Flammie
@flammie.name
computational linguist, Uralist, free/open source, foodie, backpacker, etc. https://flammie.github.io
it's 2025 and namecheap does not allow non US ASCII letters for billing address and the error message says "Please enter a valid city" lol
![City [Tromsø]
X Please enter a valid city](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ibmpvmh67w5xelwroclukqxf/bafkreiaopxi376h7qzxsg5dypalwxu2xe6uvdty2xqytd6fejfq5uztnam@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
it's 2025 and namecheap does not allow non US ASCII letters for billing address and the error message says "Please enter a valid city" lol
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I think it's ok to use "AI" to rewrite article content from foreigner English to "academic" English, it probably improves readability for a lot of academics, but if you do do that, check that formatting, filenames and citations are not mangled, it's kind of bad to have AI failures in review version
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I think it's ok to use "AI" to rewrite article content from foreigner English to "academic" English, it probably improves readability for a lot of academics, but if you do do that, check that formatting, filenames and citations are not mangled, it's kind of bad to have AI failures in review version
Browser is antiwokeing language models
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Browser is antiwokeing language models
did you know that olive spelled backwards is evil, O? It is not a coincidence that it is also the only inedible poison that commonly disguises as food stuff.
October 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
did you know that olive spelled backwards is evil, O? It is not a coincidence that it is also the only inedible poison that commonly disguises as food stuff.
ngl it's kind of hilarious that the CEO of bluesky has chosen to be ceo of twitter at home (from the we have food at home meme: knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-hav... )
We Have Food at Home | Know Your Meme
We Have Food at Home is a series of jokes and mock conversations about the commonly shared experience of asking one's parents for take out and being told "
knowyourmeme.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
ngl it's kind of hilarious that the CEO of bluesky has chosen to be ceo of twitter at home (from the we have food at home meme: knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-hav... )
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The actual post is still available in the repo. Normally, when a post is deleted, it's removed outright with no way to get it back. pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...
It doesn't appear in the timeline feed or the post thread API. They may be actively blocking it in the most stupid way possible, lol.
It doesn't appear in the timeline feed or the post thread API. They may be actively blocking it in the most stupid way possible, lol.
October 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The actual post is still available in the repo. Normally, when a post is deleted, it's removed outright with no way to get it back. pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...
It doesn't appear in the timeline feed or the post thread API. They may be actively blocking it in the most stupid way possible, lol.
It doesn't appear in the timeline feed or the post thread API. They may be actively blocking it in the most stupid way possible, lol.
ngl this thing where "bash scripts are too complicated" so we write rust that outputs typescripts that creates yaml that contains weirldy encoded bash scripts which can only be runned on git push is getting out of hand sometimes
September 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
ngl this thing where "bash scripts are too complicated" so we write rust that outputs typescripts that creates yaml that contains weirldy encoded bash scripts which can only be runned on git push is getting out of hand sometimes
I think some of what sabine talks about applies for contemporary computational linguistics too... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5u...
I can't believe this really happened.
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
www.youtube.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I think some of what sabine talks about applies for contemporary computational linguistics too... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5u...
oh wow I can convert a folder of bsky urls into a collection of in app bookmarky things
September 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
oh wow I can convert a folder of bsky urls into a collection of in app bookmarky things
so i voted today. I had to ask chatgpt to figure out that you vote for parties and not people, and how to perform the actual voting process. This information is mostly missing on official election sites, so I finally found a good use case for it, clarifying after public web sites
September 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
so i voted today. I had to ask chatgpt to figure out that you vote for parties and not people, and how to perform the actual voting process. This information is mostly missing on official election sites, so I finally found a good use case for it, clarifying after public web sites
currently at syntaxfest opening, come see me at the poster session on Friday about South Sámi grammar checker + treebanking <https://aclanthology.org/2025.tlt-1.14/> or just come to talk with me if you catch me :-)
August 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
currently at syntaxfest opening, come see me at the poster session on Friday about South Sámi grammar checker + treebanking <https://aclanthology.org/2025.tlt-1.14/> or just come to talk with me if you catch me :-)
Unusually optimistic post about LLMs: the fact that AI assisted academic paper writing does not get gatekept by "academic English" "peer" "reviewers" (i.e. this paper sounds like it's written by a foreigner so I downvote it) is an immensely positive thing for most conferences and workshops.
August 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Unusually optimistic post about LLMs: the fact that AI assisted academic paper writing does not get gatekept by "academic English" "peer" "reviewers" (i.e. this paper sounds like it's written by a foreigner so I downvote it) is an immensely positive thing for most conferences and workshops.
