Notes, essays, and research updates.
Slow writing on language, dialect, and the parts of AI we think the field has been too quick to skip.
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The 7,000 languages problem
A language rarely dies loudly — it recedes domain by domain, and the digital one is the newest to fall. More than forty percent of the world's seven thousand languages are now at risk. AI files this under 'not enough data'; we think the data gap and the endangerment crisis are the same story.
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Why we start where the dialects are densest
You can prove a language-agnostic pipeline anywhere. We prove it first in one of the most dialect-rich regions on Earth — where the technical case and the personal one sit on top of each other. A note on the choice.
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The Beyondlex thesis: AGI through language diversity
There are roughly seven thousand living languages. Modern AI serves fewer than fifty in any meaningful sense. We think the gap is not a footnote — it's the work.
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