My Posts Are Now Available in English

created: 2024.12.11. 14:34 · modified: 2026.09.27. 22:57 ·  · license

This post was automatically translated and reviewed by me.

Did you know that the transformer—the architecture underlying nearly every modern AI model, including physical AI—was originally developed for machine translation¹?

It has been almost five years since I launched this website and I've written more than 100 posts since then. But my foreign friends probably don't know that, because unlike the rest of the website, the blog has only been in Korean. I haven't had the time to translate every post as I write it. So ever since translation was one of the few things AI could do reasonably well, years before it became capable of nearly everything, I've wanted to build a pipeline that would leverage it to translate my posts automatically.

I put it off for more than two years, not being able to even find the time to do so. But finally after spending a little time and some tokens, I just added it to the website as a new feature. Coding agents really have gotten good—I built it in no time.

Now, if you set the site language to English, you'll see translated posts instead of the Korean originals. It will be a different experience from simply running the originals through Google Translate or DeepL. The translations follow instructions I've tailored to my preferences and I review them afterward. More importantly, I believe there's a big difference between having a post that is already readable and having to press a button to make it understandable. That's probably why X (formerly Twitter) recently made the big decision to translate all posts and replies proactively.

This will be the first post translated that way. Earlier posts will be translated soon, too. To all my friends around the world: let's make use of modern technology to bring us a little closer together.

¹ More precisely, sequence transduction, which includes machine translation.