I found this little kanji channel
With videos on where did “four” kanji came from, abandoned kanji (膨脹と膨張 etc.), kanji with long readings, …
Kanji composition challenge
Yesterday I was listening to “Pinball wizard” by The Who.
That made me consider that the word “pinball” is somehow translated in Italian using another English sounding word: “flipper”.
I don’t know the reason but we call “flipper” the pinball.
Looking at the lyrics though I found this verse: “He’s got crazy flipper fingers” and Google Translate makes a mess translating that line. 
So here is my question for all the native speakers: is “flipper” any word actually related to pinball or does it mean just “that flip”? And what are in practice “flipper fingers”? Fingers that flip? In what way?
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These things are the flippers!
I haven’t played pinball in forever but I think you activate them with the side buttons (using your fingers.)
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Thanks!
Due to the strange Italian translation it was impossible for me to have useful results from Google
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Pro playing on fox but there’re Japanese subtitles for the most spoken lines.
Any help with this Chinese riddle?
tj2013 [5D]: 草包一个
tj2013 [5D]: 专玩草包
草包 means someone incompetent, because 包(bags) made of 草(grass straw) are not capable.
Cosmic go
Continuation of the previous video on AI. I didn’t understand anything but it’s a talk show, I doubt they talk about too in-depth stuff.
At 17:30 they seem to be talking about anti-Katago adversarial strategies so it’s an up-to-date talk, at least.
At 27:00 they talk about our favorite topic of how many handicap stones between pros and god. That modern AI is stronger than what we thought god would be pre-AlphaGo. But still AI makes simple mistakes here and there so actual god is much more stronger.
At 28:08 they talk about devil of go as opposed to god. Player that would play best moves with an expectation that opponent makes mistakes rather than playing fair best move.
They also compare (current) AI to Greek and Japanese gods which are imperfect.
Some people just want to watch the world burn…
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I need your help!
I’m listening to this album on Apple music:
I wish to do some online searching about it. Any information would be interesting. But that app doesn’t allow me to copy the title or the author name.
I don’t know anything about Chinese language, so I can’t read it, forget about writing it!
Is anybody here that could transcribe that for me in a message so I can copy it and paste in any translation app or search engine?
I’d very appreciate that.
If it’s only the characters, looks like
古琴
成公亮
The first characters mean Guqin, which is like a Chinese Koto (or presumably, the Koto is like a Japanese Guqin). Second characters seem to be the artist, this person
Basically, the same as what is written in English on the album cover… 
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Thanks a lot!
I love guqin.
I actually bought one! 
It’s a fantastic instrument with a lovely sound.
The basics are quite intuitive for a guitar player: it’s a sort of giant acoustic 7 string fretless bass.
I really love it!
Unfortunately I can’t manage to play it as often as I wish.
Now I can learn more about that player.
Thanks again!
Now I feel stupid! 
The cover is so small in the app that I didn’t notice the name written in English! 
Search by image does recognise text?
I didn’t know that! I must give it a try.
Thanks!
Avoiding youtube copyright system. Considering how different the resulting song ended up, it’s rather wide, isn’t it. Seems even close plagiarism isn’t allowed.
Interesting that they might have actually changed the language a bit.
Ohashi Hirofumi talks AI. Specifically the recent weakness of AI although they start long way from 2016.
Here’s a game Ohashi played against Katago.
From a discussion about coordinates and words from another topic I’d like to add this:
Are they really directions though, for the people to use them and have words for them?
In the local dialect - the everyday use - we do not even use “north/south, east/west” but instead garbled phrases turned into words that mean “this way, that way, up way, down way”:
Σαπάν = Ίσα πάνω (straight up) = ‘σα παν’ = σαπάν …
The funny thing about this system of coordinates is that it is totally subjective depending on who is using it, where they are coming from or even what day it is. The same person one day might say “I am going up” towards the town square or say “I am going down” or I say “I didn’t have the change to come down to town X” but people coming from town X say “we are coming down to your town”.
Village coordinates are very funny But word garbling is very interesting here.
Particularly here there is a small village that the residents there are known to be very sneaky and when you meet them and you ask “hey, where are you going?” they answer “sapansakat” grarbling now BOTH directions, practically saying “I am going up and down”, to avoid saying where exactly they have been.
Germans combine words to create longer words. Greek villagers combine them while crunching them, almost beyond recognition when they talk fast.
WHEN YOU WATCH FULL DUB
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