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4 posts found in engineering by Article Translator
Why we translate long articles sequentially, not in parallel
Splitting a long article into chunks invites an obvious optimization: translate them all at once. We refuse it, because chunk three needs decisions that were made in chunk one.
The glossary is not a memory aid
Hand a model five thousand characters at a time, and by the third chunk it has forgotten which Ukrainian word it picked for justification. The fix is not a bigger context window.
Why we read the markup before translating the prose
A heading is not just a heading. Translating from the HTML, not from stripped plain text, keeps the document's argument structure visible and our choices surer.
Translating theological content: preserving meaning across languages
A single mistranslation — choosing a term that implies human merit where the author meant divine initiative — can quietly reshape an entire doctrine.