Arcane Linguist

Chapter 357 Linguists also have to learn mathematics

"One thing to say is that although those people are barking, we are indeed not good translators now.

Because we don’t quite understand each other’s scriptures.

I once learned the Seris language and passed the Level 5 certificate of your sect, but that didn’t stop there. "

Another day, Anna came to Roland's home to talk with him.

Due to some clever misunderstandings, everyone believed that Roland had combined various world civilizations and created a "Serris Civilization" through fictionalism.

The Seris language is broad and profound, and has absorbed the heritage of many civilizations like Reiner World.

This kind of knowledge from ancient to modern times, the breadth of Atrein and foreign countries, and the use of borrowed methods are talents that many people at the level of archmage can't match.

Anna also admired this.

But she still pointed out where Roland was lacking.

"And you are too weak in arcane knowledge, and you are still limited to the field of runes."

"Uh...because I didn't learn much at all."

Roland adjusted the gold-rimmed glasses he often wore recently and said helplessly.

Anna covered her forehead in disbelief: "Logically speaking, low-level spells are not difficult."

It is indeed not difficult, and just like a programming language, the first one takes years or months to learn, and the second one takes just a few days.

What really needs to be studied are algorithms and logic, as well as framework and business.

But she soon found a good reason for Roland.

"That's right, you're still young.

You have accomplished such a big career when you are less than 30 years old. It is normal that you cannot take care of these things. "

"Then what should we do?" Roland said noncommittally, "I have some knowledge of the arcana of the Gnosis School, but I have never explored it in depth."

“I am currently planning to extract the astrology and dream interpretation parts from it, continue to improve my Formatist zodiac theory, and combine it with the Seris School to form a new school of mysticism.

If you don't mind...I'll teach you. "

When Anna mentioned this matter, her face looked slightly moist.

Roland looked strange, why she suddenly felt a little excited.

Could it be that he is a good teacher?

“I happen to have some free time in the second half of this year, so it might be a good idea to take some time to learn these things.

But instead of you teaching me, it’s better for me to teach you. "

Roland thought for a while and said to Anna.

"Huh? You teach me, how do you teach me?"

Anna said with a strange expression.

"Ms. Anna, have you ever heard of the saying that teaching makes each other better?

Let me try to teach you, even if it is full of fallacies, at least I can explain my understanding.

If there are any deviations, you can correct them in time.

Of course, the premise of this method is that you are professional and keen enough to feedback my mistakes in time. "

What Roland said is actually a way of teaching and learning from each other, teaching and learning.

There is a technique in modern sociology called the "Feynman learning method", which is to test your own learning results by trying to teach others.

But "teaching and mutual learning" (zhǎng) goes a step further.

Therefore, after learning, you will know your shortcomings; after teaching, you will know your difficulties; if you know your shortcomings, you will be able to reflect on yourself; if you know your difficulties, you will be able to improve yourself. Therefore, it is said that teaching and learning mutually reinforce each other.

——"Book of Rites and Records of Learning"

This is because the human mind is a black box system that cannot be easily detected.

Spells such as "Detect Thoughts" can only read surface movements and cannot penetrate deep into the core.

But language is a tool for thinking, and written expression and speech output represent part of cognition.

If you can organize the output in language, it means you have a basic knowledge framework and structural thinking, and have a systematic understanding.

This is very helpful for quickly mastering a subject.

In general, interactive teaching is more efficient than cramming teaching.

But the essence of this learning method is not the difference between large and small classes.

It’s not that large classes are less interactive, small classes or one-on-one private instruction are more interactive.

Parents who have experience in tutoring their children will know that no matter how hard they try to teach, their children will never learn.

This shows that the interaction effect is not good, and sometimes the output of emotion is even greater than the output of knowledge, causing a negative impact.

What is a truly good interaction?

"Book of Rites·Xue Ji" has made it very clear.

It is lack of knowledge and difficulty.

Then you can reflect on yourself and strengthen yourself.

This is actually an iterative feedback mechanism for artificial intelligence.

Knowing the shortcomings, knowing where they are falling short, and knowing why they are falling short is itself a very useful form of positive feedback.

Real masters are often good at catching shortcomings.

