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https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/woke-meaning-origin

Been meaning to do this every Wednesday for at least all of 2024 and now I'm finally free.
#wednesday

ITL on SB538 passes 9-8, with Rep. Yokela joining the Dems, and Rep. Maggiore having stepped out, meaning that the ITL motion will need to get overturned on the floor if the bill is to pass... darn

British people say someone is "gormless", meaning silly or stupid. So I wondered, what is a gorm? Google says: it's from the Norwegian word gaumr meaning "care, attention, sense". This is an example of an "orphaned negative"; here are some more of those: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/.../humor/how-i-met-my-wife.html

Two sunspot regions (AR 3614 and 3615) just produced solar #flares at the same time: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=921467649987028 - the collective X1.1 X-Ray event peaked at 01:33 UTC (Mar 23). The event around AR 3614 appears to be the brighter of the two and coronal dimming is clearly evident meaning a coronal mass ejection (CME)

Alito’s second flag: He must be impeached
https://post.news/@/rbreich/2gqLFcj3OpXbAHS4nYgTPOQwzbc

Alito’s second flag: He must be impeached
By Robert Reich Friends, Justices of the Supreme Court are the most powerful and least accountable people in American democracy. They have the final say on how the Constitution should be interpreted, the meaning of laws, whether laws align with the Constitution, and what rights Ame

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12324 has been replaced.
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Towards a Theory of Pragmatic Information
Standard information theory says nothing about how much meaning is conveyed by the information. We fill this gap with a rigorously justifiable, quantitative definition of ``pragmatic information'' as the amount of meaning in a message that is relevant to a particular decision (as opposed to the {\it value} that the decision maker places on that message). We posit that such a message updates a ``state of the world'' random variable, $ω$, that informs the decision. The pragmatic information of a…

🧬 Understanding the wiring of the human genome
#genome

Understanding the wiring of the human genome
Around 98.5% of human DNA is non-coding, meaning it doesn't get copied to make proteins. A new study has connected many of these non-coding regions to the genes they affect and laid out guidelines for how researchers can continue this work going forward.

Babel (2022) by R. F. Kuang is a historical fantasy set in the British Empire in the 1830s. Robin is a Chinese/English boy raised in Canton and brought to Oxford by his unacknowledged father to study Translation.
In this world, translation has literal magic. When a Translator inscribes a word with its translation on a silver bar, the meaning that's lost in translation becomes a force that can alter reality. One Chinese/English spell in the book can make things invisible. 1/

bellwether

Netter angloamerikanischer Jugend-Slogan der fast besser nach Deutschland passt:
**‘Fax, No Printer’**
Inhaltlich ist das ein Wortspiel auf _Facts!_ und ein Appell an das Gegenüber, nur mit der Wahrheit rauszurücken…
https://www.today.com/parents/teens/fax-no

’Fax, No Printer’ Is Teen Slang
Is your teen saying, “Fax, no printer”? All about the meaning and definition of the slang phrase.

girl who uses "asexual" in exactly the same way and meaning as "agender"; to mean that traditional notions of sexuality do not apply, and the spectrum you might be imagining is irrelevant

Sheer force of will, and spending power, will make Apple TV a real concern.
“The value of the deal might be as little as a quarter of the $4 billion #FIFA had first estimated, the people said. It is unclear if the deal with #Apple will include any free-to-air rights, meaning the entire event could be av…

FIFA Said to Be Close to TV Deal With Apple for New Tournament
The agreement would give the tech company worldwide rights for a monthlong World Cup-style competition between top teams set to take place next year.

Preface: in Polish, the word "ksiądz", meaning a priest, is also customarily used as a way of addressing men of cloth — and they sometimes actually expect being addressed like that. It woulde be a bit like saying "priest, sir" in English.
How to be anticlerical, without actually being formally disrespectful (which, in my opinion, is actually annoying people more than being openly disrespectful)?
Address the clergy as "mr"/"sir", when they expect the dedicated formal address. Answer religious greetings and farewells with strong plain "good morning" and "good bye". You can add a meaningful look and meaningful silence too.

ITL on SB538 passes 9-8, with Rep. Yokela joining the Dems, and Rep. Maggiore having stepped out, meaning that the ITL motion will need to get overturned on the floor if the bill is to pass... darn

Towards a decentralized data privacy protocol for self-sovereignty in the digital world
Rodrigo Falc\~ao, Arghavan Hosseinzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12837

Towards a decentralized data privacy protocol for self-sovereignty in the digital world
A typical user interacts with many digital services nowadays, providing these services with their data. As of now, the management of privacy preferences is service-centric: Users must manage their privacy preferences according to the rules of each service provider, meaning that every provider offers its unique mechanisms for users to control their privacy settings. However, managing privacy preferences holistically (i.e., across multiple digital services) is just impractical. In this vision pap…

