Grumpfdalm TIL: Die Steigerung von "Hummeln im Hintern" ist "Hunnen im Hintern"
complingy Revised my #NLProc 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.
GoodGermanWords #Durchaus
Literal: "Throughout"
Actual: "Absolutely"
#GoodGermanWords
#Good #German #Words pic.twitter.com/oprHlBcvS2
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.
dieg0 Drängeln mit Dauerbeschallung über 15 min lang. Darauf angesprochen machte @PolizeiSachsen deutlich, dass sie damit weitermacht, bis die #CriticalMass vorbei ist. Ging noch 4 km so. Ist das normal bei euch, dass ihr mit der Sirene versucht, Leute zu verscheuchen? #Albertstraße pic.twitter.com/VCFgAMhHlq
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals | Martin Lukacs theguardian.com/environment/tr…
"German pudding is the sauce you get with British pudding."
nlpado Here we are working on character embedding and not even character encoding is properly solved. pic.twitter.com/XlNLyoqSU4
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.
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.
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 !
AliceAvizandum I think the process of seeing your children irreparably becoming someone else is sometimes called parenting twitter.com/abigailshrier/…
flowingdata Closeness throughout various relationships illustrated with a couple of lines oliviaderecat.com/shop/closeness… pic.twitter.com/hHDL7ZkFuG
‹ 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…
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. #StarTrek
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
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)?
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.
honnibal @deliprao Preliminary results for "spacy pretrain" : github.com/honnibal/spacy…
Pretraining used about 10billion words and $25 of compute on gce.
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…
hllizi Man ist ja schon froh, wenn's keine Polizisten waren. twitter.com/WDR/status/109…