2026-01-27 03:52:02
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
GAZZI:
🎵 Vacilar na' mšs
#GAZZI
https://gazzi.bandcamp.com/track/quiere-vacilar-na-m-s-ft-natural-language
https://open.spotify.com/track/1M4eZYYg64B7fPmPbf9v8B
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
GAZZI:
🎵 Vacilar na' mšs
#GAZZI
https://gazzi.bandcamp.com/track/quiere-vacilar-na-m-s-ft-natural-language
https://open.spotify.com/track/1M4eZYYg64B7fPmPbf9v8B
#LaVCa: LLM-assisted visual cortex captioning https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13606 using "large language models (LLMs) to generate natural-language captions for images to which voxels are selective"; to be presented a…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Nation of Language:
🎵 On Division St.
#NowPlaying #NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/on-division-st
https://open.spotify.com/track/0gUJlYlu4cV90iyV2gTUmr
The Persian service for Trump’s overhauled Voice of America (VOA)
is censoring coverage of Iran’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi,
who played a central role in stirring up antigovernment proteststhat rocked the country earlier this month.
Three staff members at VOA told The Hill that the adviser overseeing VOA’s Persian-language service,
#Ali
QBASIC.
#DaddyJoke
"Large Language Models seien lediglich Statistikmaschinen, die kein Verständnis für Kausalität haben." #WhoWouldHaveThought
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 519403 nodes and 6729794 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…
Polars is a lightning fast DataFrame library/in-memory query engine with parallel execution and cache efficiency. And now you can use is with the tidyverse syntax: #rstats
OK, so, #Zig language 'has breaking changes in most versions'. A project (of someone else's) that is only six months old no longer builds.
There's a lot that I like about the language, if it was stable it would definitely be a good choice; but I don't think it is something I can use to build a long term project yet.
I really dislike C, but, it works, it's stable, al…
Scott Bottoms is a far-right Christian nationalist member of the Colorado General Assembly
-- who is now running for governor in order to wage ⚡️spiritual warfare on behalf of his state.
Appearing on a program hosted by fellow far-rightChristian nationalist Heidi St. John,
Bottoms said that he is running for higher office in order to
"tear down the high places,"
which is spiritual warfare language generally used by
Washington English Center (WEC) offers daily English classes to adult immigrants, AM and PM, online and in person, for under $3 an hour.
#education
Ich bin in meiner täglichen Arbeit immer wieder mit englischer/deutscher Form des Begriffs Research Data Management/Forschungsdatenmanagement RDM/FDM konfrontiert. Und es ist nicht nervig aber irgendwie ermüdend.
Beginne jetzt damit Large Language Model/Großsprachmodell LLM/GSM zu verwenden und hoffe auf ähnliche Ermüdung bei anderen.
#fürIhreUnterlagen
livemocha: Livemocha friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users on Livemocha, a large online language learning community. Nodes represent users and edges represent a mutual declaration of friendship.
This network has 104103 nodes and 2193083 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…
#AbstractWikipedia, the project that creates articles from function calls in #Wikifunctions with data from #wikidata in (eventually) any human language is getting to a point where some impress…
Exploring the use of VLMs for navigation assistance for people with blindness and low vision #LLM
They don't stop... Ladybird is using ai to port it's codebase from #c to #rust: https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-ru
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Nation of Language:
🎵 Inept Apollo (Tom Sharkett remix)
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/album/inept-apollo-tom-sharkett-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6YE0zn10XApgoCMaFeSj7b
TidyX: screencasts explaining different aspects of the R language and the coding process. #rstats
adjnoun: Word adjacencies of David Copperfield
A network of word adjacencies of common adjectives and nouns in the novel "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens.
This network has 112 nodes and 425 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/adjnoun
aus der reihe "die kleinen freuden im #fachreferatsalltag" heute: wenn man zufällig sieht, dass ein buch, das man gekauft hat, grad ausgeliehen ist. 🥰 #bibliothek #Informationsversorgung
So what does #Trump have up his sleeve with this?
NIAID staffers ordered to remove biodefense, pandemic preparedness language on website:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/bioterrorism/niaid-staffers-ordered-remove-biodefense-pandemic-preparedness-language-website
Security: Learning the Language of Privacy by Matthew Plascencia
Watch now: https://youtu.be/qV5KVKQdCmI?si=imAhOc_xz9p-MfAn
🔒 Dive into the essentials of privacy and security in the open source world!
