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Sonntag, 30. April 2006

NeXT one down ... or up, actually.

2006-04-30-nextNeXT

One of the most exciting projects at Google (at least of those the public knows about) is their Statistical Machine Translation effort.

Franz Josef Och just announced that a first Arabic/English^* beta is now live. Try it with Al-Jazeera - the results aren't perfect, but certainly the best I've ever seen for machine translation ... pretty amazing.

2005-08-23-pleased

^* Particularly easy to get parallel corpora for those those days, eh?

2006-04-30-transArab

Selling the Computer Revolution: Marketing Brochures from the collection of the Computer History Museum.

2006-04-30-compuSold

"This piechart uses 78,050 pixels to display a single fact–that 9.94% of all visitors had previously visited the site–resulting in a spectacular data-point-to-pixel ratio of 0.0013%."

2006-04-30-pixelPerPoint

"In either case, the thought is staggering."

2006-04-30-buckAlone

Hans Hartmann 6562 days AGO
die PDP 11/10 war meine Lieblingsmaschine. Die hatte ich auf der TU selber unter meiner Verwaltung. Mit CAPS und RT11.
Das waren noch Zeiten:)

Hans Hartmann 6562 days AGO
sorry,
I forgot that this is an English speaking site.
The PDP 11 was my alltime favorite. at the Technical University of Vienna, it was used as a control processor for the electron beam machine. It was my baby, running under CAPS-11, later RT-11.
Ubi tempora?

chris 6562 days AGO
hello hans! no worries wrt/ german - lcom is a weird mixture of all kinds of languages, both natural and artificial ...

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