I have always been avoiding politics and being opportunistic when needing to achieve something politically but "feminists" going with hardcore puritan christians to ban games landing me on side with Trump and antiwoke gamers was not something I had in cards for 2025
August 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I have always been avoiding politics and being opportunistic when needing to achieve something politically but "feminists" going with hardcore puritan christians to ban games landing me on side with Trump and antiwoke gamers was not something I had in cards for 2025
It's so absurd we are blocking people from "adult" content on steam and now hobo max (I got age verification popup today) while Facebook pushes me daily spam of naked females offering paid sex services and trying to report them is "we found nothing against facebook’s community standards here".
August 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's so absurd we are blocking people from "adult" content on steam and now hobo max (I got age verification popup today) while Facebook pushes me daily spam of naked females offering paid sex services and trying to report them is "we found nothing against facebook’s community standards here".
I think that everyone who actually has a PhD and works with peoples with PhD must've chuckled a little when "open" AI's newest model was advertised as a PhD level human as if that was a really good thing. I mean I appreciate that people still respect our education but also lol.
August 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I think that everyone who actually has a PhD and works with peoples with PhD must've chuckled a little when "open" AI's newest model was advertised as a PhD level human as if that was a really good thing. I mean I appreciate that people still respect our education but also lol.
I've been doing computational linguistics for over 20 years now, yet I still get surprised and don't know how to work with people who aren't passionate. Like we are working on something exciting, why wouldn't you spend extra time (at airport etc) on reading annotations and word lists?
August 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I've been doing computational linguistics for over 20 years now, yet I still get surprised and don't know how to work with people who aren't passionate. Like we are working on something exciting, why wouldn't you spend extra time (at airport etc) on reading annotations and word lists?
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August 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... I was sure that was gonna be the onion and not the guardian while scrolling past -_-
Denmark to reportedly remove ‘ugly and pornographic’ mermaid statue
Danish agency for palaces and culture requests removal of 14-tonne sculpture from Dragør Fort in Copenhagen
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... I was sure that was gonna be the onion and not the guardian while scrolling past -_-
yeah someone should nuke collective shout.
July 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
yeah someone should nuke collective shout.
kind of bummed not going to acl in wien, but also not really because it's so overwhelmingly an ai conference with 90 % people presenting their outdated chatgpt logs and stuffs :-D
July 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
kind of bummed not going to acl in wien, but also not really because it's so overwhelmingly an ai conference with 90 % people presenting their outdated chatgpt logs and stuffs :-D
Two easy ways to make QR codes for scientific presentations and posters: python package qrcode and latex package qrcode. No need to google after suspicious "sponsored" sites that generate QR codes after registering in and giving your emails and credit card details.
July 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Two easy ways to make QR codes for scientific presentations and posters: python package qrcode and latex package qrcode. No need to google after suspicious "sponsored" sites that generate QR codes after registering in and giving your emails and credit card details.
IIUC this seems like something that could actually be called open source unlike the compiled binaries with no sources that everyone is sending out and advertising as open. nice if true
📢 First release: 38 monolingual reference LLMs (2.15B params) via #HPLT + #OpenEuroLLM
⚙️Trained on 100B tokens from HPLT v2 dataset
🌍 Cover EU langs + others
⚙️ Based on LLaMA, trained on #LUMI
📈 Useful for evaluation
Downloads + more info at openeurollm.eu/blog/hplt-oe...
⚙️Trained on 100B tokens from HPLT v2 dataset
🌍 Cover EU langs + others
⚙️ Based on LLaMA, trained on #LUMI
📈 Useful for evaluation
Downloads + more info at openeurollm.eu/blog/hplt-oe...
July 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
IIUC this seems like something that could actually be called open source unlike the compiled binaries with no sources that everyone is sending out and advertising as open. nice if true
have you always spoken English wrong, #3 might shock you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbG...
CAN and CAN'T: the importance of Weak Forms
YouTube video by Dr Geoff Lindsey
www.youtube.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
have you always spoken English wrong, #3 might shock you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbG...
www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_data_news... like I predicted on the other social media site 5–10 years ago, AI is going to kill us (or me specifically) not with terminators' uprising but by replacing my skin cancer doctor with a guessing bot...
Mole or cancer? The algorithm that gets one in three melanomas wrong and erases patients with dark skin - European Data Journalism Network - EDJNet
The Basque Country is implementing Quantus Skin in its health clinics after an investment of 1.6 million euros. Specialists criticise the artificial intelligence developed by the Asisa subsidiary due ...
www.europeandatajournalism.eu
July 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_data_news... like I predicted on the other social media site 5–10 years ago, AI is going to kill us (or me specifically) not with terminators' uprising but by replacing my skin cancer doctor with a guessing bot...