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Feeding Two Birds or Favoring One? Adequacy-Fluency Tradeoffs in Evaluation and Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation
Behzad Shayegh, Jan-Thorsten Peter, David Vilar, Tobias Domhan, Juraj Juraska, Markus Freitag, Lili Mou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20287

Feeding Two Birds or Favoring One? Adequacy-Fluency Tradeoffs in Evaluation and Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation
We investigate the tradeoff between adequacy and fluency in machine translation. We show the severity of this tradeoff at the evaluation level and analyze where popular metrics fall within it. Essentially, current metrics generally lean toward adequacy, meaning that their scores correlate more strongly with the adequacy of translations than with fluency. More importantly, we find that this tradeoff also persists at the meta-evaluation level, and that the standard WMT meta-evaluation favors adeq…

Good news: @… 43 will be released next Tuesday, October 28th!
https://www.neowin.net/news/fedora-43-is-coming-next-week-followin…

Fedora 43 is coming next week following Go/No-Go meeting
Fedora 43 will now arrive next week following a Go/No-Go meeting. If you've been stranded on Windows 10, Fedora could be a good option to move to.

Hey everyone, every Tuesday, my friend @… asks for your help to feed her family. She can’t do it today (they’re trying to stay alive during a genocide) so she asked if I could do it on her behalf.

They need $500 each week for their family of 6.

Every single dollar makes a real difference 
If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing – it might r…

Help Sehwel family with their medical treatment
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza. I'm creating this Chuffed campaign for the family to help afford these things and hopefully help them get out of Gaza when the opportunity arises. Here's Aseel's writing:

Our guardrails are failing us (Norman Ornstein/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/our-guardrails-are-failing-us
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p85#a250826p85

Canada's anti-money laundering agency fines crypto exchange KuCoin ~$14M for failing to report large and suspicious transactions; KuCoin appeals the decision (Nivedita Balu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/c

love when a trans woman's completely culturally disconnected from cis women due to muh anxiety or whatever, yet inevitably pushed with the same tides due to being a woman in the same circumstances, so she winds up repeating mainstream instagram feminist platitudes as if they were fresh, but with the word "trans" tacked on for no reason. "if you're a trans woman you need to learn how to trust your gut feeling on things"

Caoilinn Hughes - following in Joyce's railway tracks.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/aug/26/train-travel-following-in-james-joyce-tracks-to-trieste

The Feeling Designer
A place where we speak to purpose-driven designers about the ways they foster more genuine connections with themselves and the world around them...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-feeling-designer/

Trump Is Actually Failing Fast--and the Rabid MAGA Bigwigs Know It (Virginia Heffernan/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202191/trump-failing-curtis-yarvin-maga-bigwigs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p41#a251025p41

JD Vance flunks the basics on World War II as the White House targets history museums (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jd-vance-flunks-basics-world-war-ii-white-house-targets-history-museum-rcna226952
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p67#a250825p67