Ray Becker
@raybecker.bsky.social
Computational corpus linguist, psychology of language enthusiast. Embodied/Enacted/Extendend/Embedded language > LLMs
It was my last weekend with the amazing people at the Centre for Argument Technology. I learned so much about this interesting area of philosophy and computation corpus linguistics. Let's see what the future holds
July 28, 2024 at 4:02 PM
It was my last weekend with the amazing people at the Centre for Argument Technology. I learned so much about this interesting area of philosophy and computation corpus linguistics. Let's see what the future holds
The wildflowers in Dundee are in full bloom. I've never really noticed them before this summer. At least I got to enjoy them during my last week in Scotland (for now anyway)
July 23, 2024 at 10:19 AM
The wildflowers in Dundee are in full bloom. I've never really noticed them before this summer. At least I got to enjoy them during my last week in Scotland (for now anyway)
Current state of grant writing
July 10, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Current state of grant writing
This is a great intro to a paper. I have had this experience. Don't be this guy. Interesting new work on rote versus reflective pedagogy by Ilona Bass, Cristian Espinoza, Elizabeth Bonawitz (@ebonawitz.bsky.social), and Tomer Ullman (@tomerullman.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
June 12, 2024 at 12:38 PM
This is a great intro to a paper. I have had this experience. Don't be this guy. Interesting new work on rote versus reflective pedagogy by Ilona Bass, Cristian Espinoza, Elizabeth Bonawitz (@ebonawitz.bsky.social), and Tomer Ullman (@tomerullman.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I hope this isn't April Fools shenanigans from UCU. But seriously, thanks to everyone involved in the negotiations to get our benefits restored. Sincerely, Mrs. Becker
April 1, 2024 at 12:19 PM
I hope this isn't April Fools shenanigans from UCU. But seriously, thanks to everyone involved in the negotiations to get our benefits restored. Sincerely, Mrs. Becker
"My darling, will you marry me?"
"Of course, my love"
"Cool. Put this on"
"Of course, my love"
"Cool. Put this on"
March 26, 2024 at 3:17 PM
"My darling, will you marry me?"
"Of course, my love"
"Cool. Put this on"
"Of course, my love"
"Cool. Put this on"
I know in Wisconsin you can go cow tipping, but I didn't know people went flytipping in Scotland
March 10, 2024 at 3:03 PM
I know in Wisconsin you can go cow tipping, but I didn't know people went flytipping in Scotland
Legacy support for Windows 7 users:
March 5, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Legacy support for Windows 7 users:
Post fire drill, Lewandowsky said that in regards to the garden of forking paths if you preregister an analysis plan you may be giving it misplaced priviledge, because there may be better ones and pointed to another recent paper on planning analyses journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 5, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Post fire drill, Lewandowsky said that in regards to the garden of forking paths if you preregister an analysis plan you may be giving it misplaced priviledge, because there may be better ones and pointed to another recent paper on planning analyses journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Quite a bit of suspense here at The Promises and Pitfalls of Preregistration event. Stephan Lewandowsky was just going to say something important about deviations from the preregistered analysis plan in this recent paper, but then there was a fire drill www.nature.com/articles/s44...
March 5, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Quite a bit of suspense here at The Promises and Pitfalls of Preregistration event. Stephan Lewandowsky was just going to say something important about deviations from the preregistered analysis plan in this recent paper, but then there was a fire drill www.nature.com/articles/s44...
I was so busy poking fun at this translation that I didn't make it back in time to actually buy some. I'm surprised it sold out this time, because I usually buy it when it's reduced to sell. At least I made it back before they sold out of Schlutzkrapfen (not translated) and "Oktoberfest Dumplings"
March 1, 2024 at 9:08 AM
I was so busy poking fun at this translation that I didn't make it back in time to actually buy some. I'm surprised it sold out this time, because I usually buy it when it's reduced to sell. At least I made it back before they sold out of Schlutzkrapfen (not translated) and "Oktoberfest Dumplings"
I never considered Leberkäse as "German Meatloaf", but okay Lidl
February 25, 2024 at 11:10 AM
I never considered Leberkäse as "German Meatloaf", but okay Lidl
This shiny app for making word clouds with your Google scholar profile is pretty fun to play around with shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...
February 5, 2024 at 11:17 AM
This shiny app for making word clouds with your Google scholar profile is pretty fun to play around with shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...
Well said and this distinction between grammaticality and acceptibility judgments in language processing tasks is important to make explicitly clear. New paper by Vittoria Dentella, Fritz Günther. and Evelina Leivada www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 14, 2023 at 2:06 PM
Well said and this distinction between grammaticality and acceptibility judgments in language processing tasks is important to make explicitly clear. New paper by Vittoria Dentella, Fritz Günther. and Evelina Leivada www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
It was a wild weeked in Dundee. I woke up on Saturday morning thinking, "Oh how cute. Look at the snow. I'll take a picture for my friends in Wisconsin" but then as the hours went by it turned into this
December 3, 2023 at 8:38 PM
It was a wild weeked in Dundee. I woke up on Saturday morning thinking, "Oh how cute. Look at the snow. I'll take a picture for my friends in Wisconsin" but then as the hours went by it turned into this
A good quality and necessary discussion on semantics in LLMs by Giovanni Pezzulo, Thomas Parr, Paul Cisek, Andy Clark, and Karl Friston, "Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI" www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
November 15, 2023 at 1:41 PM
A good quality and necessary discussion on semantics in LLMs by Giovanni Pezzulo, Thomas Parr, Paul Cisek, Andy Clark, and Karl Friston, "Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI" www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Thank you for your service
October 23, 2023 at 11:58 AM
Thank you for your service