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I am thrilled to announce the release of my new Chrome extension, the Kurdish Script Converter (KSC). This tool is designed to help users easily convert Kurdish text between Persian-Arabic script and Latin (Hawar) script, and vice versa. What Does KSC Do? The KSC extension allows you to switch...
I have been using Ubuntu (20 and then 22.0) and Windows 11 on my Dell XPS 15, 7590 for over three years without any major problems related to booting. I use Ubuntu on my laptop daily and occasionally log into Windows when I need to use Adobe Photoshop or Acrobat. However, I have been using Windows...
I am thrilled to share with you that my paper, “Part-of-Speech Tagging for Northern Kurdish” has been accepted for the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024). This workshop will be held on 25 May 2024 in Torino, Italy and it is colocated with...
On a multi-GPU machine used by multiple people for running Python code, like university clusters (in my case, the cluster offered by my university, University of Twente ), it’s important to specify which GPU to use when you want to run your code. By default, torch-based Machine Learning and...
Background Losing access to our precious data due to hardware failures is a nightmare for all of us. Bad sectors on a hard disk drive (HDD) or any other similar failures can block normal data copy/transfer operations and render some of your files inaccessible. Fortunately, there are advanced...
In a previous post I described how to set up a local WordPress dev server with an Adminer web app to control the Mysql database. I have been using that setup for quite some time now. Despite being very lightweight, I feel Adminer is very limited. In addition, I didn’t really get used to it...
Context In a previous post, I wrote about customizing the Avada Post Cards element to fetch posts from the database based on a custom field value. It’s good to mention it once more that this feature was added to Avada later on, and it’s now shipped by default in all new versions of...
The following docker-compose.yml file setups a local WordPress docker instance alongside a MySql server and an Adminer web app which can be used as an alternative to PhpMyAdmin. version: '3.9' services: wp_mysql: image: mysql:latest container_name: wp_mysql command: mysqld --character-set...
During my master’s at the University of Twente and for the course Managing Big Data, I worked with three other students on a very interesting project in the field of big data. We measured global internet speed and latency changes between 2019 and 2022 (Covid period). The dataset we used for...
Context In the last couple of months, I have been working on the website of Stichting Civic. Stichting Civic is a Dutch foundation committed to improving the Dutch civic integration policy for refugees and other newcomers. The foundation aims at 1) collecting and stimulating socio-scientific and...
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