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Ants Death Spiral and Misinformation

10 Apr 2020

Ants shows an interesting behaviour known as Ant mill or death spiral in which they start circling themselves to death. Everything started with one ant that get lost from the main trail. Read more...


The fall of Symbolic AI and the rise of Deep Learning

05 Apr 2020

In the last 3-5 decades, Symbolic AI fell out of favor primarily because it did not meet the false expectation that it created at the time. It was not because it did not have an impactful effect or because it did not solve difficult problems. Deep learning is currently popular because we are nowhere near the limit of what results it can produce. Read more...


Translation Memory

10 Mar 2020

A translation memory is a database (static or dynamically growing) of existing translators, structured in a way that facilitates translation re-use. Amongst translators, sometimes the concept has been looked at with negativity because the proprietary software that advertises having this feature, sometimes were designed with a very basic, limiting, and error-prone implementation. Read more...


Parallel Corpora

05 Feb 2020

Traditionally, the term bitext is used to refer to documents along with their translation into other languages. But currently is used to refer to wide parallel sources including various translation of a common source (e.g. sacred texts, official United Nations documents, movies subtitles, etc.). Read more...


How the education storytelling game Happy Zebra was mode

10 Aug 2019

How I authored a a digital storytelling platform for my daughter in 4 month by story writing, sketching, colouring, animating, and audio recording Read more...


Digital Storytelling

01 Apr 2019

This essay intends to briefly describe Digital Storytelling by referring to its history and its development in the digital age. Digital Storytelling is defined by the focus on its application in education and advantages that it brings to students and teachers. Read more...


Why Storytelling for kids is so important?

05 Feb 2019

We believe that story telling for children is an important step in developing their brain. When someone tells us a story, our frontal cortex lit up. Read more...