by Amanda Weiss, Will Slater, and Sofi Sanders Dear Reader, We are so excited to introduce the world to HIVEMIND: Global Speculative Fiction! With April 2021 marking the inaugural issue of our magazine, we want to provide a history of who we are as a team and a publication, as well as what our readers…
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“In the eleventh hour, both Baron Akiyama and Fumihiko Kumoi and their attendants slowly entered as they urged forward their accompanying carriages. They briefly inspected each corner of their airships, bowed to all, entered their ships, then quietly lay in wait for the sound of the signal gun.”
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by Natalie Mueller Machine Translation. It’s both the best friend and worst enemy of not only language learners, but anyone on the Internet trying to understand content in another language. It’s a tool that has garnered a fair amount of research attention as a subfield of Natural Language Processing, but even tech giants seemingly struggle…
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A Multimedia Collection of Folktales from Various Cultures By Sofi Sanders Translating Culture is a multimedia collection of folktales from cultures around the globe, including eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The stories have been selected to showcase the similarities and differences between story-telling techniques across these cultures, and have all been translated…
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“Under the snow and ice, its color was an uncommon yellow—or maybe a faded orange. Its shape was oddly industrial. I couldn’t determine the make or age. None of the climbers on that day were wearing a parka that color. Was this someone from a later expedition? How much later? How long had I been here?”
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