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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 [...] Yesterday was a pretty long day. The team got to the airport just as the Antonov transport plane was arriving, and the customs formalities went smoothly. I was part of a group that was supposed to go onto the field ahead of the group that was to unload the aircraft, but the authorities let the [...] My stint as the “on call” interpreter was pretty uneventful yesterday, which is as it should be. I received only one call, from the Russian control room, about some technical detail that had to be resolved with the propellant team soonest, and as I had just walked past the team members sitting outside the hotel [...] |
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