Monday, November 9, 2026

youtube and other AI subtitling services seems to provide no context to the AIs, which means they often fail to get peoples names correct, especially when those are not internationally known superstars.

right now i'm looking at the name of sharofiddin amriddinov, who's been transcribed to "sure offered him, i'm rid of".

i wonder how much better name transcription could be if it was provided

a) a written list of names or b) a written and spoken list of names

... of the people in the video.

update:

  • akbar djuraev: "act by drive"
  • daniil vagaitsev: "ok, daniel, forgot it, seth"

Thursday, October 15, 2026

a painfully funny story: "Do dentists actually know what they’re doing?" -- https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/dentists


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