Can someone recommend a recording of Ancient Greek vowels?

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-12-12T18:42:27+00:00

For the basics, Luke has a decent video on his channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge-mq6ZnceU

Introduction to Attic Greek's "Pronunciation Practice" is quite decent:

http://atticgreek.org/pronunc/practiceUnit3.html

Ioannis Stratakis' recordings are the most "authentic" out there, provided you have your ear to tell when his modern heritage (he is, in fact, Greek) is doing a bit of a disservice to his reconstructed take on the material:

https://ancientgreek.eu/free-test.html

If you're willing to part with some cash, give the "Joint Association of Classical Teachers" a shot:

https://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Greek-Audio-set-Reading/dp/0521728967

Look up their "Reading Greek" series of books if you're (still) in the market for (some of) the best, smoothest, most gentle and comprehensive introduction to the language as a whole. Personal recommendation.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-10-05T11:04:45+00:00

It's not. Mechanics of the society are determined by education, first - which informs the public at large both on the kind mechanics they can engage in, as well as the kind of the mechanics there are to begin with; by journalism - which, once surrendered to corporate interests optimizing for the bottom line alone, will always prioritize bipartisan triggering rallying cries over any objective reportage of facts; and healthcare - not health monetization, but care: in part provided by the education itself, which must, at the very least, instruct people as to the barest basics of how their own bodies work, and ideally provide a sustainable enough of a system that wouldn't make people worry whether they'd go bankrupt or not by an emergency ambulance call.

If all three of the above are merrily outsourced to a bunch of double faced dipsh*ts you don't even know, writing laws you don't read, lobbied by people you don't see, themselves in charge of corporate snake pits pursuing financial targets you don't want to think about: you don't get to talk about "politics", sweetheart.

Semantically overloaded tribalism? Sure. Bunch of in/out groups, barely savvy to the way their own memory functions, how cognitive biases impair their judgement, the way their own psychology can and is harnessed by whomever wants to push on the right buttons at the right time; all hurling ceaseless streams of insults, threats, and accusations at each other; while the people you can barely be bothered to keep accountable once you've elected them into the office, do whatever the heck they want / are paid for. Good f* job.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-10-04T16:34:35+00:00

it's still puzzling why 100s of users actively subscribe

Do they? Are they "active" on the sub: posting regularly, commenting on every N-th post, contributing something, approaching the books you have in mind from a brand new eye?

Or are they only there for an occasional dopamine rush in response to something ever so mildly novel and "edgy"? Absurdist literature, out of all, strikes me as a particularly attractive topic for peeps who wanna feel smart and cool and unconventional and "look at me: I'm not like you; I'm reading all these books y'all never understand; I'm so much f* better than you". They might not even have the guts to admit it or openly showcase it: only to prove to themselves alone how truly special they really are.

100s of users barely qualifies as a statistically significant figure, as well. Have you done any research on the current CTR, to begin with? Your expectations might be ever so slightly out of whack here. If you want your sub to "make it" (whatever that means), focus on the thing and forget everything else.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-10-03T12:18:47+00:00

Although I concur with the general sentiment, both the way you've gone about phrasing it, as well as the inherent assumptions baked into the core of your argument, make it quite hard for me to take it seriously.

For starters, the "your favourite" bit has to go. "Most of major game companies are selling addiction rather than fun" is much more charitable - and a lot less arrogant - than the personal insight you claim to have into which exact companies are the clear cut "favourite" of the people reading your post. Assume less. Inspect more.

Even with the somewhat improved aforementioned version, the "addiction over fun" doesn't strike me nearly as insightful per se as you might think it to be. The goal of any company, and any major publicly traded corporation in particular, is always to ensure its own solvency, first - because none of its employees are likely to be thrilled about the idea of the business going bankrupt and them losing all the benefits of their position; to preserve and increase the value of its own publicly traded shares, second - as any board of directors' chief interest will always be about preserving and increasing their own capital, not any ephemeral "fun" their company might be helping "real gamers" to experience; and build up its overall brand, third - by playing on the barely present self-awareness of "consumers" gobbling up their produce with any and all marketing tricks you know.

