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Could you provide a link to the results of NLP for machine translation? I'm very interested in MT.

I also think it has happened already: I want to search for questions about the big bang, I'm typing lazily, expecting the system to auto complete my intent; but when I am at "big b", the suggestions are: "big brother", "big breasts", and "big booty".

Let's see how (or if) Quora or HN follow that path.

It's interesting how diametrically different are the mindsets of engineers in one hand and the general public on the other. When I saw the video I thought it was a very bad news for SpaceX's name and I imagine some people might think the same. Like that one time when a Tesla car got fire. I remember reading news that highlighted the dangers of electric cars, etc., but then some commentators quickly pointed out the obvious: gasoline vehicles catch fire all the time.

But the point is, it's in benefit of everybody to get educated about engineering issues. I hope media outlets don't start going like "SpaceX: Too Dangerous? A rocket may land in your backyard". For me at least, it's interesting to learn that they WANT to break the thing to find the weak spots.

I'm also intrigued by this. One of the responses below mentioned how other industries do similar things. Now let me give you my perspective. I have been semi-technical for many years but my background is rather bookish: translation and publishing. More recently I've been working as a technical translator at software company. Even though I had tried to learn php at some time, I didn't make much progress. But now, I finally understood programming and learnt python. Let me tell you something: it took my work to the next level. For a professional programmer, what I do might seem easy, but learning python has had a real impact in the way I work. I can now, for example, do things like extraction of common words, BUT filtered through a word stoplist and a spell-checking library. Proof-reading is super fast now. I can get all adjectives from a text. And each day I learn more. I want to become a computational linguist, so I can offer new, different services (I feel I MUST to this, specially facing advances in machine translation). But I don't think all people must have the same orientation, so I don't know if I should say "all translators should learn python". It works for me, but maybe not for other translators, for example, literary translators.

I'm inclined to think the same, but you wouldn't discard fan translations either... If users show interest and enthusiasm for localizing the game, the best thing would be to find a way to integrate that effort into the process. Maybe you could earn some in-game coins or something?

Yeah, audio is kind of... obscure, enclosed, linear, hard to scan, browse or preview. It will be very interesting to see what kind of paradigm change is needed to "open" the contents of audio. I wonder if as of today, it is too hard to recognize words in audio and tag accordingly, for example.

But... but... the exponential growth!

Yeah, the non-western concept of time is so picturesque, laid-back and "non-linear", so different to that ugly "monochronic" concept of the western world. Until shit gets serious. Until a patient in an emergency room requires an urgent treatment and a punctual surgeon.

Important, critical things depend on a rational approach to time.

I was irritated by the author's romantic view of the non-western concept of time.

I had just started to dabble with python and echo nest (the remix API if I remember correctly) and now I wonder if their system will still be available or if now it is going to be proprietary/closed.

This is very interesting, correct me if I'm wrong, but Spotify was one of the power users of echo nest's APIs. Maybe they had to use it so much that they had to acquire it.