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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

We were all (re-)watching the Harry Potter films over the holidays, and at some point I suddenly noticed something I’d

If Scots is a language – and it’s almost universally accepted today that this is the case – why is

Just to escape from all the Brexit madness, I read a couple of Wikipedia articles about the traditional East Asian

It’s been revealed that the first person ever has been killed in a crash by a self-driving car: The 7

A few things I’ve read recently have convinced me that the average punter will never own a self-driving car. The

This blog is now more than ten years old (you can check the archives if you don’t believe me). I

The #JeSuisCirconflexe shitstorm that is currently engulfing France is a reminder of how hard it is to implement an orthographic

I recently discovered Harry Turtledove’s “Hellenic Traders” series (written under the pseudonym Turteltaub). The four books follow two cousins from

I once took a very interesting postgrad course in genetic algorithms (taught by Zbigniew Michalewicz), and since then it’s been