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  1. He añadido unos comentarios adicionales sobre la traducción al euskera en el devlog del proyecto en itchio:
    dangordillo.itch.io/heroibide-

    Creo que ahí hay unas reflexiones importantes sobre el mundillo del rol indie en general y mi situación en particular. Que la mayoría de juegos indie los hagamos "por amor al arte" tiende a desvirtuar la imagen que se hacen muchas personas al respecto, a menudo porque no se imaginan cuánto curro (y a veces inversiones) hay detrás.

    #lodelrol #indie #euskera #HeroiBide

  2. He añadido unos comentarios adicionales sobre la traducción al euskera en el devlog del proyecto en itchio:
    dangordillo.itch.io/heroibide-

    Creo que ahí hay unas reflexiones importantes sobre el mundillo del rol indie en general y mi situación en particular. Que la mayoría de juegos indie los hagamos "por amor al arte" tiende a desvirtuar la imagen que se hacen muchas personas al respecto, a menudo porque no se imaginan cuánto curro (y a veces inversiones) hay detrás.

    #lodelrol #indie #euskera #HeroiBide

  3. He añadido unos comentarios adicionales sobre la traducción al euskera en el devlog del proyecto en itchio:
    dangordillo.itch.io/heroibide-

    Creo que ahí hay unas reflexiones importantes sobre el mundillo del rol indie en general y mi situación en particular. Que la mayoría de juegos indie los hagamos "por amor al arte" tiende a desvirtuar la imagen que se hacen muchas personas al respecto, a menudo porque no se imaginan cuánto curro (y a veces inversiones) hay detrás.

    #lodelrol #indie #euskera #HeroiBide

  4. Ya sólo faltan 10 ilustraciones para terminar la versión en castellano de #HeroiBide 🤗 3 de las cuales, además, están en proceso, y he dejado 7 de las más fáciles para el final, así que todo va muy bien: el sábado 1 de agosto publicaré el juego.

    En cuanto a la versión en #euskera, ya he empezado a mover la traducción: con una traductora no profesional (aunque se lo pagaré con la tarifa estándar igualmente), pero con un nivel de implicación y un conocimiento del mundillo rolero que hacen que tenga plena confianza en su labor. 😌

    #lodelrol #indie #noAI #EuskalHerria

  5. Ya sólo faltan 10 ilustraciones para terminar la versión en castellano de #HeroiBide 🤗 3 de las cuales, además, están en proceso, y he dejado 7 de las más fáciles para el final, así que todo va muy bien: el sábado 1 de agosto publicaré el juego.

    En cuanto a la versión en #euskera, ya he empezado a mover la traducción: con una traductora no profesional (aunque se lo pagaré con la tarifa estándar igualmente), pero con un nivel de implicación y un conocimiento del mundillo rolero que hacen que tenga plena confianza en su labor. 😌

    #lodelrol #indie #noAI #EuskalHerria

  6. Ya sólo faltan 10 ilustraciones para terminar la versión en castellano de #HeroiBide 🤗 3 de las cuales, además, están en proceso, y he dejado 7 de las más fáciles para el final, así que todo va muy bien: el sábado 1 de agosto publicaré el juego.

    En cuanto a la versión en #euskera, ya he empezado a mover la traducción: con una traductora no profesional (aunque se lo pagaré con la tarifa estándar igualmente), pero con un nivel de implicación y un conocimiento del mundillo rolero que hacen que tenga plena confianza en su labor. 😌

    #lodelrol #indie #noAI #EuskalHerria

  7. Ya sólo faltan 10 ilustraciones para terminar la versión en castellano de #HeroiBide 🤗 3 de las cuales, además, están en proceso, y he dejado 7 de las más fáciles para el final, así que todo va muy bien: el sábado 1 de agosto publicaré el juego.

    En cuanto a la versión en #euskera, ya he empezado a mover la traducción: con una traductora no profesional (aunque se lo pagaré con la tarifa estándar igualmente), pero con un nivel de implicación y un conocimiento del mundillo rolero que hacen que tenga plena confianza en su labor. 😌

    #lodelrol #indie #noAI #EuskalHerria

  8. Ya sólo faltan 10 ilustraciones para terminar la versión en castellano de #HeroiBide 🤗 3 de las cuales, además, están en proceso, y he dejado 7 de las más fáciles para el final, así que todo va muy bien: el sábado 1 de agosto publicaré el juego.

    En cuanto a la versión en #euskera, ya he empezado a mover la traducción: con una traductora no profesional (aunque se lo pagaré con la tarifa estándar igualmente), pero con un nivel de implicación y un conocimiento del mundillo rolero que hacen que tenga plena confianza en su labor. 😌

    #lodelrol #indie #noAI #EuskalHerria

  9. García: The Ancient Basque Name That May Be Older Than Spain Itself

    An artistic interpretation of one proposed theory linking the Basque word hartza (“bear”) to the evolution of the surname García via the medieval form Gartzia. While intriguing, this remains a speculative hypothesis rather than the mainstream academic view. Image: AI-generated by ChatGPT.