🎶 TweetyBERT parses canary songs to better understand how brains learn language
#birds
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Nation of Language:
🎵 Inept Apollo
#NowPlaying #NationofLanguage
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata
🚨 Job alert in my group:
Want to do a PhD in Computational Linguistics working on figurative language (metaphor), on social media data, and in an interdisciplinary digital humanities environment, at one of the largest universities in Germany? Apply by March 30, 2026!
Contact me with any questions and please forward this to any suitable candidates 🤗 #linguistics #nlproc #joboffer #digitalhumanities #phdPosition #rub
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f67b2069885e8908b2b3078b550e37a9d0bcc9e60
The curse of this day and age is that people expect things to be easy, "intuitive". How did you learn to read and write? How did you master a foreign language? A musical instrument? Or what did you master, really? Or were you forced to master these things? #neuroscience
But we do have Liquid Ass… how about some more Liquid Ass instead?
#apple #iOS #priorities #design
One of the most funny videos in the last decade. Unfortunately probably only accessible to German speakers because of the language humor.
https://videos.explain-it.org/w/abXuc6ySSD4z6M3WurUjNC
wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
htt…
"New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record"
#Hawaii #Climate #ClimateChange
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Music Rediscovered
Charles Burney (1726-1814) was the author of the first history of music ever published In the English language. Sophie Coulombeau has been reading it and his letters and diaries.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3y7
A post from the archive 📫:
Making production diagnostics easier with Source Link
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/making-production-diagnostics-easier-with-source-link
#EroticMusings 42: Do you include different languages in your work? Tell us about it!
Deliberately no conlang from me. I try and find ways to convey multiple languages including language barriers without using anything but German (the language I write my novels in), sometimes using German neologisms for concepts not existing in our world or not fitting the tone.
(Like using &q…
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model
#LLM
bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
OK, #Zig language people, where's a good place online to ask dumb newbie questions about Zig?
What I'm thinking of trying to build as an experiment is this:
https://git.journeyman.cc/simon/post-s
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Nation of Language:
🎵 Inept Apollo
#NowPlaying #NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/album/inept-apollo-tom-sharkett-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6YE0zn10XApgoCMaFeSj7b
bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
A friend who is a teacher claimed that LLMs can write consistent plots now and are allegedly used for stories in textbooks or course material in language learning classes.
I find that quite hard to believe because in my limited experience, what information the #LLM will "remember" is quite random and it will just make stuff up if it "forgot", i.e. it doesn't matter if I…
#ThrowbackThursday
An old screen cap from ~2006-2007. If I recall, Snatch-2 was a toolkit that included a #DDoS component kind of like BlackEnergy maybe? popular in Russian underground forums at the time
Some remnants of the home page URL are available in the Wayback Machine.<…
GitHub Actions for the R language: Makes automatic testing of your R package much easier and making sure your package works on different OS and R versions is a matter of just a few lines of yaml: #rstats
word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Nation of Language:
🎵 In Another Life
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/in-another-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/6pEvh57vzBZ2qFF8v7Zo0r
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Laurie Anderson:
🎵 Language Is A Virus
#NowPlaying #LaurieAnderson
https://open.spotify.com/track/35l46bGcn0KFcMeiFc5O56
I wonder if consciously avoiding the style and patterns frequently applied by generative AI might be triggering some kind of forced language evolution. Previously considered best practices that are now shunned to not sound like a machine.
#language #linguistics
livemocha: Livemocha friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users on Livemocha, a large online language learning community. Nodes represent users and edges represent a mutual declaration of friendship.
This network has 104103 nodes and 2193083 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…
OK, #Zig language looks usable, but it's going to be a learning curve, and I don't think auto-translating my existing C code to Zig is going to be either easy or worth doing, considering how dissatisfied I now am with both the design and the coding of the C code.
H'mmmm...
#StarTrek Comm Badge for #HomeAssistant Voice Control
https://community.hom…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Nation of Language:
🎵 Inept Apollo (Tom Sharkett remix)
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/album/inept-apollo-tom-sharkett-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6YE0zn10XApgoCMaFeSj7b
"Gender-fair language in translation and post-editing: Insights and best practices"
#linguistics
"Western man" is code for
"white man,"
and one of the most popular racist books in these subcultures is
"Which Way Western Man",
which has been featured in a [Department of Homeland Security] post celebrating manifest destiny.
