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Methodius ad Theodorum (BHG 1352y) in modern Greek - part 1
I've now obtained access to the modern Greek translation by Ch. Stergioulis of the "Life of St Nicholas" composed by Methodius I, patriarch of Constantinople, around 843 AD, and dedicated to a certain Theodore. I've OCR'd the text using Abbyy Finereader 15, and corrected it - I had to install the G
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AI Translation of modern Greek once more
In my last two posts here and here, I looked at AI and other translations of the following passage from Ch. Stergioulis' modern Greek translation of the "Life of St Nicholas" by Methodius, Archbishop of Constantinople (the "Methodius ad Theodorum": 3. Καταγόταν ο Νικόλαος από τα Πάταρα, πόλη της ε
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Methodius ad Theodorum (BHG 1352y) using AI on medieval Greek – part 3
In the last post, we tried out various AI tools to translate the modern Greek version of Methodius ad Theodorum into English. But in the previous post commenter Diego had considerable success doing the same with the original medieval Greek of chapter 3! So I thought it might be interesting to see
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AI Translation of modern Greek once more
In my last two posts here and here, I looked at AI and other translations of the following passage from Ch. Stergioulis' modern Greek translation of the "Life of St Nicholas" by Methodius, Archbishop of Constantinople (the "Methodius ad Theodorum": 3. Καταγόταν ο Νικόλαος από τα Πάταρα, πόλη της ε
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How does "AI translation" work? Some high-level thoughts
The computer world is a high-bullshit industry. Every computer system consists of nothing more than silicon chips running streams of ones (1) and zeros (0), however grandly this may be dressed-up. The unwary blindly accept and repeat the words and pictures offered by salesmen with something to se
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Methodius ad Theodorum (BHG 1352y) Part 4 - A Draft Translation using AI
Sometimes the only way forward is to plunge in, and see what happens. So I have taken the modern Greek translation of Methodius ad Theodorum by Ch. Stergioulis, and machine-translated it into English. The results are attached, together with Stergioulis original, which has the ancient Greek facing
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