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Chris Potts
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Stanford Professor of Linguistics and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, and member of @stanfordnlp.bsky.social and The Stanford AI Lab. He/Him/His. https://web.stanford.edu/~cgpotts/
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If you would like to weird yourself out about time and cultural evolution, I recommend back-to-back consumption of the opening to The Simpsons 26.1, 99pi 114, and Lieberman et al., "Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language". youtu.be/8zY9z7IP-1Q?... 99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-...
A quotation from the paper "Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language": "We cannot directly determine the regularization rate for frequency bins above 10^−2, because regularization is so slow that no event was observed in the time span of our data. But we can extrapolate. For instance, the half-life of verbs with frequencies between 10^−2 and 10^−1 should be 14,400 years. For these bins, the population is so small and the half-life so long that we may not see a regularization event in the lifetime of the English language."
November 28, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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I've been going through the Wordle archives seeking to achieve a mind-meld with WordleBot, and I finally did it (in a puzzle from winter 2024). I appreciate that it even seems to have known this was my goal.
My solution to a Wordle puzzle alongside the solution from WordleBot. Both of us guessed CRANE / SCALE / PLACE (luck 76). The WordleBot says, "Sensational. We are as one."
November 28, 2024 at 6:58 PM