Alex R
@alexredm.bsky.social
Interested in language(s) and culture, technology, ethics of AI, photography
PhD in psycho-/neurolinguistics (studying how our brains process language and colors), left academia a while ago
📷 pixelfed.social/alexrd
(she/her)
PhD in psycho-/neurolinguistics (studying how our brains process language and colors), left academia a while ago
📷 pixelfed.social/alexrd
(she/her)
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Die @hhu.de ist super. Konsequent aus X ausgestiegen. Konsequent, weil X wissenschaftsfeindlich ist. Dass passt nicht mit seriösen Unis zusammen!
Und HHU ist auf bsky gut gewachsen. No. 2 bei den deutschen Unis (glaube ich).
Jetzt wünsche ich 4444 follower für @hhu.de
Bitte repostet
Und HHU ist auf bsky gut gewachsen. No. 2 bei den deutschen Unis (glaube ich).
Jetzt wünsche ich 4444 follower für @hhu.de
Bitte repostet
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Thanks to the presentation by @anthe.sevenants.net at #SLE2025 today I now know of the Zipfian dinosaur 🦕 and shall henceforth use it in all my stats classes 🤩
August 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Thanks to the presentation by @anthe.sevenants.net at #SLE2025 today I now know of the Zipfian dinosaur 🦕 and shall henceforth use it in all my stats classes 🤩
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Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
July 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
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ceakig wæs þe cyss-cæm
þa coldplay gesungon
ceo-ceorl wæs trending,
trolledon scitposteras.
þæt wæs god posting
þa coldplay gesungon
ceo-ceorl wæs trending,
trolledon scitposteras.
þæt wæs god posting
July 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
ceakig wæs þe cyss-cæm
þa coldplay gesungon
ceo-ceorl wæs trending,
trolledon scitposteras.
þæt wæs god posting
þa coldplay gesungon
ceo-ceorl wæs trending,
trolledon scitposteras.
þæt wæs god posting
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I was finally able to make these visualizations of what what "light", "dark" and other modifiers do to colors jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...
July 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I was finally able to make these visualizations of what what "light", "dark" and other modifiers do to colors jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2...
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Happy birthday to #philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) who, amongst other things speculated about a teapot orbiting in space. This lino block print of Russell’s Teapot is part of my series of Imaginary Friends of Science of charismatic thought experiments. 🧪🐡 In this case, the alleged teapot 🧵
May 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Happy birthday to #philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) who, amongst other things speculated about a teapot orbiting in space. This lino block print of Russell’s Teapot is part of my series of Imaginary Friends of Science of charismatic thought experiments. 🧪🐡 In this case, the alleged teapot 🧵
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Storytime!
Have you ever dreamed in a language you were learning? What was it like? How did you feel about it?
Have you ever dreamed in a language you were learning? What was it like? How did you feel about it?
May 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Storytime!
Have you ever dreamed in a language you were learning? What was it like? How did you feel about it?
Have you ever dreamed in a language you were learning? What was it like? How did you feel about it?
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After the representational drift business in the brain earlier on, and the resurrection of the switchboard metaphor yesterday, here's a really useful summary from @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social, about neuroscientists' current thinking about computer/brain parallels:
AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK | Quanta Magazine
The brain’s astounding cellular diversity and networked complexity could show how to make AI better.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
After the representational drift business in the brain earlier on, and the resurrection of the switchboard metaphor yesterday, here's a really useful summary from @yaseminsaplakoglu.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social, about neuroscientists' current thinking about computer/brain parallels:
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This is another great and short read from @inesmontani.bsky.social at spaCy. It has a lot of implications for those who work in the humanities and industry.
explosion.ai/blog/modular...
#MachineLearning
explosion.ai/blog/modular...
#MachineLearning
How to advocate for modular NLP in the age of Generative AI · Explosion
With all the hype around Generative AI, many are led to believe it’s the solution to everything. So how can you, as a developer, communicate the nuances and advocate for new and modular solutions that...
explosion.ai
April 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This is another great and short read from @inesmontani.bsky.social at spaCy. It has a lot of implications for those who work in the humanities and industry.
explosion.ai/blog/modular...
#MachineLearning
explosion.ai/blog/modular...