The Length and the Width of the Human Brain Circuit Connections are Strongly Correlated
D\'aniel Heged\H{u}s, Vince Grolmusz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12763

The Length and the Width of the Human Brain Circuit Connections are Strongly Correlated
The correlations of several fundamental properties of human brain connections are investigated in a consensus connectome, constructed from 1064 braingraphs, each on 1015 vertices, corresponding to 1015 anatomical brain areas. The properties examined include the edge length, the fiber number, or edge width, meaning the number of discovered axon bundles forming the edge and the occurrence number of the edge, meaning the number of individual braingraphs where the edge exists. By using our previous…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11821 has been replaced.
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An analogue of non-interacting quantum field theory in Riemannian signature
In this paper, we define a model of non-interacting quantum fields satisfying $(Δ_g-λ^2)ϕ=0$ on a Riemannian scattering space $(M,g)$ with two boundary components, i.e. a manifold with two asymptotically conic ends (meaning asymptotic to the "large end" of a cone). Our main result describes a canonical construction of two-point functions satisfying a version of the Hadamard condition.

A sentence that helped me a lot this week is „that’s not my beer“, the German idiom meaning, „I accept I’m not responsible for this.“ So I built myself a reminder, lest I forget the sentence.
Edit: I reprinted it to correct the text to “Ceci n'est ma bière”

Sheer force of will, and spending power, will make Apple TV a real concern.
“The value of the deal might be as little as a quarter of the $4 billion #FIFA had first estimated, the people said. It is unclear if the deal with #Apple will include any free-to-air rights, meaning the entire event could be av…

FIFA Said to Be Close to TV Deal With Apple for New Tournament
The agreement would give the tech company worldwide rights for a monthlong World Cup-style competition between top teams set to take place next year.

"How the recycling symbol lost its meaning"
#Recycling #Environment
https://grist.or…

How the recycling symbol lost its meaning
Corporations sold Americans on the chasing arrows — while stripping the logo of its worth.

Artists’ AI dilemma: can artificial intelligence make intelligent art? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/08/artists-ai-dilemma-can-artificial-intelligence-make-intelligent-art?CMP=Share_iOSA…

The pushback against Rebel Moon feels very similar to the pushback against Star Wars episodes I through III, to me.
(Meaning the Star Wars Prequels, that is. The original trilogy is episodes IV through VI, of course.)
...And no I will not be accepting any debates on this topic at this time.
[/continues wallowing in blissful ignorance]

How do we get meaning into a knowledge graph? For this, we need explicit formal semantics based on ontologies. Otherwise, we could only make use of structural or statistical properties of the graph. In lecture 06, we started with the #knowledgegraphs chapter of #ise2024, which will cover the e…

The meaning of words...
#CalvinAndHobbes #Humour

🔗 Searching for meaning in a dream emulator from 1998
#PS1 #PlayStation

From DeSmog
Pathways Alliance a marketing and lobbying organization that represents Canada's largest oil sands producers, is up to its old tricks of using Google ads to deflect attention from a long record of misleading climate claims. Google ad records viewed by DeSmog show that the group has been paying to advertise on the search term "Pathways Alliance greenwashing," meaning that when people type that phrase into Google, one of the first results that appears is the Pat…

#ChatGPT is useless for me. I've been trying to use it for Web search where I'm not certain how to express what I want to look for in some easy search terms. But it doesn't get what I'm saying either. The words match, but the meaning does not.

The videos from Making Meaning 2024: Collections as Data are now online! I particularly recommend Robert McLellan's keynote (and probably particularly if you're heading to Australia for @… 's Fantastic Futures 2024) and the lightning talks - the future is bright!

On words and politics:
The most powerful threat to the right is an alliance between liberals, policy/democracy activists (progressives, the original meaning), and workers.
The Murdoch press (WSJ and Fox), and manipulated social media, has fought to redefine “progressive,”

Well-meaning relative sees a facebook post about a lost greyhound on the loose
…shares it to a greyhound facebook group
…tags me in their post
…asks me if I am a member of that group and have I seen their share
It is a group I (help) run.

Two AI and Humanities hybrid events upcoming in Umeå!
1. Friday May 10th, 12:15-13:00 - Philosopher Jessica Pepp on "Is LLM Meaning an illusion?"
https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-is-llm-meaning-an-illusion_11933686/
2.…

#frAIday: Is LLM Meaning an illusion?

