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Monica Tamariz
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Cultural evolution, language evolution
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Monica Tamariz @onicatam.bsky.social · Mar 22
Unpublished 2011 results rescued from oblivion!⏳ osf.io/preprints/ps.... Effects of systematicity and frequency distribution (uniform, skewed) on artificial language learning. With Barbora Skarabela, @andrewdmsmith.bsky.social and @simonkirby.bsky.social
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 4
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · Dec 17
Nicely done.

Also, this is a cool paper (by @mdrelichman.bsky.social, @jvoth.bsky.social, and J Vidal-Robert). www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
PNAS significance statement: From Imperial Rome to North Korea, religious persecution entwined with various degrees of totalitarian control has caused conflict and bloodshed for millennia. In this paper, we ask the following: Can religious persecution have repercussions long after it has ceased? Using data on the Spanish Inquisition, we show that in municipalities where the Spanish Inquisition persecuted more citizens, incomes are lower, trust is lower, and education is markedly lower than in other comparable towns and cities. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition to still matter today, but it does. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
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Simon Kirby @simonkirby.bsky.social · Nov 20
I have run a version of the drawing experiment from my paper with Monica Tamariz in class before. Transmitting an abstract drawing that is covered up before drawing versus not covered up. The “from memory” version evolves to be more compressible! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Culture: Copying, Compression, and Conventionality
Through cultural transmission, repeated learning by new individuals transforms cultural information, which tends to become increasingly compressible (Kirby, Cornish, & Smith, ; Smith, Tamariz, & Kirb...
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Andres Karjus @andreskarjus.bsky.social · Nov 26
Historical moment as @peetertinits.bsky.social defends his PhD, on "Cultural Evolution in Language and Art".
Opponents/discussants @garicgymro.bsky.social & Monica Tamariz turned the public defense into a very interesting discussion too!
Thesis: www.ester.ee/record=b5702...
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