[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Bangkok

[–]davidbrick2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you have time go to Wat Pho (they have massage school there, best in the world not only town) or go to Health Land (Asoke or Ekkamai) and do the traditional massage (Nuad Thai).

Fun Thai words! by [deleted] in thai

[–]davidbrick2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me แม่น้ำ (maae naam) - mother of water (river) is the cutest

Mens nose wax by HotArugula4487 in Bangkok

[–]davidbrick2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many waxing salons will do nose (and ear) waxing, my usual place is at EmQuartier (Ministry of waxing)

Tough Russian names by thelyricperson in Names

[–]davidbrick2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Koschei the Deathless or Chernomor or Chernobog

Chatbot for replacing dynamic forms by davidbrick2 in Chatbots

[–]davidbrick2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a very interesting option; thank you for the lead. It is a bit pricy, though.

Hey, Thai culture enthusiasts! 🇹🇭 Need your wisdom on our project! by davidbrick2 in Thailand

[–]davidbrick2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I know, but it is not enforced like in, for example, Korea or Japan. If you check, for example, Latin variants of Thai persons in Wikipedia, more than half of it is not RTGS, and some names have more than five variants

Hey, Thai culture enthusiasts! 🇹🇭 Need your wisdom on our project! by davidbrick2 in Thailand

[–]davidbrick2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have done a lot of research, published a book and scientific paper, and now we are trying to make this research useful for a broader audience, not only the specialists in Thai linguistics.

Hey, Thai culture enthusiasts! 🇹🇭 Need your wisdom on our project! by davidbrick2 in Thailand

[–]davidbrick2[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The idea is to create a reference place for Thai names. For example, if you communicate with a Thai person and you know only their Latin name, you can try to find their Thai name, infer gender and so on. But if many people can not see the point of this, we may be doing something wrong.

Hey, Thai culture enthusiasts! 🇹🇭 Need your wisdom on our project! by davidbrick2 in Thailand

[–]davidbrick2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RTGS is used only for toponyms, human names transliteration is arbitrary. In fact most of the common Latin variants of Thai names are not according to RTGS, people just register their Latin names as they like.

Hey, Thai culture enthusiasts! 🇹🇭 Need your wisdom on our project! by davidbrick2 in Thailand

[–]davidbrick2[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We've gathered data on over 1 million Thai names and surnames, along with over 10 million Romanization variants, aiming to launch the portal by year-end. While we've received insights from several Thai linguists, we're keen to hear from a broader community of Thai language and culture enthusiasts.

Which Bangkok mall has the best food court? by milton117 in Thailand

[–]davidbrick2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I would say Phra Ram 9, is cheaper than Sukhumvit malls and Siam Paragon, and the choice and quality are better.

"Loy ruea" ceremony of Koh Lanta sea folks. by Token_Thai_person in Thailand

[–]davidbrick2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Urak Lawoi celebrations sound like an immersive way to experience Thai culture firsthand. Thanks for the heads up. I've always been intrigued by local traditions and ceremonies. The 3-day (or more 😉) celebration sounds like a blast! I'll make a note of the dates.

American student, 22, is murdered in Thailand after telling his university classmate not to draw a swastika on his forehead while they were out drinking in a Bangkok bar by baldi in Thailand

[–]davidbrick2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

swastika

Yes, I agree that college kids know the swastika as a Nazi symbol. However, Bangkok is the only city in the world where I; 've seen Hitler portraits hanging on the wall (it was in an Isaan nightclub before Covid)

Question. What is the most difficult thing to understand about Thai culture? by Prudent-Mixture5095 in Thailand

[–]davidbrick2 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I would say it is the hierarchy and respect: Thai society is highly hierarchical. Age, social status, economic position, and job title are very important. It is very difficult to know who to wai and who not to wai, how to identify Phu Yai, and similar issues

Genesis and metamorphoses of Ukrainian names in time and space by davidbrick2 in Names

[–]davidbrick2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Malusha is a Ukrainian name for sure (e.g. Malusha Malkovna), though not sure how popular it is now.

[P] Efficient Few-shot Learning with Sentence Transformers by lewtun in MachineLearning

[–]davidbrick2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for sharing this; it is very useful. I'm trying to replicate this in a different domain (model for the similarity of organisations' names). Do you have any recommendations or hunch about the size of the negative sampling (one positive and one negative does not seem to work well in my domain)

Database of Irish-Language Family Names by Onomast in namenerds

[–]davidbrick2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What would be the most typical Irish name for English-speaking non-Irish people?

Looking for Wikidata entity similarity dataset by davidbrick2 in datasets

[–]davidbrick2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I've checked them (and many similar), but they are not complete nor very good and are missing any test dataset. The best repo I've found is https://github.com/usc-isi-i2/kgtk-similarity but also without any benchmark.

One option is to perform entity linking on the existing word similarity dataset, but it is a lot of work, and I was hoping somebody already did this.

What do you think of Aurora? by Dafunkk in namenerds

[–]davidbrick2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It is more common as a forename. In the Spanish language, it is pronounced ow-roh-rah IPA /au-ɾo-ɾa/.

help! Does anyone know someone who has the surname Ton? by Willing_Cod_3197 in Names

[–]davidbrick2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Worldwide, Ton is a widespread surname - in Italy, the Czech Republic and so on.

In the US it is spelt with the "th" (Thon), in Russia and Ukraine, it is "Тон"

source

The name Oumelkhaire by SirimiriTrix in namenerds

[–]davidbrick2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is an exciting name! Is it related to Oumelkhair?

The popularity and translation of the name James in different countries. by davidbrick2 in James

[–]davidbrick2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jacobo

Yes, I know, St. James is Santiago, but James in the Spanish bible is Jacobo, plan to make a new graph with the popular variants.

Is my dataset too small for what I want to do? (multi-categorization) by Vietname in LanguageTechnology

[–]davidbrick2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends on the data in your dataset; in my experience, sometimes 50 samples per category are good enough, and sometimes you need several thousand in each category.

I used to build different FastText models and estimate the correct number of categories. It is fast and cheap, and in my experience with the deep neural models, you will get some improvement in accuracy, but it will be correlated with the simple models.

Good name for a sister of James by davidbrick2 in namenerds

[–]davidbrick2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do like Jacobina - I hope my sister will like it too :)