Lindsey Graham vows to block supreme court ethics bill
Lindsey Graham, the top-ranking Republican on the Senate judiciary committee, said that he will block Democrats’ attempts to pass an ethics bill to rein in the US supreme court.
Graham told NBC News that he “will object” to the bill on Wednesday, meaning it will not move forward on its legislative journey.
The Senate judiciary committee chairman, Dick Durbin, from Illinois, told reporters that Senate Democrats were work…

“You cannot expect one-hundred-perdent hospitality anywhere at all. That is precisely the meaning of liberation or freedom: freedom from both the loneliness in the hospitality of the world. With that freedom, you begin to find a new strength, a new dimension. You do not have to lean to the right or to the left anymore, but you could stand on your own two feet, or one foot, whatever you possess. The ability to do that comes completely out of practice.” Chögyam Trungpa

I have gotten the @… app icon tattooed on me as of today!
This tattoo has meaning, which I'll explain.
Nova, as my job, changed my life in numerous ways since I started working for the app and my boss 8 1/2 years ago. It's allowed me to do so many things I thought I'd never get to do plus it's allowed myself and my wife …

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Let's play!
#SecretMeaningsInSongs
#HashTagGames
How to play: Write something awesome, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat!
Hint: Use lyrics, titles, band names. ...anything, you can't be wrong. Use the entire song or just a phrase, or a line or two. Share the real secret meaning or make up something (it's a game, afterall.)

Physical meaning of non-extensive term in Massieu functions
Miguel Hoyuelos, Mat\'ias A. Di Muro, Patricia Gim\'enez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09969

Physical meaning of non-extensive term in Massieu functions
In this paper, we explore the significance of non-extensive terms in Massieu functions. We demonstrate that these terms, of order $\ln N$, where $N$ represents the number of elements, can be expressed in relation to thermodynamic fluctuations. We focus on systems large enough to mitigate finite size effects, concentrating on the $O(\ln N)$ difference present in both ideal and non-ideal scenarios. The analytical verification in ideal cases and numerical validation in non-ideal scenarios corrobor…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08354 has been replaced.
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Gaining More Insight into Neural Semantic Parsing with Challenging Benchmarks
The Parallel Meaning Bank (PMB) serves as a corpus for semantic processing with a focus on semantic parsing and text generation. Currently, we witness an excellent performance of neural parsers and generators on the PMB. This might suggest that such semantic processing tasks have by and large been solved. We argue that this is not the case and that performance scores from the past on the PMB are inflated by non-optimal data splits and test sets that are too easy. In response, we introduce sever…

Artists’ AI dilemma: can artificial intelligence make intelligent art? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/08/artists-ai-dilemma-can-artificial-intelligence-make-intelligent-art?CMP=Share_iOSA…

How do we get meaning into a knowledge graph? For this, we need explicit formal semantics based on ontologies. Otherwise, we could only make use of structural or statistical properties of the graph. In lecture 06, we started with the #knowledgegraphs chapter of #ise2024, which will cover the e…

Throwback to #OTD April 13th 2020 where I got bored during the pandemic and discovered that police comms in San Jose aren't encrypted by any means

Apple has "sherlocked" a number of stand-alone apps, including password apps, meaning that it has incorporated into iOS the same thing that those apps do.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/12/the-apps-that-apple-sherlocked-at-wwdc/

@… Interesting! And that board looks great. I will give it a go. I’ve been meaning to get more into FreeCAD

How stuff is made. Fascinating. 🖖
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-streits-matzo-factory-passover/
✡️🫓✍️

For Passover Seder, Streit’s Makes Matzo by the Millions
At Streit’s matzo factory, production follows strict Jewish law. But the meaning of the Passover staple is still up for debate.

Has anybody any details regarding the training of #gpt4o ? I'm intrigued by this sentence in the #openai blog and would love to know more about it:
"With GPT-4o, we trained a single new model end-to-end across text, vision, and audio, meaning that all inputs and outputs are processed…

Sigh. Again, against my best judgement, I got into a dispute about a math article in Wikipedia ("Eigenvalues and eigenvectors").
Wkipedia, especially the math articles, is being trashed by an army of well-meaning but misguided editors who think that every article should be made accessible to absolutely everyone, regardless of their level of knowledge -- even if that requires making it grossly incorrect and incomplete. 🧵‍>

An Internal Model Principle For Robots
Vadim K. Weinstein, Tamara Alshammari, Kalle G. Timperi, Mehdi Bennis, Steven M. LaValle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11237

An Internal Model Principle For Robots
When designing a robot's internal system, one often makes assumptions about the structure of the intended environment of the robot. One may even assign meaning to various internal components of the robot in terms of expected environmental correlates. In this paper we want to make the distinction between robot's internal and external worlds clear-cut. Can the robot learn about its environment, relying only on internally available information, including the sensor data? Are there mathematical con…

On words and politics:
The most powerful threat to the right is an alliance between liberals, policy/democracy activists (progressives, the original meaning), and workers.
The Murdoch press (WSJ and Fox), and manipulated social media, has fought to redefine “progressive,”

Raising some very interesting questions about the world of Open Source
contributions and its connection with anonymity/pseudonymity:
Armin Ronacher: "Skin in the Game" https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/3/31/skin-in-the-game/

Some personal #lreccoling2024 highlights:
"Lexicalized Meaning Representation (LMR)" by Jorge Baptista et al. (DMR workshop): a representation that retains compatibility with AMR while anchored to the (more observable) syntactic form of an utterance.

