Worth looking at both the quoted text here and •especially• the linked page, which is quite good.
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@inthehands @Linza Fun fact: Have you ever wondered why the landscapes and architecture in Kiki's Delivery Service look so Scandinavian?
Miyazaki had visited Astrid Lindgren in Sweden, to ask for her permission to do an animated interpretation of Pippi Långstrump. She declined, but Miyazaki spent some time touristing around, photographing and sketching things he saw. He then ended up using that in Kiki.
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@bifouba
The would “right” is doing a bit too much work in that sentence, though. Remove it and replace “less useful” with “other,” and I agree.Fair enough!
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@inthehands @Linza I mean, I've actually recognized some of the places in real life - I saw the film before I visited Visby.
(His son did get to do a Lindgren interpretation: Ronja Rövardotter. But I haven't seen it, so I don't know if it's any good. I did read the book as a kid.)
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@datarama
I know just enough French to have read Le Petit Prince in the original language (with some struggle), and…it really is beautiful in French in a way that translations don't capture. “On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur” can translate into English quite directly as “One does not see well but with the heart,” but it just doesn't have the same poetry and magic at all.@inthehands @datarama No, but if it's a good translation there *should* be other parts in English that are better than the original French. As a translator you can't always capture a particular phrase beautifully, but you can average the beauty over the whole text.
The same applies to humour. Some jokes don't translate but you'll spot an opportunity to get one in elsewhere that wouldn't work in the source language.
Needless to say, machines don't bother doing this.
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IT WAS IN THE TRAINING DATA. Your test gave the machine a pile of correct answers and free license to plagiarize.
I remember people being wowed that Claude Code could implement a complete C compiler. But somehow it doesn’t sound quite as impressive when you phrase it as “given every existing C compiler as input, the LLM can produce a C compiler as output.”
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The real world measurements of CCC were very bad: https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/
One of the SQLite benchmarks had a
158,129x slowdown
If you read the blog post in detail:
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
you will see that they could not longer add new features w/o breaking old features. So effectively it was a dead end long before it could become useful in any real world contexts.
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