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Show HN: Ane Ninja – simply and quickly quiz your Japanese in various ways(aneninja.com)
3 points by applesan 3y ago|0 comments
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by applesan 3y ago
"The only areas where AI delivers the goods are spamming, scamming & shamming." I don't know why such hyperbolic statements are being made. I still find chatGPT useful for example when I want to find something that I can
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by applesan 3y ago
That's understandable,these tools definitely can be helpful, but learners should know their limitations and problems. Also I just think speaking to the actual native speaker is still much better practice, especially given tts quality.
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by applesan 3y ago
I agree that chatting and speaking requires different skill set. However I would argue that it is even more of an argument to not use speech recognition here (or at least not to force it), because chatGPT is chatting and learner is speaking
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by applesan 3y ago
Generally if you are beginner and want to actually learn the language, you should focus on the input not the output. Few problems I find with these kind of apps: How is that different from just using chatGPT? Why can't I just write my
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by applesan 3y ago
I don't understand, how is that different from just using chatgpt? Generally I don't think it is good idea to use LLMs for learning languages, especially if it wasn't trained primarily on that language. Also if you are begi
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by applesan 3y ago
I watched the video, but I don't think this is practical. You can't realistically learn Japanese with gpt 3.5 as it makes ton of mistakes, gpt 4 is better, but still wouldn't use it. Even in this video it doesn't explain
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by applesan 3y ago
It has nothing to do with Hwang. Hwang's paper was published in Science and he was called pride of Korea. In superconductor case we see infighting and even Koreans are very sceptical. If anything people who hyped this paper were mostly
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Long-Term Homeless Info/Advice [video](youtube.com)
1 points by applesan 3y ago|0 comments
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by applesan 3y ago
Pascal and Logo Turtle are programming languages I learned at school, but never used them outside of it. I hated them back then. I don't know if this was teacher or language fault, but these IT lessons couldn't be more boring and
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by applesan 3y ago
“If you watch all [the trailers], you know everything that’s going to happen in that movie. So how do moviegoers feel about that? There must be people, who, after watching all the trailers, don’t want to actually go see the movie.” That&#x2
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by applesan 3y ago
I get his point, but it may be too late for it as some applications even have backends in js.. However I agree that it is somewhat problematic that instead of creating new languages, we create frameworks (sometimes frameworks based on other
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by applesan 3y ago
I've seen some move to tildes.
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by applesan 3y ago
For me all the programs from adobe creative suite not working is the biggest reason why I'm hesitant to switch.