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We had a look at a Lemonade Stand this morning. Maggie made the most profit by setting a price of 65 cent per cup when the temperature is 15 degrees. Interesing to see how many guesses we had between 65 cents and 75 cents per cup! For anyone who wants to play again, the basic Scratch game is at scratch.mit.edu/projects/245780402/. Feel free to remix and improve the game.
Well done to Uma on achieving her green belt on Saturday. And well done to all other coders gaining belts over the last couple of weeks, it has been busy!
Do you ever wonder why google translate does such a poor job of translating Irish?
English: Yes or no, does google translate understand Irish?
English to Irish: Tá nó nach bhfuil, a dhéanann Gaeilge a thuiscint go Gaeilge a thuiscint?
Irish back to English: Yes, do not understand Irish to understand Irish?
Read the article for an explanation of what makes it so difficult and what these students learned while writing a tool to translate yes/no questions to Irish, a language without yes and no.
Answering yes/no questions in a language without words for yes or no
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I explain how Irish has no words for yes or no, how and why this causes an issue in machine translation, and how I wrote a program to approach the problem.