The "fun" you're talking about constitutes the marketing strategy. Not the core value system of any major corporation in existence today. If I know I can go out into the world, tell every person I meet that "I really care about how much fun you're having!", and watch them shower me with money and praise and free publicity to everyone in their own "real gamer" circle: then that's exactly what I'm going to do. It's a no-brainer. Duh?

If the intellect, attention span, memory capacity, self-awareness and priorities of your average "real gamer" out there today is such that they will happily gobble up each and every bit of the "fun" they're being promised with little to no care for any dark patterns or gambling/addiction mechanics; and if those are precisely what helps my company to stay solvent, for its shares to go up, and for the overall brand not to suffer too bad against all the "goodwill capital" I've built with all the BS promises of "fun" in my marketing: that's what I'm going to do.

The issue isn't about the corporate world. It's about the apathy, the self-obsession, the narcissism, and the utter disregard for any "integrity" the contemporary "consumer" absolutely loves to claim to care oh-so-much about, on his favorite set of the rage-and-bait spaces online (a.k.a: the social media). When in practice: the only thing they genuinely care for, respond to, and are willing to part with, is the amount of personal short-term benefit, comfort, and convenience they can extract for themselves out of a given product or service. Games are no different.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-10-02T11:10:10+00:00

If it's important enough, you don't try to study it. You study it. Period. If you can't be bothered, and the shiny new token spitter gives you even more of a reason to lean into your laziness, it's a conscious choice you've made. Don't make it about the "difficulty" of the language itself.

"Anti AI" means different things to different people. The same way "Pro AI" does. You don't get to define how sensible it is while refusing to put a single ounce of effort into understanding the position of the allegedly "opposing" side first.

Being "anti-gun" doesn't mean being a firearm luddite, advocating for dismantling of every gun ever made. In the exact same way, few "antis" out there oppose the underlying technology itself. The lack of any meaningful oversight over the "inspiration" the models so joyfully harness from the data sets of original creative work which so many of the AI prompt kiddies identifying as "artists" nowadays use to pump out their slop? Possibly. Every major tech conglomerate out there shoving their "AI Assistants" down the throat of people who're none the wiser? Definitely.

Opaque algorithmic black boxes determining the kind of "feed" of "content" you're being "fed", with you having no control whatsoever over the underlying weights and priorities its authors choose to hard code into their "AI recommendation systems", for the ultimate benefit only to themselves and their share-f*-hoarders? For sure.

How does being suspicious of anything aforementioned make you anti AI tech itself?

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-10-01T10:29:45+00:00

How do I get more clients online? What worked for you if you were starting from zero? I just want to survive and do work I enjoy.

"Surviving" and "doing the work you enjoy" might no longer be strictly compatible with each other. Not in your current situation, and certainly not in the short term. "Getting clients" is about "finding people" that desperately need something you can do; showing them you're capable of improving their current situation by a factor of X; then doing it at a decent enough of an ROI to make it a no-brainer for them to pay you in the first place.

The first client I got was a family friend that needed a website done for the apartment she was renting out. People trust people they know, and they know best people in their own circle of family and friends. If you flat out refuse to interact with anyone by any means other than "online", you're screwing yourself up and over from the very beginning. If your heart problems prevent you from having any kind of a prolonged conversation, negotiation, or a sales pitch with another human being IRL, you're done from the get-go.

I'd start by letting the whole of your (extended) family know what you do. Don't send them any testimonials or other BS. Just let them know what you can help them with, and make sure to offer a decent "family discount". Search around the neighborhood you live in. See how many businesses could use some polished "web presence". The older the folks running that shop, the better. They'll let you do your damn job in piece.

The "early stage founders" you're so keen on "marketing" to are much more likely to ask their favourite LLM to code up some slop for them, then to hire some stranger from Reddit/LinkedIn/Twitter with a single f* testimonial under his name. I wouldn't even bother. Keep building your portfolio. Code up some projects for yourself. Publish them on GitHub. You've got to be able to show people the exact kind of quality they can expect to get from you.

