sweisman

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by sweisman 1mo ago
You should have stopped at "My comment is indeed badly written." You have not provided any clarity. It's a mishmash of bitterness and anger. There is no "of course". You are ignorant of history. In any case, there i
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by sweisman 2mo ago
By way of example, there are several comments by someone else noting a problem with terminology drift. This was genuinely constructive, and I fixed and repaired the problem, which I thought I had resolved months ago. These are the kind of c
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by sweisman 2mo ago
I got to be honest too. At least my name is public and on the record, along with my work. You are irrelevant. So is what you say. You haven't read anything. Are you retarded or disingenuous?
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by sweisman 2mo ago
Yes and know. The biggest problem I've experienced vis a vis hallucinations is tabular data. In prose, where context is anchored by surrounding words. Even the subtle points are conveyed appropriately. Check out a work or two.
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by sweisman 2mo ago
The biggest problem with hallucinations (or confabulations as Claude prefers haha) is from tables. Prose has context that anchors it. Hebrew is also much worse than Latin, which uses Arabic numerals. Hebrew conventionally uses the letters f
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by sweisman 2mo ago
Thank you. Your comments are very helpful. I am working on updating the translation agents and fixing the issue in the existing works. If you'd like, you can contact me privately and I will let you know when the updates are published.
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by sweisman 2mo ago
No, because I don't know what spiky means.
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by sweisman 2mo ago
Thank you. I have considered Arabic, as there a couple works I am interested in. My queue of Hebrew and Latin works is already lengthy, and this is my focus for now.
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by sweisman 2mo ago
Can you email me with more info? It is likely the distinctions you noted are from the source. There is a glossary maintained that keeps specific words or phrases consistent. But slightly different phrases can resolve in inconsistent ways. T
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by sweisman 2mo ago
Misleading in what way?
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by sweisman 2mo ago
I know what I know from experience. You know what you know from nothing at all. Numerous people have commented to me about Hebrew and Latin works, who know what they are talking about, and none has criticized the fidelity of the translation
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by sweisman 2mo ago
Judaism says revealed knowledge, as transmitted to us via our mesorah, is superior to empirical knowledge, such as that obtained via the scientific method. That being said, Ralbag, as we refer to him, or Gersonides, as you do, was both a hi
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by sweisman 2mo ago
Copernicus and Kepler have both been translated to English. I am focusing on works that haven't been. Gans met and wrote about his encounters with Tycho. It was these documented encounters that drove my interest in translating the work
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by sweisman 2mo ago
David Gans, in Nechmad v'Na'im, the first book I translated, states as a matter of fact that any wisdom obtained by the nations regarding astronomy came from the Jews. Ralbag's treatise was so significant the Vatican commissi
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by sweisman 2mo ago
Software development. I did work in an astrophysics lab decades ago, as one of my public repos documents.
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by sweisman 2mo ago
So, he's commenting on something he didn't read and compares it to shit? Good to know. I'll ignore him. I understand his point. Still, obviously my rhetorical question had in mind that what I do is good enough quality to make
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by sweisman 2mo ago
Yes. The rules vary worldwide. Do your own research. I did, before asserting copyright.
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by sweisman 2mo ago
Manuscripts are doable but tougher than printed works. Hebrew likewise is tougher than Latin.
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by sweisman 2mo ago
This is not what I use to translate. It was the first version to create usable output, and intentionally implemented in a code-free manner (today I have an extensive body of code in addition to the Claude Code harness instructions). Read my
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by sweisman 2mo ago
It's good enough for me. I'm not publicizing his name without permission. He is quite well-known and until I moved recently, was a neighbor of mine.
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by sweisman 2mo ago
I can assure you this is not a thin wrapper. Even the public repo of the first workable version of it is not a thin wrapper. You are welcome to try. It is not rocket science, but what I developed would take much effort to reproduce. I wrote
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by sweisman 2mo ago
Professional translators don't throw around the word "impressive" like that. You don't, yet I still stand by my work. I translated some books up to four times as I refined the process. The default behavior is repeatedly
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by sweisman 2mo ago
A professional book editor and Hebrew translator said the translation of the one work he checked out was "impressive". Others have responded equally positively to the Latin translations. AI as a panacea is overwrought, but there a
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by sweisman 2mo ago
Thank you. Your suggestion makes sense, and you are not the first to offer it. Maybe someday, although probably not CC licensed.
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Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts(arsastronomica.com)
109 points by sweisman 2mo ago|55 comments
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by sweisman 2mo ago
I built Ars Astronomica to make historically important works on astronomy, calendrics, and related sciences accessible in modern English. The project combines OCR, AI-assisted translation, editorial review, and publication into a workflow t
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Universal High Quality OCR and Book Translator(github.com)
1 points by sweisman 4mo ago|1 comments
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by sweisman 10mo ago
I wrote the test harness in Forth for a physics experiment launched on the Space Shuttle. https://github.com/sweisman/cass-edi
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Cuttlefish – Compact and Powerful RAT(github.com)
3 points by sweisman 3y ago|0 comments
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CASS-EDI significant space program Forth program source code(github.com)
2 points by sweisman 3y ago|1 comments

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