teshigahara

At least it bodes well for my continued employment if Opus is the best model they'll allow the public to use

Indeed, his premise is quite flawed. Yes, you will have difficulty understanding everything you read at an early stage, but you aren't supposed to be able to understand everything. You read to heavily reinforce the most common words and patterns that show up constantly, and from that base you pick up bits and pieces as you go along.

Under normal circumstances, even if you grind out "knowing" all the words in advance you will still struggle to read any basic sentence and you've essentially wasted time because it's an unskippable step; to be good at reading you need to read a lot. He seems to already know Chinese though, so this might work for him since he is not really having to learn the language or specific vocabulary, just how it's actually written.

`Tests still passed. Build still passed. But now I have three files to maintain instead of one, and the "extensibility" will never be used.` sounds very LLM-like to me personally, but I wouldn't be willing to bet on it.

Unfortunately the service is very buggy in my experience. When I tried to download all of my photos data multiple times it gave me corrupted .zip files and half of the files were just zero bytes. Maybe I can blame Firefox for that though, I dunno. I should probably try again with Chrome before completely blaming Google

Exactly. Remember this is a guy who was "best friends" with Donald Trump. It's just a group of idiots who became rich and powerful through a combination of luck and criminality.

"Print characters" aren't hand painted on signs and you will rarely see it written in any context outside of extremely old books. There's no such thing as "print characters", anyway. Presumably you are referring to 明朝体 (although that sign you linked is actually 丸ゴシック, which is much more recent).

Besides, even if it was written down like that it will still be incredibly obvious. It would be like if you had your child try to copy Times New Roman and pass it off as the real thing. It's actually harder than writing normally unless you have a stencil.

No, this doesn't make sense in the context of Japanese.

One of these signs is written right to left:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQdiwLY...

https://auctions.afimg.jp/h1085974646/ya/image/h1085974646.2...

Which one is it? There is no way to tell unless you already know the characters. Unless someone could read the existing signs they would almost certainly assume they were left-to-right and make any new sign like that if they only had the characters to copy.

It would be much easier for a random Japanese soldier who actually knows the language to just write on the few necessary signs than trying to direct a prisoner to do so, who will probably end up making mistakes and make it almost illegible. This just sounds like a nice explanation but it's unlikely to be the case.

If you can't read the signs how would you know it's right-to-left? You are only seeing two unknown characters, you don't know which comes first. It's not about vertical vs horizontal. It's that someone who speaks English would assume that all of these signs they can't read are written left-to-right, and write the vertical characters they are copying in the wrong order.

I find it hard to believe that they copied the word for workshop (presumably 工房) convincingly enough that it wasn't obviously written by someone without any understanding of how to actually write the language. It's extremely obvious when someone tries to copy Chinese characters without any understanding of stroke order, stroke pressure, etc. The way that someone would show how a character looks to someone without any knowledge (ie textbook form) and how they would naturally write such a sign is also different. You would be able to tell instantly that a non-native prisoner wrote it.

Actually, signs were also written right-to-left horizontally during that period but it's likely that someone showing them how to write on a piece of paper would have written vertically, so they would probably not even have the knowledge to know the correct order of the text.

Many KVM switches do this, just search Amazon for KVM switch + HDMI/Display Port, but they're often not great in my experience. My last one only lasted a couple of years and would sometimes fail to pick up my monitor.

In the Japanese translation it was extremely obvious and I had to switch to English. The tone is completely off

I spent many hours configuring my Macbook for work (including installing 3rd party apps that let you do things the default options don't) and there are many aspects of it I wish I could change but can't (at least without a lot of effort), but I could happily use Windows with very few tweaks. It's mostly personal preference as to what "just works" in both of these systems, but it's certainly nicer to have the option to change things you don't like.

I also got very "ChatGPT" vibes from that comment but thought I was being too paranoid by the last paragraph

If it makes you feel any better the original is not the same as what is displayed now[0] so it did not take just one flight to achieve elegance, and also included some bugs which were mentioned in the errata later[1].

[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20070410053746/http://norvig.com...

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20150906100448/http://www.norvig... : ctrl+f "Update"

This is true for me, mainly because the major effect of psychedelic drugs for me is completely 'internal' to my mind. Actually most of my trips are basically just extensions of the last one because I just revert to the same (psychotic) thought patterns. It's a pretty awful place to be which ultimately led to me getting PTSD after smoking a joint and believing some awful stuff about my existence.

Seems like we were the only ones!

I wouldn't have been surprised if there was more though. I think the kind of people on here probably think too much/overanalyze stuff to begin with and my impression is that trait doesn't mix super well with psychedelics.

At least I feel like the fundamental cause of my PTSD inducing trips is wanting to explain the inexplicable.

Hope everything's going well for you though. I think it's especially hard to have this kind of PTSD because people don't take it very seriously and it's either socially embarrassing or triggering to try and talk about it to begin with.

I have PTSD from extremely bad psychedelic trips and this comment made me cringe (my PTSD must be getting better because I think at one point it would have given me a panic attack). I don't think I could have handled 6 months of that.

ゐ (wi) 𛄟 (wu) ゑ (we) 𛄠 (yi) 𛀁 (ye)

ゐ and ゑ (these days pronounced the same as Japanese i and e) are known by all native Japanese speakers, were used historically, and actually still see some use in certain scenarios (like signs, or names of things). The other ones were never actually used much afaik and only recently were introduced to Unicode at all, and are probably unknown to most Japanese people except those interested in this kind of thing.

Not sure how accurate this website is, but it seems to be blocked currently.

http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=https%3A%2F%2Fgith...