King Ming Lam

How the Catholic Church infiltrated China using science

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

In this video, I told the fascinating story of how the Catholic Church infiltrated China using maths and science.

Dutch and German dialogue that sounds like English!

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT

I’ve made a YouTube video! Here I present to you a 100% correct Dutch and German dialogue that you as an English speaker can understand!

Germanic languages share a common ancestor and are closely related. Normally, most of them are different enough that they’re not mutually intelligible. But is it possible to construct “universal” dialogues of Germanic languages that can be mutually understood by various Germanic languages?

In this video I constructed an example. You will hear what it sounds like in various Germanic languages, not just in mainstream Germanic languages, but also in lesser known languages like Frisian and Low German.

And how would it sound in their common ancestor language Proto-Germanic? I shall answer that question and also provide a brief historical and linguistic overview of Germanic languages. Check it out!

ChatGPT can write stories in medieval English?!

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Had a fun time playing with ChatGPT. Started out just trying to test if ChatGPT can write in medieval English, but ended up making a whole story! It didn’t seem to be proper medieval English, but I was nevertheless impressed with its story writing.

I was quite impressed for the coherent details that ChatGPT were able to write out. I also had much fun, it’s like a game during which I didn’t really know how the story would develop – whilst I do have some control over the plot as seen by my prompts, I didn’t dictate the answers to my questions and just left them in the hands of ChatGPT.

For example, the plot about the monk pacifying Satan was not what I had expected, and I was unconvinced by that at first. So I challenge ChatGPT to explain itself twice by asking how was the monk able to deal with Satan’s minions (who had beaten even God’s angels), and why was the monk able to pacify Satan when God was unable to. I was impressed with how ChatGPT was able to coherently defend its choice of plot each time.

All in all, the sense of suspense not knowing how ChatGPT would develop the plot was quite fun!