i study conversationsβ€½ she/her | assistant prof @umsi | phd @CornellInfoSci | postdoc & ugrad @Stanford cs | spells as a canadian

Ann Arbor, MI
Joined September 2014
i am tisjune on all the socials i'm on and if you're lucky you'll find the one with the dog pictures
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this is going to be the premise of the regular expressions assignment in my intro to nlp class
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when you pull on a thread and the entire sweater unravels
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this is about taylor swift. you may have already figured this out, but i just realised that midnights aren't (just) spans of time: a midnight is a thought that floods your mind in the middle of the night and midnights is a collection of midnights.
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(but yes, in anti-hero, "midnights" the lyric does seem to be a time)
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i've started distinguishing in some mysterious way bn what goes on twitter vs mastodon. respectively: midnights, afternoons. midnights are "quick, say it before the feeling is replaced by stale attempts to say it." there's an off the cuff ness that feels not at home on mastodon.
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hotel art and airport bookstore bestsellers and elevator music
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oh yeah, this is my pessimistic tweet about ai?
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ever said a word so many times that it just becomes a sequence of useless noises? this is how i feel about the entire nlp discourse on what "meaning" means.
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consider the work done in and around nlp today: to explore and appreciate the nooks and crannies of this ancient city. or, to raze these nooks and crannies into a form that is recognisable and operable upon from afar.
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what does the discourse about meaning and understanding say about life in this city? something, of course, and at the same time, very little. the most helpful conversations have never revolved around these axes. (as wittgenstein says: back to the rough ground!)
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is there more to NLP than fancy apolitical curve fitting? πŸ€”
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sorry, just needed to get some sorely-missed quote tweeting out of my system
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