Phillip Wadley

If you're interested in computational metaphor, you need to check this out! Provides commands for lemmatization, Interpretive diversity, and is great for analysising feature emergence.

Developed by J. Nick Reid and Albert Katz.

Wish I knew about this earlier in my PhD!

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The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...

Can large language models stand in for human participants?
Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research.

One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want.

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Shit is getting so bad now that running stats in R has become a soothing activity for me as of late.

Semantle | Daily Word Guessing Game Semantle is an engaging word-guessing game that challenges you to find the hidden word through semantic clues. Sharpen your linguistic skills!

Having way too much fun with this word guessing game based on word2vec.

The nifty thing about this is also you can create your own game and see up to 1000 nearest neighbors—a convenient tool for measuring semantic neighborhood density

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