How Canada Accidentally Helped Crack Computer Translation
A technological whodunit—featuring Parliament, computer scientists, and a tipsy plane flight
Sometime in the mid-1980s, a bulky magnetic tape reel—an early form of data storage—arrived at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM’s headquarters in Yorktown Heights, New York. It contained, by some reports, over 100 million words of text in French and English. It was the sum of fourteen years of Canadian parliamentary dialogue: a computer-readable version of Hansard, the official record of what transpires in legislative debate.
To this day, nobody is quite sure who sent the tape reel or whether they were authorized to forward it to IBM. But computer scientists there started experimenting with the data it contained, wondering if they could use it to assist in their efforts to develop a method for automated translation.
Read more at thewalrus.ca.
Illustration by Raymond Biesinger (fifteen.ca)
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Leprechauns, Gold and Christmas?
The writer reviews 1981’s “The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold," criticizing its lackluster story, forgettable songs, and problematic Irish accents. Despite these shortcomings, they suggest viewers form their own opinion about the movie.
Getting back to my Rankin/Bass marathon, after a bout of sickness, I’m taking a look at 1981’s “The Leprechauns’ Christmas Gold.” If you know this one, congrats because I’ve tried to mention this movie to friends and have gotten crazy looks. I cannot say I remember this one very well, I just know I’ve seen it a few times. I don’t recall it airing very often, nor do I think it was a movie we look…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Subspace Rhapsody - Track List
Star Trek Strange New Worlds Main Title (Subspace Rhapsody Version)
Status Report
Connect to Your Truth
How Would That Feel
Private Conversation
Keeping Secrets
I’m Ready
I’m the X
Keep Us Connected
We Are One
Subspace Rhapsody End Credit Medley
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SNW is doing such a good job having a ton of women characters and I really hope they do some cool plots w the bridge ladies this season
Also hoping they do literally anything non romance based for Christine.
Super happy they aren't yelling girl power every five seconds *cough avengers all women shot cough cough* and I'm ready for them to back it up with some deeper explorations of the women characters
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They’d be reluctant friends
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Christine Dunham in The Firebird, 1992. Photographed by Jack Mitchell.
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Strange New Worlds Femslash Week
A Femslash Week is a special week dedicated to romantic relationships between female characters. In our case, we will be hosting a femslash week annually for Strange New Worlds from May 5, 2024 to May 11, 2024. Rules, prompts, and other updates will be posted here soon.
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Some Goobers from ASGD | #01 I think
(Warning: Contains lots & lots of scars...) (Plz click read more to see the image(s).)
FINALLY FINSIHED THIS!
Now there WAS gonna be around 6 characters but to make it easier on myself I basically made it 5 instead.
So imma tell you the names of the characters from the top left to the bottom right.
Christine "Stargazer" Locke/Agent Star (Top Left) (Weird Unhinged Human Fella)
Konner Mitchell/Captain Nova (Top Middle) (Gae Guy)
Carnilla Donna Ouvess (Top Right) (Salad /hj)
Alazeria Nowel/WildBeak the Huntress (aka ASGD!Alejandra) (Bottom Left) (Dravolshi Lady)
Kemor Ontos (aka ASGD!Konn Odor/Mandolor the Vengful) (Bottom Right) (Gae bug man who can't get a bf OR a husband (rip).)
& here they are by themselves:
The dravolshi & gae bug goobers are actually AUs of 2 OCs that belong to a certain frend of mine on here. (Idk if I'm ready to at them atm but you will know bcs they gave me 2 frikin asks about my story featuring some of their ocs like on this frikin day-)
(Btw the plant gal, dravolshi lady, & gae bug man are a part of a few species I made up for this dum ahh story of mine)
ĈŘƏĐİŤ§!
Characters: Only the 1st 3 belong to me. The last 2 don't. (Not gonna explain why BCS I ALREDY DID!
Art: minE.
Program: IbisPaint x.
Bubs' TOS: Plz don't repost/steal, trace, or recolor my art WITHOUT MY PERMISSION! If you do, I'll take yur femur and pelvis.. SO, DON'T THINK ABOUT IT! (The PNS on my blog's pinned post clearly means "Please No Steal" plz follow that rule.) If you do post my art on anything like yur blog or somewhere else (With my permission) PLEASE CREDIT ME!
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