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2024-09-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Court in Yessentuki arrests member of terrorist cell in prison

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Posted by badanov 2024-09-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top
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#1 I feel there ought to be more about who Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jamaat is in the archives or out there on the internet, given it goes back at least to 2013, but I can’t find it. Possibly it is spelt differently — transliterations lead to variations always —but the possibilities I tried lead nowhere useful. Help!

Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-26 08:58|| 2024-09-26 08:58|| Front Page Top

#2 An unusual case. Buddhist make up half the Republic's population. There are some Christians and at last report there were only 5 percent Muslims. The presence of Kalmykia penal colony is a well kept secret, which is now out.

Posted by S MAI 2024-09-26 18:18|| 2024-09-26 18:18|| Front Page Top

#3 transliterations lead to variations always /em>

Dealing with foreign names in a database is a persistent and vexing problem. Last time I poked at the problem, the two main approaches seemed to be the Soundex algorithm which tries to match words by their English sounds or phonemes, and the Levenshtein distance which uses the number of operations to convert one text string into another. Neither seems ideal for transliterated names. I wonder what techniques our intelligence services use.

The world would go around much faster than it does if people would just speak English like everyone else.

Posted by SteveS 2024-09-26 23:30|| 2024-09-26 23:30|| Front Page Top

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