how can they tell you're not faking it?

Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link · 2d ago

JUST IN: Japan holds competitive sleeping tournament, offering $15,000 to whoever can fall asleep fastest & sleep the deepest during a 90-minute contest.

Have been trying to make cacio e pepe. I think I’m grating the cheese too coarse.

Julian@juliangrove.bsky.social · 2w ago

still trying things out

How come Wikipedia is doing better than academic publishing? Btw love that icon: 🚫🤖 🔗 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmat...

I am looking for a postdoc (4 years, 100%) in experimental semantics/philosophy of language, with a focus on memory: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c88… Please reach out if you are interested!

Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" should have had a part of the chorus about pushing to GitHub while it's having an Actions outage.

still trying things out

Julian@juliangrove.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trying to figure out how to make “perfect spaghetti”

I imagine this is what hell is like

franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club@paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mambo No. ℵ₀

Trying to figure out how to make “perfect spaghetti”

have been teaching an intro FLT and automata class this semester, and I feel like I haven't had this much fun in ages

really takes me back to lin alg

Nvidie@dervine7.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am very skeptical that LLMs think, but one of the more tiresome arguments I see against LLM thinking is that what they’re doing is “just matrix multiplication”, bc there a straightforward sense in which your brain is doing matrix multiplication at various levels

Super cool paper by my student @pkuchmiichuk.com that synthesizes Dylan Bumford and @simoncharlow.com's work on effect-driven interpretation with probabilistic dynamic semantics to understand how slack regulators like "exactly" and "approximately" work.

Pavlo Kuchmiichuk@pkuchmiichuk.com · 4w ago

New preprint: In Ukrainian, several approximating devices can stack on a single numeral, and the result conveys the same interval as one device alone. I argue that a numeral introduces the resolutions it can be read at, and that approximators operate on that set the way indefinites and definites do.

New preprint: In Ukrainian, several approximating devices can stack on a single numeral, and the result conveys the same interval as one device alone. I argue that a numeral introduces the resolutions it can be read at, and that approximators operate on that set the way indefinites and definites do.

Restricting resolutions: effect-driven semantics of numerical approximation

Approximators such as *approximately* or *exactly* have been analyzed either as operators that manipulate a numeral's denotation, or as devices that select a granularity level at which the numeral is

chive.pub

a course instructor is a device for turning markers in the department office into markers in the classroom

hurts my fee fees when kids ditch class

cut it out with the fuckin semicolons man

Realized the reason I like phantom thread so much is that it’s basically just of a two hour episode of curb

feel like watching 'drive my car' by myself might be bad idea

Welp

to connect or not to connect

you seem pretty unacceptable for a sentence so grammatical

When this happens in philosophy, they call it “unresolved resolved uncertainty”.

Matt Weiner@mattweiner19.bsky.social · 2mo ago

if everyone had recognized that most words are polysemous we'd just have got *more* analytic philosophy. it can't be stopped

I'm recruiting Linguistics PhD students! Come work with me on all things multilingual and low-resource NLP! NLP background welcome, but commitment to scientific study of language is essential. My recent work has included ASR for field linguistics and compact LLMs for heritage languages

someone should start a podcast about the daily linkedin zip puzzle

"Did you know that as an Appliance Warehouse customer..." No, whatever you are about to say, I did not know that.

Check out the poster I'll be presenting next week at SALT 36 with @aaronstevenwhite.io: osf.io/cwy4m/files/...

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Sometimes to make an omelette you have to break a few eggs. Where “make an omelette” means assemble a new piece of furniture. And “break a few eggs” means not assemble it correctly.

Like exploding stones

Conveniently located across the street from Santa Fe lettuce

Anyone talked about those uses of comparatives without explicit standards like, 'he's a taller guy'. I think these are only good attributively (#he's taller)? I have this vague intuition that the standard degree is being existentially quantified.