But teachers are not able to read minds, so it may be easier to judge by letting students organize their own language and output their thoughts.

With Anna's level, Roland certainly didn't need to teach her.

But Roland did this not to really teach her, but to show himself clearly and let her find her shortcomings.

In this way, Roland can turn it around himself without Anna's painstaking explanation.

After all, he is not a stupid student. He was already a doctorate in his previous life and had the ability to teach himself. After traveling through time, he improved so much through magic that he could pass himself off as a genius.

It is worth mentioning that exams/practices are also equivalent to feedback mechanisms, allowing people to know their mistakes.

But I only know that the answer is wrong, but I may not know why.

Therefore, Roland proposed to teach Anna himself instead of asking Anna to correct the questions and just know the correct answers.

"Tsk, tsk, after listening to your explanation, I seem to understand why you are such a genius.

I would like to call it the ‘Roland Learning Method’.

It seems that you are not only a linguist and translator, but also an educator! "

Anna thought about it and immediately understood the key.

Her genius brain has never thought about such a thing. After all, it will be natural after reading it once. If you are an intermediate or high-level person, you should read it a few times.

Learning results only depend on diligence or not, and self-discipline or not.

Where is the method needed?

But Roland told her that learning is not only about methods, but also very useful.

At least it's useful to ordinary people.

After explaining this learning method, Roland started to try it.

In the living room, Roland adjusted his glasses and used the "indexing technique" to review the knowledge he had read and memorized in the past, sort out concepts, and output opinions.

“The Gnostic School was considered a type of witchcraft in ancient times. After the arcane reform and integration into the system, it was changed into a research discipline in the fields of spirituality, perception, thinking, dreams, psychology, etc.

Among them, it is related to astronomy, and it is also connected to spirituality and perception due to the existence of Mana resonance, creating the theory of astrology and numerology.

Ancient wizards believed that the stars in the sky corresponded to the creatures on the earth. Therefore, observing the movements of the stars could reveal the laws of the world to a certain extent and thus predict destiny.

In essence, this still uses Mana resonance, and the sum of all related academics and theories is called astrology.

In the same way, dreams are the original source of divination.

Ms. Anna, your horoscope theory is based on the concept of ‘star’ in astrology and numerology.

Do you think that the human heart is complex, and it is impossible to accurately understand and calculate just by observing a 'fate star' with the strongest resonance, and just like the relationship between human brain cells, neuron induction and thinking...    Combined with Gestalt theory, create stars The whole composed of these signs, called the 'life constellation', will be more accurate and effective than a single 'life star'. "

“Very accurate definition, very in-depth understanding!”

Anna approved and motioned for Roland to continue.

Roland continued: "The 'Fate Seat' reveals the trajectory of the movements and changes of creatures on earth in the human world. The sum of these trajectories is called 'destiny'.

Predicting destiny is essentially to use observable astrology, numerology, and the induction of mana resonance to deduce human status, personality, growth environment, personality traits, decision-making rules and other factors to arrive at answers that point to the future.

As the saying goes, character determines destiny. Incorporating all these chaotic factors into big data calculations will be as accurate as predicting the future.

Therefore, I believe that the astrology and numerology theory after the arcane reform has long been separated from the scope of ancient witchcraft.

This is not a metaphysics, but a science of calculation. "

Anna praised: "If you can realize this, you have surpassed most ordinary people. Some people still think that these are ancient metaphysics.

As everyone knows, after the arcane reform, our school has also kept pace with the times and introduced many formulas for calculating the movement of celestial bodies. "

Then she casually listed a few.

There are arcane formulas similar to Newton's first law and Newton's second law.

There are things like Einstar's theory of relativity and the measurement of the speed of light.

There is universal gravity, conservation of energy, conservation of angular momentum, speed of the universe...

Roland said frankly: "These are also my headaches."

Roland's math scores were not ideal.

Because he has a doctorate in liberal arts, his mathematics level in his previous life was limited to the level of general advanced mathematics, and his physics skills were also so-so.

In this life, I have learned a little bit about "indexing" and "operational research", but I have not reached the level of a mathematician.

After the arcane reform, any learning of magic cannot be separated from these things as the basis.

