psygnisfive

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by psygnisfive 17y ago
Synonymy is by far one of the simplest kinds of tasks that are relevant to making computers understand language, despite its awesome usefulness. The Wordnet database ( http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ ) actually has a wealth of synonymy and ot
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Dennett, Pinker, and Ramachandrans books of the last 20 years.
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The idea that any language lacks recursion is firstly very poorly supported — the only person who actually thinks this is true and demonstrated by any real language is Daniel Everett who thinks Pirahã lacks recursion, but there's a wealth o
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It doesn't hurt that the gyroscopic behavior of the wheels also makes it unnecessary to do steering corrections at high enough speeds. Once you're going fast enough, you can hop off the bike and it'll still go upright for a while.
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You're one of the first. ;)
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I like that he's going to introduce quantifiers into his language (e.g. some(X) > every(Y)). What I'm concerned about tho is that this will have some very peculiar "errors" for some people. It seems like he's using what we linguists wou
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
It's true that news headlines obey their own little grammatical rules. Language Log ( http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ ) has mentioned this a number of times. Tho noone in the field really cares about it, because its not all the releva
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
OH IRONY
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I like how you call yourself a grammar nazi, cite the old (and wrong) definition of a sentence as something with a subject and verb, but then say that "it is pancakes" is not a sentence. Why not? It's got a subject -- it -- and it's got a v
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
You could make the whole 'a > 0 => increment' thing even cleaner than the first example: let a = (if a > 0 then a + 1 else a) in #something or other
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
There'll be CHAOS! Think of all the boyscouts that will get lost without the use of a working compass! LOST I tell you! The most obviously impactful part of the pole shift will be all the changes in migratory patterns as birds start migrati
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MQL, Prolog, and the future of Semantic Web databases(wellnowwhat.net)
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Speaking of comparatives, a fellow grad student here at the University of Maryland is working on a phenomena called the comparative illusion, which involve sentences like the following: More people have been to Russia than I have. Think abo
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Pay no mind to the people who commented before me. The phrase that follows the comparative preposition "than" is not necessarily a reduced clause. It's actually almost always a simple noun phrase, taking the default accusative case. "I am t
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
Indeed, that's precisely the point. When findings are unreplicable _despite identical procedure_ it's usually considered a disconfirmation of the results of the initial experiment. Maybe not of the phenomena, but of the experiment. And sinc
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
This repeatedly comes up, as if Eliezer Yudkowsky convincing someone to say "Ok you can go free" is somehow indicative of how difficult or easy it would be for a real AI to get let out. Let me put it this way: If it were that easy, out in t
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This position is incredibly difficult to actually maintain, given that when _non_ parapsychologists (that is, people who don't presuppose the telepathy exists) reproduce the experiments, they consistently get contradictory results. Infact,
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
I think this is sort of correct but not entirely correct. Natural language, for instance, affords us a great many mechanisms which are very much like a functional programming language. For instance, rather than something like so: for (x
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Strunk and White - 50 Years of Really Bad Advice on Grammar
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Sexist, homophobic. I'm surprised he didn't also include some comment on how "Adama's a spic when before he was white this is a catastrophy!". I'll take my captains latino, my fighter pilots chicks, and my immortal secret agents omnisexual,
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
there's that word again, "heavy". why are things so heavy in the future? is there a problem with the earths gravitational pull?
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
I saw this device in an episode of the TV show Beyond 2000. And this was back in the early to mid 90s. Welcome to 15 years ago?
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
The only reason JSON script injection is a problem is because nitwits don't use a library that parses the JSON code first to verify that it's 100% pure JSON. Crocker's JSON library fully verifies pure JSON-ness before eval-ing the string (w
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
Not to be a dick or anything, but we know precisely what the moai on Easter Island were for. They were religious figures of the Easter Islanders. They grew increasing large and numerous as the tribes of Easter Island began warring with one
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
As I said in the other version of this: Psycholinguistics research has repeatedly shown that the amount of influence is minimal, amounting to, in general, forcing you to pay attention to certain aspects of the world more so when you're desc
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
While it's true that the potency of LSD is ridiculous (normal doses being a thousandth of what other drugs usually require), the effects are not limited to LSD. Mescaline and other psychedelics produce similar improvements in cognition, and
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
There's been research that has shown quite reliably that sub-recreational doses of LSD and Mescaline (not combined) can induce incredibly vivid visions that can help a person visualize a problem they've been trying to solve, and in the end,
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
Psycholinguistics research has repeatedly shown that the amount of influence is minimal, amounting to, in general, forcing you to pay attention to certain aspects of the world more so when you're describing using language than when you're
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by psygnisfive 17y ago
You're right. Let's compare to a more adequate language. Like Ruby. def inc_all(i, xs) xs.map { |x| x + i } end
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There are two things called his incompleteness theorems, but only one actually deals with completeness. The other deals with consistency, which is not coming up with contradictory answers. Basically, it says that any system that asserts it

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