For added fun, introduce extra levels until you arrive at the conceptual equivalent of “translated to Japanese and back ten times”

After their deaths, the great translators of their times are scanned and distilled into software, so that they may be eternal ambassadors

Interspecies translation is a delicate task, requiring not only intimate knowledge of both cultures but also an accurate qualia mapping

the moment the “translating the output of machines” meaning of “machine translation” overtakes “translation of human languages by machines”

one german word which doesn’t have a good translation (see its root word) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841732332449067012/photo/1

how to best translate the library w/ its functions (retreat, reading, but also representation, signaling) into this age without being phony

translated: moon-stink-and-flies. freed-thoughts-in-the-night. prospector-tooth.

He translates from languages that don’t exist. Not just dead but never spoken. Exquisite poems conceived by pulsars, finally accessible.

djinni make “whoosh”, not “wish”. all they can produce is wind. translation error. so sorry.

It would be nice to have a calculus (to account for translation, friction, perturbation, etc) to explore the design space programmatically.

Finding little to talk about

The main problem with Jekyll is that is out of the way. Unlike other weblog engines, which are managed via the web, I come to the shell to type and process this. Perhaps I need to research a better workflow?

I am finding little to talk about lately, and that is keeping things here rather quiet. It is not only that I do not have much to write, but that when the desire arrives it gets lost in translation, mostly because of the way I have decided to handle this little space of mi … ⌘ Read more

If you have a weblog, read
Recently, one of the weblogs I used to read often closed it’s doors. It was kind of sad to see it happen, but I am sure sooner or later it’s doors will open for something, even yet, more interesting. It is (or was?) Joaquin Bernal “bitacora”, a weblog in spanish.

I decided to poorly translate his last post, which I found quite informative and interesting. I say poorly translate, first because engl … ⌘ Read more