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Comment Re:before the inevitable (Score 1) 246

Speaking of which, some people with dyslexia find that they it only affects English, and not Japanese or Chinese.

Dyslexia is basically a made up metric where teachers can punish students for not being good enough.

It is a well known fact that people who are good in reading only need to see the first one or two characters of a word, and the last one or two, and as long as the chars in the middle are the ones to be expected, and not completely random other chars: they read the words just fine, and do not notice the spelling/garbage in the middle.

Most dyslexia people are extremely good in reading. But they do not see their own spelling mistakes:
a) they know perfectly well what they have written, so reading it several times to see a mistake does not work
b) see above ... the "word pattern matching" happens on a different level than just chaining letters

If you have such reading skills, it is actually preventing you to really memorize how words are actually written. Because you do not care how they are written, when you read them.

As soon as you have an "alphabet" or abugida (Ethopian "alphabet" or Thai/Lao/Burmeese) that is more complicated than Roman/English: people realize instantly "oops, I do not know how to write this".

For example above: "Ethiopian" and "Burmeese", is red underlined. No idea what is wrong. Have to click on it to ask the spell checker ... a, Ethopian is missing an "i" ... now I saw it, but it is still red.

In Thai language a certain sound/word can only be written in a single way. There is no we're, were, where, etc.

Chinese is (laymen explanation) completely pictographic. Japanese uses about 1200 "pictograms" (yes, layman explanation, because not all of those "pictograms" are pictograms, there are also logograms and ideograms) ... and an syllable "alphabet".

And here you see what the difference is: "painting a Chinese character" is what this half sentence implied. You have to paint it. Completely different mental process to: writing a few English words. You instantly realize: oh my, I forgot how that character is painted. Or never new it anyway.

So, spelling mistakes could happen on the syllable alphabet level. However the typical error prone combinations as we have in English or German, simply do not exist in Japanese (or Korean). A single syllable is a single character. You simply can not mix that up, if you speak the language.

Of course, when you learn a pictogram, and miss a stroke: it is wrong. Misspelled, probably even misleading as it is a correct different word. Simplest examples: 1 is - and 2 is =. Obviously not a mistake one would make.

But look at the sequence: human, large/tall, dog (in Japanese). Forget one stroke in dog, and it becomes "large", forget one in large and it becomes human. But if you read it again: you see it is the wrong word (most of the time you see it)!

Comment Re:before the inevitable (Score 1) 246

Asians lead in math because of their language advantage, not because of "better schools".
That is true for plenty of other languages, too.

Most Asian languages, count after ten, just like this:
ten one, ten two, ten three ... ten nine, twenty.

However in English (and German is the same), we say
eleven, twelve, three ten (thirteen), four ten (fourteen) ... nine ten (nineteen).

People who grew up withe "a malformed" number system (German, English, French) are statistically not as good in math as people who have a straight forward numbering system. The assumption is the brain has to rename the natural language into calculation tokens the "math apparatus" is using.

Unfortunately, I have no idea what your malformed "numbers" like ~3rdÃ"8th are about.

The amount of money your school district is paying per student: is absurd. Considering that the teachers probably have extremely bad payments ...

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 246

Reading aloud to an audience is perhaps a one year period in school.

No idea what you want to say.

If I give a talk, I do not read, I just give a talk.

I have no kids, so I never was reading stories to them.

And when ever in your live does a person have to read anything aloud?

I had a notary appointment, 2 weeks ago: and he had to read aloud all the papers - by law - before me and my partners signed them.

And when else, does anyone need to read aloud? I did not at that appointment.

I was two times "best man" in a marriage. I had to read aloud something, and both times I was unprepared, and both times the couples did not come to the idea to tell me: Angelo, you should read that for us in the church.

First time, I thought it is my friends fault, not preparing me.

Second time (years later) I realized: I should have asked if they had prepared a speech.

So: in my humble opinion, reading aloud is not really a skill to measure a person.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 246

As another example: vitamin C does pretty much nothing normally, but if you have scurvy, it's life-saving
That is double nonsense.
A) it is a no brainer that it would prevent scurvy - if you would not have a lack of it - oops
B) it is a majour part of the immune system - preventing break outs of viral infections

Stupid education system

Comment Re:Upgrading multiple Java versions at once is eas (Score 1) 63

I think the arrogance and idiocy is you.

