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Is there a way for non-Japanese speakers to experience this?


It's mostly pictures and not much text, except for the initial popup you see which is the usual cookie consent prompt (left button = minimum required, right button = agree to all). But looks like British Museum also has this book if you want an English interface:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1973-0723-...

If you are asking about the text written on the pages themselves, it takes a bit more effort unless you are familiar with archaic script. I can make out some of them as guidelines on how to draw the patterns.


If it makes you feel better, the vast majority of modern day Japanese speakers cannot read this either.

It is cursive script, and only specialized academics/people with extensive training in calligraphy/etc. would know how to read it.

Interestingly enough this is an area where machine learning has been extremely effective:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09433


There is a i18n “English” button on top right. Unless you meant something else.


I used google translate.


Appreciate it as a regular sauna-goer. I am also struggling to wake up after sauna evenings and maybe you research explains why


Once in a while as I get sick I have to retrain myself to going to sauna (e.g. taking lowest level, even skipping the Aufguss, German infusion where temperature is raised gradually etc.)

Also IMO your body fat/water/lean muscle ratio may play a role. I once lost 5 kg due to Influenza A and all my sport achievements as well as sauna endurance were gone


One explanation I heard is “helps save water when flushing”


Really like demo cli tools description. Are they limited by the context window as well? What’s your experience with log file sizes?


the 2 hard limits of Appel Intelligence Foundation Model and therefor apfel is the 4k token context window and the super hard guardrails (the model prefers to tell you nothing before it tells you something wrong ie ask it to describe a color)

parsing logfiles line by line, sure

parsing a whole logfile, well it must be tiny, logfile hardly ever are


the model prefers to tell you nothing before it tells you something wrong

If all LLMs did this, people would trust them more.


So law enforcement was able to intercept/obtain logs of all the perpetrator’s Google Translate queries. How does that work? Assume he was not logged in. Did they just continuously obtain his IP when his device announced itself in a cell phone network and then monitored all the traffic and ordered Google to provide all the activity for that IP?

Edit: apparently his accomplice living in the U.S. was under FBI surveillance. “The use of Google Translate was not Durovic's only operational failure. He made two trips to Russia, in July and October 2024, attempting to disguise his destination by booking ostensible vacations to Turkey while continuing to Moscow on connecting flights under his real name. Each time he returned to the United States, he was questioned by FBI special agents who had access to his airline records. He flatly denied having visited Russia. The lies were transparent, and they compounded his legal exposure. The FBI, however, was content to wait — continuing to surveil him and read his virtual diary on Google Translate — before finally arresting him in March 2025.”


Several years ago German media ran a story where they were able to connect Google search queries to members of parliament by buying big data. Examples included someone looking for data on “dementia treatment” etc. But that wasn’t real-time, as I understand.


The report claims a single weapon of the kind was acquired in 2024 and tested on animals resulting in similar damage.


This summary differs from CBS content.

It does claim the US went to great lengths to dismiss the victims for a decade. In 2024 it obtained a single device, started testing it on animals and achieved similar effects as experienced by the victims. The victims were then invited to the White House.


100%. Original source was posted 3 times and never gained traction because it is not written for the general audience.


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