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Ladies, gentlemen, and cherished non-binary folks: it has been a serious joy to moderate this community for you....

I wish to stop being a moderator in lemmy.ml. However, I don’t know what to do with this community; the last time I asked for new mods nobody showed interest. So I’d like the help of other members of the community to decide it....

UPDATE, 2024/JAN/17: this address has been locked so mods only can post. Use the new one....

Interesting paper, about the alleged ability of LLMs* to judge the grammaticality of sentences - something that humans are rather good at. Eight phenomena were tested, and LLMs performed extremely poorly....

If you’re paywalled, check this archive link....

Disclaimer: I like the Fediverse, Lemmy, and the concept of federation, I’ve been here for two years, and I feel grateful towards people working on this platform - devs and admins and mods and everyone else. As such, I hope that what I’m voicing is interpreted as constructive criticism and food for discussion....

I’m creating this thread to hopefully promote a bit more activity in the community....

IPO = Initial Public Offering, where shareholders offer to sell their shares to the public, shifting a company from a “private company” (it belongs to me, you, and that guy) to a “public company” (it belongs to anyone who pays enough for the shares)....

Even if not solid research, I think that this article is worth sharing as food for though....

The article shows a case of language contact (Tsimané vs. Spanish) triggering the conceptual split of a colour into two.

Please, no discussion about plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Otherwise Guillotine-kun will get you....

Please, no discussion about plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Otherwise Guillotine-kun will get you....

Summary: Reddit warns mods that it’s ending its crypto program, before it warns the other users. What could go wrong? /s

Please, no discussion about plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Otherwise Guillotine-kun will get you....

Please, no discussion about plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Otherwise Guillotine-kun will get you....

Aka The Faraway Paladin: The Lord of the Mountain of Rust...

I often switch between phones and speakers, but I’m too lazy to do it through the sound preferences window. So I came up with this script*, and I’m sharing it here as others might find it useful....

Also known as wataoshi or I’m in Love with the Villainess....

EDIT: I was able to solve this by going into the “change password” screen, right-clicking the “old password” field, clicking “inspect”, and changing maxlength=“60” minlength=“10” to maxlength=“60” minlength=“1”, thanks to the tip provided by Dandroid in the comments....

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The name of the game is Six Cats Under. It can be played online, and it’s rather quick to play....

The outcome was predicted by plenty users in this community, but now the news are noticing it.

This video offers a nice introduction on the comparative method, used to reconstruct languages without direct attestation, and then talks a bit about the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. It’s full of examples and rather accessible, even for people not well-versed in Historical Linguistics (or even Linguistics).

It’s sometimes claimed that languages spoken by societies with large numbers of non-native speakers, and large heterogeneity of their native speakers, tend to simplify themselves over time. This study contradicts the claim, based on data for morphological complexity from 1k+ languages.