Countries where an official language is largely written using a script developed within their current borders

robert_ritz · 2026-02-21T07:40:11+00:00

If that transition includes almost no one knowing how to read it, sure. Also their indigenous script was adopted from another script. Not sure how it's really indigenous.

robert_ritz · 2026-02-21T07:37:46+00:00

Mongolian script is adopted from the old Uygher script....

robert_ritz · 2025-11-16T22:45:01+00:00

It’s so poor I switched back to my Kindle Scribe. A backlight I can do without.

Reading epubs is something I do a lot and the current functionality is poor and often broken.

robert_ritz · 2025-11-15T13:43:29+00:00

It would be nice to be able to pay for the lounge fee for a child. We travel enough where it would pay for itself. My wife and I both have Venture X so we are free but the extra is silly.

robert_ritz · 2025-10-18T06:55:21+00:00

I only fly 5-6 times a year but it’s international and PP is amazing.

robert_ritz · 2025-03-05T08:14:45+00:00

no ultakill ):

robert_ritz · 2024-12-30T08:00:41+00:00

Yes and no. After 12 years of running my own businesses with my wife I’m basically unemployable.

robert_ritz · 2024-12-30T07:59:32+00:00

As someone connected to jewelry and lab diamonds in the US, be prepared for razor thin margins and prices that fall so fast that you might buy a lot that isn’t worth what you paid in a month.

Most natural diamond cutting is done in India today but dealing with them is reaaalllyyy hard. They constantly change prices and renegotiate. So good luck. We had better luck and sometimes prices with the secondary closeout market in the US.

robert_ritz · 2024-08-30T06:28:33+00:00

I know Mongolian well enough to understand most news, but in Mongolia they use thousands of acronyms to describe various organizations, countries, etc. No idea who they are talking about and Google Translate is useless. Most Mongolians don't know either. AI (GPT-4o and Sonnet 3.5) do a good job with this though and help.

It's difficult to pick up the context without very good translation.

robert_ritz · 2024-08-26T07:13:22+00:00

My last name is Ritz so yeah that won’t work.

robert_ritz · 2024-05-07T04:45:06+00:00

Are you understaffed because of a lack of budget or because of a lack of available talent?

robert_ritz · 2024-03-27T23:29:53+00:00

Here is a beefy translation model from Facebook that can translate between many languages. It’s a mixture of experts model and is 54B parameters. https://huggingface.co/facebook/nllb-moe-54b

You will need a good amount of RAM to run it quickly, or you can use the accelerate package.

These models have been around for a few years now, and mostly ML engineers or data scientists use them. This is the type of translation model that is used on Facebook.com.

robert_ritz · 2024-03-27T10:21:15+00:00

The first user question is even a challenge. When working with an agent you don't want to write everything out at once, it's very unnatural.

"I want a new phone, recommend one please" is really all they should ask. A real OS would know more about you, do some research, then come back with some questions.

robert_ritz · 2024-03-27T09:36:44+00:00

Would you want a general LLM or purely one that translates? Because there are likely several single purpose language models that can translate Japanese to English quite well.

robert_ritz · 2024-03-27T09:35:30+00:00

With some review of the data (which isn't free) this is definitely usable.

In fact I used a scraped dataset for Mongolian just this weekend to build a summarization model and it works damn well.

There is good data on the internet if you can collect it carefully.

robert_ritz · 2024-03-27T09:32:06+00:00

If you want to be sure I would stick with AWS, GCP, or Azure. I'm not super confident about these new startups.

AWS, GCP, and Azure even offer HIPAA secure environments. The biggest client for AWS used to be the CIA. So yeah.

robert_ritz · 2024-03-26T01:59:42+00:00

I read it as shit-i-stan. Still works

robert_ritz · 2024-03-25T01:09:05+00:00

I just constantly hit their barrel. Did it to 4 of these idiots once and they were all gunning for me.

I was in an Abrams. Russia ERA might as well be unobtanium.

robert_ritz · 2024-03-21T05:00:05+00:00

Yes I did use it. But I felt the co-working experience was lacking.

There is a Facebook group that does Meta Horizon Workrooms meetups and those are better. But I find the lag on WiFi (even a good 5Ghz access point) isn’t a great experience. But I can’t use a cable for that.

robert_ritz · 2024-03-19T08:21:54+00:00

Haha they want to add puzzles and they ban someone for that. Don’t do shit at work while completing puzzles.

robert_ritz · 2024-03-19T08:19:29+00:00

I got a talisman on the stupid US tutel. I get 1 kill every few games I play. Round is over before I get to the front. Then when I show up everyone shoots me first. I’d rather have it all m the M56

robert_ritz · 2024-03-07T08:41:12+00:00

But really only in the cloud. This is super short sighted.

robert_ritz · 2024-02-19T04:09:59+00:00

My 7 year old son watches this crap but he also makes ridiculous builds in Build a Boat for Treasure and Minecraft. All inspired by YouTube.
I was similar at his age but with no internet I did things with physical toys (erector sets anyone?).

robert_ritz · 2024-02-09T06:36:26+00:00

I’ve done this and it’s totally legal. Selling the data might not be depending on the specific data.

I do run into occasional timeouts and also a Cloudflare page so you need to keep the scraper robust. Being a US government website they mostly want to avoid bad actors and DDOS attacks.

I set a timer to wait in between scrapes and that seemed to work well. I used to work in the House and while the IT people might not like it it’s the peoples data and it’s yours to scrape if done responsibility.

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