech, and a wildly popular activity. Think of the page impressions, man! Now [...]
iPhone fixed
So the iOS 4 update solved the number one problem I had with my phone (an iPhone 3GS). In previous OS versions, if you had ever saved a photo to your photo roll (one attached to an email you received, say) it would make your iPhone invisible to the computer as a camera when you [...]
