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Alternative for mostly French content: @Jakylla@jlai.lu

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  • Also both for me ! (even subscribed to programmer_humor and also linguistics_humor here on Lemmy)

    Story time:
    When I was at school, I hated languages (as a native French, English was a PAIN for me), but already was programming for fun outside school. Since I finished school, I grown interest in linguistics as well. I think for me it’s more because manga and animes, and because I am curious, so I wanted to understand all the little parts in texts… So I learned Japanse, then improved my English… then went curious about chinese… Spanish… And at this point, I don’t even learn new languages (too much time), I only searched for differences, construction and all; and that is where I discovered Linguistics basically.

    Difference between human & computer language:
    I heard that part of the brain that process Human language and Computer language is the same, that may be the reason, idk

    They seems to be really different though, you don’t “Speak” or write a computer program like you write a text or a poem, it’s a totally different thinking process. The same way, you never read code from top to bottom left to right (reason why unindented code is AWFUL to read), it’s more about looking around what’s going on, to understand what the whole is doing. Sentences are way less dependent on the context (and WAYYYYY less dependent on what follows) to understand them.

    But in a way, with time, we lean patterns, and know to recognize them (both in human and computer language), that may be the reason why they are both on the same part of the brain











  • Hey, I think this can be interesting to some of you

    There is a Non-profit organisation based in Swiss, that aims to evaluate the quality of Youtube videos, and generates global recommendations from that: tournesol.app

    Currently, there is about 25000 videos included (~50% are in French, ~40% in English, 10% other) at the top of English recommendations we can find Kurzgesagt, Science4All, John Oliver LastWeekTonight

    If you like to give your opinion, please come by !

    This works like that:

    • Paste the link to two youtube videos, one on the left, the other on the right
    • Move cursors from left (meaning you prefer the left video) to right (if you prefer the right one instead)
    • Confirm to update the global recommendations

    Pros: The recommendation algorithm used, 100% Open sourced and developed by universities, said to be mathematically safe against a number of risks (strategic voting, bots attacks…) and “more representative to public opinion than commonly used polling methods”

    Cons: The current low number of users (recommendations are pretty biased towards living healthly and reducing carbon footprint, for the moment, not a lot of entertainment yet)

    Note that I’m not affiliated not part of the associative, I’m only a user of Tournesol, comparing videos from time to time to improve global rankings