Nathan Smith
@nsmithplanets.bsky.social
Planetary data scientist at NAU. I write code to process Mars data. Phobos fan and Deimos devotee. Also love other lumpy space stuff. he/him
From "Linguistic structure from a bottleneck on sequential information processing", Futrell & Hahn, 2025. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Linguistic structure from a bottleneck on sequential information processing - Nature Human Behaviour
Futrell and Hahn argue that languages can be understood as codes that minimize predictive information; that is, they express approximately independent features systematically and locally.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
From "Linguistic structure from a bottleneck on sequential information processing", Futrell & Hahn, 2025. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Maybe I could use it again somehow. Or should I try to put a costume together and be Andreas for Halloween? 🤔
September 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Maybe I could use it again somehow. Or should I try to put a costume together and be Andreas for Halloween? 🤔
By the way, I had to use a computer to make sure none of the holes overlapped, and even then had to make up constellations from what I had. Making sure the rotational summery didn't make the letters overlap was tough. Lots of respect for the original designers, who also used real constellations!
September 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
By the way, I had to use a computer to make sure none of the holes overlapped, and even then had to make up constellations from what I had. Making sure the rotational summery didn't make the letters overlap was tough. Lots of respect for the original designers, who also used real constellations!
I had fun working on it, but it also took like 8 hours to make so I'm hoping the players get more than 5 minutes of fun out of it, but this is like throwing a piñata to the bears at the zoo for enrichment, they're just gonna tear through it. And I'll be proud of them!
September 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I had fun working on it, but it also took like 8 hours to make so I'm hoping the players get more than 5 minutes of fun out of it, but this is like throwing a piñata to the bears at the zoo for enrichment, they're just gonna tear through it. And I'll be proud of them!
NAU also has folks on NEO Surveyor, Lunar Trailblazer, MMX, and ESCAPADE!
June 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
NAU also has folks on NEO Surveyor, Lunar Trailblazer, MMX, and ESCAPADE!
Season 1 of The Terror was really good.
March 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Season 1 of The Terror was really good.
Reposted by Nathan Smith
Only an idiot would think we should eliminate emergency response in a natural disaster, education and healthcare for disabled children, gang crime investigations, clean air and water programs, monitoring of nursing home abuse, nuclear reactor regulation, and cancer research.
February 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Only an idiot would think we should eliminate emergency response in a natural disaster, education and healthcare for disabled children, gang crime investigations, clean air and water programs, monitoring of nursing home abuse, nuclear reactor regulation, and cancer research.
nailed it. a thing of beauty.
January 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
nailed it. a thing of beauty.