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A team of students at William & Mary trying to make a difference for the Iu Mien community. Looking for partners, speakers, data, and runway.

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4 partner types/Replies in 3 days/No tier, no perk
Goalcurriculum
One centralized place
for Iu Mien learning.
  • →Consolidate the scattered Mien web
  • →Push translation past chrF 70
  • →Open source what we can
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Who we are

Two students at William & Mary.

A linguist and an engineer, building the curriculum together. One speaks the language, the other ships the code.

LINGUISTICS
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Noah Saechao

Noah Saechao.

Linguistics · William & Mary

Native Mien language expertise. Dialect notes, orthography review, and curriculum guidance.

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ENGINEER · PRODUCT
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James Lenhard

James Lenhard.

Engineer & Product · William & Mary

Built the neural translator, dictionary backend, and this site. NLLB fine tuning, data pipelines, platform, and product direction.

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Funding

Coffee keeps
the lights on.

Hosting the translator, storing parallel corpora, and renting GPUs to train the next model versions all cost real money. No tier, no perk, no recurring charge.

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GPU hours.

A100 / H100 rentals to train the next model versions.

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Inference hosting.

Live translator running on a GPU server, free forever.

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Storage and data.

179k parallel sentences, audio, lessons, backups.

“Mbuo nyei waac maaih lengc, meih oix zuqc gorngv.”

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