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Aniello De Santo
@anids.bsky.social
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The mystery of the Universe is its comprehensibility. Computational psycholinguist, I guess, but not a professional account. he\him (pfp cc. Dustin Nguyen)
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I underestimated how tricky this pierce was gonna be for my level and now I have to learn it in three weeks 😭😭
A picture of a Piano sheet for Shiita no Ketsui, a song from the Movie Laputa Castle in the sky
October 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Burn a forest to do what a bigram model could do
Screenshot of a skeet by Ethan Mollick. Pretty awesome result from the new version of Gemini 2.5. I changed one line of War and Peace, inserting a sentence into Book 14, Chapter 10 (halfway through), where Princess Mary "spoke to Crab Man the superhero." Gemini 2.5 consistently found this reference among 860,00 tokens.
May 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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two of my favorite slides!
A slide with two stick figures: one is labeled a linguist, and it is excitedly saying to the other one (a non-linguist) “don’t judge people’s speech!!” A slide with a stick figure wearing headphones, meant to be a participant in an experiment listening to instructions. Grok the headphones, they are listening to the sentence “Please judge this speech. XOXO linguists”
March 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Obsessed with my new laptop sticker
A sticker of C-3PO and and R2D2, the droids from Star award, hugging and staring lovingly into each other’s eyes. Little Hearts are coming from them
November 22, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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This is still on my office wall :)
Picture of an office wall, town a poster advertising the “what makes a good theory!” Workshop
November 14, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Right there with you!!
A plate with kale, mozzarella, some cold cuts, olives, and flour tortilla
September 25, 2024 at 2:00 AM
anids.bsky.social
A popular request
To panels from Sailor Moon. In the first one Usagi, a blond girl dressed in a japanese school uniform, is throwing a dumpling at Tuxedo Mask, a black haired man dressed in a tuxedo. She is saying "You can't eat a dumpling wearing a tuxedo!". In the second panel, the man bites into the dumpling and, chewing, replies "This dumpling is not wearing a tuxedo".
September 19, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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Crying over proofs but at least the view is nice
An open laptop on a white table, the sea in the background
July 16, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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Italy day 2, (homemade) typical street food from my home town: melted caciocavallo with shaved truffle
A red ceramic bowl filled with melted yellowish cheese and covered in shaved truffle. Next to it, a toasted slice of bread.
July 9, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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Y’all deserve to see this beautiful Buffalo Mozzarella Treccia
A plate with a braided mozzarella surrounded by tomato slices and basil leaves
July 7, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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View of Canada from Detroit!!!
Water in a sunny day and across it, some buildings with a Canadian flag
May 19, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Great first slide @phonotactician.bsky.social
Slide centering in big text “there is a LOT of linguistic variation” in a cloud of words like “sexuality, salience, age, structure, authority, formality, noise, style, and many others”
May 17, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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I saw the chonkiest squirrel
A big squirrel A big squirrel from a different angle
February 10, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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New book in the mail!
A picture of the book “Inference and Representation” By Mauricio Suárez
February 4, 2024 at 5:24 AM
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Friends commenting on my research interests
A screenshot of an instagram DM that says “oh god, you are always a glutton for punishment”
December 31, 2023 at 5:47 PM
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Here, have this gorgeous Andrea Gibson poem
Wellness Check In any moment, on any given day, I can measure my wellness by this question: Is my attention on loving, or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?
November 27, 2023 at 12:10 AM
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A view from slc (phone pics through cheap cardboard glasses 😂)
Picture of the sun partially covered by the moon, it kinda looks like a very Red Crescent moon
October 14, 2023 at 4:45 PM
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😬🙃😬
A vignette from a Scrooge McDuck comic. Scrooge is talking to Gyro, who is looking closely at some kind of mechanical device. Gyro says, over four panels “ there must be a simpler way to foil those burglars than by moving all your hoard of money. I have written the problem on this piece of paper, which I drop into water in which I boiled an encyclopedia. Now I pour in some alphabet soup mix. And—presto!out comes the answer onto a blotter”. The last panel shows gyro pouring water over a table, with sentences surfacing from the water.
August 25, 2023 at 3:43 PM
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Name a fictional character you would give an invite code to
A picture of Diane Nguyen, an animated character from the show Bojack Horseman.
August 22, 2023 at 3:40 AM
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Went back to double check 😂
Still from a tv show. A white body with curly hair is smiling goofingly into camera, talking with someone not in the picture. The subtitles say: -Can you stop taking selfies of me? - [Nick] Absolutely not.
August 9, 2023 at 10:09 PM
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Linguistics
Screenshot of a tweet. The content: A colon can completely change the meaning of a sentence. For example: 1. Jane ate her friend’s sandwich 2. Jane ate her friend’s colon
July 31, 2023 at 4:37 PM
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Joy
A picture of an hard copy of the Oxford Handbook of Experimental Syntax
July 26, 2023 at 7:10 PM
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Spotify tempting me
Screenshot of an email by Spotify, with a picture of Margo Robbie as Barbie. The text says “Thanks for being a fan To celebrate Barbie The Album, out July 21st, you have access to a white vinyl of the Barbie soundtrack and limited-edition poster bundled exclusively for Spotify listeners.“
July 14, 2023 at 5:17 PM
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A screenshot from the anime “spirited away” showing three green heads, looking kind of grumpy, stacked on top of each other!
July 7, 2023 at 1:38 AM