Michal Měchura

lexiconista@mastodon.ie

Teicneolaí teanga | Language technologist. The human behind <a href="http://fairslator.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">http://fairslator.com</a> and <a href="http://nativedialogs.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">http://nativedialogs.com</a>.

Posts

Post #4462037
A mind-blowing idea indeed.
Post #4095019
I wonder if the source code behind early rule-based chatbots would still be "simple" if the language in which they chatted had not been English. https://spectrum.ieee.org/eliza-chatbot-source-code
Post #3795048
RE: https://mastodon.social/@DamnInteresting/116601842868877312 My favourite person from Brno wants to fry your brain.
Post #2089327
Don&#39;t let anyone talk you out of starting a PhD. It&#39;s only 3 years, and those 6 years will be the happiest 9 years of your life.
Post #1747197
“The concept of ‘cost rental’ is summed up in the name. The rent for a home should only cover development and maintenance costs. The goal is not to make a profit.” https://www.thejournal.ie/affordable-rent-scheme-price-cuts-analysis-7022981-Apr2026/ This shouldn&#39;t really be such a radical idea. Non-profit housing is the only obvious way out to bring rents back into human proportions.
Post #868190
We used to worry about accidentally training machine translation on badly machine-translated texts from the Internet. Oh we had it so easy.
Post #868188
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nativedialogsde/116249393692401140 By the time you finish trying to pronounce Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum it is already überschritten.
Post #868187
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nativedialogsde/116258359127099534 They: Guten Morgen, wie geht&#39;s? You:
Post #868186
Me in Ireland: You can&#39;t make me say Dia dhuit as a greeting, what am I, some kind of religious fanatic? Me in Austria: Grüss Gott! Gott sei Dank! Um Gottes Willen!
Post #868185
When everything reminds you of Czechoslovakia...
Post #868184
If you think your website needs a chatbot, it probably doesn&#39;t. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/site-ai-chatbot/
Post #868183
Search and you will find something else.
Post #868182
&quot;Maybe I like the misery!&quot; – Mrs Doyle #fatherted https://spectrum.ieee.org/frictionless-ai-psychology
Post #868181
If vibe coding exists, then maybe machine translation should be called vibeslation.
Post #780307
If you believe that “all languages have words for yes and no” or some poppycock like that, then this will shatter your naïveté. https://www.lexiconista.com/falsehoods-about-languages/
Post #339450
Here’s a listicle I wrote years ago. Everything in it is still true. Of course it is, languages don’t change that quickly. https://www.lexiconista.com/awesome-irish/