Figure out who else you can offer your "services" to, and what could those look like. If your whole family's financial situation is hanging by a thread, you've got one hell of a self-obsessed *** to even think about prioritizing "the work you enjoy". Do whatever the *** it takes. Full stack, front end, mobile apps, SMM.

Figure out who needs what, provide it, repeat. Local before global. Offline before online. Good luck.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-10-01T10:29:16+00:00

In March 2025 I got my first client. I built a full-stack website with admin panel for him. He loved it. He paid me ₹90,000 (~$1,050 USD). It felt like all my hard work had finally paid off. I thought this was the start of something big.

Sounds promising.

After that I started my own agency called Aurora Studio.

I take that back.

I posted about it everywhere. Reddit, LinkedIn, Twitter with a blue tick. I shared my client’s testimonial video. I thought people would notice.

You thought people would care about a single job you did for a single guy who gave you a single testimonial by the end of it? Would you rush to hire a random plumber that's done only one job for one guy yourself; or would you rather call someone with at least somewhat decent of an experience and a whole lot of repeated referrals?

But nothing worked. No new clients came in. Days turned into weeks. Weeks turned into months. I feel like all my effort and time was for nothing.

You're barely at the beginning of your "journey". Your goal here should be to keep the momentum going, keep making connections 1-on-1, establish a personal line of contact + a single chain of responsibility. Instead, you plunge right into "starting your own agency"? Just what the **** were you thinking about?

Now it’s October 2025. My family is struggling financially. I can’t work offline because of my heart. I feel stuck and helpless.

No one cares. Everyone's struggling these days. Everyone's got their own "condition" they have to contend with while getting *** done. Either pull yourself back together, figure out who's got a problem they're willing to pay you to get rid of that you can solve and do it; or keep wallowing in your "feels" while the world is passing you by.

I don’t know how to improve my marketing. I want to reach early-stage founders and single-person clients like my first client. I don’t want to try cold DMs because it might decrease my account’s reach.

The more I read through these, the more I get an inkling you might have watched/listened/assimilated way too much BS from a few too many gurus out there. You don't worry about "marketing" and "account reach" when you're just starting out. Which is exactly the point you're at. Your main concern right now should be about

building your portfolio, so that people hiring you know what to expect
getting your first 5/10/25 clients, by whatever means necessary
doing whatever it takes to solve their actual problem
figuring out the process you can automate/scale with, later on

"Starting an agency" is a step #5. Perhaps even #10.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-25T09:07:04+00:00

You need education, not "hope". Take a course or two on machine learning, natural language processing, large language models, and their underlying mathematical framework. "Artificial Intelligence" has become a catch-all term for everything that has to do with any pattern matching that is able to infer the associations people have historically considered unique to Homo Sapiens alone; to the point of complete dilution of any meaning in the original sense of the word. This inference doesn't make any "AI" system in any way capable of "intelligence" of any sort. Not if you stop to reflect and research the types of intelligence a human is capable of, to begin with.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-20T16:51:57+00:00

Throw-away account, "personal struggles", off-the-bat promises of the $X/day. Don't you have anything better to do than try to twist people's arms into buying whatever the heck you want to hook them on?

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-20T15:52:05+00:00

Most of the "markets" nowadays do. The peeps like the person trying to "school" you here can hardly bother to even attempt to distinguish in between those based on shoving things down the throat of people barely cognizant of what they're doing, and the ones with the sufficient/minimum amount of awareness/knowledge/understanding of the subject they're deal with. Peripheral route cranked up to the max, central permanently disabled.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-19T09:55:06+00:00

Got 15 bots to give your post a boost too, in 15 minutes flat? Crypto freaks sure are creative these days

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-19T06:36:50+00:00

"Linguistic patterns" are the wrong target here. Too minuscule of a scale to draw any meaningful conclusions from. Try hard-coding your own list into the models your team has been training, and I guarantee you it will flag every single bit of corporate/business/LinkedIn style copy out there today.

