F. T. Berner

Thank you @freypalm.bsky.social for sharing my little story!

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

Oooh, this is great. Thank you!

Thanks!

Where is this from? Which hill, I mean? It is lovely! Thanks for sharing.

Translators work hard to make sure that the translated words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, etc, not only convey the author's meaning, but also the author's *style.*

Translators are alchemists. They are artists, and poets, and researchers, and editors. They are magicians and wizards.

Happy Monday! After finishing the latest Thursday murder club novel, I just started with We Have Always Lived in the Castle. I always postponed reading it because I am very easily scared, so we'll see how it goes 😅

The title sounds intriguing, but from the Amazon description it looks like a self-help book. Is it, or is it more theoretical?

Sounds like a great program! I'm sure you'll enjoy Pratchett, and curious about what you think of McKenna

Coincidentally, I just started reading this yesterday

A copse of fir trees under a generous sprinkle of snow. A house peeks from behind them. On the bottom of the picture, a car ruins the magical atmosphere a bit.

First snow of the year ❄️❄️❄️

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Having visited Porto-Vecchio last summer, this sounds about right... 😂

Thank you for sharing, and especially for your reasoning on specific wording. Going through contracts (not only writing contracts) it's hard to know what to look out for. Stories shared like you did are powerful pointers. Thank you.
And I am sorry you had to withdraw your story.

This is lovely. It's just been a year since the passing of someone that was close to me, and I remember talking with her about robins. Thank you. 🩶

Yes, it has its uses. It's just... not good for many other uses, like translating books (to get back on track with the subject of the thread 😊)

Agreed. But even with non literary texts, MT often translates in such a way that is formally correct, but is unreadble/doesn't get the message through. Because it's focus is not communication but rather only 1:1 matching (even though it's not word for word anymore).

Oh, and of course those who created machine translation as it is today share the same lack of understanding of what translation really is.

Yes, this. People who use this kind of service do it out of ignorance rather than lack or respect.

This! The emphasis on respect is so important. So often AI is hyped up to “solve problems quickly” but these “solutions” always lack respect for the people that will be impacted by AI outputs.

Thank you! I just finished vol. 8 yesterday: it had some real gems and I discovered several new (to me) authors to follow. Thanks for publishing it.
Oh and the new cover is gorgeous!

Thank you!

This!

Thanks. I won't have enough time this November, but I wish you good luck!

Image: three figures in protective suits watch from behind a screen as a child approaches a door-like mechanical structure in which stands a man. Between them is an amorphous glowing shape. Caption: Scientists at the institute of halloween studies have succeeded in creating "The treak": a quantum state that is simultaneously trick and treat. It is stable for a millionth of a second before decaying into a half-hearted prank and a mediocre candy bar.

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

Thank you! I was thinking about NaNoWriMo this morning so your piece had perfect timing.
But more than the challenge I was looking for their prepping resources, some of which I used years ago. Do you (or anyone) know of something like that? Something that is worthwhile and free/without subscription

Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”

Years ago I loved God of Small Things! Currently reading Ministry of Utmost Happiness, it's beautifully written, though harder to get into.

The hydrangea is lovely! They all are, but the hydrangea is the one that touches me the most.