[jeffreyrogers]

Wow, missed that part when I read it. Pretty incredible that using open source data you can outperform the state-of-the-art machine translators of a few years ago.

[zawerf]

For a historical perspective check out stanford's nlp course: https://youtu.be/IxQtK2SjWWM?t=1267

Deep learning only started beating tradition methods in 2016!