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炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

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Re: 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

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Post by setopt »

asddubs wrote: post #25
coder543 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Translation is difficult at the best of times. I thought it was interesting how Google Translate seemingly kept coming up with different translations for the name of the program. Under “Features”, it suddenly decides the name is “Takigami”, as one example. By the end, it even goes so far as to say: “When you start up the cooking program , the following screen will be displayed.” I asked ChatGPT 4o to translate the RE…

I think I would prefer a slightly worse translator program than one that potentially hallucinates new information onto the page

Google Translate hallucinates as well.

It’s particularly obvious if you translate between languages with vastly different grammar, e.g. Korean -> English, since Korean doesn’t require a subject per sentence but English does – so Google Translate then sometimes just inserts random subjects from its training data into the translated text. ChatGPT, by understanding more of the context before each sentence in a long text, seems to do this less.

For stuff like French -> English or German -> English where there is “no missing info” per sentence to create grammatically correct sentences, so that it doesn’t need to rely on context to translate correctly, Google Translate is great.

Re: 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

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Post by Barrin92 »

Dalewyn wrote: post #37
joshdavham wrote: post #9

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Haha can you read Japanese though? It's beautiful for sure and it even feels a little different when reading it as if you're, in a way, sorta sounding about pictures. But man is it a pain in the butt to learn!

As a Japanese-American, both languages are beautiful when used properly and ugly when used horribly.

Growing up speaking German and learning Japanese later, while spoken English, German etc can be easily as beautiful as spoken Japanese, I have to say there's a beauty in the Kanji/Hanzi writing system that just doesn't have an equivalent in our languages.

I started out learning Japanese because I liked Japanese culture like a lot of people and never was a "language guy", but at some point I just got addicted to learning kanji. When you can start to just guess what a Kanji means and you don't even know why that's such a satisfying experience.

Re: 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

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Post by Dalewyn »

Barrin92 wrote: post #42
Dalewyn wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Japanese-American, both languages are beautiful when used properly and ugly when used horribly.

Growing up speaking German and learning Japanese later, while spoken English, German etc can be easily as beautiful as spoken Japanese, I have to say there's a beauty in the Kanji/Hanzi writing system that just doesn't have an equivalent in our languages. I started out learning Japanese because I liked Japanese culture like a lot of people and never was a "language guy", but at some point I just got addicted to learn…

Think of kanji not as characters but as words (because they literally are) and you will realize English and other Latin/European languages share the same trait.

You speak German and English, so you can probably appreciate that you can "generally" understand other European languages even if you don't speak them if they share a common root like Latin. Kanji is like that.

Re: 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

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Post by wruza »

shannifin wrote: post #44

Would love something like this in VS Code so I could smoothly zoom in and out of my code rather than scrolling and clicking tabs.

See also https://www.raskinformac.com/features.php

Or if anyone wants to do an IDE like this, take it as an inspiration. Raskins thought it through very well.

Re: 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

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Post by esperent »

joshdavham wrote: post #10

Checking out this repo just made me realize that a good way to prevent getting spammed pull requests in your repo is to maintain it in a langauge other than English.

I've worked for maybe ten years in the open source space, as a maintainer and contributor. I've seen thousands of pull requests in that time. Some great. Most ok. Some terrible. All made by people who want to contribute in some way for free.

I've seen close to zero spam pull requests. Are these common?

Re: 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

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Post by PhilipRoman »

esperent wrote: post #46
joshdavham wrote: post #10

Checking out this repo just made me realize that a good way to prevent getting spammed pull requests in your repo is to maintain it in a langauge other than English.

I've worked for maybe ten years in the open source space, as a maintainer and contributor. I've seen thousands of pull requests in that time. Some great. Most ok. Some terrible. All made by people who want to contribute in some way for free. I've seen close to zero spam pull requests. Are these common?

Depends heavily on the area. I've seen a bunch of bots correcting nonsensical "textbook" issues in languages like Java. The more common the topic among new learners, the more random PRs you get. But apparently even projects like linux kernel aren't safe https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclose... (for context, this repo doesn't accept PRs as development happens in mailing lists)

Re: 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

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Post by stingraycharles »

esperent wrote: post #46
joshdavham wrote: post #10

Checking out this repo just made me realize that a good way to prevent getting spammed pull requests in your repo is to maintain it in a langauge other than English.

I've worked for maybe ten years in the open source space, as a maintainer and contributor. I've seen thousands of pull requests in that time. Some great. Most ok. Some terrible. All made by people who want to contribute in some way for free. I've seen close to zero spam pull requests. Are these common?

There are certain companies that “rate” candidates based on e.g. number of open source contributions. Some people then try to game this system by submitting a whole bunch of super minor errors to a lot of repos, e.g. small grammar mistakes / typos.

Re: 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

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Post by Kwpolska »

joshdavham wrote: post #10

Checking out this repo just made me realize that a good way to prevent getting spammed pull requests in your repo is to maintain it in a langauge other than English.

It’s also a good way to prevent getting useful pull requests.
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