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Caleb Moses

@mathematiguy.bsky.social

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Indigenous language technology. PhD candidate at McGill University in Montreal. Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu.

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · Nov 12

I'm trying to be more active here, so I thought I would introduce myself for anyone who doesn't know me:

My name is Caleb, I'm Māori from Waimā in Te Tai Tokerau. My hapū (subtribe) is Te Mahurehure, and my iwi (tribe) is Ngāpuhi.

I'm a Compsci PhD student at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 1d

"Take no notice of my twice blinking"

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine one of the kindest humans who ever lived, who had love and compassion in her heart for all of God’s creations alike being asked for her last words and her choice was to point right at you like “I don’t like that guy”

Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder what it felt like for Elon to be publicly rebuked by Dr Jane Goodall from beyond the grave

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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morgan godfery @morgangodfery.bsky.social · 6d

hate to say it but people like sina and i who’ve been around more than 5 minutes have been warning about the direction TPM’s been travelling in since at least 2023. it’s a highly divisive party, especially within māori society itself. solidarity with eru www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Toitū Te Tiriti's Eru Kapa-Kingi rules out starting rival political party after split from Te Pāti Māori

The activist hopes the split will spur Te Pāti Māori into creating genuine change from the inside.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 7d

All of the rhetoric about people pushing Māori down peoples throats in the media etc leads down this same road

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 17d

They are, and they're also fun. I think that people don't assign much value to actually knowing which dialect they speak. Consequently most people speak a mish-mash (which is what standard kinda is) and otherwise don't think about it much.

Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 17d

Also it's not like I'm going to be able to cover every dialect, so I'm aware that only some people are going to be interested.

I'm mostly wondering if I'm somehow excluding people by assuming they wouldn't be interested.

Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 17d

I think this is common sense, and also what a fair number of people recommend. But I think that on some level the issue is availability of resources.

There just aren't a lot of dialect level language resources generally, so it makes sense to start with the stuff that's more voluminous.

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 17d

But I'm going to be using these to learn myself and I don't speak a lot so it actually might be possible to make a resource that would work for most people.

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 18d

Are you talking about OpenAI or ChatGPT 😂

Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 18d

I feel pretty vindicated fwiw. Not by their paper, but by the present state of the field.

Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 19d

It’s true. If anything it should be considered a big backpedal compared to their previous statements.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21d

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 23d

As a kiwi, I approve

Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 23d

D includes the Middle East which is also top tier for desserts

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 23d

NZ has the best ice cream and with Australia, most of the British baked desserts courtesy of bakery culture and Cambodians.

Vietnamese people can make our baguettes in D-Team.

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 23d

Playing doom with my vape smoke

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 23d

I’m picking D for sure. G is my only regret bc of Mexico.

Also someone needs to redo the boundaries so that they at least cover equal surface area.

Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 23d

For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?

For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...

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Kofi @kofiemeritus.bsky.social · 27d

“States should think very carefully about what they actually want to get out of this before spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to indigenize the entire AI stack. You still won’t be able to eliminate dependencies and vulnerabilities on foreign states.”

restofworld.org/2025/chinese...

The myth of sovereign AI: Countries rely on U.S. and Chinese tech

As countries pursue self-sufficiency in AI, they risk depending on foreign companies, undermining their independence and their goals.

restofworld.org

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · Sep 10

Keep paying taxes, and get used to the idea of getting nothing for that.

Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · Sep 10

Ask not what your country can do for you. Definitely, definitely don’t ask what your country can do for you. I beg you, seriously.

Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · Sep 9

Treasury advice hasn’t changed since 1984 what’s new 🙄

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · Sep 9

Yeah, I should’ve said “it’ll be Labour’s fault *again*”

Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’m on team we need to axe Hipkins while we have the chance, and before he has the chance to throw another election. There’s more than enough people who are unhappy with the current govt. If we lose this election, it’ll be Labour’s fault.

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · Sep 9

How about in future we don’t trust the multinational corporation to swoop in and save our economy and instead expect it to swoop in, break a bunch of s**t and then bounce, giving money to an Australian company instead just to save face

Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · Sep 9

It’s pretty funny that Amazon rug pulled their data centre plans moments after Luxon tried to take credit for them.

If he kept his mouth shut then he could’ve blamed the rug pull on labour but now he looks like a dunce even though it’s literally not his fault. Amazon predictably doesn’t give a f-

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