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yandie 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better ...

I can read Kanji (Japanese) and sometimes I will understand the sentence but can't pronounce it (Japanese Kanji rules are quite arbitrary). Your brain definitely handles information differently with Chinese letters

est 9 months ago [–]

and if you master the skill, it will speed up your reading dramatically.

Ideograms could help you establish meanings to graphs directly, skipping the "vocal serialization" single-thread part.

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