None of those softwares uses javax.accessibility

It would not serve any purpose.

Because your fat fingers only touch your screen, and not the "enterprise software" running on the backend

The backend does not know anything about your screen, your mouse or your keyboard.

Comment Re:Definitely #2 (Score 1) 46

I do not have an idea for a game in my head.

But if you have one, we could team up.

I am pretty sure I make you a nice first try on the game, in no time - without AI if you like, or with.

Unfortunately: with AI development would likely not be much faster. Perhaps the initial eye catcher would be faster.

Comment Re:Upgrading multiple Java versions at once is eas (Score 1) 63

Disabilities are irrelevant for enterprise apps.

As no disabled person is interacting with the enterprise app.

The app is behind a user interface ... which has to cover disabilities.

Stupid idiots on the internet. Mentally disabled?

What the fark does my back end server have to do with noticing you can not read your computer screen

Nothing.

javax.accessibility
And other APIs are for desktop applications or tablet/phone where the DISABLED person needs HELP to interact with that SOFTWARE. The farking server behind your SCREEN does not know anything about your disability. At least not software wise.

Stupid slashdot knee jerk answer retards.

Comment Re:Name a household name!!!! (Score 1) 46

You can google that.

Seriously?

Why ask me who "inserted" AI into dating for example? There are "new" dating platforms that support AI matching.
Funny, that you are smart enough to come to the idea, but to stupid to google it.

Who is a household name leveraging AI to upend an established market
Every company. Are you stupid or what? They are automating their processes with AI.

No idea what you mean with "household", kitchenware? How the funk should I know anything about kitchenware/households?

Do you know Zeiss? The secret company behind ASLM? They subscribed 35k Gemini accounts.

And: that company is basically the sole single one company that produces the products they sell to ASLM.

In other words: they do not even have a competitor.

Comment Re: Another con from the conman. Nothing new here. (Score 1) 150

Like we'er all getting shot and killed,

Well, that has a reason. For example the killing spree in the 1990s where hundreds of tourists, many from Europe got murdered in Florida.

The "robbers" waited for clearly to identify rented cars, which had lost their way. When a car somewhere randomly stopped to ask for the way, the robber would instantly shot the persons in the car.

A german couple was attacked that way, the pregnant woman died, and the husband was accused and convicted for killing his wife.

That happened shortly after they left the rent a car area at the airport.

Just as if a man flies with his wife to America, lands on an airport, takes a rented car, suddenly owns a gun, drives into a preplanned "bad neighbourhood", stops somewhere, jumps out of the car, walks around it, shoots his wife, jumps in again, and drives around until he finds a hospital - but she is already dead.

The guy who killed her even was found by German private investigators.

That poor sod lost his wife, his child, and spent over 40 without guilt in prison.

Comment Re:What was the 20 page article? (Score 1) 246

This is very important. There's a light-year of difference among a typical scholarly article, a physics paper, a math paper, or some kind of incomprehensible humanities bafflegab that no sane person could comprehend. The former, if it's not too technical, should be readable to the average undergrad. The second and third might not be because there are so many specialized concepts and so much specialized language. The latter (and I'm not indicting everything coming out of the humanities, but a lot of it) is incomprehensible because it literally doesn't make sense.

Comment Re:Definitely #2 (Score 1) 46

smaller companies would come out of nowhere and eat the lunch of more established players by out-innovating them.
That is actually what is happening right now. You are just to blind to see it.

Some game studio from some surprising location would come out with AMAZING AAA games at twice the speed and half the cost.
To write a game you need an idea first. And: marketing you still need.

But for now, the only people making money are selling tools or computer chips or building data centers for this circular AI economic bubble.
There is no bubble. This si a stupid /. myth

No idea what is wrong with you idiots.

We are experiencing the 6th Kondratieff! We are in the middle of a gigantic industrial revolution. If you would not insist to make China your enemy, we could get their AI super chips. And you had not the power problems your data centers are producing.

We are in the beginning of the biggest industrial revolution mankind ever experienced - because it is mind and knowledge based - and you idiots put your head into the sand and call it "a bubble". As if AI will go away and kind of explode? This is the first industrial revolution which YOU experience during YOUR lifetime, and you insist to ignore it? How brain dead is that?

Stop running around singing lala lala - I can not hear you.

Seriously: good luck!

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