Or: why I didn't use Manacher's algorithm and still got 217 new palindromes The Idea Everyone knows crafted palindromes like "Never odd or even" or "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". They're beautiful, but they're constructed — someone sat down a...

Here is the story of my journey in programming1: From Philology to Python: How I Fell Into Coding and Why My Code Still Makes Me Wince. 1: https://coderlegion.com/25394/from-philology-to-python-how-i-fell-into-coding-and-why-my-code-still-makes-m...

I recently published a digital anthology project at nevmenandr.github.io/WLA. The setup was smooth – I used Obsidian with the excellent obsidian-publish-mkdocshttps://github.com/jobindjohn/obsidian-publish-mkdocs/ plugin to generate a clean, docu...

As the author of "Electronic Lyre" Электронная лира, I want to share why this book is essential reading for developers working at the intersection of code and creativity. For years, we've treated poetry generation as a side project – a fun way to tes...

Or why language vitality online has nothing to do with speaker counts — and everything to do with data engineering Russia speaks dozens of minority languages — Tatar, Bashkir, Udmurt, and even tiny ones like South Yukaghir fewer than 50 speakers. ...

Or why a 1500-year-old board game is the ultimate playground for ML engineers Remember when beating a human at chess was the holy grail of AI? In 1972, it was the benchmark — the "ImageNet moment" of its era. Fast forward to today: a Raspberry Pi ...

Or why Wikipedia is the perfect Data Quality testing ground not just for linguists Every developer who has ever scraped Wikipedia for an NLP task thinks: "It's human-written text. That means the dataset is balanced, natural, and ready to feed into ...