I study how languages and cultures evolve. Primarily with phylogenies and other assorted computational methods. Based at @Biology_UoA. Never met a language phylogeny or a cultural phylogeny I didn't like. #phylolinguistics .. more
I study how languages and cultures evolve. Primarily with phylogenies and other assorted computational methods. Based at @Biology_UoA. Never met a language phylogeny or a cultural phylogeny I didn't like. #phylolinguistics
Simon James Greenhill is a New Zealand scientist who works on the application of quantitative methods to the study of cultural evolution and human prehistory. He is well known for creating and building various linguistics databases, including the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, TransNewGuinea.org, Pulotu, and many others. In addition to Austronesian, he has contributed to the study of the phylogeny of many language families, including Dravidian and Sino-Tibetan. .. more
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(And yes humans are far better at being awful than animals are)
If you published with him your Erdős number is 1. If you published with an E1 you are E2, etc
There are databases you can lookup about this (I’m E5)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%...
E1 if you hung out with him on the island, E2 if you just let him buy you a lab at MIT…
If you published with him your Erdős number is 1. If you published with an E1 you are E2, etc
There are databases you can lookup about this (I’m E5)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%...
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🎙️Explications avec Alexis Michaud, directeur de recherche CNRS au LACITO, qui assure la gestion de la collection Pangloss ⤵️
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
I've taught these as a "machine": everytime you insert "a^nb" it produces T. Then you write the machine as a script first, then wrap it as a function.
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"By reasonable standards, including Turing’s own, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved."
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"By reasonable standards, including Turing’s own, we have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved."
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Frankfurt university’s faculty had been gathered, the Jews were forbidden to enter, and a lead scientist asked about funding.
Indeed, there was much for Nazi “science”.
cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archiv...
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scientists.org.nz/news/13593197
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This represents an additional years worth of collected data as well as a long-standing project to start normalizing some of the user-entered tags used to describe religious groups.
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![From: "jeffrey E." jeevacation@gmail.com To: Noam Chomsky <[REDACTED]> Subject: questions Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 12:53:44 +0000
. is language acquistion the same as ability to walk . a cognitive analogly to physical development. ? . 2. in a predator prey system , all biology , ( adverse to socialism fundamentals?) / does language , enable an ability to instill in another a mobject. ( mental object ). and discern the same that might exist in others. . what does it mean to understand something? . is language necessarry for it. ? how does it relate to pleasure and pain. I want to fund some seminars on POWER . types. financial. physical military , etc. what are their similarities. . purpose. . the strive for power , is it the same for evolution etc.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vlblikmsgpx2i7fvxinrsvzu/bafkreibgosvzt4w4kuhfduxazr7wbdlqeuhu34qb2xlmhnls3rjdj773rm@jpeg)