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Even if the translation is perfect and "real-time", it comes with a significant latency that will make any conversation less natural. Good for some situations while traveling, not …

The API would provide pseudoranges and also the carrier phase on some phones, so it should be possible to calculate a solution with corrections.

Here's my list, the three stars indicate the rating on douban.com: https://www.jiong3.com/gradedwatching/ I would personally recommend: Secret, On Children, A Sun, Light the Night,…

It depends. Sometimes I really learn all the words before watching, sometimes I just watch something without any preparation. Adding too many words to Pleco SRS over a short time d…

Thanks! I've actually watched that one a while ago but it's not available on Netflix in my region so couldn't get the subtitles to add it to the list. The version on youtube only h…

What's the name of the Taiwanese workplace drama? For people learning Mandarin I provide some information including word lists for a lot of shows on Netflix here: http://www.jiong3…

I'm also guilty of this. Related to this thread, some years ago I made a puzzle game with Chinese characters where you get a bunch of components and try to combine them to as many …

Not a structured method like Heisig but a dictionary for Pleco which uses actual etymology to explain characters: https://www.outlier-linguistics.com/collections/chinese

I've also learned the first 1500 characters using this book, not in one month though. The method works but has some problems. Maybe the biggest problem is that it completely ignore…

The note for your employer does not contain any information about the reason for the sick leave in Germany, the one for your health insurance does.

The big advantage of flashcards in Pleco is the integration with the whole app. If you use the Pleco Reader, you can add new cards directly from the Reader. You can also create car…

This is neat! Also useful for this kind of analysis: https://www.chinesetextanalyser.com/ I'm doing something similar but instead of reading native books I'm still sticking to read…

The website displays search results from several dictionaries: https://www.moedict.tw/about.html

I learned a lot about aviation as a kid/teenager playing the Microsoft Flight Simulator. All the important instruments, flight control, radio navigation, flight patterns etc. Good …

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My personal copy-paste summary of a similar topic on HN some time ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9784008 ): # Getting familiar with a new codebase ### Use the right too…

Not a parking lot, but a park: https://www.visitberlin.de/en/tempelhofer-feld-tempelhof-fie...

I was only referring to the time. "halb drei" is two thirty, which usually means 14:30 unless you specifically say "in the morning". The action in [2] would probably be added if yo…

For DeepL: -> À trois heures et demie -> 14 h 30 du soir, -> À 14 h 30, -> On va au cinéma à 14h30. Correct for everything but the first, not sure why it added "du soir". For the a…

Um halb drei -> À trois heures et demie Um halb drei gehen -> Aller à deux heures et demie Um halb drei gehen wir -> A quatre heures et demie nous partons Um halb drei gehen wir in…

How useful are visualizations like this for improving the performance of the model?

Unfortunately they don't provide any details about the model or the training. Would be nice to have an example as a baseline for real-time performance on iOS devices.

I tried it with a German poem (Erlkönig) and it seems like Shakespeare is in the training data... at least it's not regular English: "And if thou wilt not, I shall need violence."