I am looking for a short computer/online program that can be used to teach language. Specifically, I intend to have a short session (about 30 minutes) of language learning (Arabic and another language) for an experiment in psychology. Do you have a recommendation for such programs?
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I recently had my application to access GPT-3, the most advanced machine learning model developed to date, approved. It was trained off hundreds of gigabytes of data off the Internet and is capable of a wide range of tasks such as essay and short story writing, text summarization, Q&A, code completion, chat and so on.
For more examples and an explanation in order to gain a fuller picture of its capabilities I suggest this video or going to the official site’s examples.
With this in mind, what sort of GPT-3 driven language learning tool ideas/wishes do you have? I’m excited to use this technology and would like to create something useful for language learners such as myself with it. Other non-GPT-3 ideas also welcome.
Some notes on AI and personal limitations:
- GPT-3 can ‘speak’ a number of languages, but its capabilities are roughly related to the popularity of the language. English is excellent, along with Spanish and French to a lesser extent, but there are grammar and syntax trip-ups beyond that. I’m thinking of mainly using the English and Spanish models with DeepL + human oversight for other languages to have maximum quality.
- I am happy making command-line (terminal) tools, browser extensions, and websites, but will be unlikely to dive straight to developing a mobile app due to cost and unfamiliarity.
- GPT-3 can only output content up to ~2000 words in length. Drawing from a prompt (instructions) more than a few hundred words in length is also financially unfeasible. Therefore personalized graded readers are a no-go given the vast input size to create a long story from a wordbank and previous plot description.
- Being one person, the monetary investment I can make into developing this is very limited - while I have the time to train my own model, code the entire UI myself, etc. I simply don’t have the resources now to sink thousands of dollars into expensive fine-tuning of GPT-3, paying for human translation, making an app for video conversations, etc.
I have a background in computer applications but i don't like coding and computer languages, i am more interested in Internet, design and hardware technologies
I came from a label printing company of 2 years, I didn't learn a whole lot to be honest because I mostly stayed in the office and did file maintenance. I started at this sign shop on Monday and I'm liking it so far! Only problem is, the computer programs are overwhelming. My bosses are pretty cool and told me to just come in early and play around on the programs and create things to get a feel for it, but I don't even know where to begin.
We are using Omega/Gerber/Composer 6.5 and InDesign. I am kind of familiar with InDesign from my last job but it looks so different on these computers. I have tried watching YouTube videos on the Omega/Gerber program but can't seem to find any useful ones, even the ones uploaded by Gerber. When I watch my boss upload edit designs and rip them to the Roland Vinyl printer thing (sorry, still getting used to all the machine names and whatnot) she goes so fast and it's hard to actually see what she is doing and I don't want to stop her after every single thing she does to ask lol.
Does anyone know of some good tutorials or even just some advice as where to start? When it comes to hands on I seem to catch on very quickly, we did some wrapping yesterday which I actually enjoyed. But the computer is stressing me out
I've heard it's relatively easy for undergrads who are majoring cs in cmu to participate in ML/CV/NLP researches. But is it true for cs masters students as well? Since cmu is literally the best when it comes to ML/AI research, I think there will be a lot of opportunities for masters students as well.
To start with, I'm 29 and already have two degrees, a bachelors and a masters, that I'm doing absolutely nothing with. If I'd like to follow my passion, I'll likely need to start from the bottom again with a second bachelor's. I have a 3-year history of teaching ESL in East Asia, and I'm very interested in how games and technology (specifically spaced repetition tools like Anki and text-to-speech engines) can assist in second language learning.
I'm moving to Norway next year (long story) and have no idea what to study. (It's free tuition, so the main cost is time, really.) I've taken courses before in linguistics and computer science, but I'm not exactly a math wiz, and I find a lot of linguistics courses ultra dry and theoretical. I'd like to explore how technologies can best help solo learners and those in group settings acquire practical second language skills.
- The University of Oslo has a "language technology" bachelors which sounds perfect for me, but the program is ultra competitive, and I might not have the grades/points to get in.
- Linguistics is another option, but the curriculum seems rather dry and theoretical. Additionally, a BA in linguistics is kind of the archetypical inapplicable/unemployable degree. Even PhDs have issues finding work.
- Pedagogy is another option, but I have no intention of teaching in a classroom. So many courses in the degree are targeted at classroom learning, specifically for young children, which I have absolutely no interest in.
- Computer Science stuff would be the money-making option, but many of the programs require a strong math background, which hasn't really ever been my strength (I got a C in high school calculus). I'd like to avoid all career paths that require that I take prerequisite courses in math.
For those who have followed any of these paths, what would your advice be?
Hello everyone,
I need to do research on social robotics for an university project. My project is about whether language students are interested in learning to speak their target language and gain confidence in speaking in their target language by talking to a robot. If you have any spare time could you please fill in this very short survey for me?
Thank you very much!
I am currently a mechanical engineering student and know a little bit of coding, but intend to learn more. What are the most useful languages to learn, or which ones are easier to learn that can help you learn others?
