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Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Re: Elements of AI course to be made available in all EU languages

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Post by dustincoates »

tomcooks wrote: post #2

Country and language in a single drop-down menu, because in 2020 it's improbable that people born outside of a country speak any other language than their native tongue. Right?

That's not the way I read it, but it did take a while to get to that point. It appears as if the course has already launched in four languages, and the drop-down is for requesting regional variations of languages. If you want to take it in the existing languages, you can here: https://www.elementsofai.com/ (which is probably a better link overall).

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Post by mstade »

jacknews wrote: post #7

Only in English, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian? At least the language dropdown seems to be intelligable in all languages. Compared to getting stuck in google maps in, say, Russia, where even the 'change language' menu item is in Russian, so of course you can't even find it to change to English unless you can read Russian, or happen to know where itt is already.

I only see English (Ireland) in the dropdown.

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Post by yorwba »

tomcooks wrote: post #2

Country and language in a single drop-down menu, because in 2020 it's improbable that people born outside of a country speak any other language than their native tongue. Right?

If you were born in Hungary and live in Ireland, but want to access the course content in German as standardized in Luxembourg, you select "German (Luxembourg)". The country only serves to disambiguate multiple variants of the same language.

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Post by mdrzn »

jacknews wrote: post #7

Only in English, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian? At least the language dropdown seems to be intelligable in all languages. Compared to getting stuck in google maps in, say, Russia, where even the 'change language' menu item is in Russian, so of course you can't even find it to change to English unless you can read Russian, or happen to know where itt is already.

"We will start launching new languages during the spring of 2020"

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Post by qwerty456127 »

microcolonel wrote: post #3
tomcooks wrote: post #2

Country and language in a single drop-down menu, because in 2020 it's improbable that people born outside of a country speak any other language than their native tongue. Right?

It's the EU. You're not a full citizen (in the social sense) until you know the native language of your country of residence. How Czech are you if you can't hear the cabbies ripping you off?

Regardless to what country I was born in and what country I am a citizen of (by the way there are many full citizens who don't speak the language of the country particularly well, there is no such a thing as non-full citizenship, you either are a citizen or you are not) I have never wanted to study in its language (let alone use localized versions of coding-related software which I perceive as utter bullshit), wherever English is available I always choose to study and to interact with a computer in English. I'd never hire an AI/IT engineer who is not good at reading/writing/speaking on the subject in English and I doubt I'm alone in this. Arguably being able to efficiently communicate on the subject in English is even more important than the knowledge of the subject itself as nobody can know everything and be a good developer without being able to google things quickly.

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Post by dash2 »

Why are my taxes paying for some random course? How is this a sensible use of government money? Why not a course on flower arranging? Which "entrepreneur" wangled this boondoggle? What vast sums are they getting paid for a few tweetsie javascript animations of knn?

In short, WTF?

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Post by WanderPanda »

dash2 wrote: post #17

Why are my taxes paying for some random course? How is this a sensible use of government money? Why not a course on flower arranging? Which "entrepreneur" wangled this boondoggle? What vast sums are they getting paid for a few tweetsie javascript animations of knn? In short, WTF?

The EUSSR overlords know what is good for you.

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Post by jacknews »

jacquesm wrote: post #10
jacknews wrote: post #7

Only in English, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian? At least the language dropdown seems to be intelligable in all languages. Compared to getting stuck in google maps in, say, Russia, where even the 'change language' menu item is in Russian, so of course you can't even find it to change to English unless you can read Russian, or happen to know where itt is already.

As opposed to 'just English' which is more or less the norm in start-up land?

startup land is silicon valley, usually targeting the US.

An AI course targeted at Europe should at least include German, French, Spanish, etc.

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