Scots on Smartphones
A’ve been fasht for a lang time at predictive keyboards wadna recognise Scots ava – ilka time ye uised a
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Denseman on the Rattis
Formerly known as the Widmann Blog
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AlphaDiplomacy Zero?
When I was still at university, I did several courses in AI, and in one of them we spent a
Read MoreThe 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 MoreBeing the god of kitchen plans
I once took a very interesting postgrad course in genetic algorithms (taught by Zbigniew Michalewicz), and since then it’s been
Read MoreConverting photos into embroidery
I recently discovered that VistaPrint have started selling embroidered polo shirts. However, their embroidery program is rather fussy with regards
Read MoreWill Google Glass lead to Google Glove?
I’m really excited by the upcoming release of Google Glass. Until now, there’s been an inherent conflict in smartphone design
Read MoreThe spirit was willing but the flesh was weak
If Jesus was God, why did he pray to himself? Originally uploaded by Zombie Inc. When I was a linguistics
Read MoreWinner of Best Design at SWEdinburgh
I decided to take part in Edinburgh Startup Weekend (also known as @SWEdinburgh) over the weekend. The idea is that
Read MoreTweeting in many languages
Follow me on Twitter! @woofer_kyyiv Originally uploaded by Slava Baranskyi Most of the people I follow on Twitter tweet in
Read MoreJobs wasn't there to say no to Apple Maps
iPhone 5: Bigger Screen Adds a 5th Row of Apps Originally uploaded by methodshop.com Steve Jobs was great at saying
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