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- TextDiffuser-2: Unleashing the power of language models for text rendering https://jingyechen.github.io/textdiffuser2/ 11 comments
- A computer programming language designed for creating programs that are also hair metal power ballads https://codewithrockstar.com/ 4 comments coding
- The Power of Indian Telugu language : It has literally Crashed Entire Apple system and now almost all products are vulnerable! http://www.geekdave.in/2018/02/the-power-of-indian-telugu-language-it.html 11 comments india
- European company DeepL has launched a language translation service that is claimed to be “three times more powerful” than Google Translate https://www.connexionfrance.com/french-news/new-online-translator-more-powerful-than-google 154 comments europe
- The future of Microsoft’s languages: C# to be powerful, Visual Basic friendly https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/microsofts-developer-strategy-c-for-fancy-features-visual-basic-for-beginners/ 36 comments programming
- The Reason Why Trump’s Language So Powerfully Connects with Many Americans http://www.ijreview.com/2016/01/526330-why-is-donald-trumps-language-so-effective-one-popular-youtuber-breaks-it-down/?author=fc&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=ods&utm_term=ijamerica&utm_content=elections 28 comments politics
- Console Snake Game in OneScript (language that powers Russian ERP System "1С") https://bytebucket.org/evilbeaver/1script/wiki/attachments/snake.os?rev=f8a67d22f77bb9c86e01d7bb5feb1402d3a0a892 4 comments programming
- Project to Turn Bitcoin Into an All-Powerful Programming Language Raises $15M http://www.wired.com/2014/09/ethereum-backers-raise-15-million/ 6 comments business
- Gender, language and economic power: another spurious correlation? http://www.replicatedtypo.com/gender-language-and-economic-power-another-spurious-correlation/6227.html 5 comments linguistics
- Powerful programming language, only one drawback. [with Python source] http://esolangs.org/wiki/compute 26 comments programming
- A powerful language to write service oriented apps http://www.jolie-lang.org/ 5 comments programming
- google-ctemplate - A simple but powerful template language for C++ http://code.google.com/p/google-ctemplate/ 6 comments cpp
- The 12 most powerful words in the English language (Trina's) http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=912018 2 comments reddit.com
- Tool Time (power versus freedom in programming languages) http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/03/tool-time.html 4 comments programming
- Matthias Felleisen: On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages (1991) [ps.gz] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/scp91-felleisen.ps.gz 3 comments programming
- Opinion: The only language McConnell understands is power. Act accordingly, Democrats. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/20/only-language-mcconnell-understands-is-power-act-accordingly-democrats/ 18 comments politics
- Book review – Neanderthal Language: Demystifying the Linguistic Powers of our Extinct Cousins https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/12/18/book-review-neanderthal-language-demystifying-the-linguistic-powers-of-our-extinct-cousins/ 31 comments linguistics
- Europe must quickly learn to speak the language of power - Joseph Weiler https://www.ejiltalk.org/europe-must-learn-quickly-to-speak-the-language-of-power-part-i/ 114 comments europe
- Jean-Claude Juncker urges ‘plain language’ on Hungary’s state power grab - Hungary is ‘acting outside of any reasonable zone,’ says former Commission president. https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-jean-claude-juncker-urges-plain-language-on-hungary-state-power-grab/ 106 comments europe
- A super mini but powerful deep learning framework written in pure c language https://github.com/microic/niy/tree/master/examples 6 comments artificial
- New earpiece translates foreign languages as you have a conversation - "powered by IBM’s supercomputer, Watson, and takes between three and five seconds to complete a translation and play it to you." http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/real-time-translation-one2one-foreign-languages-english-french-chinese-italian-japanese-a7797976.html 10 comments technology
- The amazing brains of the real-time interpreters: the world’s most powerful computers can’t perform accurate real-time interpreting of one language to another. Yet human interpreters do it with ease http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141117-the-ultimate-multi-taskers 35 comments linguistics
- Impressive Video: Asking Microsoft Power BI about historical FIFA World Cup stats in natural language https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/powerBI/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDAOq0VOQPAsolutions/demo/qna/qna-demo-worldcup.aspx?wt.mc_id=Blog_PBI_General_DI 4 comments microsoft
- India's unease about strategic power, and its resemblance to a gigantic European Union united only by the English language, reflects its ongoing search for a new international identity. In this quest, India is impaired by its lack of practice in the exercise of power on a grand scale. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/18/india-china-great-power-role 21 comments worldnews