    Dear Cherubs, if you’ve ever assumed García is “just another common Spanish surname,” welcome to today’s plot twist. Beneath its everyday familiarity lies one of Europe’s oldest and most debated names, wrapped in Basque history, medieval kingdoms, and just enough linguistic mystery to keep scholars happily arguing over coffee.

    Most surnames in Spain are fairly straightforward. Fernández means “son of Fernando,” Martínez means “son of Martín,” and Rodríguez follows the same family recipe. García, however, refuses to play by those rules. It isn’t a patronymic surname, and that’s one reason historians find it so fascinating.

    AN ANCIENT NAME

    Long before surnames became hereditary, García was already being used as a personal name. Kings of the medieval Kingdom of Pamplona, including García Íñiguez in the ninth century and García Sánchez I in the tenth, carried the name centuries before it settled into family lineages. According to the Real Academia de la Historia, these early records place García among the oldest continuously documented names in medieval Iberia.

    So where did it come from? The leading scholarly theory points toward an ancient Basque origin. Many linguists connect García to the medieval Basque form “Gartzia,” possibly derived from the older Basque word “gaztea,” meaning “young.” While the exact linguistic pathway remains debated, this explanation currently enjoys the broadest academic support.

    What makes the story even more intriguing is that the name appears in territories where Basque culture flourished, particularly Navarre and surrounding regions. That geographical consistency strengthens the Basque connection, even if the precise meaning has been lost somewhere over the last thousand years. Ancient languages are wonderful like that—they leave clues but rarely complete instruction manuals.

    THE BEAR CONNECTION

    There is, however, another theory that occasionally captures people’s imagination. Some enthusiasts have proposed that García may ultimately relate to the Basque word “hartza,” meaning “bear.”

    Now, before anyone starts printing family crests featuring grizzly bears, it’s worth noting that this idea remains speculative and is not the mainstream academic position. The principal challenge is linguistic: scholars have yet to demonstrate a convincing historical sound change linking “hartza” directly to “Gartzia” or García.

    Even so, the hypothesis isn’t entirely without charm. Across Europe, bears symbolised courage, leadership, protection and strength. Names derived from bears appear in many cultures, from the Scandinavian Björn to the German Bernard and the Celtic associations surrounding Arthur. Ancient Basque society also held the bear in considerable cultural and folkloric importance, making the concept of a bear-inspired personal name at least culturally plausible.

    Whether or not the theory proves correct, it reminds us that surnames often preserve fragments of forgotten worlds. Behind a simple word passed from generation to generation may lie ancient beliefs, tribal identities or descriptions that made perfect sense a millennium ago.

    Today, García is the most common surname in Spain and one of the most widespread across Latin America, carried by millions of people. Yet despite its popularity, its deepest origins remain partly hidden, quietly reminding us that history doesn’t always hand over all its secrets.

    Sometimes the oldest names are also the most mysterious. Rather fitting, really. If every mystery had an easy answer, historians would have to find another hobby.

    Sources list

    Real Academia de la Historia — https://dbe.rah.es/
    Diccionario de Apellidos Españoles (Roberto Faure, María Asunción Ribes & Antonio García) — https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-diccionario-de-apellidos-espanoles/9788467018496
    Euskaltzaindia (Royal Academy of the Basque Language) — https://www.euskaltzaindia.eus/
    Encyclopaedia Britannica (Basque people) — https://www.britannica.com/topic/Basque
    Thisclaimer — https://thisclaimer.com

    The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #basque #basqueCulture #euskera #garcia #garciaFamilyHistory #genealogy #iberianHistory #linguistics #medievalHistory #navarre #surname
  10. García: The Ancient Basque Name That May Be Older Than Spain Itself

    An artistic interpretation of one proposed theory linking the Basque word hartza (“bear”) to the evolution of the surname García via the medieval form Gartzia. While intriguing, this remains a speculative hypothesis rather than the mainstream academic view. Image: AI-generated by ChatGPT.

    Dear Cherubs, if you’ve ever assumed García is “just another common Spanish surname,” welcome to today’s plot twist. Beneath its everyday familiarity lies one of Europe’s oldest and most debated names, wrapped in Basque history, medieval kingdoms, and just enough linguistic mystery to keep scholars happily arguing over coffee.

    Most surnames in Spain are fairly straightforward. Fernández means “son of Fernando,” Martínez means “son of Martín,” and Rodríguez follows the same family recipe. García, however, refuses to play by those rules. It isn’t a patronymic surname, and that’s one reason historians find it so fascinating.

