"Did you know that as an Appliance Warehouse customer..." No, whatever you are about to say, I did not know that.
Julian
@juliangrove.bsky.social
insert bluesky bio https://juliangrove.github.io/
Check out the poster I'll be presenting next week at SALT 36 with @aaronstevenwhite.io: osf.io/cwy4m/files/...
OSF
osf.io
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.
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.
It will be seven years, on June 24th, that my 20-year-old daughter Robyn lost their life doing bicycle messenger work in New York City, when a for-hire driver blocked the bicycle lane and the speeding distracted driver of a box truck knocked them to the ground and then crushed them into the road.
when Avis emails you a reminder about your reservation, they call it an "e-reminder"
"please include names of possible reviewers" sure, which other parts of your job do you want me to do for you
I’ve been 7000 feet above sea level for a few weeks now, and lifting weights is a whole different game up here.
quivers is a functional probabilistic programming language that compiles to pytorch.
GitHub - FACTSlab/quivers: A functional probabilistic programming language that compiles to PyTorch.
A functional probabilistic programming language that compiles to PyTorch. - FACTSlab/quivers
github.com
Has there been much discussion of performatives featuring non-1P subjects. Was just reading some predatory academic emails containing 'you're invited to ...' and thought to ask. Thanks, predatory academic emailer!
practicing Canvas feedback on Test Student: Wow, great - you absolutely nailed it!
Not sure which I like better: drinking coffee or smelling coffee.
have a student with a CS background referring to acceptability and inference tests as "benchmarks"
are kids these days familiar with the anti-German pejorative discussed in McCready 2010?
Can the person sitting behind me on the train please talk louder into her cell phone? I missed a sentence or two.
gonna write an essay to my landlord in the style of Bertrand Russell called 'Why I am not renewing my lease'
has anyone worked out the pragmatics of "oh yeah, let's get coffee sometime" when everyone knows it's never gonna happen
*coming to the part of the textbook called 'X in the real world'* hell yeah, this shit is gonna be relevant to my life
Deadline Apr 15: Postdoc, "using computational methods and EEG to study predictive processing in multilingual populations", at U Michigan w/ @jonrbrennan.bsky.social and @edithkaan.bsky.social careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
every 10 years, linguistics textbooks need to be updated with new references. that is, take out all the Obama references and put in Sabrina Carpenter references
Claude is short for Jean Claude Van Damme. Are you saying Jean Claude Van Damme does not have consciousness? Because I agree with you.
Been tinkering with schemas for sharing language data over ATProto (the technology that underlies bluesky). Trying to support everything from acceptability and inference judgments to interlinear glossing to syntactic parses to eye and neural recordings. Discussion and comments appreciated. 🐦️🐦️
Layers@layers.pub · 5mo agoLayers is a set of ATProto lexicons for representing and interlinking linguistic data across modalities. We're hoping to get feedback on a draft proposal for the lexicons. docs.layers.pub github.com/layers-pub/layers
They should do a remake of the 2001 Steven Spielberg movie and get Haley Joel Osment to play chatgpt
Talking about Discourse Referents this week. A student says they think (1) Mary expects to have a baby. The baby's name is Sue. is fine, and I'm not sure I disagree. I wonder what might be going on there.