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On 2019 Thanksgiving, I made the plan to read one page a day and finish the
2006 pages of the American Heritage Dictionary 4th ed. around May 22, 2025.
As of today, Oct 6, 2024, I am left with 229 days and 280 pages.
To finish on time, I need to read 280/229 = 1.22 pages a day.
At 1.5 ppd, however, it would take another 186 days and I'd be done by early Apr.
They say 90 li is the midway for one who travels 100 or the marathon starts at
mile 20. The metaphors don't apply in my case as I see finishing the AHD as
another beginning.
I'm sorry that you feel bad after seeing AI translations. Somehow, however, I feel people miss the point of tech progresses. I kept asking myself: "Cars run much faster. Why humans still jog? And indeed why physical activities like marathons and jiu-jitsu have grown more popular each year?"
I've heard a lot about ChatGPT but never tried it. There might come a day I use that technology everyday, just as I google now, but it still won't matter. What I should work on is to have a healthy mind (no depression) in a healthy body (no illness) and to be able to do without tech.
I don't know how you feel. The other day I felt very discouraged when I first tried ChatGPT for translations (from English to Chinese). A smooth sentence came up within seconds, and with unexpected accuracy. AI beats human beings, like it did in chess a few years ago. For a time, I lost heart, and wanted to give up:))
As I am aging, my memory wanes too...