AlphaDiplomacy Zero?
When I was still at university, I did several courses in AI, and in one of them we spent a
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Denseman on the Rattis
Formerly known as the Widmann Blog
Author: Thomas Widmann
The future belongs to small and weird languages
Google Translate and other current machine translation programs are based on bilingual corpora, i.e., collections of translated texts. They translate
Read moreWhat happens to grandparents in the Harry Potter universe?
We were all (re-)watching the Harry Potter films over the holidays, and at some point I suddenly noticed something I’d
Read moreScots-medium schools
If Scots is a language – and it’s almost universally accepted today that this is the case – why is
Read moreThe traditional East Asian seasons work really well in Scotland
Just to escape from all the Brexit madness, I read a couple of Wikipedia articles about the traditional East Asian
Read moreTesla’s model doesn’t work
It’s been revealed that the first person ever has been killed in a crash by a self-driving car: The 7
Read moreNo normal person will ever own a self-driving car
A few things I’ve read recently have convinced me that the average punter will never own a self-driving car. The
Read moreDet ville have været min mormors 100-års-fødselsdag i dag
Min mormor ville være blevet 100 år i dag. Idith, som jeg altid kaldte hende (som ældste barnebarn ville jeg
Read moreRelearning how to spell
The #JeSuisCirconflexe shitstorm that is currently engulfing France is a reminder of how hard it is to implement an orthographic
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