"Mission: Impossible" was featured in Quanta Magazine! Big thank you to @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social for the wonderful article covering our work on impossible languages. Ben was so thoughtful and thorough in all our conversations, and it really shows in his writing!

I've posted the practice run of my LSA keynote. My core claim is that LLMs can be useful tools for doing close linguistic analysis. I illustrate with a detailed case study, drawing on corpus evidence, targeted syntactic evaluations, and causal intervention-based analyses: youtu.be/DBorepHuKDM

hmm bluesky feed is 80% reviewing complaints. twitter is slightly better in this regard

it's pretty interesting how (some?) Sino-Tibetan languages, when they historically underwent too much degradation through sound change, just decided to make compounds with synonymous elements or stick semantic prefixes on everything

made this thing, reply to be added
go.bsky.app/AKGJ82V

caleb is so cool pls follow

How do language models organize concepts and their properties? Do they use taxonomies to infer new properties, or infer based on concept similarities? Apparently, both!

🌟 New paper with my fantastic collaborators @amuuueller.bsky.social and @kanishka.bsky.social

wow i have so many followers here somehow, is it time to start posting here too

I decided what we need to make blueskAI happen is a feed. Reply here to get added to the whitelist! Whitelisted users can post to the feed by adding the following keywords to a post:

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Hey @noviscl.bsky.social should we start shitposting here too

So Threads got all the AI influencer accounts. This seems to be getting more of the linguists. But I don't think anything will be like Twitter tbh

Do I really need to read more than 600 posts a day? The answer is apparently yes