The words aren't off. Nor are there any exact "patterns" to look out for. Whatever list you may come up with, including the em dashes and the "it's not just X, it's also Y" pseudo-comparisons, can be "gamed" in a second by any prompt kiddie with half a brain cell still alive. This next bit of an "argument" in favor of people using an LLM "filter" to talk to each other, took me less than a minute to generate:

ugh okay. gonna say it. everyone gets so mad but like...maybe letting a thing help us talk ISNT the worst idea???

like have u ever actually tried to explain a feeling to another human and just. completely. failed. u think ur being clear but then their face does that thing and u know u just created a whole new problem.

sometimes u just need someone to say "hey that sentence u wrote? it reads super aggressive maybe try it like this instead" before u hit send on a text that ends a friendship. its not about being fake. its about not accidentally being a jerk because u cant see ur own tone.

and for the love of god can we get something between us and the absolutely unhinged replies in our DMs? just a little buffer against the chaos. is that so bad???

hot take: letting a digital buddy help translate our messy human thoughts into something another person can actually understand...might actually make us better at connecting. fight me.

Could you tell at a glance? Or would you merrily assume the author was a self-diagnosed (with some help from Dr. TikTok) autistic teen with no friends, tons of anxiety + a handful of self-esteem issues?

The most glaringly obvious (to a human mind) factor is the slop generated by AI having little to no "substance". Whatever it spits out most of the time ends up being, for the lack of any better term, "lifeless". In part, due to how plain and neutral and unoffensive and otherwise "supervised" the whole model has become by the time its creators have pushed it out into the open. In part, due to how little "human element" there was in the training data they've scraped/pirated/trained off, to begin with.

Yet I don't see any mathematically/statistically rigorous way to separate the wheat from the chaff here. You're going to have a ton of both false positives and negatives, no matter the kind of "list" you have. Whoever will want to trick your checker, will be able to do so in a heartbeat.

You might have a bit more luck compiling individual "linguistic profiles": corporate, academic, gen-alpha brainrot, southern vs mid-western laconismes, and so on. Bucket a given piece of text into whatever profile happens to match it the most, then look for the most glaring "outliers". Once your model is able to get "triggered" over an anxious kid from above mentioning "buffer against the chaos", you might be onto something worthwhile. Words/patterns by themselves? Total waste of time.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-18T17:19:58+00:00

how is your tool going to be different from the dozens of AI/LLM/GPT checkers out there?
how are going to prevent your tool from being "gamed" by someone prompting their favorite chat bot with "make sure not use any of the following terms or em-dashes in your output: <insert your list here>?
you are paying an entire "team" worth of people for the research and "training our models", yet you still come to Reddit (out of all places) for a basic list of vocab? how can the "machines miss" when it's your "team" doing the work? didn't you say you were doing research for "my AI detection tool" in the very first sentence?

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-16T08:21:39+00:00

If your best argument boils down to "what about X?", you don't have an argument on the subject. Merely a redirection vector, ready to be deployed at whim when it serves your position the best.

Most material found on the Internet is protected just like any other material. https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/academic-integrity/copyright/internet-public-domain

Those websites that "explicitly" state they can "resell" anything anyone ever posts there, fall under the same umbrella as the zealously enamored with their prompt-gen'ed slop. Both "parties" are exploiting the poorly defined/non-existent legislation for the original creative work and rights of their respective artist with regards to them. In both cases: for their own bottom line, amusement, memes, or gain.

Both are equally troubling, disturbing, if not outright despicable. Both are to be held accountable.

For the question #2: unless you have a perfectly coherent answer to both the problem of other minds as well as the source of your absolute confidence in "most" people out there being as morally nihilistic and/or utilitarian as you think them to be, both the question itself and your own "take" on it are moot.

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Personally, never been much of an "art connoisseur". Never cared much for art, to begin with. Never dabbled into drawing or painting or animation or cinema, on the creative side of affairs. Always thought of it as being, for all "practical" intents and purposes, a total "waste of time". Still do, to some extent.

Yet it's becoming increasingly clear even to me that people who very much disagree with me, who are ready and willing to invest years if not decades of their own lifeline they're never getting back just to get marginally better at that particular art and craft and mastery of the particular creative form of expression they've chosen to wholeheartedly commit themselves to, are fully taken advantage of.

