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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Some work I did having fun with Arabic :)

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Love this widget by Daan van Esch: daanvanesch.nl/langid/index... - compare language ID predictions in your browser!

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Language Identification — Multi-Model Demo

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

"The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction." ~ Samuel Johnson

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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Language identification still proves to be a challenging task, especially for web data. In collaboration with @mlcommons.org @eleutherai.bsky.social @jhu.edu and 97 community members, we created CommonLID, a new benchmark for LangID for 100+ languages!

Examples of mislabeled web text by existing LangID systems. A full text version is available on the blog post below.

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I'm learning Rust right now and I'd recommend the experimental version of the Rust Book: rust-book.cs.brown.edu. The quizzes help you understand that you don't actually understand ownership 👍

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I feel obliged to share this masterpiece from my brother:

Differently Dave @GoldenVision90
2 years ago
Hey girl are you the North of England, because I want to promise you the greatest rail you've ever had and then immediately disappoint you.

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Jean Golding Institute @jgibristol.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A huge thank you to @very-laurie.bsky.social for delivering a fantastic UoB Turing seminar. Her talk was entitled “Common Crawl: open web data for everybody.” In this talk, she introduced the @commoncrawl.bsky.social and the data products they offer.

Laurie Burchell at a lectern presenting her Turing Seminar talk

Laurie Burchell at a lectern, with a blackboard behind her, presenting her Turing Seminar talk

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Jean Golding Institute @jgibristol.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The Turing Liaison Team is excited to host @very-laurie.bsky.social and Thom Vaughan to introduce the @commoncrawl.bsky.social and the data products it offers. 📆 26 November ⏰ 13:00 - 14:00 📍C44 Biomedical building, University of Bristol Find out more: tinyurl.com/mrxp5h2n

Turing Seminar event graphic with details of the event and headshots of Laurie Burchell and Thom Vaughan to the right

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

If you were able to join us, let us know about your experience: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Catherine Arnett @catherinearnett.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

One of the biggest obstacles to improving language technologies for low-resource languages is the lack of data. To address this, we need better language identification tools. So, we're organizing a shared task on Language Identification for Web Data! #NLP #NLProc

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I've been learning by writing the tutorials 💅 Next up: using CCF's host index commoncrawl.org/blog/introdu...

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Farleigh Hanchet @farleigh.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

Person dressed as a knight with a trans flag and a cape with a trans flag shield that says “Trans Knights are human Knights”

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A six panel cartoon.

Panel one:
Title: Learn to read with Physics
Lesson One: two and three-letter words
(image of a smiling book and particle)

Panel two:
A friendly scientist enters a colourful lab carryinh a coiffee and papers.
Text: The Doc is in the lab.

Panel three:
She has put on eye protectors and started a machine
Text: She put on the ion ray.

Panel four:
The machine has caused a small fire. She looks aghast.
Text: Pop! The ray lit the gas.

Panel five:
She runs from the burning lab
Text: The lab is too hot!

Panel six:
She sits on the grass. In the background the ruins of the lab smoulder.
Text: The Doc is sad.

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

✨Call for papers!✨ @commoncrawl.bsky.social and friends are organising the 1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals, held in tandem with @colmweb.org. Submit your research on multilingual data quality! Submission deadline is 23 June, more info: wmdqs.org

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1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I'm starting as a Senior Research Engineer with the Common Crawl Foundation today! 😎

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 16/04/2025

There's a lot of talk about Canada Geese and whether they're good and my answer is Yes.

A comic called "how to draw goose neck". In panel 1 the goose's neck is very short and is labeled "no". In panel 3 the goose's neck is the right size and is labeled "yes". In panel 3 the goose's neck is longer and is labeled "no". In panel 4 the goose's neck is extremely long and terrifyingly snakelike and it's labeled "yessss".

A comic called The Canada Goose: A Role Model For Our Time. In panel 1, the goose is labeled "assertive" and is hissing furiously. In panel 2 it's "brave" and is standing up to a fearsome swan. In panel 3 it's "good parent" and is standing up to a dog while protecting its goslings. In panel 3 it's "team player" and is flying in a beautiful V. In panel 5 there's a close up of its head and it's labeled "crisp, modern aesthetic". In panel 6 it's eating grass and pooping and labeled "high fiber diet".

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I'm part of this! There's also a paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.10267

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Jonathan McCrea @jonathanmccrea.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Jesus. Twister in Donegal right now.

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

My replacement PIR finally arrived! Hoping it doesn't short this time 🙏

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'm pretty sure that recursion is magic.

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

It's day 6 of Codemas! As befits the season, I'm coding on the kitchen table surrounded by leftovers.

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas! The house is quiet for a minute so I'm doing box 5 of Codemas. Maybe I'll finish the whole thing before the new year

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Uh I have something I need to tell you

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I'll return to Codemas after nearly a year, I'll bully this old Chromebook into installing an IDE and finally seeing the Pico, I'll do what I want

A Raspberry Pi plugged into a Chromebook. One LED is lit

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Zoom zoom fully graduated Dr coming through

A person in doctoral robes walks away from the camera

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

unlike you i get my news from a reliable source

A collection of issues of journals belonging to the Poultry Club of Great Britain, a leading organisation for poultry matters.

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I just finished "Some Desperate Glory" and now I need post-book therapy, 10/10 strong recommend

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,126,995!

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Heard about ANIMAL WELL courtesy of the Octothorpe podcast and now I'm really looking forward to playing it! Thank you @octothorpecast.bsky.social for branching out from Worldcon admin analysis to game recommendations 💜

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Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

I have another review up today at Nerds of a Feather, talking about the comfort in familiarity in the new T. Kingfisher novel.

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John Petrie @johnpetrie.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

Just seen a headline in one of the papers, saying Boris Johnson is about to publish his memoirs. A good time to remember this superb letter written during the pandemic.

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Having spent the last few days incapacitated with a Covid-induced headache, I've come to the conclusions that a) I personally should have worn a mask at Worldcon and b) future Worldcons should have a mask mandate. #Worldcon #Glasgow2024

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

Worldcon was amazing! I loved meeting so many great people and listening to so many excellent panels. My TBR list from the con alone is now over 50 books long, starting with "Some Desperate Glory". I will start reading as soon as sleep has occurred. #Worldcon #Glasgow2024

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

we should all be saying "enemies of glory" more, tbh

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Laurie Burchell @very-laurie.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

Hello Bluesky! Know me through my Worldcon ribbons.

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