- haXe, a powerful modern language aimed at giving developers a tool to create websites & applications using a single unified programming language http://haxe.org/doc/why 57 comments programming
- Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is building the world’s most powerful AI-specific supercomputer to develop better speech-recognition tools, automatically translate between different languages and help build its 3D virtual metaverse https://www.newscientist.com/article/2305606-meta-is-building-the-worlds-largest-ai-specific-supercomputer/ 17 comments technology
- Intelligence Committee lawmakers lose fight over budget language they say gives Trump too much power https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/intel-committee-lawmakers-lose-fight-over-budget-language-they-say-gives-trump-too-much-power/2018/01/22/fbe3b1c8-ffd0-11e7-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?utm_term=.795424c0ebb5 9 comments politics
- Will Democrats Strip Civil Liberties from Their 2012 Platform? Or stick with their 2008 language, which promises to close Gitmo and denounces the approach to executive power Obama subsequently took... http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/will-democrats-strip-civil-liberties-from-their-2012-platform/254896/ 10 comments politics
- EU Parliament declares nuclear power and gas as "green" energy. (Hahahaha … language is political, as Orwell warned) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/world/europe/eu-green-energy-gas-nuclear.html 105 comments economy
- “Haskell's semantics, plus Lisp's macros. Meet Axel: a purely functional, extensible, and powerful programming language.” https://axellang.github.io 31 comments programming
- We’ll all be speaking German soon: English may be the European Union’s lingua franca, but listen carefully in the corridors of power and you’ll find the language of Goethe and Schiller is on the rise. https://www.politico.eu/article/we-will-all-be-speaking-german-soon-language-brussels/amp/?__twitter_impression=true 14 comments worldnews
- If you suddenly realized you had the power to make everyone, including yourself, fluent in one already existing language overnight, what language would you pick and why? https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/55nq4g/if_you_suddenly_realized_you_had_the_power_to/ 68 comments linguistics
- A new algorithm developed at Stanford University could give computers the power to more reliably interpret language. Called Neural Analysis of Sentiment — or NaSent for short — the algorithm seeks to improve on current methods of written language analysis http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/10/nasent-deep-learning/ 4 comments linguistics
- L Sharp .NET: A Powerful Lisp-Based Scripting Language For .NET. http://otherthingsnow.blogspot.com/2006/08/l-sharp-net-powerful-lisp-based.html 4 comments programming
- Won’t tolerate offensive language against Thackeray family: Anil Parab | “Though we are sitting in power, it does not mean that anybody can say anything to us. Our activists will not tolerate this,” said Shiv Sena leader and Transport Minister Anil Parab. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/wont-tolerate-offensive-language-against-thackeray-family-anil-parab-6596290/ 5 comments india
- New Research Shows How Indo-European Languages Spread Across Asia. The domestication of the horse was a milestone in human history that allowed people, their languages, and their ideas to move further and faster than before, leading both to widespread farming and to horse-powered warfare. http://www.sciencenewsline.com/news/2018050923420074.html 4 comments science
- Cornell University computer scientist John Kleinberg has worked out how to measure power differences between individuals using the patterns of words they speak or write. In other words, the style of language during a conversation reveals the pecking order of the people talking. http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27437/#.tvibwwotala.reddit 3 comments technology
- Microsoft Launches Power Fx, A New Open Source Low-Code Language https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/02/microsoft-launches-power-fx-a-new-open-source-low-code-language-for-its-power-platform/ 4 comments technology
- It is possible to predict future onset of Alzheimer's disease using language samples obtained from cognitively normal individuals. Significant predictive power was obtained, with AUC of 0.74 and accuracy of 0.70. The mean time to diagnosis of mild AD was 7.59 years. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/piis2589-5370(20)30327-8/fulltext 7 comments science
- Walid Phares warned of the danger posed by Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera, telling Bill O'Reilly that "linguistically, the Arabic language is a very powerful one. It has a lot of codes. It could be used in a lethal way http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/walid-phares-mitt-romney-lebanese-forces 12 comments worldnews