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March 21st, 2019

pnc my humble proposal for two new SQL keywords pic.twitter.com/YD6XLwsEt3

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wellformedness I've been thinking about the role arXiv plays in and how it contrasts with a vaguely similar website, @LingBuzz (lingbuzz.auf.net) popular among (mostly formal) linguists.

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emergentsee I never realized how weird Noam Chomsky’s ears are until I started planning to make a papier mache replica of his head to house a single board computer and thermal printer that will spit out syntax trees from his mouth...

...don’t look at me in that tone of voice

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wellformedness is there any generic guidance for making a pip-able setup.py that grabs non-Python dependencies and does the equivalent of “./configure && make install”? I know certain major packages do this but I can barely follow along with their approach.

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tallinzen I imagine the "And Nobody Is Talking About It" trend in clickbait headline is the result of meticulous A/B testing so I've decided to try it with my own papers, starting with

RNNs Implicitly Implement Tensor Product Representations And Nobody Is Talking About it

Thoughts?

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ESGoLondon Get invulved! @vagina_museum
standard.co.uk/go/london/arts…

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SchlimmeHelena Ich wünschte, die ganzen selbstgefälligen Herrschaften, die die streikende Jugend persönlich angreifen, würden sich auch nur eine kleine Scheibe von meinem Kind abschneiden. Ich versuche es gerade selber.

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remcoknooi Please happy my students by questionnairing their study.
(All will be revealed.) 5-10 mins; L1 and L2 speakers of English.
goo.gl/forms/IRQdP66x…

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EnglishGibson schlau sein
1. to be smart/clever (by nature)
2. to be well informed (on a subject)

Examples of meaning 2:

– Wir sind nicht viel schlauer als vorher.
– We don’t know much more than we did before.

– sich schlau machen
– to get informed / to look into sth

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