That is such a good idea! I hope I'm not too late to try something like that. Although mine are already interested in writing – we (parents) always ask for something drawn or made or written for our birthdays/christmas and it's amazing to see what they come up with, and we encourage travel journals whenever we travel, which they will very happily do. I think the fact that their parents read a lot of books also helps instill that there is value in reading and writing.
last time in Italy I "spoke" to lots of Italians very slowly with lots of gestures and a little bit of google translate, it was awesome and I learnt a lot! Nearly ordered 100x as much cheese as I meant to except the guy in the shop was not a computer so he understood what I really meant. Much better than in the Netherlands where they just switch to English as soon as they hear you try to say choodumorchen
> However sceptical of "AI" you are, "give me the information on this page in my preferred language" is the kind of task they excel at.
Except for the 90% or more of the world's 7000-ish languages which have barely any data online.
E.g. the huge CommonCrawl corpus has stats https://commoncrawl.github.io/cc-crawl-statistics/plots/lang... for only 160 languages. English takes up nearly half the corpus, and after the top 16 or so all languages have <1% of the corpus, over half of those 160 have <0.1% and the other 6000+ languages are distributed amongst the <unknown> category. The long tail is very long.
(You'll see people use the term "low-resource language" and then talk about Finnish or Macedonian – if you're not a linguist and you've heard of the language, it's most likely not low-resource ;-))
Here in Norway, my third grader gets to take a "scout knife" on school trips, we sometimes get pictures from the teacher of the kids sitting there sharpening sticks which I guess they use as swords or something because it's always too wet to barbecue.
Maybe it can at least write like a Norwegian instead of just English-translated-into-Norwegian. It would be interesting to see if they try something like the experiments in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22445 on it.
> the larger trucks that are in the USA which are scary big
Yeah, big trucks have started showing up in Norway too unfortunately, it's making it much harder to keep our environment of freedom and responsibility :(
Cross compilation could definitely be easier :-/ I tend to just use github actions and compile from whatever architecture it should run on, so that's a workaround. I long for a day when I can just `cabal build --platform=amd64` etc. and it Just Works without having to download and compile a horde of foreign libs or set up a vm
> also many people are not familiar with nix and brew does all i need
it's a good reason to learn Nix then: it will completely replace your brew and offer an ultimate build tool suitable for any software stack moving forward. And you'll get cross-platform and static Haskell builds.
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