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Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year? | Inter-Species Phonetic Alphabet for Transcribing Animal Sounds

Dan Lucas — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:07:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year?
Poster: Dan Lucas
Post title: Inter-Species Phonetic Alphabet for Transcribing Animal Sounds

[quote]Philippe Etienne wrote:
I thought machines and neural networks could be used to sample bird chirping, create a virtual Rosetta stone in Bird language only and find out why they sometimes sound so cheesed off or so excited replying to each other.[/quote]
That process has begun, logically enough, with an alphabet to transcribe the sounds.
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Dan

Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year? | Learning by doing

CasaPhil — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 19:06:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year?
Poster: CasaPhil
Post title: Learning by doing

When I don't do, I compulsorily read man-made content, screen-based and printed, in both of my languages in all areas I'm interested in, including no area.

The other night on my terrasse while looking for sleep, I heard three stationary day birds talking at various distances, which is unusual at night. I thought machines and neural networks could be used to sample bird chirping, create a virtual Rosetta stone in Bird language only and find out why they sometimes sound so cheesed off or so excited replying to each other.

Philippe

Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year? | What about negative amounts?

Anton Konashenok — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:18:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year?
Poster: Anton Konashenok
Post title: What about negative amounts?

Some of us get paid for providing professional development courses to others...

Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year? | 0

Lieven Malaise — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:54:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year?
Poster: Lieven Malaise
Post title: 0

My everyday work is my professional development. I'm a technology adapter, but I won't attend any courses or webinars for it. I've learnt to use DeepL to my advantage, but it was all on-the-job self-learning. In my personal situation learning and professional development events are a waste of precious time.

Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year? | 100 to 500

Ana Vozone — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 07:53:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year?
Poster: Ana Vozone
Post title: 100 to 500

Sometimes I attend webinars when they are relevant to my areas of translation. They are occasionally free.

The question probably could have been "How much time and money do you invest in professional development each year?". I "invest" time watching programs (on TV) and reading about themes that are interesting to me, in French and English mostly.

Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year? | 100 to 500

Iulia Parvu — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 06:51:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year?
Poster: Iulia Parvu
Post title: 100 to 500

And that's only because I count the ProZ membership as "professional development" :)

Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year? | How much? 0

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:49:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year?
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: How much? 0

I haven’t invested money in my CPD for some time. Let’s say that my work is my CPD. Experience has been my main teacher! Over the years, I have attended a few conferences and webinars, but I must say that I have been disappointed time and again as the information provided could often be summarised onto one sheet of paper. I attended a summer university course in 2017 to learn about specific features of neologisms formation.

P.S. I have been learning Dutch by myself leisurely, but it has nothing to do with CPD. My first granddaughter is married to a Flemish and although he speaks a very good English, I’d love to surprise them and learn how to say a few words in Dutch, if only to contradict the Portuguese proverb “old donkeys don't learn languages”…

Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year?

ProZ.com Staff — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:10:03 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: How much do you invest in learning and professional development each year?
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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