Terminology insight…

One thing I try to take advantage of here in Baikonur is the ability to ask questions of subject-matter experts so as to gain insight into terminology useful for translation. This is an outgrowth of my experience as a so-called “knowledge engineer” back during the second Great Artificial Intelligence Infatuation of the late 1980s, when [...]

A parable of Hing Shi

I ran across the name of Yulia Dubinkina-Ilina a couple of years ago in connection with a parable she apparently wrote that caused me to arch my eyebrows and imagine hearing a little “pop!” of realization. It is a shame her work is not concentrated in one place, or perhaps that makes finding her gems [...]

Take all the files!

Too many times, I’ve backedĀ  up what I thought were relevant parts of my office computer to take along with me on a road trip, only to find, once I’m at my destination, that I hadn’t included some out-of-the-way directory in my backup. Via Lifehacker (Disk2vhd Turns Your PC Into a Virtual Machine), I ran [...]