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
>>
>>
>> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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