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@rationalempiricism

Interdisciplinary language researcher.

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Yale will be hosting the Formal Languages and Neural Networks (FLaNN) workshop, a real world instantiation of the virtual seminar flannseminars.github.io. There will be invited talks and submitted poster presentations (submission deadline: February 12). For more info, see flann.cs.yale.edu

06.02.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

The problem is with the word β€œand” ? Since β€œat the same time β€œ is accurate. But β€œand” also means addition as well as conjunction , and read like that it’s not so bad?

11.12.2025 15:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Do you mean it’s not in a superposition of two states ? Or that it is , but the wording β€œalive and dead at the same time β€œ is inaccurate ?

11.12.2025 12:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Pinter fans in uproar.

30.11.2025 10:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Transformer Cookbook We present the transformer cookbook: a collection of techniques for directly encoding algorithms into a transformer's parameters. This work addresses the steep learning curve of such endeavors, a prob...

We present The Transformer Cookbook: a collection of recipes for programming algorithms directly into transformers!

Hungry for an induction head? Craving a Dyck language recognizer? We show you step-by-step how to cook up transformers for these algorithms and many more!

03.10.2025 16:24 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From LONDONβ€”Claiming that he recognized the member of the royal family, but his memory was hazy, President Donald Trump has spent his entire trip to the U.K. trying to figure out where he knows Prince Andr...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

18.09.2025 16:00 πŸ‘ 12785 πŸ” 3084 πŸ’¬ 173 πŸ“Œ 165

I have yet to see any political acknowledgement of the fact that in 20 or so years, a significant swathe of the population, much more than has been anticipated, will be approaching retirement age without owning a home, and many if not most of them still in the private rental sector.

15.06.2025 23:24 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s this anti-Austin Powers view where the world is run by a crazed network of rich and powerful liberals who want to ruin things by ending child poverty, making immigrants welcome, respecting people in their differences and encouraging people from all backgrounds. What a shame it isn’t true.

02.06.2025 06:25 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah there's like a niche but disproportionately powerful cos Trump aligned section of the tech political world wherein they simultaneously want to automate away artistic endeavours and bring back child labour in factories. It's... the exact opposite of what I would want from technological advance?

26.05.2025 09:17 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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John R. Ross - Wikipedia

RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R....

14.05.2025 13:21 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 7
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Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.

18.05.2025 16:52 πŸ‘ 531 πŸ” 122 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 184

The real masculinity crisis is that it took less than one generation for women to outcompete men in higher ed and home ownership once the legal barriers to both were both were removed and they are collectively losing their minds faced with the reality that they were never naturally superior.

12.05.2025 11:37 πŸ‘ 980 πŸ” 258 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 17

My favorite bit: The filename is:
"US UK EPD_050825_FINAL rev v2.pdf"
(don't know why they didn't include "_latestDJT")

That title might also yield a hint as to why the press conference started late.

09.05.2025 15:26 πŸ‘ 311 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 8

My experience is good so far but very small n and I am really just using it as a conversational interface, rather than trying to get it to solve problems which I completely failed at a year or so ago.

06.05.2025 19:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Claude Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic

I’ve started using Claude.ai for textbook type questions and it’s pretty good, and has given correct citations so far.

06.05.2025 11:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc...

17.04.2025 09:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A depressingly small proportion of the people pontificating about the Supreme Court judgment seem to have read even the first page.

17.04.2025 09:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I had a joke about Zeno but it never finished.

13.04.2025 06:20 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This cult of the leader stuff though seems qualitatively different from β€œnormal” American fascism though ? Can you think of something similar in America?
(I am not American and this is a genuine question)

11.04.2025 19:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes but what people have been screaming most of the time is β€œnazi”.

11.04.2025 18:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The .Os

11.04.2025 06:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What’s the best AI for converting hand written diagrams to LaTeX , tikz?

01.04.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

3 trillion imports times 20% tariffs times 10 years? But that’s only a foundation if you are like 10 years old.

31.03.2025 11:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
 low-income kids who don't have access to dental care and don't have good dental hygiene habits inside the home's teeth

low-income kids who don't have access to dental care and don't have good dental hygiene habits inside the home's teeth

What an NP

30.03.2025 08:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Public First polling shows how tough the β€œgun and butter” debate is for Starmer β€” public is wildly cakeist and Lab voters think butter more important. With @theboysmithy.ft.com dataviz for @financialtimes.com

on.ft.com/421yt6y New poll shows risks for Keir Starmer over spending choices

24.03.2025 07:39 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 48

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18.03.2025 10:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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06.03.2025 19:59 πŸ‘ 343 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5

Never before have I encountered a tool that behaves so much like it *wants* to do the one thing it’s utterly useless at. Like a jackhammer that with each thrust begs to be allowed to perform a root canal.

22.02.2025 03:25 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0