Simplified Technical English: write so that people and machines understand
Aircraft mechanics around the world read maintenance instructions in English. Many of them do not speak English as their first language. If a mechanic reads an instruction incorrectly, an accident can occur. In 1979, the European airline industry (AECMA) started to work on a solution. The result is ASD-STE100, Simplified Technical English (STE). Andrej Karpathy posted about it on X. This page gives a short summary. ...