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April 23rd, 2021

tinysubversions By the way, the Hometown wiki linked above uses a documentation pattern that I have never seen elsewhere but I think works pretty well for the project. For each feature of the software, tell people explicitly: WHY it exists, HOW to use it, and WHO came up with the idea. pic.twitter.com/eG5eV6d4MK

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tinysubversions I just put out a new release of Hometown, my Mastodon fork that has built-in features to help people build and maintain small communities. This release brings it up to parity with Mastodon v3.3.0:

github.com/hometown-fork/…

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Easy_peasy0815 Saugroboter Nono ist heute Nacht an den Hulahoop gestoßen, hat ihn umgeworfen und sich selbst darin eingesperrt. Der arme Kerl fuhr verzweifelt im Kreis, bis der Akku leer war. Der Boden ist immernoch vollgekrümelt, aber dieser 90cm Radius ist blitzeblank.

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katsudonburi Definitely a proper use of my time pic.twitter.com/ssoIj2j7nC

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_roryturnbull Yeah I guess technically English has reduplication but it's not reduplication reduplication

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CT_Bergstrom 13. It seems to me that it will be very hard to distinguish between alternate causal paths using purely observational studies. We need some kind of intervention study, even a randomized controlled trial.

But that sounds impossible to do?

Maybe not.

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CT_Bergstrom 16. You could imagine an opt-in study where the treatment involves rewriting title and abstract to reduce jargon.

I'd want three arms to control for selection bias of who opts in.

1) Control (not offered option to participate)
2) Offered, declined.
3) Offered, agreed.

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CT_Bergstrom 6. The idea in that paper was to try to build topographic maps of fields, where distance in the x-y plane represented degree of citation flow, and ridges or mountain ranges represented places where jargon varied between fields that otherwise interacted closely. pic.twitter.com/O7n4aYmhm2

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CT_Bergstrom 4. It all infuriated me at the time, but in retrospect you need some term for where proteins are synthesized within a cell that is more concise and more precise than that wavy part with the bumps on it.

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CT_Bergstrom 1. A thread on jargon and whether it impacts the citation rates of papers that use it, based on a paper by @UllAmartinez and @stefanomammola1
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

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evacide Do you live in the EU? Was your data leaked in the most recent Facebook data breach? Climb aboard this lawsuit. twitter.com/doctorow/statu…

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InriaParisNLP What is it in multilingual BERT's internal structure that allows it to achieve zero-shot cross-lingual transfer to new languages? Find out more today at the 15pm CEST gather.town session with @ben_mlr @yanaiela @bensagot @zehavoc tinyurl.com/45a7kuuw

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peterbreuer Während du deinen Appetit auf Früchte mit grobstückigem und preisreduziertem Dosenobst austobst, isst der Probst ein so reichhaltiges Lobstergericht, dass er hernach unter einer Obstipation leidet.

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File under: falsehoods programmers believe about gender twitter.com/Grumpfdalm/sta…

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