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SOURCE POST & GENERATED PODCAST

The content of this “Kaya Variations” post is a bit more arithmetic oriented, and there are (to my ear) some infecilities to the interpretation in the podcast. But I am the author, so may either know too much or be subject to bias towards analogies summarizing the math that differ from the ones I chose to use.

Listen to the podcast and read the post. Or read the post then listen to the podcast. Please let me know what you think directly, or share in the comments.

Is the podcast “translating” the post with veracity.

Or is it “riffing” off the post like a jazz AI?

This issue of what is brought from a source to a translation is one that has long been considered by translators of poetry and prose. Perhaps it now needs to be considered in the context of generated text where an automaton rather than a human is the translator.

https://russianlife.com/the-russia-file/pasternak-a-great-translator-reflects-on-translation/

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