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

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Post by pelliphant » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 12:19 PM UTC

toolslive wrote: post #69

pelliphant wrote: post #60

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Why? Sure, it would be nice with more languages, but if someone from germany/france/spain want's to learn study AI, isn't it probable that they are used to reading english anyway?

You would think that, but I've seen Germans with a PhD that don't speak English. Once a language is large enough, most things get translated into that language (as there is a market for it). Anyway, German and French are large enough, Dutch isn't.

do they only collaborate with people from their own university?

What about the tools that they use? do you get german translations for all those popular python-libraries?

How do you handle scientific papers? are those also translated, or do you only look at german research at german univiersities?

I would think that it would be pretty non-controversial to say that english is the lingua-franca of science today.

With that said, I could argue against myself in saying that it's nice of elementsofai to use as many languages as possible since this might be of use to people who are still far from university-level.

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

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Post by pelliphant » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 12:25 PM UTC

enriquto wrote: post #73

MartianSquirrel wrote: post #70

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I could be mistaken, but it seems like they translated it in EU countries official languages, which is why Irish is present but not Catalan.

Yes, it seems to be this. I hope this is a default list of languages, and more languages may be added if requested.

Ok, I can understand that it sucks that your language is excluded, but I think it would make way more sense to try to get your language recognized as an official eu language instead of critizising a finnish project for limiting their selection to official eu languages.

With that said, if catalan was added, would you actually use that instead of english for a course like this?

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

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Post by enriquto » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 1:38 PM UTC

pelliphant wrote: post #102

enriquto wrote: post #73

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Yes, it seems to be this. I hope this is a default list of languages, and more languages may be added if requested.

Ok, I can understand that it sucks that your language is excluded, but I think it would make way more sense to try to get your language recognized as an official eu language instead of critizising a finnish project for limiting their selection to official eu languages. With that said, if catalan was added, would you actually use that instead of english for a course like this?

> it would make way more sense to try to get your language recognized as an official eu language instead of critizising a finnish project for limiting their selection to official eu languages

I agree 100% with this. My intention is not to criticize the organizers of this course that made a very reasonable choice. The problem here is the rather absurdl (in my view) selection of official EU language. It would make more sense to me to declare English the sole official language of the union. This would not favor any big country now that the UK is out.

> With that said, if catalan was added, would you actually use that instead of english for a course like this?

Of course! I use all my software localized into catalan, even vim! Now, for technical documentation it is rare to find much in my language, almost everything is in english only. If this (quite serious) course was translated I would be even happier to follow it (but I might do it anyway if it was english only, as I'm used to it).