One of the BEST TED talks in a long time...

[jeSteR]

[se7entse7en]

OMG, so HE'S the one responsible??? BASTARD!

Cool new idea though.

[geForce]

I don't like how they put those squiggly lines and stuff through the words.. I'm sure that's not how the words look in the book.

[nature boy]

i got through 5 minutes and it was interesting, but what's the last 10 minutes about?

[se7entse7en]

using people who want to learn a new language to translate the web for free.

[nature boy]

neat.

[samuel]

Quite brilliant. Hm... I wonder if they could use the technology to translate documents, say like the Bible, into new languages?

[nature boy]

i don't know if they could do that, because they'd need to use context too. there will still have to be an expert on the other end to make sure things make sense.

case in point: online translators. they suck at best lol.

[Duncan]

but it'd be uber funny to see something as seriously studied as the bible get translated and read the translation

[nature boy]

Haha yeah i never thought about doing that. We should try and see. It'll probably be like the lolcatz version

[Duncan]

haha yea...

But i think you should watch the whole video nat. His idea is pretty neat and i think it could actually eventually be used to translate the bible. I suppose not perfectly, but probably much better than the online (or even offline) technology you refer to can do it at the moment. People may have problems with the eventual translation of the bible, but even so, we have how many dozens of different english translations at this very moment that nobody can agree on that is the end all and be all translation.

anyways, i think this is a really cool idea. I like his business model where he uses his technology to contribute to worthy causes while having a sound monetary use case.

[nature boy]

if you translate phrases at a time, then i can see it happening. but word for word, then no.

however, i didn't watch the rest of the vid so i don't know if that's what he's talking about.

[Duncan]

yea, they're actually translating phrases. Well, to be more precise, in the video, they even translated a whole sentence, and the theory behind it all could probably also apply to whole paragraphs or even chapters of books. It's pretty neat, if you have the extra 10 min, it's worth the watch

[nature boy]

it's hard for me to watch something after i already stopped haha. maybe i'll try again later.

i saw another cool ted talk today, i'll start another thread for it though.

[Duncan]

you mean like how it's hard for winnie/joyce to finish a glass of milk once they've stopped?