Ouah !
Grâce au bouquin de Monica Heller and Bonnie McElhinny, Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History, deux chercheuses de l'Université de Toronto, je découvre ce site merveilleux : The Decolonial Atlas.

Le monde tel que vous ne l'avez jamais vu !

https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/

#geography #atlas #map #linguistic #colonialism

#linguistic variations for “dude” in #BrazilianPortuguese that I collected so far (#brazilian contributions welcomed): cara, man, parça, aliado, abençoado, consagrado, mano, bro, irmão, véi, velho, parceiro, filho, fio, pai, mermão, meu rei, amigo, mestre, tio, camarada

Massive public #database of over 2,000 #languages created to study #linguistic diversity and evolution – #Linguists, computational #scientists and #psychologists collaborate to publish the repository
https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/language-database-lexibank/

For a study on #linguistic remediation, I am looking at #climatechange #discourse on #SocialMedia.

Do you think polarisation, for example by #environmental #activists, affects effective communication of #risk?

#30DayMapChallenge
It's time for #movement. In this bare-bones map by @Waeiski@twitter.com, the weighted centroid of #linguistic #diversity (as measured with Shannon entropy) in the #Helsinki metropolitan area has moved northeast since the late 1980s. Follow @MAP_HEL@twitter.com project for more.

« Le 15 novembre, Meta a dévoilé un nouveau modèle de grand langage appelé Galactica, conçu pour aider les scientifiques. Mais au lieu d'atterrir avec le big bang que Meta espérait, Galactica s'est éteint avec un gémissement après trois jours de critiques intenses. Hier, la société a retiré la démo publique qu'elle avait encouragé tout le monde à essayer.
Le faux pas de Meta - et son orgueil démesuré - montre une fois de plus que les grandes entreprises technologiques ne voient pas les graves limites des grands modèles linguistiques. De nombreuses recherches mettent en évidence les défauts de cette technologie, notamment sa tendance à reproduire les préjugés et à affirmer que des faussetés sont des faits. »

On November 15 Meta unveiled a new large language model called Galactica, designed to assist scientists. But instead of landing with the big bang Meta hoped for, Galactica has died with a whimper after three days of intense criticism. Yesterday the company took down the public demo that it had encouraged everyone to try out.

Meta’s misstep—and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. There is a large body of research that highlights the flaws of this technology, including its tendencies to reproduce prejudice and assert falsehoods as facts.

by Will Douglas Heaven

#meta #Galactica #GLM #linguistic #technology
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science/

#introductions

Coming from #computerscience, I now work as a researcher in #corpuslinguistics. at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin together with a fantastic crowd of #linguistic researchers. As a #RSE (research software engineer) I maintain several #opensource software like the #ANNIS #corpus search or the #Hexatomic #annotation editor.

#researchdata management and other issues related to #OpenScience are also daily part of my job.

#askfedi

I've just seen a post about how Elon Musk's tweet is similar to Donald Trump's.

They have got enough emotions targetted at them now I'm not interested in that.

But I would like to ask if there's a way to identify if someone is intentionally mimicking other's writing style, or if there is a way to tell it's caused by something else?

Perhaps someone from #linguistic #mentalhealth #socialmedia behavioural science field can shed some light?

Let's talk about #science. Look at this #linguistic family tree published on sssscomic.com using data from ethnologue.com It shows the different branches of the #Indo-European Language. That was the common ancient language which most today languages come from. Astonishing.

One of the most clear-eyed rebuttal of some persistent #AI hype theses I've read in quite a while. It's long but it's worth it! 🥳

“On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed” by Emily M. Bender

#linguistic #LLM #biased #OpenAI #GPT3 #Mediumwriters

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/on-nyt-magazine-on-ai-resist-the-urge-to-be-impressed-3d92fd9a0edd

Ĝabbo ĉe Peertube is a video account about languages and especially Esperanto. You can follow at:

➡️ @gxabbo

If the videos aren't visible from your instance yet, you can see them all at https://share.tube/a/gxabbo/videos

#Ĝabbo #Gabbo #Esperanto #Languages #Language #Linguistics #Linguist #Linguistic #Academic #Writing #Science #PeerTube #PeerTubers #Videos

Dr Mark Sundaram is a university professor who presents The Endless Knot, a series of videos connecting language with history. You can follow the videos at:

➡️ @alliterative

The full set of videos is also available on the PeerTube instance at https://tilvids.com/accounts/alliterative/videos

#MarkSundaram #TheEndlessKnot #EndlessKnot #Etymology #Language #Linguistic #Linguistics #English #EnglishLanguage #LanguageHistory #History #Videos