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Gratitude alone is not enough, but sometimes it is the right place to start. A few months ago I began my journey with the IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate. I did not realize then how much it would reshape the way I think as an engineer. I learned that training a model is not the real challenge. The real c…

A year ago, I was asking the wrong question. I was asking: how much data do I need before a model can speak Iraqi Arabic? The answer I heard everywhere was the same. Scale up. Collect more. Train on every Arabic text you can find. I tried that. What I got was a model that spoke correct Arabic and sounded completely…

Rendering documents as images fixes Arabic PDF extraction. But one line of tokenization code makes the whole pipeline return zero Arabic results, silently. Here is what I found.

I once watched my grandmother ask a neighbor's teenage son to move his car with one sentence, and watched a different neighbor ask the same teenager the same request with a sentence that, word for word, meant almost the same thing, and the two requests were not remotely the same act. The first used a plural verb for…

A friend sent me one line in Iraqi Arabic last week: "يمعود شنو هالسالفة؟" I ran it through the pipeline everyone assumes is neutral. Iraqi to MSA. MSA to English. English into an AI model. The model answered fluently. It also answered the wrong question. "يمعود" isn't really addressing a person. It's a pressure val…

My cousin texted me after losing a match he'd bet on: "الله يخلي هالفريق، فرحنا اليوم." Translate that literally and you get: "God preserve this team, they made us happy today." Feed it to a model and it will tell you he's grateful. He is the opposite of grateful. He watched his team collapse in the last five minute…