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		raverbashing on July 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a... Interesting It seems it can't really handle context, so 'cockroaches' may have been a mistranslation of 'cheap' in some contexts, as the 'it had stopped chestnut' may have simply been 'brazil nuts'

aylons on July 29, 2015 [–]

Most probably the OCR read "batata" (potato) as "barata" (cockroach).

raverbashing on July 29, 2015 | [–]

Yeah, this is very likely as well, especially if the t was printed incorrectly

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