Learn Finnish like a machine

#13 Enlightenment

Technological breakthroughs.

Jun 1 • Galois

May 2026

#12 Finnishness

« Si je suis toujours et partout, je ne suis jamais et nulle part. » (Merleau-Ponty, 1945)

May 24 • Galois

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#11 Wrestling for the North

Let’s pick up where we left off, that is, by reviewing the position of translation in our discipline.

May 13 • Galois

Searching like a machine

« I don’t care! I’d rather sink - than call Brad for help! » (Roy Lichtenstein, 1963)

May 5

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April 2026

#10 A shore under influence

Nothing but hypotheses, weight assignment, probabilistic matching.

Apr 20 • Galois

The length of time

« Eine Seele. Was ist das? – Es ist negativ leicht bestimmt: es ist eben das, was sich verkriecht, wenn man von algebraischen Reihen hört. »

Apr 5 • Galois

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March 2026

#9 - Innovation and invention

« Que la civilisation est loin de procurer les jouissances attribuables à cet état ! » (Stéphane Mallarmé, 1897)

Mar 29 • Galois

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#8 - Grand tour

In prehistoric times, the area that is now Finland was inhabited by a mosaic of tribes whose distinctive way of life persisted over the centuries. But…

Mar 21 • Galois

#7 Extravagant banquets

Walking in the woods and reminiscing about our recent foray into decorative arts and the love affairs of the late 16th century, we realized we had…

Mar 13 • Galois

#6 - Hurried footsteps

Curiositas: Esineitä, tarinoita 1100–1917, published by the Suomen kansallismuseo, is a beautiful book.

Mar 3 • Galois

February 2026

#5 - Eastern border

It is not earlier than the 16th and 17th centuries, with the rise of absolutist, autocratic states, that the modern concept of territorial borders was…

Feb 21 • Galois

#4 - Stochastic weather

We leaf through Kaikkea sattuu again, the very interesting corpus of essays on various pragmatic manifestations of chance.

Feb 18 • Galois