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  1. Dec 2024
    1. for - TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan - potential source - Deep Humanity - BEing journeys in language - appreciation of inhabiting the symbolosphere // - Summary - An interesting idea of teasing out the data structure behind language - This could be a rich area to explore for Deep Humanity language BEing journeys to help people gain deeper appreciation of their own amazing language abilities - as well as gain an appreciation for the enormous amount of time our life is spent in the (relative) symbolosphere

    2. supposing I was a writer, say, for a newspaper or for a magazine. I could create content in one language, FreeSpeech, and the person who's consuming that content, the person who's reading that particular information could choose any engine, and they could read it in their own mother tongue, in their native language

      for - freespeech can be used as an international language translator - data structure of thought - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    3. when you want to use Google, you go into Google search, and you type in English, and it matches the English with the English. What if we could do this in FreeSpeech instead? I have a suspicion that if we did this, we'd find that algorithms like searching, like retrieval, all of these things, are much simpler and also more effective, because they don't process the data structure of speech. Instead they're processing the data structure of thought

      for - indyweb dev - question - alternative to AI Large Language Models? - Is indyweb functionality the same as Freespeech functionality? - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan - data structure of thought - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    4. language is really the brain's invention to convert this rich, multi-dimensional thought on one hand into speech on the other hand.

      for - key insight - ideas are multidimensional - speech is one dimensional - language is one dimensional - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    5. the dream, the hope, the vision, really, is that when they learn English this way, they learn it with the same proficiency as their mother tongue.

      for - investigate - question - Does this other app that allows learning another language with the proficiency of a child exist? - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    6. there were a group of scientists that were trying to understand how the brain processes language, and they found something very interesting. They found that when you learn a language as a child, as a two-year-old, you learn it with a certain part of your brain, and when you learn a language as an adult -- for example, if I wanted to learn Japanese

      for - research study - language - children learning mother tongue use a different post off the brain then adults learning another language - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    7. if I wasn't an English speaker, if I was speaking in some other language, this map would actually hold true in any language. So long as the questions are standardized, the map is actually independent of language. So I call this FreeSpeech

      for - app - Free Speech - permutations of pictures that can created meaning without using language - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    8. grammar is incredibly powerful, because grammar is this one component of language which takes this finite vocabulary that all of us have and allows us to convey an infinite amount of information, an infinite amount of ideas. It's the way in which you can put things together in order to convey anything you want to

      for - the power of grammar - infinite permutations if meaning using a finite set of symbols - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

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