Translating (localizing) my web app in 107 languages - insights

The web app is originally developed in English. Now it can be visited in any of the 107 languages offered by Google Translate and DeepL An inspiration: Patr...

Concurrency and decoupling for cheap with Java 11 HttpClient asynch requests

After years of dabbling with threads, Callables and Executor Pools, finally an easy way to setup concurrent tasks The problem: having a task to execute conc...

The mundane work of designing precise data annotation / labelling tasks

or, why did I add annotation tasks to Nocode functions if there is so much already on offer? Annotating or labelling data is an essential step in the chain ...

How to detect sarcasm in texts

I received an email asking how I would go about the detection of sarcasm in texts. I have a long standing interest in this topic, but only from the side line...

What is the difference between weakly strongly and giant connected components?

This post hopes to make a clear distinction between weak, strong and giant components, and I use the open-source code of Gephi to illustrate. The definition...