    AN ANCIENT NAME

    Long before surnames became hereditary, García was already being used as a personal name. Kings of the medieval Kingdom of Pamplona, including García Íñiguez in the ninth century and García Sánchez I in the tenth, carried the name centuries before it settled into family lineages. According to the Real Academia de la Historia, these early records place García among the oldest continuously documented names in medieval Iberia.

    So where did it come from? The leading scholarly theory points toward an ancient Basque origin. Many linguists connect García to the medieval Basque form “Gartzia,” possibly derived from the older Basque word “gaztea,” meaning “young.” While the exact linguistic pathway remains debated, this explanation currently enjoys the broadest academic support.

    What makes the story even more intriguing is that the name appears in territories where Basque culture flourished, particularly Navarre and surrounding regions. That geographical consistency strengthens the Basque connection, even if the precise meaning has been lost somewhere over the last thousand years. Ancient languages are wonderful like that—they leave clues but rarely complete instruction manuals.

    THE BEAR CONNECTION

    There is, however, another theory that occasionally captures people’s imagination. Some enthusiasts have proposed that García may ultimately relate to the Basque word “hartza,” meaning “bear.”

    Now, before anyone starts printing family crests featuring grizzly bears, it’s worth noting that this idea remains speculative and is not the mainstream academic position. The principal challenge is linguistic: scholars have yet to demonstrate a convincing historical sound change linking “hartza” directly to “Gartzia” or García.

    Even so, the hypothesis isn’t entirely without charm. Across Europe, bears symbolised courage, leadership, protection and strength. Names derived from bears appear in many cultures, from the Scandinavian Björn to the German Bernard and the Celtic associations surrounding Arthur. Ancient Basque society also held the bear in considerable cultural and folkloric importance, making the concept of a bear-inspired personal name at least culturally plausible.

    Whether or not the theory proves correct, it reminds us that surnames often preserve fragments of forgotten worlds. Behind a simple word passed from generation to generation may lie ancient beliefs, tribal identities or descriptions that made perfect sense a millennium ago.

    Today, García is the most common surname in Spain and one of the most widespread across Latin America, carried by millions of people. Yet despite its popularity, its deepest origins remain partly hidden, quietly reminding us that history doesn’t always hand over all its secrets.

    Sometimes the oldest names are also the most mysterious. Rather fitting, really. If every mystery had an easy answer, historians would have to find another hobby.

    Sources list

    Real Academia de la Historia — https://dbe.rah.es/
    Diccionario de Apellidos Españoles (Roberto Faure, María Asunción Ribes & Antonio García) — https://www.casadellibro.com/libro-diccionario-de-apellidos-espanoles/9788467018496
    Euskaltzaindia (Royal Academy of the Basque Language) — https://www.euskaltzaindia.eus/
    Encyclopaedia Britannica (Basque people) — https://www.britannica.com/topic/Basque
    Thisclaimer — https://thisclaimer.com

    The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #basque #basqueCulture #euskera #garcia #garciaFamilyHistory #genealogy #iberianHistory #linguistics #medievalHistory #navarre #surname
  11. English language as a poor choice for training language models [*you don't say!*]. David Eichler proposes Basque, a language with very explicit consistency rules in its sentence structure that double as constraints for correctness.

    "The hypothesis predicts the Basque-first model will show superior performance on tasks that require robust predicate-argument reasoning, independent of surface language fluency."

    "We propose treating English — and any other natural language — as a last-mile rendering layer. [...] Lossy, human-readable projections of representations built on the substrate beneath them."

    From: "Curriculum Order and the Geometry of Learned Representations: The Basque First Hypothesis", Eichler 2026.
    zenodo.org/records/21396981

    Expects a flywheel (positive feedback loop) rather than model collapse upon using the output of such model as input:

    "Models trained on this substrate should generate outputs that are structurally different from the outputs of current models. When asked to produce arguments, we predict they will produce arguments with explicit logical structure. When asked to prove theorems, proofs with traceable inference chains. [...] These outputs — the proofs, the structured arguments, the logical derivations — are *training data.* [...] Reasoning quality compounds."

    Quite the claims in this paper. Also:

    "We are making a case for a research direction, not announcing results. The results do not exist yet."

    #LLMs #LanguageModels #Basque #euskera

  12. English language as a poor choice for training language models [*you don't say!*]. David Eichler proposes Basque, a language with very explicit consistency rules in its sentence structure that double as constraints for correctness.

    "The hypothesis predicts the Basque-first model will show superior performance on tasks that require robust predicate-argument reasoning, independent of surface language fluency."

    "We propose treating English — and any other natural language — as a last-mile rendering layer. [...] Lossy, human-readable projections of representations built on the substrate beneath them."

