From Broken Words to Brilliant Code: The Yasmin Ishikawa story 💔➡️💻🔥

They told me I wouldn't stand a chance. A girl from the slums of Osaka, raised by a single mother with three jobs who provided just enough rice on the table, I picked up my first check at 16, translating naughty novels for some extra cash, sexual and embarrassed by the words I was typing but intrigued on how words & language could move people. 🫦📚
When those university professors laughed at my inevitable "unrefined" linguistics paper (typed between hostess club shifts where men paid to listen to me speak English), I cried for hours in the restroom until I wiped the smudged mascara and got home to code my first language model that very night. 💅🏻💻
And now? PhD in Computational Linguistics at 25. Fluent in 6 human languages, 12 coding ones, and my NLP algorithms power applications in millions of cellular devices while I stutter and make clients stumble over their words during meetings wearing thick framed secretary eyeglasses. 😏📊
Every single line of code I write is dipped in the tears of that girl who translated dirty words to get by. I make machines understand what we desire, both beautifully poetic and simply profane. Want to see how a linguist seduces silicon? You are in the right place. 😉