The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @texttheater ever

January 30th, 2019

Grumpfdalm TIL: Die Steigerung von "Hummeln im Hintern" ist "Hunnen im Hintern"

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 10:50 PM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

complingy Revised my course lecture that gives a 75 min. overview of the field of linguistics and some basic concepts. Slides: people.cs.georgetown.edu/cosc572/s19/04…

Note that a few key ideas like ambiguity and Zipfianness were covered in earlier lectures.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:00 PM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

GoodGermanWords
Literal: "Throughout"
Actual: "Absolutely"


pic.twitter.com/oprHlBcvS2

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 4:40 PM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

ojahnn @there_are_two_ @tschfflr @shravanvasishth good points! I did have my students fill out a feedback form after the first third of the semester. Next time I'll be sure to include parts about what the students can do to improve their experience in the class, that sounds really useful.

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 2:28 PM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

dieg0 Drängeln mit Dauerbeschallung über 15 min lang. Darauf angesprochen machte @PolizeiSachsen deutlich, dass sie damit weitermacht, bis die vorbei ist. Ging noch 4 km so. Ist das normal bei euch, dass ihr mit der Sirene versucht, Leute zu verscheuchen? pic.twitter.com/VCFgAMhHlq

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:08 PM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals | Martin Lukacs theguardian.com/environment/tr…

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"German pudding is the sauce you get with British pudding."

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nlpado Here we are working on character embedding and not even character encoding is properly solved. pic.twitter.com/XlNLyoqSU4

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 11:36 AM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

kevinrphd 1/ One of the most shocking things that you learn as a grad student is that faculty are not trained to be mentors and they are not assessed for how good/bad they are, as mentors.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:12 AM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

ojahnn @tschfflr @shravanvasishth I asked whether there was any way I could influence the questions on the form, and was told no. So now I get evaluated together with the heater in our room that was broken for 4 months. Would have loved some more interesting, subject-specific prompts.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:09 AM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

zehavoc "the paper is well written but the question it addresses doesn't interest anyone anymore", Can't believe people can be so mean.

Dear unknown authors, I swear to Babaju Babaji that I'll defend your paper's right to exist with the last spill of my blood !

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:06 AM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

AliceAvizandum I think the process of seeing your children irreparably becoming someone else is sometimes called parenting twitter.com/abigailshrier/…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 10:02 AM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

flowingdata Closeness throughout various relationships illustrated with a couple of lines oliviaderecat.com/shop/closeness… pic.twitter.com/hHDL7ZkFuG

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:05 AM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

‹ Ajoutons que, contrairement à ce qui prévaut dans les esprits français, être élu «Anglicisme de l'année» n'est pas un déshonneur en Allemagne, bien au contraire. › liberation.fr/direct/element…

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Fact: if your password contains a Greek letter, it is still secure even if it only has three characters and you say it out loud in front of everyone.

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GoogleAI Introducing Transformer-XL, a novel architecture that enables natural language understanding beyond a fixed-length context. You can learn more and find the paper, code, pretrained models and hyperparameters at ↓ goo.gl/25jEEH

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:26 AM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

phonotactless ok so if your go-to phrase was 'christ on a bike' and you wanted to intensify it, would you go for 'christ on a unicycle' (less wheels, more intense activity) or 'christ on a trike' (more wheels, less intense activity)?

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:25 AM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

drguidoknapp 1850: Hermann Melvilles Verleger findet "Moby Dick" schon recht "fesselnd", hat aber noch Änderungsvorschläge, um die Verkaufschancen zu erhöhen. Zitat: "Muss es ein Wal sein?" Statt mit dem Tier könnte Kapitän Ahab doch auch mit einer Vorliebe für "sinnliche Jungfrauen" ringen.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:22 AM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

honnibal @deliprao Preliminary results for "spacy pretrain" : github.com/honnibal/spacy…
Pretraining used about 10billion words and $25 of compute on gce.

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 12:15 AM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

Queen_Europe She’s not really going back to Brussels with a strong and decisive negotiating mandate if you’ve already said you might not be committed to it. We foreigners can read fucking English you know. twitter.com/stevebakerhw/s…

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 12:12 AM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)

hllizi Man ist ja schon froh, wenn's keine Polizisten waren. twitter.com/WDR/status/109…

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 12:04 AM, Jan 30th, 2019 via Twitter Web App)