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Eddie Antonio Santos
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I love teaching people how to code. PhD researcher. (he/him)
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maggie-lee.bsky.social
the amount of people who will say something like "they went to tech so you know they're smart"

YALL

math science engineering is a certain kind of skill that some ppl study but lolll plz do not defer to stem folks on all the things, just on stem things
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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sarahebond.bsky.social
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
WHAT YOUR FAVORITE MEDIEVAL LATIN SCRIPT SAYS ABOUT YOU Rustic Caps HOCROCU: QUIDIRIA CANIHAGE SIRNINISI IDEMANDI HISTLIAMS VOCIDIOS You are a nerd Uncial NONOmNITqu @isaziocis th propanmaNo You are a nerd Merovingian or aesfeaello mmlanplo,mledr o You are a nerd Visigothic รวมปรแทนไขกัน manaf celebri gukunair di สุแต่แลแกตปี่ fimal din wouct You are a nerd Insular quodoranni NOSt Perprophem LCCCOREUSDO IHorcusanue ten tobam Beneventan monafthomet eqa'tuluf meg Fsbeftmara. el Egot fuul-fetpf. Carolingian Sounda gu inter le prope contentof 미 homencbur de Gothic woace deliccus puca!! segena You are a nerd fegulom fei De monafieho Co You are a nerd You are a nerd tr.ntoged máne fana: fligut cure naly telle You are a nerd
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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kamakru.bsky.social
Turn off Gemini in Google!
It's been turned on by default.

Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box.

www.zdnet.com/article/how-...
How to turn off Gemini in your Gmail, Docs, Photos, and more - it's easy to opt out
It's a little hidden, but there is a way to remove Gemini from your favorite Google services.
www.zdnet.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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aonghusoha.bsky.social
Bréaga a chreideann ríomhchláraitheoirí faoi teangacha, le samplaí. Ó @lexiconista.bsky.social

www.lexiconista.com/falsehoods-a...
Falsehoods programmers believe about languages
This is what we have to put up with in the software localisation industry.
www.lexiconista.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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gregegansf.bsky.social
“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?
www.technologyreview.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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bickers.bsky.social
I've written about the life and just some of the achievements of my former classmate Andy West aka 魏安, Ando, and BabelStone @babelstone.co.uk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Andy West obituary
Other lives: Expert in encoding scripts for languages
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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proflhunter.bsky.social
Meta-analysis of 262 articles showing robust links between the vitality of Indigenous languages and health or wellness.

The mental health benefits are particularly notable. Language programs help Indigenous communities thrive.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Language improves health and wellbeing in Indigenous communities: A scoping review
Indigenous languages in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States are endangered due to colonial policies which promote English language do…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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hystericalblkns.bsky.social
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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superlinguo.bsky.social
Happy Unicode 17.0 Day!

Includes seven new emoji that are rolling out on your phones and computers in the coming year:

treasure chest, trombone, avalanche, big foot, bulging face, fight cloud, orca

@jenniferdaniel.bsky.social has the lowdown:
jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/tomorrows-...
treasure chest, trombone, avalanche, bigfoot, bulging face, bust up cloud, orca
September 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
eddieantonio.ca
Introduced my non-CS majors to floating point numbers yesterday by showing off .1 + .2, then showing them 0.30000000000000004.com and I think I lost a lot of them. But at the same time, I hate telling that lie that "floats are just numbers with a decimal". Does anybody have experience with this?
Floating Point Math
0.30000000000000004.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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schrisomalis.bsky.social
Having gotten through the first two weeks of classes, it's hard to convey just how radical my pedagogy has become, especially post-pandemic. Sure, AI and learning outcomes and other intrusions, but more just rethinking some of the cop shit that goes on in classrooms (including mine, in the past).
September 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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techconnectify.bsky.social
*cracks knuckles*

okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public?

now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
September 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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yoavgo.bsky.social
When reading AI reasoning text (aka CoT), we (humans) form a narrative about the underlying computation process, which we take as a transparent explanation of model behavior. But what if our narratives are wrong? We measure that and find it usually is.

Now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.16599
Humans Perceive Wrong Narratives from AI Reasoning Texts
A new generation of AI models generates step-by-step reasoning text before producing an answer. This text appears to offer a human-readable window into their computation process, and is increasingly r...
arxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Let's be clear: all the AI in edtech stuff (Canvas, Blackboard, Grammarly, Duolingo, OpenAI, the rest) is all about the "lock-in" - locking in students as subscribers or institutions via long-term license agreements for value generation. Is there good pedagogic evidence for it? No.
August 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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e-l-p.bsky.social
Did you know that ELP offers a FREE Language Revitalization Mentors program?

Anyone who’s working to revitalize their language, wanting to get started, or curious about language revitalization, can talk one-on-one with experienced language revitalizers and scholars.

endangeredlanguages.com/mentors
Green flyer with text: How can ELP's Language Revitalization Mentors support you? Guidance and advice from experienced language revitalizers Connections to people and programs around the world Help finding useful resources Encouragement from people who understand the work Empathetic listeners to talk through your challenges
May 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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evangreer.bsky.social
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org
When you struggle to find the equivalent of a word or phrase in another language, do you sometimes find yourself opening Wikipedia, searching for it then navigating to the "languages" section to get its title in the other language?

Well, I do, and I got tired of it, hence:

#linguistics #xl8 #xl9n
WikiXl8
Look up Wikipedia pages across languages
corpustools.prendrelangue.fr
August 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
It really does feel like a lot of formerly reasonable people have been infected by some sort of terrifying brain parasite when it comes to unthinking and total acceptance of using AI tools
ebharrington.bsky.social Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Aug 7
Absolute worst part, imo, is the pressure from school administrators to "welcome our new overlords" by adopting AI. It's also happening in elite universities, to my utter bafflement & horror. Anyone who calls bullshit on AI is treated as if only ignorance could explain their perspective.
August 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Lit review query for #NLP folks: What are your favorite works reflecting on evaluation, especially of (UD) parsing and (FST or other) morphological analyzers?
August 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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mtrc.bsky.social
Pretty interesting study! This result is going to get misinterpreted in a bunch of different ways over the next few days, so I thought I'd share a few thoughts with you now to contextualise some of the stuff in the paper.
metr.org METR @metr.org · Jul 10
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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e-l-p.bsky.social
Are you able to use your language online in all the ways you want to? Do you have keyboards you can easily type your language in?

If the answer is "no", ELP Governance Council member Dr. Craig Cornelius can help for FREE! Contact the Keyboard Creation Project:
Keyboard Creation Project - Translation Commons
Keyboard Creation Project Translation Commons has assembled a group of volunteers from industry and academia to assist Indigenous communities to digitize their language. One of the first necessary ste...
translationcommons.org
June 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
And look, science communication is hard. I have a monthly column and have written 2.5 books. Every piece involves agonizing over how to use accessible language while not misrepresenting the science.

But the AI convo has been sloppy and there are corporate actors want the public to be miseducated
June 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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mixedlinguist.bsky.social
A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether or not they do [89, 140].”
June 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM