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Hanzi of the day! 𨳒, 𨳊, 𨳍, 閪

Today's edition of Hanzi of the day explores the power of logography when it comes to... profanities!

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Concussions still suck: 2 year update

2 years later, my concussion still plagues me. I am not fully recovered yet, but I am better.

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The Ups and Downs of Large Language Model Inference with Vocabulary Trimming by Language Heuristics

Can we boost LLM inference speed by applying this one machine translation trick they don't want you to know..?

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Terminology-Aware Translation with Constrained Decoding and Large Language Model Prompting

How do we get the best terminology machine translation system? Well, I personally don't know but asking ChatGPT nicely about it doesn't hurt...

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OpusCleaner and OpusTrainer: Machine translation training made easy

From ancient times, parallel text and (human) neural networks have been at the heart of translation. Let's see how do we make machine translation easy and intuitive...

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Hanzi of the day! 血 and 皿

Thanks to me unexpectedly* contracting Covid on my trip abroad and having my holiday reduced to a confinement in a very expensive hotel on the equator, Hanzi of the day

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Concussions suck: My story

15 weeks ago I went for a small ski holiday in my home country that replaced my boring workaholic life with a vivid fever dream. This is my concussion story.

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Efficient machine translation

When your hardware resources are deficient, you have no choice but to go efficient! In this tutorial we will learn how to produce efficient machine translation models, with Marian as our NMT engine of choice, but the methods can easily be transferred to other toolkits.

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Not all parameters are born equal! Attention is mostly what you need!

Greetings fellow NLP-kind. I got a paper in BlackboxNLP 2021, the awesome workshop that aims to shed light on how, what, and why exactly happens inside deep neural networks... So

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Failing to do simple domain adaptation for Neural Machine Translation

So... The ever increasing number of papers accepted in the field of NLP and Machine Translation makes it virtually impossible for people to keep track of current ongoing research. Therefore,

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Privacy focused machine translation for the end user

Machine translation usage has become ubiquitous in our society. It's on Twitter, it's on Facebook, it's in your browser, it's in your inbox... But who provides those services? When you

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On the peer review process in academia

Another ACL submission looms, another resubmission for me. I pampered my papers as best as I could and I let it go, hoping the /dev/random will assign me good

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Hanzi of the day! 黑

Hey guys! In those dark times, let's talk about tattoos, branding and blackness. Today's character 黑 hēi has a simple, straightfoward meaning: black. Its origin however is a little more

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Hanzi of the day! 烏

Hey guys! In these dark times, it's good to remember the famous English saying: In the land of the blind, the no-eyed-man is king! Or something like that. Anyways, I

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Hanzi of the day! 取

Hey everybody! Today, as the world is reopening, most of us are going to roam through the mythical battlefields known as outside world in order to pursue arbitrary quests called

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Hanzi of the day! 回文

Hey guys. It has been too long. Because. Real life. And lack of imagination. But as one real life egagement came to an end, another blog post comes up. Today

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Hanzi of the day! 金

What does everybody like? That's right, money. What symbolises money? Gold...

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Hanzi of the day! 畏 the 鬼

Hey guys! It's been a while since I last did a Hanzi-of-the-day, so today I present you with the... Fear of Ghosts. Since the dawn of time people have feared

My journey of cross-platform development: From pygame to Qt

In my previous post I talked about my new application imageSelector. This week I will talk about the development process. It all started during a long journey I took across

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imageSelector, a tool for selecting and sharing photos

Hey guys, Today I am going to talk about my side software project for managing photos which is finally ready to be released into the wild. The premise I take

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Coding gotchas: C++ maps

Unordered vs ordered map in cpp.

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Coding gotchas: Of references and copies

Sometimes your variables are not what they seem!

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Coding gotchas: The python needle in a haystack problem.

How to not search lists in python

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Hanzi of the day! 風

Hey Guys! In this hot summer day we are looking towards some refreshing light breeze... Or more in general, towards some wind... Today's character 風 fēng is a phono-semantic character

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Hanzi of the day! 忘

Hey everyone... Again. I kind'a forgot about my blog, which brings us to the next character of the day, to forget, or as the Chinese say, the death of the