It is a very nice proposition Russell. Thanks. I could even pay. Are
you thinking to "consciousness and mechanism" (750 pages!) or "
Computability, physics and cognition" (120 pages) ?
Bruno
Le 08-nov.-05, à 10:54, Russell Standish a écrit :
I wasn't talking about a machine translation, but a machine assisted
translation. I would take the machine translated text, and edit it
into idomatic English - using my knowledge of the French text and the
subject to assist. Diagrams would probably be left unchanged.
It will still be a large task, perhaps taking a few months, but as I
said I may do it with a little arm twisting. I wouldn't begin to do it
without the machine translation to start with though!
PS - I have just finished translating a 10,000 line PHP scripted
website from Portugese, languages I do not know (neither Portugese nor
PHP). Google was a big help, but certainly could not do it by itself.
Cheers
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:26:08PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Le 06-nov.-05, ? 08:38, Russell Standish a ?crit :
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 03:37:52PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote:
physics. BTW, I am still waiting to read an English version of your
Thesis.
That, I hope, might help me. Have you considered Google's
translation
services?
With a little arm twisting, I might be tempted into assisting in
translating this thesis. I have been poring over it during my book
writing episode. With a Google translation of the LaTeX sources as a
starting point, I think I could do it reasonably quickly...
Thanks. Unfortunately some people have already send me some automated
translations and until now I find them rather awful and hard to
understand.
Also, I think that my paper "the origin of physical laws", despite its
title, is better than my Lille thesis (except I pass over the graph
movie argument).
My last paper "Theoretical computer science and the natural science"
is
still better. It contains new results based on the use of combinators,
and make a very clean summary of the interview of the (lobian)
universal machine. But it is still under press, and it is also short
and technical.
I am thinking about the "official" paper, but I am stuck by the abyss
existing in between physicists and logicians.
People interested should really buy some good introductory book on
logic, or study the Podnieks page:
http://www.ltn.lv/~podnieks/
Podnieks mentions the book by Mendelson which is really good indeed.
Best,
Bruno
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