@prologic@twtxt.net check out this project for detecting language in two like strings. Could be useful when paired with translation services.

https://redd.it/o50ukf

Python is the second-best language for everything.

Potentially. What environment/language(s) are you working in? I’d dump fuse for 9p, personally :-)

someone (not me) should try to learn the 1k most common words in as many languages as possible

Notes on Learning Languages
I get asked a lot about learning languages, so I have a few comments about it here.Hopefully I can awaken you from some dogmatic slumbers about language.

This is hard for people to understand because I think most monolingual people think that languages are just different word lists that people use.As a result, 101 students will manually look up every word in the dictionary to translate.This actually … ⌘ Read more

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Learning European Languages (Michel Thomas)

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I’ve said on a couple livestreams that the ideal way for an English speaker to begin learning or excel in learning other major European languages (Spanish, French, Italian and German) is to use Michel Thomas’s audiotapes. They can be found for free on Pirate Bay and other sites, but you can also buy them [on his official … ⌘ Read more

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Learn Latin

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Latin was the first language I learned and has probably been the most useful. Here I’ll talk about some of the things it’s gotten me and some recommendations for how to learn it well.

Latin, as you probably know is the ancestor of Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, etc. Once you know Latin, it is quite literally downhill learning any of these. In college … ⌘ Read more

Learn Chinese

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Chinese is the hardest language to learn according to normies who have never tried to learn it.

In reality, Chinese is really easy. It has literally no complex morphology: no tense, plurals, gender. It doesn’t have irregular verbs or nouns because it has no verb and noun endings whatsoever. It’s almost difficult to explain how easy Chinese is.

The only different thing is the writing system which is I hesitate to say anachronistic. The Chinese character system i … ⌘ Read more

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk excellent! We could add a translate twt for twts of another language to the UI with this.

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk excellent! We could add a translate twt for twts of another language to the UI with this.

Is there a usable API for language translation? Non-Google preferable.

Is there a usable API for language translation? Non-Google preferable.

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@prologic@twtxt.net I would to build a Chinese version, have you considered supporting different languages? I translated a README file.

A calm, reasoned take on the Stallman situation (some language warning as the creator doesn’t mind dropping an F-bomb now and then): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHxY-QsQkQ

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “@niplav (#xvbnyma) Fascinating. :-) Suspect #RMS would have a violent physical reaction – accompanied by some salty language – after even a moment’s contemplation of life under such complicity. :-D” -> He is a very unreasonable man <3

Barriers to entry are invisible. They are invisible to people on the inside and most frequently invisible to people who have a hand in creating those barriers. Go is not an easy language | Hacker News

Mulling switching gears for the Mu shell to a less ambitious Lisp-based language: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105771735864653468

@prologic@twtxt.net would that need a NLP library? The lang would be great for a search engine to find language prefs.

@prologic@twtxt.net would that need a NLP library? The lang would be great for a search engine to find language prefs.

Rendering text on bare-metal x86, with an eye to non-Latin languages: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105542032656082045

⌘ https://eli.li/2020/12/6/strubell-s-study-found-that-one-language-model-with-a-particular-type-of-neural-architecture-search

the concept of literally typed languages. as in, languages designed to be satisfying to type. #halfbakedideas

lil (little interpretted language) is a tiny scripting language with implementations in C and Pascal. Apparently, the author maintains it in a private !fossil repo, which is pretty neat: [[http://runtimeterror.com/tech/lil/?ref=hvper.com]] #links

the fe language by rxi would make for a great frontend for generating txtvm code maybe #halfbakedideas

@eli_oat@txt.eli.li happy to be an enabler :) I keep finding new uses for Janet as well! It has proven to be a remarkable extension language for !weewiki.

suddenly I have an urge to build a concatenative macro language to go along with this !txtvm project of mine. Together, they maybe could build a more @!(ref “thoughtful_programming” “thoughtful”)!@ !runt? #halfbakedideas

LC is a new music programming language that is prototype-based, strongly timed, and designed with microsound synthesis in mind: [[https://www.hnishino.com/2019/05/09/lc-a-new-computer-music-programming-language-with-three-core-features/]] #links #composition

