Totally not relevant, but holy cow Google Translate is getting good.
I swear I've read articles in plain English that were less comprehensible than this translated on, by a mile.
I swear I've read articles in plain English that were less comprehensible than this translated on, by a mile.
As an exercise, try translating your search queries into Arabic before searching. Then, let Google translate the results for you. It is hilarious.
> Nor are foreign books much translated: in the 1,000 years since the reign of the Caliph Mamoun, say the authors, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in one year.
> The fact that the fingerprint sensors on smartphones are not quite as secure as the manufacturers want us to believe, has already emerged with the first iPhone with this feature.
Ok, a bit awkward
> The technique has improved since then, the methods to crack it but also turn.
Uh, what?
> And not with the means of the analog, but the digital world - via machine learning and an artificial intelligence.
I agree that if you're scanning, you might not realize that you're reading a translation, but it's very obvious to me if I slow down and actually read it.
The technique has improved since then, the methods to crack it but also turn. The eternal cat and mouse game between team blue and team red.
So, apparently the first sentence means that the technique has improved since then, but so have the methods trying to crack it.
Though, to be fair, I have no clue what rumgeilt means and that was apparently just not translated at all.
Is what it was trying to translate, not sure where you/it got 'rumgeilt' from.
A more natural sounding translation would be:
The technology has improved since then, but, on the other hand, so have the methods to crack it
You could also translate 'wiederum' as 'in turn' which might exlain the 'turn' in Google's translation.
I know a little German, a little French and took Classical Greek in college, as well as Intro to Linguistics (where, iirc, we covered a bit of Swahili grammar for some damn reason). I am pretty comfortable with both weird idioms not translating directly and with finding close, if uncommon, matches between some other language and words or phrases in English. So, the "in turn" part doesn't disturb me. I mean, you could translate it as something like "They are taking it in turns" or "but the methods to crack it also got their turn to improve."
> One explanation could have to do with the text the algorithm uses to generate its translations. Google Translate works by drawing from vast banks of text, searching for patterns in language use to match future translation requests. Some of those texts include documents from the United Nations and the European Union that have to be translated into multiple languages.
(from first result i found for this bit of trivia but probably not the best: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/a-sec... )