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Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 10:04 am
by kujoe
Congrats, doctor!
Work hard and party hard is all I can say.
Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 11:41 am
by kk1
FuguTabetai wrote:I haven't really been reading this - I've been busy. I have, by the way, sucessfully defended my phd thesis, and am now Dr. FuguTabetai.
I was going to start translating this chapter last night, but my laptop hard drive died the death of a terrible clanking and smoking. So I'm going to have to get a new hard drive before I can get any real amount of translation done. I'll probably have a translation by next week sometime, assuming I don't party too hard.
Omedeto Gozaimasu Sensei!
Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 12:30 pm
by Sleepy Weasel
grats dr. fugu!
Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 12:49 pm
by moyism
whoa... Dr. Fugu eh? excellent! congrats!
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 2:37 am
by Starakin
congratulations Dr. Fugu!
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 4:12 am
by Dembol
Congratulations on becoming a Doctor!
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 4:53 am
by kidneo66
doctor of what? forgive my ignorance.
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 8:59 am
by MrProphet
...of philosophy.
Congratulations, Tabetai O-sensei!
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 11:05 am
by hitori
Congrats Fugu!
You should now change your title from Shifu to Hakase! hehe
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 11:54 am
by FuguTabetai
MrProphet wrote:...of philosophy.
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science actually. I always thought it was strange that it is a doctor of philosophy, since I don't know much about philosophy actually...
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 12:25 pm
by Sleepy Weasel
FuguTabetai wrote:
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science actually. I always thought it was strange that it is a doctor of philosophy, since I don't know much about philosophy actually...
"Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science" sounds even smarter! .... what is it?
do you help companies design components? or teach ethical programming? you don't see many computer fields that go all the way to docs.
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 1:34 pm
by Asunder
Congrats Dr. Fugu.
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 6:37 pm
by HappyStealer
Congratulations!
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 7:23 pm
by FuguTabetai
I split these posts off from the Tenjo Tenge forum. The conversation was getting a bit off topic.
I've ordered a new hard drive for my laptop, so I hope to start translating soon.
Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 11:40 pm
by MetalGravy
"Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science" sounds even smarter! .... what is it?
do you help companies design components? or teach ethical programming? you don't see many computer fields that go all the way to docs.
yeah, what
did you specialize in? Oh, and congragi-frikkin'-lations!
Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 7:48 am
by FuguTabetai
MetalGravy wrote:"Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science" sounds even smarter! .... what is it?
do you help companies design components? or teach ethical programming? you don't see many computer fields that go all the way to docs.
yeah, what
did you specialize in? Oh, and congragi-frikkin'-lations!
I specialize in "natural language processing" - getting computers to work with text that humans use. I work on multi-lingual summarization systems. My thesis is mainly about how a computer can be given many documents in multiple different langauges, and then generate a summary of them in English using machine translation or other methods.
That is one of the reasons that I translate - I've always enjoyed using computers to tackle language programs, and I wrote a fun program to do manga translation. At some point I'm going to use all the data I've created through translation to train a statistical machine translation system just for fun.
Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 7:48 am
by Shinpachi
Congrats! And here I didn't know that all this time you were translating you were also getting your doctoral.
Reminds me of a comic strip though that had a blackboard in a classroom that read "Philosophy Final Exam Question: How do I plan to make a living with a degree in philosophy?" Though, I'm sure philosophy in computer science is much more practical than just philosophy, and a doctor in anything pretty much guarantees you can always fall back to teaching at a college/university.
Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 7:50 am
by FuguTabetai
Shinpachi wrote:Reminds me of a comic strip though that had a blackboard in a classroom that read "Philosophy Final Exam Question: How do I plan to make a living with a degree in philosophy?" Though, I'm sure philosophy in computer science is much more practical than just philosophy, and a doctor in anything pretty much guarantees you can always fall back to teaching at a college/university.
The degree is actually a technical one, a "Doctor of Science", but for historical reasons, all doctorate degrees are Philosophy Doctorate (Ph.D.)
Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 8:03 pm
by Sleepy Weasel
FuguTabetai wrote:
That is one of the reasons that I translate - I've always enjoyed using computers to tackle language programs, and I wrote a fun program to do manga translation. At some point I'm going to use all the data I've created through translation to train a statistical machine translation system just for fun.
does that mean there will be a program you can pop tenten_raw_01.jpg into and out will pop tenten_scanlation_01.jpg?
Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 10:30 pm
by FuguTabetai
Sleepy Weasel wrote:FuguTabetai wrote:
That is one of the reasons that I translate - I've always enjoyed using computers to tackle language programs, and I wrote a fun program to do manga translation. At some point I'm going to use all the data I've created through translation to train a statistical machine translation system just for fun.
does that mean there will be a program you can pop tenten_raw_01.jpg into and out will pop tenten_scanlation_01.jpg?
No.
If you can string together a program to recognize text bubbles, do Japanese OCR, then machine translation, and feed into GMAO, that would be possible, but it wouldn't work well. Parts of the pipeline are missing, although I have been experimenting with the first part in GMAO. I haven't gotten anything that makes it look like an easy task though.