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  2. Adam Weishaupt - Wikipedia

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    On 1 May 1776 Johann Adam Weishaupt founded the "Illuminati" in the Electorate of Bavaria. Initially, Illumination was designated for a group of outstanding and enlightened individuals in society. Indeed, the word was adapted from a Latin root, Iluminatus, which directly translates to "enlightened." He also adopted the name of "Brother ...

  3. History of machine translation - Wikipedia

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    History of machine translation. Machine translation is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another. In the 1950s, machine translation became a reality in research, although references to the subject can be found as early as the 17th century.

  4. Illuminati - Wikipedia

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    The Illuminati (/ əˌluːmɪˈnɑːti /; plural of Latin illuminatus, 'enlightened') is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment -era secret society founded on 1 May 1776 in Bavaria, today part of Germany. The society's stated goals were to ...

  5. John Nelson Darby - Wikipedia

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    John Nelson Darby was born in Westminster, London, and christened at St Margaret's on 3 March 1801. He was the youngest of the six sons of John Darby and Anne Vaughan. The Darbys were an Anglo-Irish landowning family seated at Leap Castle, King's County, Ireland, (present-day County Offaly).

  6. Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia

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    Aleister Crowley, on his name change. Crowley had his first significant mystical experience while on holiday in Stockholm in December 1896. Several biographers, including Lawrence Sutin, Richard Kaczynski, and Tobias Churton, believed that this was the result of Crowley's first same-sex sexual experience, which enabled him to recognize his bisexuality. At Cambridge, Crowley maintained a ...

  7. History of natural language processing - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of natural language processing models. In 1990, the Elman network, using a recurrent neural network, encoded each word in a training set as a vector, called a word embedding, and the whole vocabulary as a vector database, allowing it to perform such tasks as sequence-predictions that are beyond the power of a simple multilayer ...

  8. Universal translator - Wikipedia

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    A universal translator is a device common to many science fiction works, especially on television. First described in Murray Leinster 's 1945 novella "First Contact", [1] the translator's purpose is to offer an instant translation of any language. As a convention, it is used to remove the problem of translating between alien languages when it ...

  9. WikiLeaks - Wikipedia

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    t. e. WikiLeaks (/ ˈwɪkiliːks /) is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations [13] and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. [14] It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange, an Australian editor, publisher, and activist. [15]