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Hello,
Long story short.
I didn't know what HTML was a year ago. I have practiced and attempted to learn Python, HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, MySQL, C and Obj-C.
My interest started in seeing how feasible it would be to creating my own websites and now I am preparing to attempt making iOS Applications very soon.
My question is about networking and server computers. I am imagining that I would like to build a server rack that could handle both websites and databases that would store information for iOS games (such as trivia crack.) I would want to know what hardware would be needed for a popular game, and how this could be set up personally if there is Gigabit internet.
I don't have specific examples when it comes to traffic requirements... My best example is to say, imagine someone was setting up the servers for the iOS game Trivia Crack, in their home.
Can someone point me in the right direction in terms of how-to information/books/tutorials on how to professionally set up something like this. Both in how data is relayed and stored, maybe what software and techniques are commonly used, and what type of hardware a project like this requires.
Again any books or information on how a person could execute something like this professionally, whether you're pointing me in the right direction, or have the time and kindness to explain some of this to me personally, it would be greatly appreciated!!
My partner and I have an idea for a computer program (likely Windows based) and need help on how to begin. Both of our backgrounds are in engineering, so we have done some programming in the past but not enough to know where to begin with this.
Our idea is for a software that fulfils a need in our industry. We've asked several industry customers and regulatory body members and each have expressed interest. We have drawn up (literally, on paper) how we want this to look and what functions it must have.
At this stage, we're ready to begin building our first go at the program. We would need to build a GUI, would enjoy having a 3D model which you could view (not edit or manipulate) like in AutoCAD or SolidWorks, have fields to input values, and be able to produce results in forms of numbers, graphics, plots, etc.
- Which programming language should we learn?
- Where's the best place you would recommend for learning resources?
- How do we deploy a copy for user testing once we're satisfied with a first draft?
Sorry if these questions have been asked time and time again, though I wasn't able to find any answer that I needed. Answers in any length are appreciated!
So as someone bilingual currently trying to learn a few new languages, I was wondering something; would someone that's polyglot have an easier time learning a programming language?
I know it is a dumb question, but as a developer, it intrigues me. A programming language is just like any other language; it is a way of communicating using grammar, vocab, etc. It's just that instead of speaking to a human that can reason what you meant, it is a machine that can only understand sentences with perfect grammar (syntax) and won't infer what you meant.
Just curious is all :-D
In recent years, many areas of industry have started to turning to Artificial Intelligence to assist them in coming up with innovative solutions to problems. In many use cases, AI is able to come up with better solutions than it would have been for any human to come up with, and that in a fraction of the time.
Ironically, is still appears that programming language design is still very much a human exercise. Often new programming languages simply work in the same solution space, differing more or less in the language syntax.
Could we come up with better and more innovation in programming language design with the help of AI? What would a programming language designed by, or assisted by AI look like? How could the field of computer science and in particular programming language design be transformed with a little help from AI or Computer Assisted Design?
I started learning c++, I've been going through this video-based tutorial (freecodecamp) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLnPwxZdW4Y
and this text-based tutorial (learncpp.com) https://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/configuring-your-compiler-choosing-a-language-standard/
I usually do 3 things when going through these tutorials along the way.
1 I watch/read the tutorial up to the point when they explain a new important key concept or syntax element
2 When I got the concept on my mind I write it down on my pen book ( I always write down recently learned syntax/concepts, examples using the syntax/concepts, and simple explanations to everything)
3 After this, I make a small program that includes recently learned concept/syntax element in it (These programs mostly resemble the example given in the tutorials
My objective with that strategy is to make my writings in the pen book and in my programs as verbose as It would be possible to follow the tutorial just by reading the pen book/ reading my programs
However, I feel like the strategy is not efficient enough. It's taking too much time. Like, It takes 30 minutes to go through 10 minutes section of a video tutorial. (3 times more time than the actual length of a tutorial)
There's another strategy on my mind: I can just go through the tutorials at their defined pace and after each section of a tutorial, write multiple programs and try to get the most functional benefit out of the concepts/syntax I've previously learned. Without writing down anything on a pen book.
With the 1st strategy, I easily remember and memorize new stuff I've learned
but It might not my as time-efficient as I desired it to be
With the 2nd one, I'm worried that my learning may become unsystematic and casual
but It might be more time-efficient and fast
What I am eventually asking for is some kind of advice on learning strategies and if you can add anything to the discussion I would greatly appreciate it but
Any help would be useful
So just got done with inter and have a bit of free time so I was planning to learn a language and I would like some suggestions on which to learn
I did some initial research and it seems Python was the most suggested for finance related people (I'm not learning this to make a living out of it but I just thought it would be better to know a bit of coding than none at all)
What do you guys recommend?
Hi,
I am conducting a pilot study on mobile-assisted language learning (MALL). I would be grateful if you could take the following survey. It will take less than 5 minutes in total! Thanks!
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In 2021, it's amazing to see that every parent now thinks coding is really a necessity for his/her kid. Do you really think?