Even if you join the Mage Legion and become a battle mage, when your superiors send you the coordinates of the attack target, you have to calculate the trajectory of the number of fireballs thrown.

Therefore, an arcanist who fails to become a mathematician will not be a good linguist.

"I'll give you a good patch up!"

I don’t know if it’s an illusion.

Anna learned that Roland was not very good at mathematics. Instead of being disappointed, Anna was even more...

Excited?

……

In any case, after an in-depth exchange between Roland and Anna, it gradually became clear where they needed to make up for their mistakes.

That is mathematics.

Especially mathematics related to probability theory and statistics.

Roland understands it this way: "Destiny may seem unpredictable, but in essence, it's all about probability."

He cited the chaos theory that the world is similar to a butterfly flapping its wings to cause a storm to explain his understanding of divination.

"My "Operations Research" uses a lot of mathematical tools of probability and statistics. These can actually be classified into the same type of divination methods as your horoscope theory, that is, computational divination that only appeared after the arcane reform thousands of years ago. study.

In the Seris language, it is called 'divination' or 'fortune telling', which is very accurate.

Unfortunately, many people fail to correctly understand its meaning and go astray in metaphysics. "

"Yes, yes! So as soon as I learned the Seris language, I knew that you were also a genius in divination, and your basic knowledge of it was better than many real astrologers!"

Anna was excited for sure.

In response, Roland smiled faintly.

In fact, it’s just astrology, numerology and divination.

Even linguistics itself has a branch called Computational Linguistics.

Blue Star’s definition of this in the previous life is: “By establishing a formal mathematical model to analyze and process natural language, and using programs on computers to realize the analysis and processing process, so as to achieve the goal of using machines to simulate part or even all of human beings. The purpose of language proficiency.”

This also involves speech input, knowledge graphs, corpus analysis, and large language models.

But no matter which category, it is inseparable from the essence of the program: data and calculation.

Before Roland traveled through time, the world had developed to the point where it began to use AI tools to analyze, interpret, segment and translate ancient texts.

It is only a matter of time before we conduct research on oracle bone inscriptions, analyze lost languages, etc.

The magic of this world, "Language Comprehension", has also used some similar results after the arcane reform.

However, the overall development level, including corpus modeling, mathematical tools, mathematical thinking and other aspects, is still slightly inferior to previous generations.

after all……

Magic is so convenient!

For things that cannot be solved by science, they often resort to witchcraft and metaphysics.

It has only been a thousand years since the Arcane Reform, which is only a few hundred years longer than the Renaissance.

So at this time, Roland and Anna discovered something in common with each other, that is, they paid more attention to mathematics, and both advocated using mathematics to replace metaphysics.

This is the fundamental focus for deepening arcane reform and pushing the arcane world forward.

It can be said that the avenues are in the same direction.

"It's rare! It's rare!"

The two felt the same way.

Roland originally thought that people in this world would regard him as an alternative.

And Anna admired Roland even more.

Lord Roland is indeed not one of those stubborn and conservative old wizards of the metaphysical school.

Geniuses indeed have something in common.

Uh……

Although his mathematics does not seem to be that ideal.

But then I thought about it: Isn’t it even more rare for people who are poor at math to have this understanding?

……

The two of them cherished each other until the beginning of September.

Anna announced to her school members and followers her decision to go to East Lena and establish a translation field.

According to the plan, the "Formatist" will open astrologer courses for Seris College and provide a career system from level 0 to level 6.

Later generations called it the ancestral home of computational divination, and also the birthplace of "Saris flow occultism".

However, Anna did not go with him, but stayed with the reason that "I still have to give Roland extra lessons."

As a result, Roland also received good news at this time.

The matter of being promoted to the eighth level Arcanist and being awarded the title of "Professor" has been finalized.

From then on, he can be respectfully called "Professor Luo".

Everyone in the Seris School knew about it and was full of joy.

The Donglina Master Tower even took a day off to celebrate.

Although this promotion was already a certainty before Roland obtained the Arcane Star, once it is actually implemented, it is undoubtedly good news.

Anna learned about it and suggested: "It's really gratifying, let's celebrate it!"

This person was suspected of being a social terrorist and helped Roland make arrangements without saying a word.

(End of this chapter)