The 1978 book is essential reading among the American far right
and was written by the late white nationalist #William
#ALEYE wristband: Nonverbal cues you can feel https://hapware.com "ALEYE integrates with your Meta Ray-Bans and other smart glasses", "detect facial expressions, body language, and hand gestures";
adjnoun: Word adjacencies of David Copperfield
A network of word adjacencies of common adjectives and nouns in the novel "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens.
This network has 112 nodes and 425 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/adjnoun
reuters: Reuters news stories (1987, 2000)
A bipartite network of Reuters news stories and words. Edges connect each story to all the words it contains.
This network has 1065176 nodes and 60569726 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/reuters…
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Nation of Language:
🎵 Whatever You Want
#NowPlaying #NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/whatever-you-want
https://open.spotify.com/track/62OfOhTfNtOI7WKxc08ujG
wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
htt…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nation of Language:
🎵 Androgynous
#NationofLanguage
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Nt3eMQmFQKUxpeprIxIlW
bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
Google today announced an early preview of #WebMCP,
a new protocol that defines how AI agents interact with websites.
“WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed, reliability, and precision,” wroteAndré Cipriani Bandarra from Google.
WebMCP lets developers tell large language models exactly …
unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Nation of Language:
🎵 In Another Life
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/in-another-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/6pEvh57vzBZ2qFF8v7Zo0r
unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted
#AI model collapse: Experimental evidence of progressive ChatGPT models self-convergence https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12683v2
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nation of Language:
🎵 I'm Not Ready for the Change
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-ready-for-the-change
https://open.spotify.com/track/4GqZrERQJ4CCKdWTHR7vpE
pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata
adjnoun: Word adjacencies of David Copperfield
A network of word adjacencies of common adjectives and nouns in the novel "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens.
This network has 112 nodes and 425 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/adjnoun
wiki_article_words: Wikipedia article-words (en) (2010)
A bipartite network of English Wikipedia articles and the words they contain. The edge weight gives the number of times a word appeared in the connected article.
This network has 276739 nodes and 2941902 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
https://
wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
htt…
trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Nation of Language:
🎵 Inept Apollo (Tom Sharkett remix)
#NationofLanguage
https://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/album/inept-apollo-tom-sharkett-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6YE0zn10XApgoCMaFeSj7b
unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted
adjnoun: Word adjacencies of David Copperfield
A network of word adjacencies of common adjectives and nouns in the novel "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens.
This network has 112 nodes and 425 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/adjnoun
livemocha: Livemocha friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users on Livemocha, a large online language learning community. Nodes represent users and edges represent a mutual declaration of friendship.
This network has 104103 nodes and 2193083 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…
unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted
word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
htt…
bible_nouns: Bible noun phrases
A network of noun phrases (places and names) in the King James Version of the Bible. Each node is a noun phrase, and an edge exists if the noun phrases co-occur in a Bible verse. Edge weight denotes how often the two words co-occur.
This network has 1773 nodes and 9131 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted
trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 225749 nodes and 1554699 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…
word_adjacency: Word Adjacency Networks
Directed Networks of word adjacency in texts of several languages including English, French, Spanish and Japanese.
This network has 11586 nodes and 45129 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/word_ad
pokec: Pokec online social network (2012)
The online social network of Pokec, a popular OSN in Slovakia, from 2012. Date covers about 10 years and more than 1.6 million people. Profile data contains gender, age, hobbies, interest, education etc. Profile metadata are in Slovak language. Friendships in Pokec are oriented.
This network has 1632804 nodes and 30622564 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Metadata
yahoo_ads: Yahoo! advertisement words
A network of words extracted from phrases on which advertisers bid, in Yahoo! advertisements. A node is a word and a directed edge (i, j) denotes word i comes after the word j.
This network has 653260 nodes and 2931708 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://
livemocha: Livemocha friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users on Livemocha, a large online language learning community. Nodes represent users and edges represent a mutual declaration of friendship.
This network has 104103 nodes and 2193083 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…
livemocha: Livemocha friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users on Livemocha, a large online language learning community. Nodes represent users and edges represent a mutual declaration of friendship.
This network has 104103 nodes and 2193083 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…
reuters: Reuters news stories (1987, 2000)
A bipartite network of Reuters news stories and words. Edges connect each story to all the words it contains.
This network has 1065176 nodes and 60569726 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/reuters…
livemocha: Livemocha friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users on Livemocha, a large online language learning community. Nodes represent users and edges represent a mutual declaration of friendship.
This network has 104103 nodes and 2193083 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…