@exolinguist.bsky.social
Linguist by trade, flâneur by choice, sarcasm appreciator, amateur cookie baker, aspiring traveller, occasional haver of a good idea, friend of desoto slightly embarrassed to know entirely too much about trek 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🖖(he/him)
Today in unexpected flavour combos: Cachaca, Ancho Reyes, Lemon & Mustard Cordial, Lemon Juice.
Celebrating success at #UCalgaryLING! 🎉Congratulations to Charys Russell on the successful defence of her master's thesis, “Examining the Effects of High- and Low-Variability Training and their Interaction with Level of Task Processing.”
This? Why, I could make a hat or a brooch. Or a pterodactyl, could eat your...
Picard management tip: Conducting an experiment with an unknown outcome is time well spent, even if the result disappoints you.
LING 302: Language in Humans & Machines will be taught as a no-prerequisite block-week course August 24–28 by computational linguist Brooklyn Sheppard. Don’t miss out! LING 302 is only offered every two years or so, and it’s already over half full (65/120) calendar.ucalgary.ca/courses/1663...
The new course LING 599: Mathematical Linguistics (Formal Properties of Grammars) will be taught by Prof. Diego Gabriel Krivochen in Winter 2027 (MWF 12–12:50). This is a seminar for advanced students in LING, but students in other programs (CPSC, MATH, etc.) are most welcome to enrol and benefit!
One of the lines that my friends and I invoke to this day just by hitting the right prosody on “good ones” in random conversation
The Naked Gun (1988)@thenakedgun1988.bsky.social · 2mo agoThat was a Shakespeare In the Park production of Julius Caesar, you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones.
It still weirds me out that campus becomes a giant LDS summer school at this time of year
helluva subordinate clause in that first sentence
![Assassination
Kiddnapping and murder
On 1 June 1924, the police chief Emilio De Bono ordered Otto Thierschädl, the spotter of the assassination squad who is unanimously considered by investigators and historians to be a timeless liar who lived by his wits,[72] to be released from prison with a telegram signed "for the Minister of the Interior"; at that time, the Minister of the Interior ad interim was Mussolini.[73] On 10 June, around 4 pm, Matteotti was bundled into a black Lancia, more specifically the Lancia Lambda limousine model,[74] by five men while he was walking to Parliament to work. They were Dumini, Albino Volpi, Giuseppe Viola, Amleto Poveromo, and Augusto Malacria, all acting as members of Mussolini's secret political police.[75] Matteotti had left his house and was heading towards the Chamber of Deputies to prepare his speech on the authorisation of the provisional exercise of the state budget.[76]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3pv3xjtaidyjlovzknuztffc/bafkreidwp2jhdpnnc7xardm4crkhgq6hrwunmx2tyxngznyvlbevalmewy)
name a tv show you're positive no one remembers but you
Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 3mo agoname a tv show you're positive no one remembers but you
Having stuff to talk about when your abstract was based on a third of the data is always a huuuuuge relief
Latest from the SFU/Toronto/Calgary team, using experimental psycholinguistics to determine whether resumptive pronouns aid in the comprehension of ungrammatical sentences (and hinder grammatical ones) escholarship.org/uc/item/54r8...
Resumptive pronouns form on-line dependencies with fillers in English: Evidence from the Maze task
Author(s): Han, Chung-hye; Block, Trevor; Gendron, Holly; Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan; Weir, Jesse; Williamson, Sara; Moulton, Keir | Abstract: We investigated the processing of resumptive pronouns in En...
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One of my favourite episodes of Star Trek Discovery
Rustin Richtarik 🖖@dieseldog97.bsky.social · 5mo agoOne of my favorite movies of STAR TREK
“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
If you see this, post a robot 🤖
King of Spring Tarts@kingtart.bsky.social · 6mo agoIf you see this, post a robot 🤖
That ys me yn the corner That ys me yn the spot lighte puttinge lyke fyve paragraphs of texte on an individual powerpoynte slyde
50/50 on references today: Landed a tossed-off comment about not obeying the laws of thermodynamics in this house, but nobody could figure out a Magic Eye image when I used it as an example of something that was really big in the 90s, but not anymore
This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 7mo agoExperiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
Post your favourite Star Trek character but wrong answers only.
Rustin Richtarik 🖖@dieseldog97.bsky.social · 7mo agoPost your favourite Star Trek character but wrong answers only.
ChatGPT ys to intelligence as monopoly moneye ys to diamonds
TFW the R script you wrote five years ago just works (after installing one missing library) on new data from a replication of an old study
Registration for the North American Computational Olympiad testing site at the University of Calgary, hosted by our Linguistics program, is open! Visit naclo.org/university_s... and look for University of Calgary
North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition
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