    From: "Curriculum Order and the Geometry of Learned Representations: The Basque First Hypothesis", Eichler 2026.
    zenodo.org/records/21396981

    Expects a flywheel (positive feedback loop) rather than model collapse upon using the output of such model as input:

    "Models trained on this substrate should generate outputs that are structurally different from the outputs of current models. When asked to produce arguments, we predict they will produce arguments with explicit logical structure. When asked to prove theorems, proofs with traceable inference chains. [...] These outputs — the proofs, the structured arguments, the logical derivations — are *training data.* [...] Reasoning quality compounds."

    Quite the claims in this paper. Also:

    "We are making a case for a research direction, not announcing results. The results do not exist yet."

    #LLMs #LanguageModels #Basque #euskera

  13. English language as a poor choice for training language models [*you don't say!*]. David Eichler proposes Basque, a language with very explicit consistency rules in its sentence structure that double as constraints for correctness.

    "The hypothesis predicts the Basque-first model will show superior performance on tasks that require robust predicate-argument reasoning, independent of surface language fluency."

    "We propose treating English — and any other natural language — as a last-mile rendering layer. [...] Lossy, human-readable projections of representations built on the substrate beneath them."

    From: "Curriculum Order and the Geometry of Learned Representations: The Basque First Hypothesis", Eichler 2026.
    zenodo.org/records/21396981

    Expects a flywheel (positive feedback loop) rather than model collapse upon using the output of such model as input:

    "Models trained on this substrate should generate outputs that are structurally different from the outputs of current models. When asked to produce arguments, we predict they will produce arguments with explicit logical structure. When asked to prove theorems, proofs with traceable inference chains. [...] These outputs — the proofs, the structured arguments, the logical derivations — are *training data.* [...] Reasoning quality compounds."

    Quite the claims in this paper. Also:

    "We are making a case for a research direction, not announcing results. The results do not exist yet."

    #LLMs #LanguageModels #Basque #euskera

  14. English language as a poor choice for training language models [*you don't say!*]. David Eichler proposes Basque, a language with very explicit consistency rules in its sentence structure that double as constraints for correctness.

    "The hypothesis predicts the Basque-first model will show superior performance on tasks that require robust predicate-argument reasoning, independent of surface language fluency."

    "We propose treating English — and any other natural language — as a last-mile rendering layer. [...] Lossy, human-readable projections of representations built on the substrate beneath them."

    From: "Curriculum Order and the Geometry of Learned Representations: The Basque First Hypothesis", Eichler 2026.
    zenodo.org/records/21396981

    Expects a flywheel (positive feedback loop) rather than model collapse upon using the output of such model as input:

    "Models trained on this substrate should generate outputs that are structurally different from the outputs of current models. When asked to produce arguments, we predict they will produce arguments with explicit logical structure. When asked to prove theorems, proofs with traceable inference chains. [...] These outputs — the proofs, the structured arguments, the logical derivations — are *training data.* [...] Reasoning quality compounds."

    Quite the claims in this paper. Also:

    "We are making a case for a research direction, not announcing results. The results do not exist yet."

    #LLMs #LanguageModels #Basque #euskera

  15. English language as a poor choice for training language models [*you don't say!*]. David Eichler proposes Basque, a language with very explicit consistency rules in its sentence structure that double as constraints for correctness.

    "The hypothesis predicts the Basque-first model will show superior performance on tasks that require robust predicate-argument reasoning, independent of surface language fluency."

    "We propose treating English — and any other natural language — as a last-mile rendering layer. [...] Lossy, human-readable projections of representations built on the substrate beneath them."

    From: "Curriculum Order and the Geometry of Learned Representations: The Basque First Hypothesis", Eichler 2026.
    zenodo.org/records/21396981

    Expects a flywheel (positive feedback loop) rather than model collapse upon using the output of such model as input:

    "Models trained on this substrate should generate outputs that are structurally different from the outputs of current models. When asked to produce arguments, we predict they will produce arguments with explicit logical structure. When asked to prove theorems, proofs with traceable inference chains. [...] These outputs — the proofs, the structured arguments, the logical derivations — are *training data.* [...] Reasoning quality compounds."

    Quite the claims in this paper. Also:

    "We are making a case for a research direction, not announcing results. The results do not exist yet."

    #LLMs #LanguageModels #Basque #euskera

  16. Esteban (PNV) advierte al PSOE/Sánchez: tras el meme del PSE y el choque por la ley para exigir euskera en empleo público, no nos vamos a callar y abre la puerta a pactar con la abstención de EH Bildu. aidoo.news/noticia/r9PKO4

    #Politica #Euskadi #Euskera #ParlamentoVasco #EHBildu