This account is being kept for the posterity, but it won’t see further activity past February.
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SNOOcalypse is closing down.
Ladies, gentlemen, and cherished non-binary folks: it has been a serious joy to moderate this community for you....
Deciding the fate of c/snoocalypse - tell me what you think!
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....
Moving this community to !linguistics@mander.xyz
UPDATE, 2024/JAN/17: this address has been locked so mods only can post. Use the new one....
The etymology of Soyjak (mander.xyz)
[PNAS] Systematic testing of three Language Models reveals low language accuracy, absence of response stability, and a yes-response bias (www.pnas.org)
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....
New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)
If you’re paywalled, check this archive link....
[Discussion] Reddit-like aspects of Lemmy that make no sense in a federation.
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....
Small Discussions #1 (2023/Dec/01)
I’m creating this thread to hopefully promote a bit more activity in the community....
Reddit might once again be flirting with an IPO (techcrunch.com)
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)....
Language and Poverty (www.sil.org)
Even if not solid research, I think that this article is worth sharing as food for though....
How “blue” and “green” appeared in a language that didn’t have words for them (news.mit.edu)
The article shows a case of language contact (Tsimané vs. Spanish) triggering the conceptual split of a colour into two.
[Discussion] Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari - Ep04 (lemmy.ml)
Please, no discussion about plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Otherwise Guillotine-kun will get you....
[Discussion] Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari - Ep03 (lemmy.ml)
Please, no discussion about plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Otherwise Guillotine-kun will get you....
Reddit mods dumped tokens hours before blockchain program termination (cointelegraph.com)
Summary: Reddit warns mods that it’s ending its crypto program, before it warns the other users. What could go wrong? /s
[Discussion] Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari - Ep02 (lemmy.ml)
Please, no discussion about plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Otherwise Guillotine-kun will get you....
[Discussion] Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari - Ep01 (lemmy.ml)
Please, no discussion about plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Otherwise Guillotine-kun will get you....
[Discussion] Saihate no Paladin: Tetsusabi no Yama no Ou - Ep01 (lemmy.ml)
Aka The Faraway Paladin: The Lord of the Mountain of Rust...
Simple script for PulseAudio, to quickly switch between headphones and speakers
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....
Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou. - Episode 01 - Discussion (lemmy.ml)
Also known as wataoshi or I’m in Love with the Villainess....
[Solved through hack] Can't login or change password because the current password has less than 10 characters.
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....
Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests (www.garbageday.email)
Excerpt:...
I found a short but really cute point-and-click game that cat lovers will probably love! (teambeanloop.itch.io)
The name of the game is Six Cats Under. It can be played online, and it’s rather quick to play....
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
The outcome was predicted by plenty users in this community, but now the news are noticing it.
[43 min video] How We Know Languages like Proto-Indo-European Existed (piped.video)
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).
Societies of strangers do not speak less complex languages (www.science.org)
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.