Doesn't anyone #proofread anymore?
Doesn't anyone #proofread anymore?
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@chema I'm a professional writer and journalist and I would *never ever* let #LLM #proofread or my texts. Never. Only real humans.
This has to do with the fact that good #editors and #proofreaders check a lot more than just word sequences. Above all, they have a feel for individual style (something that is completely destroyed by #ChatGPT) and know the briefing or exposé. @writers
BTW, #genAI can't even #hallucinate. For #hallucinations you need a brain. 😉
#Typo of the day - “blonked the years away” (was meant to be “blinked tears”, character was having a time). My fingers have always moved too fast on the keyboard and they’re stiff too, but thankfully I catch most things on a #proofread.
Picture of business sign that reads:
100% Natually
Gluten-Free Crepe
Umm, that's not how you spell "naturally". The food does look pretty tasty, though. #tswirlcrepe #proofread #proofreader #proofreading
And this is why you need someone to #proofread.
Browsing some old photos & screen grabs looking for something in particular, I stumbled on this rather amusing example of how important it is to #proofread and not rely on the #spellchecker
Dear #Elsevier, you had that #conference #paper since last July!
Your deadline for its publication was end of last September.
Flooding my inbox with over twenty #proofread #NOW mails during my 2 weeks post Christmas vacation is confirming my opinion of your enterprise.
Sincerely, pissed-off-scientist!
Yet again, I beseech thee, learn the difference between peddling and pedalling
Here's an idea, when authors publish books, they should put the text up in a git repo. so you can send them pull requests, say, to correct their use of peddle/pedal
Doesn’t this stuff just leap off the page at the PROFESSIONAL copy writers? Always amazed that a multi-billion dollar window company can’t proof-read…. I have always had “editor eyes” for the ‘small stuff’.
Uh, I'm pretty sure he's NOT over 630 feet tall, #bbc...🤦♂️
@BBC5Live
#Decimalsareyourfriend
#PROOFREAD
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#Paris2024
To the folks at #BusinessInvestor:
Mr. Buffet is a centibillionaire, as you note. He has over $10 million in assets.
He is also a hectabillionaire, with over $100 billion in assets.
If you casually underestimate someone's assets by a factor of 10,000 -- why should I trust your financial analysis on other topics?
MEMO
To: Autocorrect Gnome
From: Fat Thumb Guy
Dear Autocorrect Gnome,
I have explained to you before that "gour" is not a word. If I type "gour" you must always replace it with "your". Similarly, replace "gou" with "you".
As this is the third mention, the Personnel Department will now be in touch to explain the terms of your Performance Improvement Plan.
Until you improve, all access to peanut butter is denied.
Regards
Fat Thumb Guy
"...phenomenon which is still not very poorly misunderstood by science..."
Saw this is from a (usually) coherent poster on mastodon and I have no idea what he is trying to say. #Proofread your posts, every time.
Let me conclude that it is still tricky. For you to complete your transcription job,
1. remove fillers
2. removing mispronunciations and duplicate expressions
3. correction of typographical errors
4. removal of appropriate sounds
You must be able to implement these four things. In addition, you will have to rearrange the phrases in the order the speaker intends them to be before you begin proofreading the text.
In the past few days, I have been trying to find a way to get ChatGPT to handle these four processes, but all have failed.
No matter how precise I set up my prompts, ChatGPT never fully listens to me. It has very poor self-recognition, so it cannot explain what it has deleted in a sentence and fails to do what it has described itself to do.
There is no logic to it at all. It’s a problem.
https://kotaromiyasaka.com/will-ai-replace-transcription-work/
#appropriatesounds #chatgpt #fillers #mispronunciations #proofread #transcription #typographicalerrors
This morning, I used DeepL and Grammarly to proofread English sentences for my mother’s emails to her acquaintances. Then, I needed help with using LLM to improve my vocabulary. Because sometimes it includes inappropriate words in specific contexts.
But I can always communicate here about my mundane daily life despite my complete and utter lack of English speaking ability, which is truly a miracle created by technology, including LLM. As you soon discover, I can’t speak or hear English when you talk to me. Having over 1100 followers on Fedi is something of a miracle for me. And I always think that all English-speaking people. You are doing yourself a great disservice by not being able to grasp how mediocre most of the rest of the non-English speaking world thinks and how close they are to you. The bias brought about by the fact that it is a foreign language is very significant.
