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NeLLCom-Lex: A Neural-agent Framework to Study the Interplay between Lexical Systems and Language Use
Yuqing Zhang, Ecesu \"Urker, Tessa Verhoef, Gemma Boleda, Arianna Bisazza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22479

NeLLCom-Lex: A Neural-agent Framework to Study the Interplay between Lexical Systems and Language Use
Lexical semantic change has primarily been investigated with observational and experimental methods; however, observational methods (corpus analysis, distributional semantic modeling) cannot get at causal mechanisms, and experimental paradigms with humans are hard to apply to semantic change due to the extended diachronic processes involved. This work introduces NeLLCom-Lex, a neural-agent framework designed to simulate semantic change by first grounding agents in a real lexical system (e.g. En…

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Harry Nilsson:
🎵 Gotta Get Up
#HarryNilsson
https://wetbridgerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ty-segall-loch-lomond-gotta-get-up-me-my-arrow-harry-nilsson-cover-7inch
https://open.spotify.com/track/6fvIzrJ6boUDFF19fH4S2s

NFL Announces Punishment for Raiders Player in Loss to Texans https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/thomas-booker-nfl-punishment-texans/

Who leads Team of the Week 8 in Madden NFL 26? https://www.espn.com/gaming/story/_/id/46770429/troy-franklin-anthony-nelson-team-week-8-madden-26

»Write Code That Runs in the Browser, or Write Code the Browser Runs«
— by @…
🧑‍💻 https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/more-control-e…

Write Code That Runs in the Browser, or Write Code the Browser Runs
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

TIL that % routing of email (ie: nelson%example.com@relayserver.com is basically dead and gone. It mostly hasn't worked for years because of spam issues but modern mail systems don't even recognize it. Source routes got deprecated in RFC 2821 (from 2001) and fully removed in RFC 5321 (2008).

Caltech says it built the world's largest neutral-atom quantum computer, with 6,100 qubits, 13 second coherence, 10x longer than the past, and 99.98% accuracy (Jason Nelson/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/341716/caltech-builds-worlds-largest-neutral-atom…

Caltech Builds World’s Largest Neutral-Atom Quantum Computer
Researchers kept more than 6,000 qubits coherent while operating with 99.98% accuracy. Here's why that matters for quantum computing.

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #nyc at the beacon theatre, early & late shows, with opening sets by both the rowan bros. & the good old boys (feat. david nelson). with a few originals & new covers, the band is feeling more complete, especially in the early show. fall ’75, show #7. audience tape:

I signed up for the USPS's "send photos of your mail" service so now every day I get an email with pictures of spam.

One of the great all-time technical book titles:
!%@:: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks
It was an O'Reilly Nutshell book from 1993, by Donnalyn Frey and Rick Adams. There's a copy on archive.org.