When you’re stuck in a foreign country and ask some guy for the way and the only language you share is Enochian, you just know it’s going to be a fun day

Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model | VentureBeat ⌘ https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/22/microsoft-gets-exclusive-license-for-openais-gpt-3-language-model/

occasionally, translations are better than the originals, so why not take your favorite book and try and craft the perfect language for it

CodeGen: Semantic’s improved language support system ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-08-04-codegen-semantics-improved-language-support-system/

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used to construct the next level of language AI. In fact, why not get on it early, you can now shape how those prompts will turn out in the next generation

GPT3 prompt:↵I am the very model of a language that’s electrical,↵I’ve information prosaic, poetical and factual,↵I know my tropes and characters and quote novels historical,↵from prompts alone generate sentences quite analytical

Series on Old Norse and Language Learning? ⌘

Linguistics Isn’t 60 Years Old!:Pāṇinian Approaches to Language ⌘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yZ91YUdRfY

A tutorial on Mu the language: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/104385065026974197

A very-high-level language feature in Mu, in spite of bootstrapping from machine code: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/104305128661766343

New repository: aquilax/flash-cardon - Flash Cardon - browser extension to help with learning new languages by reading web pages

Mu language almost done: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103809142727508327. Now to make it safe.

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: The Worst Programming Language? https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/01/26/worst-language.html #programming #programminglanguages #thoughtexperiment #quora

New repository: aquilax/go-stemmer - Bulgarian language stemmer library in go for the BULSTEM rules

First baby steps in compiling the Mu memory-safe systems language: empty function; primitive stmt; function call.

Beginnings of a translator for a memory-safe language: http://akkartik.github.io/mu/html/apps/mu.subx.html. Just empty functions so far.

embedded scripting languages are all fun and games until you break their garbage collector

Next stop: a type- and memory-safe compiled language that can occupy C’s niche. Manual memory management. AND manual register allocation.

Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe 2015 – Alternative Transport https://alternativetransport.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/34/

GitHub - historicalsource/zork-german: German-Language Translation of Zork (Unreleased) (Infocom) https://github.com/historicalsource/zork-german

Wesley Aptekar-Cassels | Languages I want to write https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/language-todos

GitHub - Mercury-Language/mercury: The Mercury logic programming system. https://github.com/Mercury-Language/mercury

Random link from the archives: https://worldwritable.com/https-worldwritable-com-natural-language-processing-for-programmers-world-models-b01943959830 originally archived Wed Jun 20 10:37:12 EDT 2018

Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/

On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Language

Learn more programming languages, even if you won’t use them - Thorsten Ball https://thorstenball.com/blog/2019/04/09/learn-more-programming-languages/

Hot take: language is like sculpture, in that each word acts as a constraint that cleaves off parts of the infinite space of possible meaning.

The Programming Language Conundrum http://evrl.com/programming/2019/03/28/the-language-conundrum.html

‘The Wake’ Is An Unlikely Hit In An Imaginary Language : NPR https://www.npr.org/2015/08/27/434970724/the-wake-is-an-unlikely-hit-in-an-imaginary-language

The Siren Song of Little Languages – Wilfred Hughes::Blog http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2019/03/24/the-siren-song-of-little-languages/

Is there a language that actually stores booleans as offsets into a bitfield, instead of wasting 7 bits (or more)?

GitHub - lunarlang/lunar: Lunar is a superset programming language of Lua 5.1, inspired by TypeScript and Ruby. https://github.com/lunarlang/lunar

Language in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction: A Thesis – Linguistic Geographies https://linguisticgeographies.com/2019/03/12/language-in-the-age-of-algorithmic-reproduction-a-thesis/

GitHub - emina/rosette: The Rosette solver-aided host language, sample solver-aided DSLs, and demos https://github.com/emina/rosette

V Programming Language https://vlang.io/

GitHub - pcyin/tranX: A general-purpose neural semantic parser for mapping natural language queries into machine executable code https://github.com/pcyin/tranX