The three best cloud services I found worth the money.
I also loved McDonald’s, Apple, 7-Eleven, Costco, Uniqlo, SHEIN, Cup Noodles, TP-Link, Avira, and Nintendo, and I was unusually obsessed with the beauty of uniformed products everywhere.
While I was fiddling with my MacBook Air at my favorite cafe at lunchtime, news of Elon Musk’s addiction to illegal drugs popped up on my Firefish timeline.
Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX
He’s the very definition of a malignant ADHD patient trying to maintain his axis of thought by resorting to unscientific folk remedies.
Maybe I am strongly biased, but I think all people who are suspected of having ADHD by their doctors but don’t try to treat it have some form of aggression. Acknowledging oneself as a person with a disability and receiving appropriate treatment is a path to goodwill that contributes to society. Let me confess. There was a time when I had evil thoughts, just like Elon Musk. I had indeed fallen to the dark side at that time.
By the way, Inkscape has a feature for downloading public domain SVG material collections. Has that been implemented since version 1.3.x? I looked for version 1.2.2 and couldn’t find it. Soon, I found it in File => Import Web Image.
Then, I thought of learning from the quality of Inkscape’s sample materials. Because truly skilled creators can create something with design and character using only basic shapes and public domain materials and make “copyright” out of nothing. One of my junior girls has a clear view of what constitutes creativity under copyright law. She has the aptitude to be an in-house designer. She understands some of what it means to be a designer.
Even if you subscribe to expensive Adobe products such as PhotoShop or Illustrator, if you cannot highly abstract what you see (i.e., compose richer, more memorable representations with less data size) using a combination of basic shapes and free transformations, then you cannot be an in-house designer because you cannot produce something with copyright, what I have learned through Western music composition.
Classical Western music composition is like a 4KB Megademo, a competition aiming to produce more storable information with a limited formula data size. The originality of creativity in metaphysics is the ability to abstract what the creator sees or hears with a lesser combination of formulas. The difference between art and design is irrelevant in this regard. Although there is a compositional style in contemporary music, the spectral school, which imitates the frequency spectrum in its scores, has a large data size for its formulas because its degree of abstraction is not based on the free deformation of basic figures, and for that, they are not aware of the amount of information that the human body can recognize and memorize, so they made a big mistake. In defining creativity in metaphysics, the question is how highly abstract it can be. Deep Learning can only replicate existing data in a form similar to them, not decompose it into a form suitable for cognitive science. Therefore, LLMs are not currently able to create. They only violate copyright. If you deny the importance of abstraction, there can be no art after LLM.
I have relative and absolute pitch sensitivity to distinguish a 0.2 Hz pitch difference in pitch in the 440 Hz hearing band. Yet, I never understood the philosophy of the spectral school of music because I want to be friendly to all humanity. For example, the common illustration language for all humanity today is SVG, not the paper canvases displayed in museums.
In an instant, I have dismissed the value of fine art, but I don’t care. I was such an extreme globalist and standardizer that the University of the Arts faculty severely disliked me. It is not Western music if we cannot play on Web Audio in Mozilla Firefox because it is not standardized for all humanity.
“Stop composing with sheet music!
We are creating for all nerds!”
Kotaro Miyasaka
I used to shout all those things.
And I have always loved living my life as an ordinary person. I didn’t want to be an artist. I wanted to be a modern office worker who could modify some Vue.js, TypeScript, and node.js source codes. I was always ADHD, always longing for ordinary people.
So, “What is a normal person?”
Let this be the subject of my journal discussion today.
“People should standardize.”
Kotaro Miyasaka
I posted on Fedi, and one of my friends shared the following link:
“#ProductManagement must standardize for #accessibility:”
Sam Panini
I love Cloudflare now. I want to be a receptionist at a Pokemon Center. Because they have servers and offices everywhere, and they work 24/7.
They are so standardized that they are my dream. Unify the world!
However, I feel this way because their accessibility was of high quality!
Is it that products and services must be standardized to fit all the diverse users and not people forced to standardize?
If so, why did I long to be an ordinary, healthy, non-ADHD person?
https://kotaromiyasaka.com/what-is-standardization/
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