The Bad Old Days When I first started programming (on a ZX81 no less) there was no such thing as APIs or libraries, or anything like that. The “platform” simply didn’t support that sort of thing. I could barely load 1KB programs from a tape cassette let alone “save” them and pass them on to
Category: ideas
[This is a long post – the next couple I have planned are much shorter and less technical] In my last post, I shared an idea I’d had about wiring up some training data and using machine learning (ML) to beat my daughter in a simple strategy game called Mancala. In this post, I want
I remember at school when they started wording problems in ways that tried to match the real world. Fill in the blank questions like: 6 – 2 – 2 = ? were replaced with: “Billy has 6 sweets and gives 2 each to Bobby and Jill. How many sweets does Billy have left?” The same,
In my previous blog, I gave a bit of a sketch of how to handle the problem of having a computer look at two pieces of translated text and figure out which words/phrases are the translation of other words/phrases – without teaching the computer anything about the two languages (i.e. no dictionaries) While the idea
I have a part-time web development job. One page of this site shows text in two languages side by side. We want to be able to mouse-over a word in the source language on the left and have the translated word (or words) highlight in the other column. The problem is that there is a