Unveiling the BLEU Score: Your Guide to Judging Machine Translation Quality

Unveiling the BLEU Score: Your Guide to Judging Machine Translation Quality

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Author(s): VARUN MISHRA Originally published on Towards AI. Unveiling the BLEU Score: Your Guide to Judging Machine Translation Quality Machine translation has come a long way, from clunky rule-based systems to sleek neural models like Transformers. But how do we know if a machine’s translation is any good? Enter the BLEU score — a go-to metric for evaluating machine translation quality. Short for Bilingual Evaluation Understudy, BLEU is like a judge that compares a machine’s output to human […]

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How I Screwed Up Sales Hiring

How I Screwed Up Sales Hiring

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I founded Moonshine back in 2022, together with Manjunath, another engineer and researcher. My entire career up until that point had been working on consumer products, so I felt very comfortable with how those are sold, and I thought to myself “How hard can B2B sales be?”. The answer, of course, is very hard! My investors knew that before I did, and pushed me to hire a senior sales person to make up for my lack of experience. […]

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The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 11: Linear Regression in Excel

The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 11: Linear Regression in Excel

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Linear Regression looks simple, but it introduces the core ideas of modern machine learning: loss functions, optimization, gradients, scaling, and interpretation. In this article, we rebuild Linear Regression in Excel, compare the closed-form solution with Gradient Descent, and see how the coefficients evolve step by step. This foundation naturally leads to regularization, kernels, classification, and the dual view. Linear Regression is not just a straight line, but the starting point for many models we will explore next in […]

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What EFF Needs in a New Executive Director

What EFF Needs in a New Executive Director

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By Gigi Sohn, Chair, EFF Board of Directors  With the impending departure of longtime, renowned, and beloved Executive Director Cindy Cohn, EFF and leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates have developed a profile for her successor.  While Cindy is irreplaceable, we hope that everyone who knows and loves EFF will help us find our next leader.   First and foremost, we are looking for someone who’ll meet this pivotal moment in EFF’s history. As authoritarian surveillance creeps around […]

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EFF’s Holiday Gift Guide

EFF’s Holiday Gift Guide

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Technology is supercharging the attack on democracy and EFF is fighting back. We’re suing to stop government surveillance. We’re fighting to protect free expression online. And we’re building tools to protect your data privacy. Help support our mission with new gear from EFF’s online store, perfect gifts for the digital rights defender in your life. Take 20% your order today with code BLACKFRI. Thanks for being an EFF supporter! Liquid Core Dice are perfect for tabletop games. The metal […]

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After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know

After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know

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After a years-long battle, the European Commission’s “Chat Control” plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption-breaking measures, at last codifies agreement on a position within the Council of the EU, representing EU States. The good news is that the most controversial part, the forced requirement to scan encrypted messages, is out. The bad news is there’s more to it than that. Chat Control has gone through several iterations since it was first introduced, with the EU […]

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Updated Beatles Documentary Is a Fresh Reminder of the Power of Cultural Globalization

Updated Beatles Documentary Is a Fresh Reminder of the Power of Cultural Globalization

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Clark Packard Last week, Disney+ released a restored version of The Beatles Anthology, the landmark 1995 ABC eight-part documentary series that remains the closest thing to a definitive account of the band’s extraordinary journey. I binge-watched the updated Anthology over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, which brought back memories of watching the original with my parents 30 years ago. Now I’m the parent, though my wife and four-year-old son were less enthusiastic about the marathon viewing sessions. Last year, I […]

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