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YouTube should create Translator accounts, so they could have huge amounts of videos translated

2019-06-03 by TTTThis

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YouTube has millions of videos that their 1.3 billion viewers can't watch because the videos aren't in their language.

YouTube creates revenue for content creators/uploaders, leading to more content for its viewers, but it could also create translator accounts for people who could translate YouTube videos, and pay those people a percentage of the video's ad revenue when the viewer uses translations, based on the amount of translation they are responsible for.

Many videos are in languages (for example, Spanish) where there is usually a low payment need for labor, so working on translation might be appealing. Otherwise, people who work in or practice languages may provide translations more often because there is a possibility of revenue.

This would do two things for YouTube:

1) Quickly increase the amount of content their audience could chose from and watch, without increasing the burden of server costs.

2) Provide information to improve their automatic translation technology.

Both of these would increase revenue, of course.

If implemented, we might expect a quick rush to translate the most popular videos into other languages, because these would offer higher revenue to translator accounts.

Currently (if what I have read is current) YouTube does kind of the opposite. It offers creators the option to pay professional translation services to translate their content. (I'm not sure how much this service gets used.)

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A List of Books and Articles

2019-05-24 by TTTThis

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... I'm reading this year, and which someone might want to discuss.

Many of these are available online for free.

Also, maybe you want to suggest a book based on things I read, or have a link to a free version of a book by the same author or on the same subject?

Books, Essays, Scientific Reports:

  • Until the Deer Return, Alisa Koyrakh
  • Armed Non-State Actors, Current Trends & Future Challenges (2015)
  • The Deneuve Letter
  • Shakuntala, Kalidasa
  • The Bedford Anthology of World Literature
  • Ava en la noche, Vicent
  • Radical Libre, Vicent
  • Los secretos de los animales, La vaca colorada
  • The Federalist Papers
  • After Appomattox, Downs
  • Second Founding, Foner
  • Reading Law, Scalia and Garner
  • 51 Imperfect Solutions, Sutton
  • Tough Cases, Canan, Mize and Weisberg
  • Alice Lawwena & the Holy Spirits, Behrend
  • Living with Bad Surroundings, Finnstrom
  • Northern Uganda conflicts and restorative justice papers (http://tttthis.com/blog/the-truth-is-not-enough-restorative-justice-course)
  • A Study of History, Toynbee
  • AP Stylebook 2020-2022
  • Zen Teachings of Rinzai
  • Catullus selections, again
  • A Tamil Reader
  • Pizarro
  • Cristobal Colon
  • Mao, all 3 from the Grandes protagonistas de la humanidad series
  • Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery, Filson Young
  • The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot (I think just the Columbus part maybe)
  • Piratas en Santa Marta, Bermudez
  • A General History of the Pyrates (epub)
  • Pirate Organizations (Leeson)
  • Pirate Who's Who (epub)
  • Historia de Colombia, Salvat (7 o 8 tomos)
  • A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean
  • Ibn Battuta's Travels
  • Mitos y Leyendas de Colombia, de Astrubal Lopez Orozco
  • The Greek Epic Cycle, by Malcolm Davies (maybe)
  • Tomorrow We Travel, by Alisa Koyrakh (on NER site)
  • Francois Villon poems
  • Gut Liking for the Ordinary, when Brand Familiarity Breeds Risk, Using Drama to Persuade, Don't Get Eaten! Understanding and Handling Cannibalization Risk, How Attractive Product Design Increases Self-Affirmation, Beyond Aesthetics Seeing Form and Believing in Function, Design and Iconic Brands, No Motion without Emotion, Why Some Brands Excite Consumers So Much, What Drives Consumers to Post (Accurate) Product Reviews, Designing Viral Product Features for Broader Reach, On the Role of Physical Stores in a World of Online Shopping
  • The Role of Transportation in the Persuasiveness of Public Narrative
  • Long Distance vs Proximal Romantic Relationships
  • Perceptions of Primary and Secondary Relationships in Polyandry
  • Morphology of the Folktale, by Vladimir Propp
  • Between Game Theory and Gaming Simulation, The Experience of Games in Childhood, Approaching Game Enjoyment and Negative Emotion, Death Fabulation, Negative Emotion Positive Experience (Bopp), Video Gaming and Death,
  • Norms of Valence, Arousal and Dominance
  • Argument Strength, Winning Arguments, Toward the Automated Detection of Individuals Rationales, Characterizing the Language of Online Communities and its Relation to Community Reception, Argument Mining, Natural Language Argumentation
  • A Focus Theory of Normative Conduct
  • World War Z
  • Is Resisting Genocide a Human Right, by Kopel, Gallant and Eisen
  • The Rhetoric of History, by Hexter
  • Buson poems
  • El beso de la mujer arana, by Manuel Puig
  • Russian Fairy Tales, by Afanas'ev
  • ATA System of Folk Stories
  • Unfinished Stories
  • The Social Contract & Discources, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Political Orientations are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults
  • Ali Pasha, by Dumas
  • The War in Nicaragua, by William Walker
  • Lorca's Poems
  • Edward O. Wilson's Sociobiology
  • Kurt Cobain's Journals
  • A Coney Island of the Mind, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • W.B. Yeat's Selected Poems
  • D.H. Lawrence's New Poems and Look! We Have Come Through!
  • Michael Ondaatje poems (rough compilation), again
  • Hamlet by Shakespeare, again
  • Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare again
  • Companion to Medieval Art, by Rudolf, again
  • The Gothic Enterprise, by Robert A. Scott, again
  • The Young Lions, by Irwin Shaw, again
  • Year of the Jellyfish, by Christopher Franck (does anyone have him in English?)
  • Journey to the End of Night, by Louis Celine
  • Trifles for a Masacre, by the same author
  • History of the Waldenses, by J. A. Wylie
  • Several books on Central American folk tales
  • Poems and Fragments of Catullus, again
  • Li Po's poems, again
  • Auden's poems (rough compilation)
  • Cortez, by John S.C. Abbott
  • Vasco Nunez de Balboa, by Frederick Ober
  • The Odyssey, again
  • Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman ,still
  • Treasure Island
  • Mahabarata
  • Prayers of the Middle Ages
  • Candide, by Voltaire, again
  • The Native Races, by Bancroft
  • The Popol Vuh
  • Prisoner of Love, by Jean Genet
  • The Concubine, by Elichi Amadi
  • LIberty's Aristocratic Roots
  • Bukowski's Burn in Water Drown in Flame
  • On the Indian Trail
  • The Law of the Somalis, by Michael van Notten
  • Seize the Dance, by Michelle Kisliuk
  • The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont
  • Discurso sobre las pasiones del amor, Blaise Pascal
  • Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke
  • The Kingdom of God is Within You, by Leo Tolstoy
  • Laughing is Scary - Children's Perspectives of Creepy Technologies (2019)
  • Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures (1989) - DM Buss
  • The Aims of the Criminal Law (printed, 40 pages), Henry M. Hart Jr
  • 100+ Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know, Randy Barnett and Josh Blackman . Again.
  • Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence , 9th ed. Still.
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Sex

2019-05-24 by TTTThis

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A little study, after reading (all available free online without research accounts as pdfs):

  • International preferences in selecting mates - A study of 37 cultures (1990) - DM Buss
  • Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures (1989) - DM Buss
  • Global Sex Sexuality and sexual practices around the world (2000) - Judith Mackay

Topics raised (in Buss 1989, and peer responses):

  • Orgasm as a gauge
  • Partner's likeness to parents
  • What do males and females choose based on
  • Value of these criteria under different circumstances (eg when women make more money; in an industrial society, children's values)
  • Criteria that is most variable across cultures (age, chastity)
  • Actual choice versus said preference, actual satisfaction, retrospective judgement
  • Authority of the sample
  • Rape offender's preferences
  • Modification of choice based on thinking (type of relationship, acceptability of relationship to others, thoughts about what is healthy, thoughts about what is simply available)
  • Value of coyness and easiness
  • Moko dude
  • Evidence from deception
  • Spain as a possible outlyer
  • Women put off more by unfaithful husbands
  • Mammal females are hard-working mothers
  • Employed women a return to historical economic role
  • Convertibility of economic resources into value
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First, do no harm.

2019-05-23 by TTTThis

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La Torre

2019-05-23 by TTTThis

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"Little children were torn from the arms of their mothers, clasped by their tiny feet, and their heads dashed against the rocks; or were held between two soldiers and their quivering limbs torn up by main force. Their mangled bodies were then thrown on the highways or fields, to be devoured by beasts. The sick and the aged were burned alive in their dwellings. Some had their hands and arms and legs lopped off, and fire applied to the severed parts to staunch the bleeding and prolong their suffering. Some were flayed alive, some were roasted alive, some disemboweled; or tied to trees in their own orchards, and their hearts cut out. Some were horribly mutilated, and of others the brains were boiled and eaten by these cannibals. Some were fastened down into the furrows of their own fields, and ploughed into the soil as men plough manure into it. Others were buried alive. Fathers were marched to death with the heads of their sons suspended round their necks. Parents were compelled to look on while their children were first outraged [raped], then massacred, before being themselves permitted to die." - History of the Waldenses, by J. A. Wylie, written in the 1880s.

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