On page 44 of 300 of Het diner, by Herman Koch: "maar toch was dit verstand-van-wijn-heb... goodreads.com/user_status/sh…
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jungleland I just want everyone to know that my two-year old insisted on being “pants” for Halloween... pic.twitter.com/ONR7K4AxnY
hllizi Wow, @CDU echt nur noch als bootstrap für den Faschismus zu gebrauchen. twitter.com/CDeutschlaende…
GretaThunberg As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help.
It turns out I’ve traveled half around the world, the wrong way:)
Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November... If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.
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ojahnn Shirt "unbösefindbarer Akzent", kenne viele denen ich das dann zu Weihnachten usw. twitter.com/kathrinpassig/…
fmailhot lfq (le feeling quand) t'as besoin d'engager un linguiste :P twitter.com/RC_Langue/stat…
random_walker In my experience, for selfish reasons alone, releasing a draft as soon as the paper is ready is absolutely the optimal strategy. Much of my best known work was public for *years* before it was official. Not-yet-accepted work was a big part of my job talk and even my tenure case.
random_walker Often an idea doesn’t work out, and journals don’t accept the paper due to negative results (which is terrible, but that’s a different rant.) So the researcher just buries the draft, leaving others to rediscover the same flawed idea and repeat the work. What a tragic waste!
random_walker If your research is funded by taxpayers, you have a moral duty to make it publicly available in a timely way. Don’t put half-baked work on arXiv, but also don’t sit on a draft for years while it’s trudging through the broken peer review system.
random_walker The reason why ideas don’t get stolen is not that academia is a paragon of virtue. It’s more that someone plagiarizing from arXiv has a high risk of getting caught. Besides, ideas are a dime a dozen and everyone else is too obsessed with their own ideas to pay attention to yours.
random_walker When I ask those paranoid researchers if they’ve ever had an idea stolen, it always turns out to be something that happened to a friend of a friend of a friend, much like the urban legend of waking up in a bathtub full of ice with your kidney harvested.
derwahremawa Die drei albernsten deutschen Mittelständlernamen sind Seppelfricke, Eberspächer und Poggenpohl. Fight me.
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Derived two forms of "derive" (and great joy) from R.s lesser creations "dived" and "rives". @rewordable pic.twitter.com/5CTK9uiGBY
spinfocl In welchem Bundesland kann ich denn heute Abtönfarbe kaufen?
kathrinpassig Frage aus dem Publikum, wie aktuelle Sprachentwicklung einfließt: "Werden die Systeme mit Rilke, Grimmelshausen, Thomas Mann gespeist?" @samlaeubli: Was im Internet vorhanden ist, wird verwendet. Nennt Projekt Gutenberg (sagt nichts zu Libgen, ich frage später). #Übersetzertag
kathrinpassig 35% Produktivitätssteigerung beim Einsatz von maschineller Übersetzung, sagt @samlaeubli (am Ende einer sehr guten Sendung-mit-der-Maus-Erklärung der zugrundeliegenden Technik). #Übersetzertag
kathrinpassig Auf die Frage, wer maschinelle Übersetzung im beruflichen Alltag nutzt, hebt etwa ein Drittel die Hand. #Übersetzertag
derwahremawa Inventing photography wasn't nice for everyone, but it was Nicéphore Niépce
skglas Kurz gesagt: wir sind wieder bei der dummen 80:20 Annahme und der extremen Hybris der Techniker. Ich komm zurück auf meine U-Boot-Metapher. Wenn Du deiner KI voll vertraust und das U-Boot dicht ist, fahre doch mal 2 Wochen damit herum.
publictorsten "Monatskarte" klingt so viel langweiliger als "Flatrate". twitter.com/tagesschau/sta…
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_inesmontani So I'm currently writing a prodi.gy recipe to evaluate multi-word sense2vec vectors and trying to get the example selection selection right. Here are some of my favourite philosophical questions from the early experiments 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/IORjKvXYxu