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Flammie on things and stuff

I use this github page section to collect all kinds of opinion pieces, essays, just any kind of writings that do not fit into social media or other places I post stuff into (e.g. reviews). Perhaps if it was 1990s or first decade of 2000s this would be a blog site. These may be work-in-progress, this whole site is 50-50 for me to dump my brains onto vs. actually providing answers and information to people on interesting things. I have found that unless I write down some of these thoughts that I have in my mind they will keep bothering my concentration (unless I debate about the topic with my colleagues or friends). In 2020s I also post these or summaries thereof onto my substack.

This seems very unorganised lol.

Linguistics, NLP and just language stuffs

See also: Flammie’s academic works

• Notes on terms and expressions in Finnish software translations
• Rant on the misguided concept of Academic English
• WIP: survey on usage of the word Low-resource in NLP
  • WIP: list of languages of world sorted by freely avaiable corpus resources
• WIP: survey on usage of the expression Morpologically complex in NLP
• what does academic English really mean?
• LIST: Potential cognates of mainly some Finnish words
• Note on terms morpheme and morph
• Notes on trying to understand Flammie’s English
• Personal notes on how to review academic papers
• Translating Swedish to Norwegian, a list of actual differences between the two dialects, mostly lexical
• Translating Inari to North Sámi, a list of main differences between these two languages, mostly lexical
• Zeros considered harmful in NLP
• Flags are not languages aka why are we still talking about this in 2021
• Finnish language and culture shocks
• Duolingo and language learning, just a note on my usage, not much linguistics or Computer-Aided Language-Learning POV
• English typography and pet peeves and stuff
• Problem with first name genders in NLP
• What is the longest word
• HOWTO: reviewing articles
• Separable verbs and stuff in NLP
• LIST: Weirdest English pronunciations
• Ambiguity in languages and NLP
• Rules, statistics and neural networks are just tools and you need them all to do good NLP, click here to find out why?
• ChatGPT being unreliable
• Copyright and LLM/AI rants

Programming and computer stuffs

See also: Flammie’s dotfiles, flammie’s github

• C++ is rubbish, like my take on C++ Frequently Questioned Answers (FQA)
• Code style guides and standards are often wrong, some specific critiques of specific code styles that promote unreadable code
• TeX cheat sheet, things I have had to google more than once (split corner cell, drawing sámi characters in pre-unicode TeX, …)
• Git cheat sheet, things I have had to google more than once (rebasing, …)
• GPG cheat sheet, things I have had to google more than once (unexpiring, rotating, …)
• API Design, from point of a view of academic who had to use really bad libraries with barely an API…
• Time and space complexity common misunderstandings and stuff

Other stuff

More of everyday things, often inspired by debates in reddit or quora outside science topics.

• Finnish language and culture shocks
• Telephone calls considered evil
• My Erdős number
• Academic travelling
• Capitalism
• Climate change
• How many languages I can an FAQ
• I hate having opinion about politics
• Toxicity and Toxic -ity and some thoughts
• Elder millennial vs. generations: X, y, Z, alpha and do we need them
• Google maps’ reviews is a scam

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• Maybe also check flammie.dyndns.org archives, some of the pages I written in the early years of the internet, some found from the internet archive some actually just saved over the years. This is like my old blogs and “home pages”. They are similar rants like abovementioned, just way older and immaturer.