The energy plant at chernobyl had/has 6 reactors. One of them (I believe #4) was the one that suffered the accident; the others are still running although due to frequent problems repairs will soon force their shutdown too (they say in two years). Now, are Soviet reactors very good? no, they are not as safe as the U.S. ones. But as someone noted, they have never really failed either except Chernobyl #4 and that only because of negligent testing (they turned off colling system for a day). And, let me repeat, they are restarting a DIFFERENT reactor!
Translation, especially online, is a damn hard thing to do. I've studied with one of translation pioneers and have heard many stories of a multimillion dollar demo that concludes by translating 'Hello' into 'thirteen'. Part of it is the fact that translation is 'interlingua' based, where 'interlingua' is some hypothetical 'language of the mind', which presumably uses grammar to verbalize some of world knowledge. Now, the computer has no word knowledge. This is going to sound like babelfish - at best, a little bit usable... That's my 5 cents. I hope I'm wrong anyway, this would be great technology.
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The energy plant at chernobyl had/has 6 reactors. One of them (I believe #4) was the one that suffered the accident; the others are still running although due to frequent problems repairs will soon force their shutdown too (they say in two years). Now, are Soviet reactors very good? no, they are not as safe as the U.S. ones. But as someone noted, they have never really failed either except Chernobyl #4 and that only because of negligent testing (they turned off colling system for a day). And, let me repeat, they are restarting a DIFFERENT reactor!
Translation, especially online, is a damn hard thing to do. I've studied with one of translation pioneers and have heard many stories of a multimillion dollar demo that concludes by translating 'Hello' into 'thirteen'. Part of it is the fact that translation is 'interlingua' based, where 'interlingua' is some hypothetical 'language of the mind', which presumably uses grammar to verbalize some of world knowledge. Now, the computer has no word knowledge. This is going to sound like babelfish - at best, a little bit usable... That's my 5 cents. I hope I'm wrong anyway, this would be great technology.