This is a very cool app and list of resources for learning Japanese. Does anyone know of similar top recommendations for learning Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese?)
I believe Yomitan has Chinese dictionaries available for it but I don't know much about it. I would like to add Mandarin/Cantonese to Manabi Reader before long.
While I agree that the training/learning ecosystem is pretty heavily centered in Python, going from that to "Ruby is awful" seems like a very drastic jump, especially if we are talking about the LLM interaction only.
I probably wouldn't write a training system in Ruby (not because it's not doable, just because it's not a good use of time to rewrite stuff that is already available in python ecosystem)... but hooking up a Ruby system up to LLM's for interaction is eminently doable with very little effort.
I am assuming your situation had some specific constraints that made it harder, but it would be nice to understand what they were - right now your comment describes a more complicated solution and I am curious why you needed it.
You don't need it until you need it, and needing it often comes in the form of a lightning strike from blue sky. The counterargument is that having everyone pay a higher amount makes it feasible to actually have this coverage available, when needed, without bankrupting the insurance companies, because the rare astronomically expensive care is covered by the premiums paid by the vast majority of people who are relatively healthy and are unlikely to need it.
Now whether the on-paper prices for medical care in this country actually have any relationship to objective reality is an entirely separate question of course. In general coming from an outside perspective, combining healthcare and for-profit motives in a single system seems particularly likely to lead to all kinds of perverse incentives, but, it's the system that exists, and it seems unlikely to change any time soon.
What I don't understand however is what IS actually expensive about the care itself?
Doc will get paid his normal rate, $500k per year (maybe more maybe less?)
Nurses all get paid something between 100k and 200k (maybe more maybe less?)
Then we hear about these surgeries that cost 100k.
What exactly is costing 100k for 5 hours of knife and time in a bed?
Wildfire, I understand, there is no way to re-materialize a house for less than (what is basically a fortune these days). But time and materials for a surgery seem to me that it should cost 5k at most?
And at those rates, wouldn't everyone just pay like $15 a month? And if the answer to this question is malpractice costs, can we have two plans:
> They almost exclusively compare their model to prior models from 2024
As another comment here noted, the title is missing (2024) - this model was released almost a year ago, last December, so it's not surprising that that's the models they compare to.
> teacher chose my essay specifically to repro onto a transparency and place on the overhead as an example of bad writing
Oh man, regardless of how "bad" someone's writing is, this is terrible terrible teaching. Public shaming in front of peers, especially on something subjective like this? Some people should not be teachers. I'm sorry you had to go through that.
Yep. You'd be shocked (or maybe not) at how many people I looking at their phones on a freeway.
I wonder if there's any statistics comparing deaths and injuries from drunk driving versus distracted driving over the past 20 years or so. Is it a comparable at all?
And you're right! Most readers likely have enough fluency to follow the original articles. But I think having the headline and summary in Bengali really helps grab attention, especially for the younger audience or more casual readers. If that makes them curious, then they can read the full article!
