AfriStadi “We talk about an International Mother Language Day, as if it were impossible to have more than one. While the uniqueness of the mother language seems more or less to be the norm in the Global North, this is not the case in the Global South”bit.ly/3dzcvzR
EnglishGibson If you'd like to hear a highly satisfying example of creaky voice (vocal fry) in German, listen to how she says "Tagesschau" at 0:20 youtu.be/muvmPfQ_BBE
Lotterleben This is me trying to explain pointer syntax to a friend. You can't tell me any of this is intuitive.
(also I'm terrified to post it because I might have gotten smth wrong and I first learned about pointers, what... 10 years ago?) pic.twitter.com/1QsPAeFA3s
itsajordansystm panic! at the ffi boundary
timnitGebru I mean thats what happens when someone who is not in this space is now the face of it for a company. They ignore years of discussions, literature and what not but all the dumpster fires together didn't even let us talk about that. twitter.com/kdphd/status/1…
JamesBlunt I can’t believe you have a friend either. twitter.com/niamhpattonx/s…
frank_opitz Wenn bei Instagram jemand so eine Abstimmung macht und „Soll ich mir das kaufen?“ fragt, dann drücke ich immer JA, einfach um die Wirtschaft zu unterstützen.
Bridge Pinch, aber um den Nasendraht festzudrücken pic.twitter.com/gZu34j20tz
rharang But instead, rather than actually grapple with the findings that a core Google technology (LLMs) may be causing unexpected harm and maybe finding ways to address those harms openly and transparently, they decided to shoot the messengers and salt the earth. 6/
engl. feedback loop
dt. Rückfütterschleife
wiase Hieß offenbar: "ACHTUNG! Unheimlich lecker. Bitte nicht mit Sellerie und anderem unleckeren Kram mischen. Entleckerungsgefahr!"
wellformedness Another quick one, about how we ought to build our language resources h/t @jacksonlunlee wellformedness.com/blog/why-langu…
KidsWriteJokes I know why you like beer so much.
Why?
Because you have a beard!
kuvos Observe
```
function g() {
f(); //👎
{
function f(){}
}
}
g();
```
but
```
function g() {
{
function f(){}
}
f(); //👍
}
g();
```
Can somebody tell me why? From the spec, I think it should be a fresh decl env that would not leak to the outer scope. tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-b…
Kurfuerstin Ich hab letzte Woche jemanden gesehen, der seinen Zeigefinger angeleckt hat, bevor er auf dem Tablet zur nächsten Seite gewischt hat.
Kurfuerstin Hab grad auf einem handbeschriebenen Zettel in die obere rechte Ecke geguckt um die Uhrzeit zu erfahren 🙄
labenzticker Gesundbrunnen, der: Getränkeausschankbetrieb, den man → moabit betritt und → stulln und zufrieden wieder verlässt. labenz.neutsch.org/Gesundbrunnen
thingskatedid when this is all over, and everybody is vaccinated and we cautiously venture back out into the world, there'll be a period of time where it'll be completely acceptable to turn to people you don't know, in a café or whatever, and say "hey, can i have a hug?" and they'll understand
@Dunkelmagier Oh Gott wie sah er aus
TillRaether "Rassismus wird gepflegt wie liebgewonnenes Kulturgut": @aidabaghernejad zeichnet die schmerzhaften Verbindungslinien zwischen den Hanau-Anschlägen und dem Nuhr-Eckhardt-Letzte-Instanz-usw.-Müll nach. Kurzporträt eines kaputten, empathielosen Landes
tagesspiegel.de/kultur/zum-ans…
AlTi5 J'espère que des séparateurs physiques arrivent bientôt sur la piste de Boulevard Gambetta. Car là, ce n'est pas possible. Mention spéciale au bus auto école ! @PeS_20e au secours !
Précédente analyse :
youtube.com/watch?v=LqjgbT… pic.twitter.com/f2Vhf5UdiU
BallouxFrancois A great visualisation of the difficulty to make accurate projections from short time series data, even when the model is correct. twitter.com/clcrozier/stat…
jeffiel For the first time ever, we have microphones on Mars! This is the first recorded audio of what it sounds like on the red planet. Amazing!
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/space… pic.twitter.com/rTRkXIZtVX
sehnaoui Dad level: Expert. pic.twitter.com/jPLvk0qFvD
BrookeBrassard No. one. I mean No. one. Needs a panel about how 4 PhDs had really great luck landing their TT or teaching gigs. Please give us panels with 3/4 speakers from non-academic jobs. Please represent the real statistics. Please show current students the reality, not the fantasy.
jamis My dad passed away a month ago now. This mailer from Verizon asking him to “come back” makes me laugh/cry. Unexpectedly poignant. pic.twitter.com/i5S0fvZZth
brynguist Updates to our household Runglish: When responding in English to something my husband was talking about in Russian, I sporadically preserve the gender of the Russian noun?
Husband: (complaining about a candle [F] on a side table) и ещё свечка появилась
Me: She can be moved!