Embracing MT: Haters gonna Hate
I apologize if my title sounds a bit informal, but if we pick up where we left off last time, we may delve further, deeper, into the abyss of resistance
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November 29, 2017
Rage Against the Machine Translation: What’s all the fuzz about?
Major corporations like Google or Amazon invest millions of dollars a year in developing machine translation (MT) technology. This could expand MT’s capabilities and its cost saving potential. But while
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October 23, 2017
The 1st Millennial: is the Translation Industry the next victim on the list?
Ok, so last time you had to read me whining about how the millennial generation threatens to destroy the translation industry, among many other casualties on their way to obliterating
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September 27, 2017
Are Millennials Killing the Translation Industry?
It’s possible that the recent trend of blaming millennials for killing everything from long-lasting relationships to entire industries might’ve been blown a bit out of proportion. Or is it really?
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September 7, 2017
Junk Translations
On our previous article we pondered about the main drivers in the translation industry (cost, time and quality) and how, as if it were affected by the force of some
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August 16, 2017
Translation Wars
We live in demanding times, running at the rhythm of a tyrannical clock that dictates its own rhythm and pace. In an increasingly interconnected world, where information can surge from
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July 20, 2017
Prima-Lingua: The power within words
Following up on our latest article, I would like to ponder further on the idea of thinking about linguists as if they were poets, storytellers or even artificers of some
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July 6, 2017
Arrival: A Circle of Meaning and Understanding
“At the beginning there was the circle…” So, following up on our previous post, I’ll have to say I’m still quite inspired by some of the ideas portrayed
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April 17, 2017
A linguist could save the world
“Language is the foundation of civilization. It is a glue that holds people together, and it is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.” The quote belongs to “Arrival”, the
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April 6, 2017
Cloud Based Translations: A Living Learning Thing?
As time goes by, people are amassing larger and more diverse collections of digital belongings. The emergence of Cloud computing has enabled people to move their personal files to
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March 13, 2017
The Human Element
So, let’s pick it up directly where we left off: “The Diagram for Consciousness” The diagram (simplified to fit the purposes of our analogy) consists of a three step pyramid:
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February 15, 2017
The Formula for Consciousness
Last week I finished watching the first season of Westworld, a sci-fi TV series that beyond its more apparently basic plot, theorizes about the nature of human consciousness and what
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January 25, 2017
