As google seeks to dominate all things digital, it gets one step closer. This time with language translation. It’s actually quite impressive to see the results. I read this article from the NY Times and was pleasantly surprised.
Check out the translation tests that the NY Times performed,
Human Translation of a passage from the Le Petit Prince
On the first night, I fell asleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human habitation. I was far more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean. So you can imagine my surprise at sunrise when an odd little voice woke me up. It said: “Please … draw me a sheep.” - Wordsworth Children’s Classics, 1995
Google’s translation of the same passage
The first night I went to sleep on the sand a thousand miles from any human habitation. I was more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean. So imagine my surprise at daybreak, when a funny little voice woke me. She said: “If it pleases you … draw me a sheep!”
It’s amazingly similar! Sure the original book may have actually been part of the training data, but you look at the other examples and Google out performs the competition most of the time.
If you came to this site in the last month or two you might have noticed some weird things happening. You look at a post and then you are redirected to some random site trying to sell you something. Turns out I got hit by a hacker targeting WordPress on Media Temple. Almost 1/4 of all WordPress blogs on my host got hacked..lucky me! If you are running WordPress don’t forget to keep up with security updates and keep your server perms in check. I haven’t posted on johnarroyo.com for months because of work, but that also meant I hadn’t properly updated my WordPress installation in a while either.
If you were one of the unlucky folks who got hit with some sort of injection or other attack, check out these posts. They’re helpful in cleaning up your site and keeping it secure. If you didn’t get hit, be proactive with your site security!
Wow I was just turned on to this new liquor, Bacon Vodka! I haven’t seen it yet, or tasted it, but I’m on the lookout. It’s a company based out of Seattle who started making it for their bar. Now they’ve packaged it up and have been growing. I’m not a huge fan of bloody marys but a bloody bacon mary sounds pretty tasty. Are any bars in California selling bacon cocktails?
The deadline to enter the Johnny Fiasco Remix Contest was extended last week. There are two more weeks left for you to upload your remix of the track and get a chance to win expensive prizes and get your remix released on Fiasco’s upcoming single!
Remixin has just launched the Johnny Fiasco remix contest for the song “The Reflex.” If you are a music producer, musician or DJ with some remix skills take a crack at the remix contest and win some dope prizes!
Are you a music producer, musician or DJ who thinks they have what it takes to make a top notch remix? If this is you then download the remix files from Remixin and show us what you got. The Grand Prize Winner will receive his/her remix released on Klassik Fiasco as well as great audio tools to make your next hot remix.
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Johnny Fiasco’s “The Reflex” Remix Contest
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Your Remix on the Klassik Fiasco single
Softube Epic Bundle – all seven Softube plug-ins
Ableton Live 8
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A tasty treat found by This is Why You’re Fat. It’s cone made of bacon filled with scrambled eggs and gravy with a biscuit on top. Yum, More bacon to put pounds on you.
It’s an ad for a new kind of gum, but it’s pretty cool looking. They have a flash website that goes through the back story a bit then has a simple live action game (like a luchador Dragon’s Lair). The site is slow, but worth the wait, http://www.chlorophyllo.fr/en/index.html
