All Souls' Day artificial intelligence (AI) atomic bomb Bamboo Forest Baščaršija Black Market BLEU Bribri Buddha Cabécar Computer Science Costa Rica deer Demonstrative Dhritarashtra Diabetes ECIT Endangered Language eXtreme programming (XP) eyewear GitHub Codespaces Godzilla Health Hiroshima I/ITSEC Indigenous Itsukushima Japan Kabukichō Koyasan Kyoto Lake Kawaguchi Language Language Revitalization large language model (LLM) Lemko Machine Translation Minoritized Mount Fuji Nara NDIA Neural Machine Translation (NMT) New Speakers Ninjas NLP NMT Noun Owakudani Pokoj im vječni Pronoun Revitalization Russian Rusyn samadhi Sarajevo Shibuya Shinjuku sleep temple test && commit || revert (TCR) Test Driven Development (TDD) Tokyo Tori no Ichi Training TrueDark Verb
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Baščaršija (Sarajevo) – Meaning in Turkish & Persian
Call to prayer and church bells at Sarajevo main market Baščaršija, from Turkish baş ‘head, main’ + çarşı ‘market’ from Persian su ‘direction’ and čār ‘4’, compare Bosnian čètiri, Ukrainian čotýry, Lemko štŷry, Latin quattuor, Sanskrit catur, Ancient Greek téssăres, English four.
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2025 Weekly Wire 44
It’s All Souls Day and people put candles on graves, which looks really cool at night. Pokoj im vječni – May they rest in eternal peace. I took stock and lightened my load. Got in a great set of uphill sprints, redlining in zone 5 for almost 8 minutes.
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TrueDark Twilights Classic: Digital Nomad Review
Affiliate Disclosure: I may earn a small commission if you buy through links on this page, at no extra cost to you. Opinions are my own, based on personal use. When you travel a lot, you don’t always control the light around you — airports with harsh overhead fluorescents, hotel lamps that never dim, cities…
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2025 week 43
Finished self-healing code skeleton (in techspeak: TDD TCR repo). Published AI NLP course presale page. Did daily weekday reels. Enjoyed a great set of uphill sprints by the Olympic stadium
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Cloud TDD: save $4k, time, & do eXtreme Programming anywhere
The Problem The problem: whether your workload is one of Test-Driven Development (TDD) (Beck, 2003) or test && commit || revert (TCR) (Beck, 2018), after making serious progress, there are going to be thousands of unit tests that must be run every time work is saved. On an old laptop, you might have to wait…
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Citation in TalaMT: Multilingual Machine Translation for Cabécar-Bribri-Spanish (Jones et al., MRL-WS 2023)
Say It Right: AI Neural Machine Translation Empowers New Speakers To Revitalize Lemko cited in December 2023 by Jones and Coto-Solano of Dartmouth College, as well as González Campos of University of Costa Rica in TalaMT: Multilingual Machine Translation for Cab.car-Bribri-Spanish in the Proceedings of the 3rd Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop in Singapore.
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Dr. Anna Szlávi: Language & Computer Science for the Minoritized
I spoke with Gender in Tech expert Dr. Anna Szlávi about the surprising minority and minoritized dialect situation in Norway, bridging linguistics and computer science and empowering others to do so, Europe’s EUGAIN and STEM-UP projects, gendered pronouns and politics in Hungary, and how artificial intelligence and natural language processing engineers should approach gender in…
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Winning Hearts & Tongues: A Polish to Lemko Case Study (2023)
When minority and local languages are lost, national security suffers: not only are significant increases in suicidality, depression, diabetes, assault, and substance abuse often documented, a void is created that has historically been exploited by adversaries. For example, millions from minority language communities ahistorically assume the Russian language and/or identity as their own…
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BLEU Skies for Endangered Language Revitalization: Lemko Rusyn and Ukrainian Neural AI Translation Accuracy Soars (2023)
Abstract Accelerating global language loss, associated with elevated incidence of illicit substance use, type 2 diabetes, binge drinking, and assault, as well as sixfold higher youth suicide rates, poses a mounting challenge for minority, Indigenous, refugee, colonized, and immigrant communities. In environments where intergenerational transmission is often disrupted, artificial intelligence neural machine translation systems have…
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More Indigenous language knowledge, less diabetes
Did you know? After adjustment for socio-economic factors, diabetes is significantly less prevalent in communities with more cultural continuity as measured by traditional Indigenous language knowledge (Oster et al., 2014, p. 9). Work cited: Oster et al.: Cultural continuity, traditional Indigenous language, and diabetes in Alberta First Nations: a mixed methods study. International Journal for…
