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Edit: it works! And you can browse my homelab details.
https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/homelab/

Homelab
Boris Mann's digital garden and personal site.

Human translators manage good #translation because they comprehend the original text, know its intricacies and can actually creatively write to preserve its gist. Context is more than the surrounding paragraphs: it includes the cultural and social background, other books, etc. Sometimes it literally involves getting hints from the author. And in the end, it is deeply personal. It can't be "accurate", because no two people are the same, and no two languages map 1:1 (though the interpretation will also differ between different users of the same language); the best you can do is add translator's notes.
LLM translators manage good translation because they've been fed tons of human translation work, and quite often they manage to match an original human translation and plagiarize it. They may even seem better because they seem to manage it without sufficient context, but that's only because they've found a human translation that had that context already.
Or, well, technically they can also regurgitate something that makes sense only in the irrelevant original context.
#NoAI #NoLLM

Music holds the power to whisk us away to distant realms, unmatched by any other art form. Dive into the intricate tapestry of big band and the timeless grace of classical music. These aren't just notes; they're mood enhancers, joy igniters, and potential dance prompts. Let these melodies inspire and motivate both your professional and personal journeys. #MusicIsLife #InspirationThroughSound

"No one that the authorities have caught has been proven to be a BOAK activist. In one case, the authorities claimed that they had arrested a BOAK member for carrying out direct action, but an anarchist political prisoner who was held in the same prison confirmed that the activist had nothing to do with BOAK or anarchism. The case of another person who was arrested last year and accused of being a BOAK member still awaits confirmation or refutation, due to the secrecy of the court materials. BOAK cannot confirm or refute such claims because it does not preserve the personal details of its contacts."
I'm just saying, take some notes y'all.

80s: rise of personal computing
90s: the Internet changes everything
00s: the Web 2.0 revolution
10s: the age of the smartphone
*checks notes*
20s: anthropomorphized matrix multiplications