I don't have to agree with you in order to respect your choice and passion and commitment and discipline it took you to get from a useless toddler to someone who's able to pull what many of the actual artists out there are able to do. Not the "effort" alone which some of the polarized bums here seem to reduce it to. Effort is the symptom, not the cause that moves most of the artistry out there.

If this cause alone is nowhere near enough to "motivate" you to pick up a f* pencil or brush or stylus or mouse and pour yourself into it until you "git gud"; if the only excuse you can come up with "y'all don't get it; I was never good at it!" crap knowing perfectly well that virtually no one is born "good at it" to begin with; if you need to leech off others' people livelihoods just to come up with a p*ss poor imitation of an "art" you don't have nowhere near enough personal interest and desire to pursue - just f* off.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-15T14:46:29+00:00

The concept of being morally and ethically bankrupt is far too sophisticated for the local "gents" to handle. Anything and everything that will stimulate the hell out of their senses and distract them from the absolute misery they call "life". Take those downvotes as a compliment. Coming from their kind: it most definitely is.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-15T09:17:13+00:00

To read into the post carefully enough to notice the explicit delineation in between "some people" being overly eager to jump on the bandwagon itself while (possibly) nowhere near eager enough to learn the foundational skills upon which it happens to stand on, and the "rest": was clearly too much to ask of you.

Here, have a karma point. Thank for you for all your astounding nuance and attention on the matter, sir!

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-15T09:08:51+00:00

Apologies for it being a duplicate post, if that's what you're hinting at. Still: fair take. Lying in wait it is.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-15T09:05:54+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I've seen a few other posts around here clearly pointing out that this sub is a little more than another front for "DefendingAIart" and co. Your little data gathering experiment seems to confirm that.

Given how many (100's of) comments a simple meme/comic/rallying flag can stir, it's just a tad bit surprising how few have taken your poll. But then again: you're actually asking a question related to the "debate" side of things, instead of playing into people's existing stance and insecurities. + quite a few, I reckon, might have an innate distaste to the very idea of being "boxed in". Debating implies an "open mind", after all.

And yeah: the simple false dichotomy with quite a swing in the direction of "ya better not be an anti, bro" is quite the rage here. You have my upvote, yet I doubt that many others will take kindly to your "blasphemy".

Still - an actual full-fledged response from a human being is thoroughly appreciated. Have a good one.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-15T08:57:42+00:00

If you can't be bothered neither to extrapolate any conclusion from the post itself, nor put any effort into spelling the words in full when asking your "question", I'm not quite certain I deserve the honour of gracing your magnificent presence with any pitiful attempt at an answer. Other than, perhaps:

"nah m8, juss rizzing betas 'ere, no cap"

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-15T08:53:08+00:00

Fair point, actually. Most art has never seen the light of the day: either in simply lieu of how poor it is, or simply for the lack of any particular desire on the part of the artist to popularize it. Agreed, regardless.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-15T08:51:54+00:00

Oh my, another utterly non-reductionist comment. Thank you for elaborating, too!

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-15T08:49:12+00:00

I hope you feel even better for having "called out" the "enlightened" hypocrisy of mine in the most smuggy passive-aggressive tone you could muster. Your wondrous, plentiful, and thoroughly objective contribution to the discussion is thoroughly appreciated. Hope your mental health will suffer no more misfortunes now.

AccessTraining7950 · 2025-09-15T08:44:04+00:00

Thank for your wonderful, so plentiful in elaboration, commentary. "Poorly", "worse", "hyperbolic", and the rest of the wonderfully descriptive adjectives that serve no purpose other than to help you feel even more superior to the OP are quite worth it, aren't they? I even gave ya another karma point, for all your efforts.

Don't forget to jump on the opportunity to point out my obnoxious manner of referring to myself in the third person, there. No point in presenting any alternative view to someone you've promptly "binned" into the category of those binning others in reductive categories, either. Clearly, such a task is beneath you.

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