#MachineLearning
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"Stop procrastinating" in cuneiform:
"Why don't you write your tablet and do your homework? If you don't, they will say: "Is *this* the sister of Sheru'a-eṭirat, eldest daughter of the Succession Palace of Ashur-etel-ilani-mukinni, the great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria?"
"Why don't you write your tablet and do your homework? If you don't, they will say: "Is *this* the sister of Sheru'a-eṭirat, eldest daughter of the Succession Palace of Ashur-etel-ilani-mukinni, the great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria?"
Queen Liballi-sharrat, the wife of king Ashurbanipal, and his sister Sherua-etirat were both literate.
In fact, Sherua-etirat once scolded her sister, then the crown princess, for not doing her homework. Literacy, it seemed, was an expectation of these Assyrian queens.
In fact, Sherua-etirat once scolded her sister, then the crown princess, for not doing her homework. Literacy, it seemed, was an expectation of these Assyrian queens.
April 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"Stop procrastinating" in cuneiform:
"Why don't you write your tablet and do your homework? If you don't, they will say: "Is *this* the sister of Sheru'a-eṭirat, eldest daughter of the Succession Palace of Ashur-etel-ilani-mukinni, the great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria?"
"Why don't you write your tablet and do your homework? If you don't, they will say: "Is *this* the sister of Sheru'a-eṭirat, eldest daughter of the Succession Palace of Ashur-etel-ilani-mukinni, the great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria?"
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If you don't already have this channel on your radar, it's fascinating and fun! Arim, who is Assyrian, recreates recipes from cuneiform tablets.
Here, he makes an ancient Assyrian cake with the help of a scholar, food scientist, and baker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdps...
Here, he makes an ancient Assyrian cake with the help of a scholar, food scientist, and baker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdps...
RECREATED: Assyrian Bronze Age Cake
YouTube video by Table of Gods
www.youtube.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
If you don't already have this channel on your radar, it's fascinating and fun! Arim, who is Assyrian, recreates recipes from cuneiform tablets.
Here, he makes an ancient Assyrian cake with the help of a scholar, food scientist, and baker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdps...
Here, he makes an ancient Assyrian cake with the help of a scholar, food scientist, and baker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdps...
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These rules were never taught to you!
In fact, expletives were probably WITHHELD from you when you learned the language...
You innately acquired rules that govern the structure and pronunciation of words.
Your sub-BLEEPING-conscious is a powerful thing!
In fact, expletives were probably WITHHELD from you when you learned the language...
You innately acquired rules that govern the structure and pronunciation of words.
Your sub-BLEEPING-conscious is a powerful thing!
April 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
These rules were never taught to you!
In fact, expletives were probably WITHHELD from you when you learned the language...
You innately acquired rules that govern the structure and pronunciation of words.
Your sub-BLEEPING-conscious is a powerful thing!
In fact, expletives were probably WITHHELD from you when you learned the language...
You innately acquired rules that govern the structure and pronunciation of words.
Your sub-BLEEPING-conscious is a powerful thing!
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Survival Tips For Women in Tech.
Since apparently being a nice person is illegal in the US now, it’s time to pull out my most popular blog post ever.
It’s called “survival tips for women in tech”, but I’m told it works for all genders and in countless industries.
patricia.no/2018/09/06/s...
It’s called “survival tips for women in tech”, but I’m told it works for all genders and in countless industries.
patricia.no/2018/09/06/s...
Survival Tips For Women In Tech | Patricia Aas
Who else is the only woman on their dev team?
patricia.no
February 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Survival Tips For Women in Tech.
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🚨 Postdoc Opportunity in Linguistics & Computational Modeling (3 Years, DFG-Funded) at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
I’m looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join my DFG-funded project: A Usage-Based Account of Noun-Verb Asymmetries.
Details here:
www.ling.hhu.de/fileadmin/re...
I’m looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join my DFG-funded project: A Usage-Based Account of Noun-Verb Asymmetries.
Details here:
www.ling.hhu.de/fileadmin/re...
www.ling.hhu.de
February 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity in Linguistics & Computational Modeling (3 Years, DFG-Funded) at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
I’m looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join my DFG-funded project: A Usage-Based Account of Noun-Verb Asymmetries.
Details here:
www.ling.hhu.de/fileadmin/re...
