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[Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown]

One of my goals this year is to invest in translations for 3blue1brown. I’d like to hire translators directly, preferably ones with experience teaching, and who are willing to help experiment with some software tools which I hope can make the process less tedious.

Full job posting: https://t.co/IxqP1pAhVO

Application: https://t.co/VOj2iFTQyW

For early experiments, we’re budgeting for five languages (Arabic, French, German, Spanish, Hindi). If you’re interested in helping out with other languages, feel free to apply, and if we have the capacity to hire more or coordinate volunteer efforts, we’ll let you know.

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Relatedly, last year my friend @beneater put together a site to help coordinate text translations for videos. YouTube used to have a feature like this, but it was discontinued. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has helped submit translations there, it’s not only directly useful for subtitles, but it’s a helpful first step for any dubs.

https://t.co/auv7Cx5r1c

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A number of companies, including YouTube, have been pushing AI dubs. Many of them generate a voice that sounds like the original narrator, which is a bit mind-blowing at first, but my overall impression is that once you get past that first wow factor, AI dubs are simply not that engaging.

I would much rather the voice of the channel in Spanish (or any other language) be a real voice that conveys the feeling of a friendly math teacher than have it be something that vaguely sounds like me.

[Jesin🌹 @Jesin00]

@fabianstelzer @ESYudkowsky Well it's certainly not E, since the surjective mapping does not have to be practically applicable. A seems strongest to me *if true*, though I'm not sure how you'd prove it. D seems more relevant to this *specific* argument, though. And I don't know what C means.

[DEI speedwagon (all eyes on Cuba) 🌹🇵🇸 〽️ @uhshanti]

it's incredible how many direct quotes there are in various RealPage lawsuits where landlords are WRITING DOWN stuff like "doing crimes is so cool. me and my boys just love doing crimes. doing crimes is our favorite thing to do when we're not doing crimes"

[Jesin🌹 @Jesin00]

@KnowingBetterYT @perrymetzger I was adding and simplifying fractions at 8 and understanding the rules for it. What is the fundamental difference-in-kind between that cognition and the cognition involved in basic differential calculus?

[Jesin🌹 @Jesin00]

@KnowingBetterYT @perrymetzger Clearly there is a minimum age for these things but it's a lot younger than you think.

[Laura Gabby @CarpenterLauraG]

Tell me you've never talked to a union carpenter in your district without telling me. We work 35 hrs per week, any more is OT. We bargained that yrs ago, so ya I'd say it's pretty popular with blue-collar workers.

[Jesin🌹 @Jesin00]

@3_under_scores_ @mdasilva1563 @infraexplained @_night_brain__ If you only ever apply it to surface parking lots, I don't see how it could go wrong.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

“Really we seem to like science and scientists. Isn’t the plucky hero in a movie likely to be a scientist? Didn’t Einstein attend lots of parties?”

Power likes science to precisely the extent that science supports power. When it doesn’t, science is replaced with Science (TM).

[bint al-shamsa @bintalshamsa]

One thing I learned from Hurricane Katrina: Whenever you see the word “looting”, mentally replace it with “salvaging”. America allows companies to salvage. There’s no reason why people escaping colonial climate catastrophes should even feel bad about taking things they need.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

Apropos the Zuckerberg/Rogan interview, an unintended consequence of calling up tech companies and telling them to censor harder.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

This remains the bottom line of the election: support for Harris started going down as soon as she made clear she was beholden to a cluster of centrist forces (refusing to criticize Biden, embracing the Cheneys, & in general tailoring her campaign to please jokers like Shor, Yglesias, & the Vox crowd).

[❄️raven, grogu's other dad :3🐦‍⬛ @theqaardulor]

"we didn't kill any living people so it can't be genocide"
wrong.
see Article II, B, C, D, E of UN's genocide convention. denmark is still forcibly transferring Inuit babies from their mothers to foster care, known as tvangsfjernelse.
https://t.co/sGsQgMLG8n

[Jesin🌹 @Jesin00]

@avianshocky @AnnieSFW a majority of their members were actually straight self-proclaimed "allies" anyway, iirc

[Vivian @suchnerve]

a success rate that stratospheric would be hailed as a medical miracle in any other context

[Jesin🌹 @Jesin00]

@chf75 @CUDAHandbook @sdamico Why punish someone for breaking a rule you never told them existed? Try asking them to stop first!

[Jesin🌹 @Jesin00]

@glassremy @swarley75042565 @CUDAHandbook @sdamico How can something be morally wrong if no harm is done?

[Jesin🌹 @Jesin00]

@patio11 Reputation is a resource. How much cash can we burn it for in the next fiscal year?

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

"We haven't totally gutted this institution's reputation yet, and as a result, words in it will be considered highly likely to be true. You might be able to write true words in other places, but they only have a hundred years of legacy here. Will we have this forever? Who cares."