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The law I cannot read · กฎหมายที่ผมอ่านไม่ออก
I have legal interests in Thailand and cannot read Thai. Building a searchable library of Thai law on my own machine with an AI agent: every English word labelled by how far it can be trusted, PDFs that show one thing and say another, and 27,000 sections machine-translated on a local GPU.
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The section that wasn’t there
I asked my own law database for section 5 of the HMDA Act and it said there was no such section. There is. Building a searchable corpus of Indian statutes and judgments on my own machine, and what auditing it taught me about trusting legal text.
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A parse error, a stalled upgrade, and fifteen years of silence
My tech blog died in 2011. A stalled WordPress 3.2 upgrade, then a PHP 7 parse error that had been repeating in the logs ever since. What the restore turned up, and the four bugs in the script meant to fix it.