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This reminds me of something I said elsewhere. LLMs are the text equivalent of putting googly eyes on an inanimate object.

My degree is in Celtic Studies. This kind of discovery may be surprising to those not versed in it but not those who have studied these languages. Some of the best preserved Old Irish, for instance, is in St. Gallen in what is now Austria and Milan.

There is still an entire Medieval European world out there in the archives still waiting to be discovered. Sadly, there are not many of us who have the skills to do this and we are not paid very well or often not at all.

Dame Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley who founded Freelance Programmers in 1962 and hired predominately women who worked from home has died at the age of 91.

I am a BaseX user and I really appreciate it! I actually do not mind XML at all. XQuery and BaseX makes searching large numbers of XML file or just one large XML file really easy.

I still have a Samsung Galaxy S8. It runs fine. I don't really need more from a phone. Maybe I am missing something but I really cannot see myself getting a new phone.

I find these articles both baffling and frustrating at the same time.

I find it frustrating because I spent recess after recess locked inside to practice cursive. After many months of this, my handwriting had not improved. The teachers finally relented and stopped punishing me because the punishment never actually improved my handwriting. My handwriting is now print only and is still horrible and has never improved. Additionally, I have only ever used cursive for signing my name to documents.

I find it baffling because I have an advanced degree in medieval Celtic Studies. I study manuscripts in depth and I have seen some of the worst handwriting that you could possibly imagine on the very expensive vellum manuscript page. In some cases worse than mine. Cursive is actually only a couple of hundred years old. Compared to the history of manuscript writing, cursive is very young so I am baffled that people are worried about it.

I find printing to be fine for almost all circumstances where I need to hand write something so I understand if we continue to teach that. Cursive, however, should only be done by those who want to use it. If you want to have an after school cursive club, great, have fun! Otherwise, leave the rest of us alone and let us have recess.

Reading this, I am increasing my belief that this is very, if not exactly, like XSLT. You are searching a tree looking for parents, siblings, children, etc nodes then analysing or transforming them.

I will try. I tend to think of "The Celts" linguistically as a set of related languages. However, that is an artefact of my own training and background. How the people who spoke those related languages lived can differ radically wherever you find them. For me, to define Celtic is: did they speak a language that is related to those that we have labelled as Celtic? That means that "Celtic" is a convenient shorthand for talking about these languages and does not necessarily have a meaning outside of that.

I have not yet finished reading the linked article so I will see if it may alter my thinking any.

If you are interested in cats in Early Medieval Ireland, I would recommend reading "Catṡlechta and other medieval legal material relating to cats" by Kevin Murray in Celtica 25, pp. 143–159.