The Kernel Programming Language http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html

Orc Language https://orc.csres.utexas.edu/

Exploring Languages with Interpreters and Functional Programming 2018 Version https://john.cs.olemiss.edu/~hcc/csci450/ELIFP/ExploringLanguages.html

Who the fuck decided to call it The Moon is a Harsh Mistress instead of Fourth Generation Warfare With Fourth Generation Languages

The sample they chose to highlight here resembles the kind of paper a 14 year old would try & fail to bullshit after staying up all night partying right before the due date: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/#sample1

OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues – Approximately Correct http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/

GitHub - alhassy/ElispCheatSheet: Quick reference to the core language of Emacs —Editor MACroS. https://github.com/alhassy/ElispCheatSheet

What Language Do People Speak in the Balkans, Anyway? - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-language-is-spoken-in-the-balkans

Band name of the day: faulty language selection

societies that discover this technology before writing and become literate along a completely different path, hold hands to communicate abstract concepts and use spoken language only to talk to children or crowds, encode philosophies as puzzle boxes

Family spaghetti of programming languages https://erkin.party/blog/190208/spaghetti/

Starship crews, immortal for their job, don’t just die on arrival unless they choose to. Some become living gods to their mortal colonies, others hermits who return to the soothing familiarity of deep space or learn the language of the trees

Unusual core features for a dream language for small computing: MUMPS-style disk persistence of otherwise normal variables indicated by sigils, go-style piping between coroutines or greenthreads, message passing & guards like erlang, parsing backtracking like icon, constraint solving like prolog

Patchwork Epistemologies (Part 4): Warped by Language – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2019/01/30/patchwork-epistemologies-part-4-warped-by-language/

GitHub - rvanasa/funqy: FunQy - A high-level hybrid quantum programming language https://github.com/rvanasa/funqy

When do people learn languages? http://www.zompist.com/whylang.html

302 Found https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-networks-and-philosophy-of-language-31c34c0796da

Controlled natural language - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language

PKD in his novels had this underground comix sensibility, which meant that even by 50s standards the tech, fashion, & language was goofy. No film adaptation has preserved this better than Total Recall.

GitHub - yarel-di/yarel: Paradigmatic first-order reversible functional programming language https://github.com/yarel-di/yarel

The Programming Languages Zoo http://plzoo.andrej.com/

Why language might be the optimal self-regulating system | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-might-be-the-optimal-self-regulating-system

GitHub - LingDong-/rrpl: Describing Chinese Characters with Recursive Radical Packing Language (RRPL) https://github.com/LingDong-/rrpl

61: just one key labeled ‘sentience’. types out passable novels and essays when pressed, sometimes lewd chat messages. one time it was code in a language I didn’t recognize. locked it away after that.↵70: Egal was ich versuche, es kommt in der falschen Sprache raus.

What’s a useful programming language feature or concept that a lot of languages don’t have? - DEV Community ‘‍”‍’ https://dev.to/cathodion/whats-a-useful-programming-language-feature-or-concept-that-a-lot-of-languages-dont-have-2ep1

Fairly reliable indicator of a bad/naive post or project: the title or short description contains the name of the implementation language, but that language is conventional, commonly-used, or ‘general-purpose’.

Protip: leave recordings of old public access TV in languages you don’t speak on youtube on in the background, in order to encourage incorrect inferences & poorly targeted ads

On Programming Language Design - ielliott.io http://blog.ielliott.io/on-programming-language-design/

Conceptual Languages (Part 2) - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/conceptual-languages-part-2

Unnecessary and Kallisti: Purely Conceptual Languages - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/unnecessary-purely-conceptual-languages

Oou: The Insane Language - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/oou-the-insane-language

The 128-Language Quine Relay - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/the-128-language-quine-relay

A Programming Language With Only One Command and the Anti-Imperialist Operating System Built on it - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/a-programming-language-with-only-one-command-and

I don’t agree with this at all, but I’ve gotta respect this level of trolling: https://wordsandbuttons.online/if_i_were_to_invent_a_programming_language_for_the_21st_century.html