I have been struggling with this weird behavior in vim for the last month or so. I just re-joined Automattic in September. I have been using vim on many different computers and environments (linux, max, cygwin) for over 15 years, and I have never experienced this before. I only seem to have this issue when using vim on my development server. I tried searching the interwebs several times over the last month without avail. Today I finally decided to ask […] (Read more)

Today I got some data I wanted to add to my machine learning training datasets for named entity recognition. My system is designed to be used with output from automatic speech recognition (ASR). It is frequently difficult to be certain whether ASR output will contain hyphens or not, e.g. (email, vs e-mail) so frequently I include both variants to be robust. I was able to automatically add these variants with a quick awk oneliner awk ‘/-/ {print; gsub(“-“, ” “)} […] (Read more)