I’m looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join my DFG-funded project: A Usage-Based Account of Noun-Verb Asymmetries.
Details here:
www.ling.hhu.de/fileadmin/re...
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This is such a great question that I think it deserves a whole thread.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
@moudhy.bsky.social
We know the symbols the Babylonians used to write numbers, but they must surely also have been able to say the numbers out loud, so the numbers must had pronounceable names (as we have twenty-six as well as 26). Do we know these names? Were they ever written down?
We know the symbols the Babylonians used to write numbers, but they must surely also have been able to say the numbers out loud, so the numbers must had pronounceable names (as we have twenty-six as well as 26). Do we know these names? Were they ever written down?
February 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is such a great question that I think it deserves a whole thread.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.
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OTD: Mascha Kaléko died 50 years ago - one of my favorite poets 🤗
"Die Fremde ist ein kaltes Kleid .../lch reise ohne Stock und Hut/Und tanze aus dem Reigen/Wenn einer eine Reise tut
Da kann er viel verschweigen."
www.ndr.de/kultur/Die-P...
"Die Fremde ist ein kaltes Kleid .../lch reise ohne Stock und Hut/Und tanze aus dem Reigen/Wenn einer eine Reise tut
Da kann er viel verschweigen."
www.ndr.de/kultur/Die-P...
Dichterin Mascha Kaléko: Zwischen ironischem Witz und melancholischem Ernst
Heute vor 50 Jahren ist Mascha Kaléko gestorben und inspiriert immer noch Dichterinnen und Liedermacher. Es scheint fast so: mehr denn je! Erinnerungen an eine einzigartige Poetin.
www.ndr.de
January 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
OTD: Mascha Kaléko died 50 years ago - one of my favorite poets 🤗
"Die Fremde ist ein kaltes Kleid .../lch reise ohne Stock und Hut/Und tanze aus dem Reigen/Wenn einer eine Reise tut
Da kann er viel verschweigen."
www.ndr.de/kultur/Die-P...
"Die Fremde ist ein kaltes Kleid .../lch reise ohne Stock und Hut/Und tanze aus dem Reigen/Wenn einer eine Reise tut
Da kann er viel verschweigen."
www.ndr.de/kultur/Die-P...
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How do multilingual LLMs process bilingual words?
Do they approach it like humans?
Our paper explores LLM's processing of cognates, non-cognates, and interlingual homographs, uncovering LLMs' strengths & limits in bilingual processing! w/
Tanmoy Chakraborty
and Gayatri Oke.
1/🧵
Do they approach it like humans?
Our paper explores LLM's processing of cognates, non-cognates, and interlingual homographs, uncovering LLMs' strengths & limits in bilingual processing! w/
Tanmoy Chakraborty
and Gayatri Oke.
1/🧵
January 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
How do multilingual LLMs process bilingual words?
Do they approach it like humans?
Our paper explores LLM's processing of cognates, non-cognates, and interlingual homographs, uncovering LLMs' strengths & limits in bilingual processing! w/
Tanmoy Chakraborty
and Gayatri Oke.
1/🧵
Do they approach it like humans?
Our paper explores LLM's processing of cognates, non-cognates, and interlingual homographs, uncovering LLMs' strengths & limits in bilingual processing! w/
Tanmoy Chakraborty
and Gayatri Oke.
1/🧵
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Not sure if anyone from the linguisticsy side of tiktok is trying out bluesky today, but in case there's anyone who could use it, here's one linguistics starter pack and feel free to add more in the comments!
January 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Not sure if anyone from the linguisticsy side of tiktok is trying out bluesky today, but in case there's anyone who could use it, here's one linguistics starter pack and feel free to add more in the comments!
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📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.
What do YOU mean by "intelligence", and does ChatGPT fit your definition?
We collected the major criteria used in CogSci and other fields, and designed a survey to find out!
Access link: www.survey-xact.dk/collect
Code: 4S7V-SN4M-S536
Time: 5-10 mins
We collected the major criteria used in CogSci and other fields, and designed a survey to find out!
Access link: www.survey-xact.dk/collect
Code: 4S7V-SN4M-S536
Time: 5-10 mins
Perspectives on Intelligence: Community Survey
Research survey exploring how NLP/ML/CogSci researchers define and use the concept of intelligence.
bertramhojer.github.io
January 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.