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Christian Paulsen
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Linguist, with a focus on morpho-phonology and Ancient Greek
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An excellent article from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social about a powerful ruling by U.S. District Judge William Young.

This quote from Judge Young's ruling struck me in particular, that even if there is no legal consequence for illegal actions, we should not shy from calling them what they are.
A screenshot of a passage in an article by Chris Geidner, it reads: Then, however, Young showed that he had a broader scope — that he saw the full picture here — noting, “The fact that the President is, for all practical purposes, totally immune from any consequences for this conduct, Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024), does not relieve this Court of its duty to find the facts.” In other words, “I see what you’ve done, Mr. Chief Justice, but I will still do my job.”
October 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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The claim that an AI translation of an article will be just as simple and accurate as that. A "1:1 translation" misunderstands translation.

Also, "AI" hardly "speaks all languages". Leaving aside unwritten languages, it depends on sufficient corpus to have anywhere a decent chance of making sense.
The first idea is translation to languages other than English. Those languages often have fewer speakers, and consequently fewer Wikipedia volunteers. But for AI encyclopedia, volunteers are not a bottleneck. The easiest thing it could do is a 1:1 translation from the English version. But it could also add sources written in the other language, optimize the article for a different audience, etc. We can further expand on these ideas. The AI speaks all languages, so in principle, it could use sources from all languages in all language versions. The problem is that the human reader wouldn’t understand most of them, so the references would be useless for them. However, different people speak different sets of languages, so maybe we could let the reader specify which languages they are comfortable with, display references to sources written in those languages, and hide the rest? So when you read an English article on e.g. Eiffel Tower, by default you only get references to English sources, but if you specify that you also speak French, you also get references to French sources. That could provide extra value if e.g. some detail is not mentioned in the English sources.
August 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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More birds in my yard today.
A California Scrub Jay standing on a concrete patio A mourning dove standing on grass, with a sparrow standing on a wood beam in front of it.
March 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Our local café has quite a few wild house sparrows. Here's one of them
A male house sparrow perched on the back of a white bench
March 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Some birds enjoying the afternoon in my yard
A small red-headed bird perched on a tree branch A small bird with a yellow throat standing on leaf litter A medium-size speckled bird with a black breast standing in some ground cover
February 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM