I tinkered a bit with making almost fully automated Korean translation & caption syncincg for the Eyes on the Prize documentary for today’s staff meeting (which apparently was cancelled) but the results are not very good. Ath the same time though, it’s not too much text – only 1,000 lines (not sentences) in Episode 3

Steps:
1. extract english captions from youtube
2. parse text out of the caption file timecode syntax
3. if the line is shorter than the median, assume there is a paragraph break at the end of that line. (captions include no punctuation)
4. Merge the paragraph lines into single paragraphs. (I used MediaWiki’s behavior of merging lines into one to do this)
5. Review the paragraphed text to ensure the punctation and paragraph separation makes sense. I noticed even though there is no punctuation, catpions include periods in middle name initiials and things like “Mr.”
6. Run the text through Google translate. It can only handle around one page of letter size page at a time.
7. removed all punctation from the korean, merged all the paragraphs.
8. Now to time sync the Korean.. I divided the total runtime (1 hour) by the time length between each caption point, then multiplied it by the total character length of the korean caption. since each catpion gets way too close to zero, I buffed them up a bit by giving them 40% more than what they are supposed to get (so they gain extra characters)
9. Create the caption file and run. Results were pretty disappointing. Because captioning density throughout the film is extremely irregular, the Korean caption was almost never on time with the English lines being said at the time.

Another approach could be doing the korean lines proportional to the length of the english captions, instead of the lenght of time. Yeah.. actually that may not be too bad.

This vid was so funny that I watched it twice from start to finish and laughed both times with the Texas jokes

I started watching Westworld yesterday after coming across this review and finished Season 1 today. I wasn’t paying much attention though, watched it while playing World of Tanks. Spoilers ahead..

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Yesterday I washed a stir fry pan(?) that I had left unattended for 4+ years,, used mostly to drip oil from the panhandle.. thingy after making eggs.

There was almost half a centimeter of gooey semi solid oil resin covering the entire base. I used four sponges before they became sticky, my hands became sticky, put boiling water in it for half an hour and after noticing that the ceramic cover may have peeled off, I started thinking maybe should have just gotten a new one..

while making the next dream show vid, I was checking the URLs in the NILC fact sheet, and found a URL that was not working:

http://justice.gov/eoir/list‐pro‐bono‐legal‐service‐providers‐map

after some googling, I found the correct link:
http://justice.gov/eoir/list-pro-bono-legal-service-providers-map

what? they are exactly the same. What’s the difference?

Putting them side by side on Notepad, I noticed the wrong URL was slightly longer, even though every character was the same.

The difference in length started around “bono” – the dash was slightly longer.

I think either MS Word or Acrobat converted the dash to a “better looking” longer special character dash, and the URL was no longer valid using that special dash character.

Very nice.

Thanks, Drumpf.

So when actually taking time to analyze the KRC phone logs in the future:

• Outgoing menu numbers only increased after May 2016, when we allocated several phones to show the menu/addon as the caller ID. (Not show what the previous ones are, and that bump in June 2016)
• addons don’t seem to be counted
• Wrong numbers and yongho cell phone usage dies after July 2015 – merge into regular LA

Many of my peers now have (multiple) children, and I’m unsure how socially acceptable it is to not be able to remember their children’s names (despite having seen/met them a couple times). Being the usual INTJ, I’m not really interested in their children, and I struggle to remember the parents’ names in the first place. So every time I meet them there’s the awkward.. “so.. uh.. how are the ‘babies’ doing? (hoping that there’s two, not one)”

cleaned up my youtube subscription list, went from 290 to 99. There were tons of dead channels, things I was into at one point (World of Warships), or channels I subscribed to because of one outstanding vid (eg vocaloids) but watching that every day was not smeothing I looked forward to, and organizations I had subscribed to “just to be up to date”, and strangely, channels I would have never subscribed to – I think they made some scheme (eg NetworkSolutions) Still about 1/3-1/2 of the remaining 99 are more there as a bookmark than as a regular subscription (excel lessons, etc), so I’ll need to clear that up as well.

MIV exercise: what kind of world do we want to live in?

In chatrooms, we are often engaged in a age-old northern nomadic tradition of “wordless chatter”.

Northern nomadic peoples (“오랑캐” in korean) had to deal with the constant sandstorm that heat up the gobi desert every summer. People were keenly aware that water was scarce and opening your mouth drained you from water faster.

in other words, opening your mouth took you closer to death by the second. This manifested into the local culture, which is where local expressions like “hombre con boca cerrada, no le entran moscas” were born.

To engage in wordless chatter, you must sit with one leg above your knee. this is called 반가부좌 자세 – then you concentrate in your inner self until you see the yellow background 32px mic button
and press it

Let us Partake.
….öhm……