Sociolinguist and dialectologist at the University of Alaska Anchorage he/him/his
Anchorage, Alaska
Joined June 2012
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The time has come: In a few days i'll be closing down this account and shifting entirely over to BlueSky, still findable under my real name or the same @sociolx handle i've been using here
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Y'all with the conspiracy theories about vote counts and turnout, you *do* realize we don't have the full popular vote count yet, yes?
You're buying into misinformation sowing doubt in electionsβit worked beautifully on the right the past few years, now the left is the target
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Dr David Bowie retweeted
in retrospect, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords really might've been a better basis for a system of government.
The Menswear Guy, playing the long gameπ€£π€£π€£
It's November 5th, 2024. Thousands of men look at their shoe closet, realizing they threw out their dress sneakers bc of my tweets. They only have uncomfortable dress shoes and decide not to walk to the polls. Kamala Harris wins. We now have communism.
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If only there was some sort of technology that would allow knowledge to be put into a form that could then appear on a screen or a piece of paper, so that someone who wasn't the one who placed it there could, at a later date, look up what that knowledge was
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Dr David Bowie retweeted
Hurry! You have a week left to apply for the First-Gen travel grant to attend LSA.
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Todayβs Challenge: Share this flyer with an aspiring first-gen linguist! We canβt wait to see them at @LingSocAm!!
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If LLMs appear to have an internal world model, it's because that the humans the model trained on have one.
Honest question: do you think that linear regression has an internal world model?
How do you define or test for reasoning? How do you know they don't have an internal world model?
That they generalize has been well-established and not something people inside AI debate much anymore. The degree and limitations of their generalization is what's still trying to be understood.
Can you provide a simple text-based test that can determine if a system is able to generalize?
arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712
Let's just take a moment to appreciate the way the newspaper for The Villages (the huge intensely conservative retirement community in Florida) tried to downplay the biggest news story in the US right now, Trump's felony conviction
It's so pathetic that it's almostβalmost!βcute
ALT The 31 May 2024 front page of The Villages Daily Sun, with the news report on Donald Trump's felony conviction located below the fold
If fandoms you're not part of annoy you when they discuss minutiae that you don't get, just take a breath and remember the line i've seen attributed to Edgar Degas: "What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."
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I hadn't really cared who won this year's Super Bowl, but dang, i just realized how sweet it's gonna be to get to watch all the Taylor Swift haters and antivaxxers cry publicly on social media, and i discovered that maybe i had a cheering interest after all.
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The number of Serious Football Fansβ’ who are busily posting here and elsewhere today about the horror that a woman they know the name of will probably be a guest in a Super Bowl skybox is just nothing but weird. Like, can y'all even hear what you sound like?
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Okay, i have to admit that TwitterBros deciding that indiscriminate bomber and murderer Ted Kaczynski was actually a really great dude was not on my 2024 bingo card
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Dr David Bowie retweeted
There's like a million white guys arguing on Twitter and they all end up in my feed
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People will go crazy viral saying βhereβs a truth that THEY never taught usβ and itβs like an extremely mundane thing that you were absolutely taught in school but just didnβt pay attention to
I can't be the only one who keeps hearing this in their head, can i?
ALT A photograph of United States Representative Jim Jordan, superimposed with the words "Jim, stop trying to make Speaker happen. It's not going to happen."
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Greetings from the United Revolutionary Free People's Democratic Socialist Worker's Republic of Alaska
(Context: It's the day Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend checks land in residents' bank accounts)
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