Chandrayaan-3 confirms presence of sulfur and other elements on lunar South Pole • Hacker News Board

Re: Chandrayaan-3 confirms presence of sulfur and other elements on lunar South Pole

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Post by perihelions » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 5:39 PM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #10

perihelions wrote: post #2

Was this written by a machine? It looks cogent, but its comprehension feels pretty off if you look closely. I.e. it refers to the bulk elements comprising lunar regolith – aluminum, oxygen, etc. – as "traces". Or that odd line about "faster than traditional sample returns". Or "The instrument’s success highlights Chandrayaan-3’s potential for unlocking lunar secrets through creative engineering." What??

> Was this written by a machine? No, it was written by someone for whom English is not their first language.

My complaint's sort of the opposite of that: that it's superficially polished and fluid language that, if you examine it closely, lacks sense.

I don't think this was written by a thoughtful, careful human writer crossing language barriers. I suspect it's an LLM told to summarize a source material (i.e. the ISRO press release), reword it, and append extra filler language.

(Indeed, there are also some awkward English grammar issues – in the original ISRO press release, which the OP fixes).

Re: Chandrayaan-3 confirms presence of sulfur and other elements on lunar South Pole

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Post by JumpCrisscross » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 6:34 PM UTC

jamal-kumar wrote: post #9

perihelions wrote: post #2

Was this written by a machine? It looks cogent, but its comprehension feels pretty off if you look closely. I.e. it refers to the bulk elements comprising lunar regolith – aluminum, oxygen, etc. – as "traces". Or that odd line about "faster than traditional sample returns". Or "The instrument’s success highlights Chandrayaan-3’s potential for unlocking lunar secrets through creative engineering." What??

Turns out when people try to write press release copy when English isn't their first language it sounds kind of funny. I see this alot in my own line of work. Honestly they're just making their best emulation of the kind of stodgy copy we tend to write in better english that's honestly so samey you don't even need AI to make it, you can just use a cheapo markov chain generator. [1] I use this for my lorem ipsum perso…

> when English isn't their first language

India is among the world’s largest English-speaking populations. “Official” Indian English is just a tortured evolution of Victorian English, so it comes across as bumbling when contrasted with the clean, crisp communication we tend to value today.

Re: Chandrayaan-3 confirms presence of sulfur and other elements on lunar South Pole

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Post by dang » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 8:01 PM UTC

Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37342914, which has the original source this article is reporting on.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Chandrayaan-3 confirms presence of sulfur and other elements on lunar South Pole

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 9:13 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #13

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