one of my only semi-prescriptivist bugbears is using the word "research" to mean "Googling stuff", and I fear this further entrenches that usage.
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one of my only semi-prescriptivist bugbears is using the word "research" to mean "Googling stuff", and I fear this further entrenches that usage.
If we're going to save the university, we have to start remaking the humane case for learning - as something we do, not because we are future earners or contributors to GDP, but because we are curious, imaginative & want to expand our understanding; because we are citizens, neighbours & human beings
New preprint! (w/ @sollago.bsky.social )
We tackle a key challenge in the analysis of visual world data: when do experimental effects first emerge?
"The New Novel That The World Is Absolutely Not Ready For And Will Change Everything About The Way We Live, Laugh, And, Yes, Love" "By John Scalzi" "Chapter One" "THE" (in huge ornate letters)
The next novel has begun
DONG DONG
Never let me forget the time that someone wrote a news story about Zoey Deschanel leaving her husband Death Cab in favor of her new boyfriend, Cutie front man Ben Gibbard.
This is very good. 😄 (h/t @j2bryson.bsky.social) #AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDzF...
Linguists organizing major conferences in the US: please make your venue hybrid! Many non-US colleagues can't/don't want to travel to the US anymore
Oh man, what a genius use of this medium!! 🥰
Captivating weekend read, even if you've never given much thought to Sparta before. Also discovering a delightful blog in the process!
but what is your measure of taste? if it is an aggregate measure over things like texture, fragrance, and pure vibes (quite realistic, no?)... then the nonnas probably called it :3
I decided for myself that it was because we can reimagine some of these as nominalised locations, think "on the inside of"; which could be how this began xD
Omg so glad to see this; I've also wondered the same and the only reaction I got so far is some other language families do that too (forgot the examples though). Following for answers!
For #rstats users, find Flexoki (and much more) in the outstanding hrbrthemes package, thanks to @hrbrmstr.dev !
github.com/hrbrmstr/hrb...
Let it be known that I too will accept $2 billion in funding on the promise that I will not release anything until I have created God.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
Two moods while writing:
1) this is actually pretty good
2)
I think models are neither wrong (because they lack truth value) nor useful (ultimately nothing matters) so there's one slogan I can't get behind.
It seems that I am giving the commencement at MIT in May 😳
news.mit.edu/2024/hank-gr...
timeless
Not sure about hashtags but there’s a cat pics feed you can follow!
Carefully saving the deleted section in a new document, just in case I need the worst paragraph ever written for future work
