> The quality of translation using the traditional DeepL varies; sometimes it is better than Google Translate, other times it is worse. They are both quite terrible for Chinese, since they provide literal translation: The product is essentially someone speaking English with Chinese words, disregarding natural expression, nuance, and distiction between spoken and written language.
There's no machine translation that can churn natural sounding results from Chinese->English, but I find Google Translate better than DeepL for certain niches, because DeepL seems to have been fed nothing but traditional literature, while Google has a certain awareness of many niche topics and can accurately translate made up names from video games for example.
Here's a paragraph from the Chinese wikipedia on a video game :
>Honkai Impact 3[b] is a 3D role-playing action game for mobile phones developed by Chinese game developer MiHoYo. It is the third game in the Honkai series and uses the characters from the previous game, Honkai Gakuen 2[4]. The story background, plot and world view are different from Honkai Gakuen 2. It tells the story of the adventures of the heroine Kiana Kaslana and her friends[5]. It is an ACT game.
DeepL:
>Crackdown 3[b] is a 3D role-playing action game for cell phones developed by mainland Chinese game developer Miha Tour. The 3rd installment of the Crackdown series follows the characters of its predecessor, Crackdown Academy 2[4]. The setting, plot, and worldview are different from that of Wipeout 2. It follows the adventures of the female protagonist Kiana Kaslana and her friends[5]. For the ACT genre of games
Crackdown, Wipeout, Miha Tour are all wrong in this context.
And here's the free chatGPT (3.5?)
>'Honkai Impact 3rd' is a mobile 3D action role-playing game developed by miHoYo, a game developer from Mainland China. It is the third installment in the 'Honkai' series, continuing the characters from the previous game 'Honkai Gakuen 2'. The story background, plot, and world view are different from 'Honkai Gakuen 2'. It tells the adventures of the heroine Kiana Kaslana and her friends. It is an action-type game.
Since chatGPT is more than a tool for translation, here's the result from asking it to rewrite the paragraph into more natural sounding English :
> 'Honkai Impact 3rd' is a 3D action role-playing mobile game developed by miHoYo, a game developer from Mainland China. It is the third installment in the 'Honkai' series, featuring characters from the previous game, 'Honkai Gakuen 2'. The story, plot, and world are different from 'Honkai Gakuen 2'. The game follows the adventures of the heroine Kiana Kaslana and her friends. It belongs to the action game genre
I'd consider ChatGPT a winning tool overall, were it not for the occasional (rare in practice, but it happening even once is enough to make me angry) "I can't do that, Dave" from the AI safety bull. Google Translate doesn't attempt to filter speech. I can only speak from trying the free chat version of GPT. I have no idea as to whether the API is prone to this nonsense or not.
There's been a decent amount of research on the relation between stomach pH and diet, with animal species that have pronounced scavenger tendencies being on the lowest end of the spectrum, which puts an interesting light on the sort of diet the earliest humans may have had.
"metric vs imperial" has very little to do with the idea of "standardizing measurements". A foot is just as well defined of a unit as a meter and is not the historical, ancient meaning of "just use your foot". In fact, the Imperial units system was standardized and enshrined in British law before the metric system got adopted in France.
>It wasn't until empires and mass manufacturing that the need for "standardized" measurements.
You have the cause and effect backwards.
Mass manufacturing didn't create a need for standardized measurements. Standardized measurements allowed the existence of mass manufacturing. Mass manufacturing wasn't even close to a possibility before that. Measurements weren't created for a need that didn't even exist yet. You can read on the history of the various systems of measurements and their motivations that they weren't exactly concerned with ideas of "mass production".
>In 1669, Jean Picard, a French astronomer, was the first person to measure the Earth accurately. In a survey spanning one degree of latitude, he erred by only 0.44%
1669! that's long before any attempt at building mechanization of labor.
It's like how a lot of math was seemingly useless and existed just for its own sake until people found real applications for certain algorithms.
The obsession of a handful of people towards precision measurement is what allowed the industrial civilization to truly emerge.
It was a major pain to find how to disable this thing. In fact, if you google "AdvancedMicroDevicesInc-RSXCM" (with the quotes, to get a verbatim search) you won't find more than a handful of results talking about its existence.
It doesn't uninstall the settings panel itself, just the shortcut. Yes, the context menu shortcut is a standalone app package of its own. It's crazy.
After uninstalling this AMD crap the context menu went from taking a second to being almost instantaneous.
On other people's machines I've also remarked certain antivirus like Kaspersky causing major issues with 11's context menu performance.
I thought the new context menu was all about fixing the mistakes of the previous ones when it came to the nasty things people can do in extending explorer.exe but seeing the behavior of those new third party additions to the menu, I guess not.
There's no machine translation that can churn natural sounding results from Chinese->English, but I find Google Translate better than DeepL for certain niches, because DeepL seems to have been fed nothing but traditional literature, while Google has a certain awareness of many niche topics and can accurately translate made up names from video games for example.
Here's a paragraph from the Chinese wikipedia on a video game :
>《崩坏3》[b]是中国大陆游戏开发商米哈游开发的的手机3D角色扮演动作游戏。《崩坏》系列的第3作，沿用了前作《崩坏学园2》角色[4]。故事背景、剧情和世界观与《崩坏学园2》有所不同。讲述了女主角琪亚娜·卡斯兰娜和她的朋友们的冒险[5]。为ACT类型游戏
Google Translate:
>Honkai Impact 3[b] is a 3D role-playing action game for mobile phones developed by Chinese game developer MiHoYo. It is the third game in the Honkai series and uses the characters from the previous game, Honkai Gakuen 2[4]. The story background, plot and world view are different from Honkai Gakuen 2. It tells the story of the adventures of the heroine Kiana Kaslana and her friends[5]. It is an ACT game.
DeepL:
>Crackdown 3[b] is a 3D role-playing action game for cell phones developed by mainland Chinese game developer Miha Tour. The 3rd installment of the Crackdown series follows the characters of its predecessor, Crackdown Academy 2[4]. The setting, plot, and worldview are different from that of Wipeout 2. It follows the adventures of the female protagonist Kiana Kaslana and her friends[5]. For the ACT genre of games
Crackdown, Wipeout, Miha Tour are all wrong in this context.
And here's the free chatGPT (3.5?)
>'Honkai Impact 3rd' is a mobile 3D action role-playing game developed by miHoYo, a game developer from Mainland China. It is the third installment in the 'Honkai' series, continuing the characters from the previous game 'Honkai Gakuen 2'. The story background, plot, and world view are different from 'Honkai Gakuen 2'. It tells the adventures of the heroine Kiana Kaslana and her friends. It is an action-type game.
Since chatGPT is more than a tool for translation, here's the result from asking it to rewrite the paragraph into more natural sounding English :
> 'Honkai Impact 3rd' is a 3D action role-playing mobile game developed by miHoYo, a game developer from Mainland China. It is the third installment in the 'Honkai' series, featuring characters from the previous game, 'Honkai Gakuen 2'. The story, plot, and world are different from 'Honkai Gakuen 2'. The game follows the adventures of the heroine Kiana Kaslana and her friends. It belongs to the action game genre
I'd consider ChatGPT a winning tool overall, were it not for the occasional (rare in practice, but it happening even once is enough to make me angry) "I can't do that, Dave" from the AI safety bull. Google Translate doesn't attempt to filter speech. I can only speak from trying the free chat version of GPT. I have no idea as to whether the API is prone to this nonsense or not.