fauxneme

ok listen there's a lot of crazy shit going on, and I know this isn't *new* since my feeds have been going gaga for 2 weeks now, BUT

Angine de Poitrine is the greatest/funnest/most interesting thing I've heard literally in decades

do yourselves a favour and go spend a half hour with the KEXP show

if 4 of em are breakfast tacos, the beer is guinness, and I can triple up on my addy i'm doing this for 50k

who tf is still writing that is it still 2008?!??

there are no “theory neutral” models and if your modeling paper paper starts with that as an “advantage” of your approach you have immediately lost me

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs | PNAS As humans, we store and share information. This allows us to distribute knowledge necessary for survival and to coordinate large groups. Our homini...

40,000-year-old proto-writing in Germany www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

time.com headline screenshot reading "Exclusive: Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge"

lol

replace connectionism with LLMs and you’re up to date

"These are [...] people who think they can go from the definition of conditional probability, via Harry Potter fanfic, to prophesying that an AI god will judge the quick and the dead, and condemn those who hindered the coming of the Last Day to the everlasting simulated-but-still-painful fire." 🔥

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

hot take: the transformer is an inelegant architecture

It's a Motte & Bailey strategy. Their broad desire is the elimination of trans people from public life, and they've decided the easiest issues to toxify are sports & youths. The consequences have already expanded beyond that, and poison the discourse about the veracity of trans people.

threw my mfing phone across the room

I just got my annual Public Lending Right cheque for Because Internet from the Canada Council for the Arts, so permit me a thread about what the public lending right is and why you should request books you love from public libraries!

Image of front of softcover book, titled Connectionist Natural Language Processing (subhead: Readings from Connection Science)

look what came in the mail

every pre-2010 linguistics talk

what is the point of stealing cuisines from the entire world if one of them is not maple syrup

linguistics

Bizarre to read an article that is ostensibly about the increase number of heart attacks in people in their 30s and 40s that has more to say about an aging population than it does repeat infections with a SARS virus known to damage the vascular system. Cool.

neat stuff; getting closer to figuring out why the heck we yawn...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

mine = my + noun. This is how we know the linguistic capacity isn't encapsulated in the Fodorian sense because how else would the grammar know "noun" begins with an "n"?

maybe(?) but clearly not at the same scale (per my recent direct discussions with several HS teachers)

(unexpected to read an ed psych guy dismiss the glaringly obvious fact that these things have dramatically lowered the bar to cheating with predictable consequences)

People who work in tech and have been interviewing candidates; how explicitly are you looking into AI coding assistant usage/knowledge *at interview time*

(i.e. do you expect it during your coding interview? do you ignore it entirely?)

these are amazing

I (naively I guess) assumed that Google at least has warehouses with machines pulling stuff off of old floppies and CDROMs just like their book digitization infrastructure

That's so wild to me given what I've read about Google Books and other tech companies' pushes to digitize for LLM pretraining data

the urge to stick a QR code that leads to this post on every ring doorbell in my complex

thanks that was a really interesting and thought-provoking piece...I think before reading it I would have *tentatively* disagreed with your claim about how much has been digitized, but on a moment's thought that's obviously a reflection of my Western/Northern/otherwise-default mode of existence

lol weird line break i'm ee cummings