Lexicalized Meaning Representation (LMR)
Jorge Baptista, Sónia Reis, João Dias, Pedro Santos. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations @ LREC-COLING 2024. 2024.

Raiders HC sends warning to young running back https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_hc_sends_warning_to_young_running_back/s1_14819_40500543

Raiders HC sends warning to young running back
Josh Jacobs is no longer in place for the Raiders, meaning the team’s backfield will look different in 2024. After the former first-rounder departed without any negotiations on a re-signing, Zamir White is on track to handle lead back duties. The latter showed promise last season, his second in the NFL. White racked up 451 rushing yards, many of which came during a four-week stretch to close out the campaign in which Jacobs was sidelined with injury. The 24-year-old should be expected to sho…

LLMs are Meaning-Typed Code Constructs
Jason Mars, Yiping Kang, Jayanaka Dantanarayana, Chandra Irugalbandara, Kugesan Sivasothynathan, Lingjia Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08965

Quick reminder about this event coming up next Friday. For those unlucky enough not to be in Umeå then, you can also join online!
*Is LLM Meaning an illusion?* by philosopher Jessica Pepp
Info here: https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-is-llm-meanin…

#frAIday: Is LLM Meaning an illusion?

Waldgrenze
"Cooper Pairs vol.2"
#ambient

What's the old adage? "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail..."
Well, the new one is "Every app will add AI and you'll accidentally trigger it without meaning to!"
Also, there's no way to disable this shit. I use a web-based app and it has a "Press 'space' for AI" every time I click to type my own text.

Not sure that they are licensed anywhere, meaning you have no recourse if one does you harm #ActuallyAutistc @…
Utah Life Coaches Aren’t Licensed. Should They Be Regulated? — ProPublica

When Therapists Lose Their Licenses, Some Turn to the Unregulated Life Coaching Industry Instead
Despite past misconduct, some former therapists have continued their careers as life coaches. Now, after a high-profile conviction in Utah, legislators are asking whether it’s time for more oversight.

Every fucking talk is just
- "find meaning" which means fun
- then you can "collaborate with brands" (as in be hired to do ads)
- then you get rich
#offf

Packing measure of the linear Gauss system
Rafa{\l} Tryniecki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12012 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.12012

Packing measure of the linear Gauss system
For every $k \in \mathbb{N}$ let $f_k:[\frac{1}{k+1}, \frac{1}{k}] \to [0,1]$ be decreasing, linear functions such that $f_k(\frac{1}{k+1}) = 1$ and $f_k(\frac{1}{k}) = 0$, $k = 1, 2, \dots$. We define iterated function system (IFS) $S_n$ by limiting the collection of functions $f_k$ to first n, meaning $S_n = \{f_k \}_{k=1}^n$. Let $J_n$ denote the limit set of $S_n$. Then $\lim\limits_{n\to \infty} \mathcal{P}_{h_n}(J_n) = 2$, where $h_n$ is the packing dimension of $J_n$ and $\mathcal{P}_{h_…

The hype around AI gives me a bad taste. I miss the good when it was called ML (Machine Learning)
There is certainly good usecases for it, but I am not comfortable with the AI-washing that is going on.
No, I dont need an "AI powered device" (meaning API-calls to openai). Sad that "AI" has been reduced to glorified search engines and chatbots, throwing decades of research and work away that has been made on neural networks.

Is PS2 the peak of console machines?
Meaning in game production, storytelling, etc.
For me yes!
#ps2 #videogames #sony

“anyone over 40-ish uses it in the first sense, and anyone under 40-ish uses it in the second sense..."
How interesting. I’m over 40 but I’ve always used it in the second sense. I’d never heard it defined in the first sense before. Anyone else? https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/11225

Wendy Palmer (@wendypalmer@mastodon.au)
Attached: 1 image Speaking of favourite words, look what language change has done to "nonplussed". I think it was probably 20 years ago when I first saw it used in the second sense in a print book, which meant a whole chain of people agreed on its meaning...I was quite nonplussed at the time... These days I avoid using it in my books because I'm guessing anyone over 40-ish uses it in the first sense, and anyone under 40-ish uses it in the second sense, and the meanings are so very opposite t…

When did the word “performative” acquire its current disapproving meaning, to describe empty words or gestures, done just for show? Merriam-Webster has this as the 2nd of 4 meanings, the 4th being what I considered more significant: words that perform an action, that themselves do something. Like wedding vows—saying those words is how you marry someone. Or, precisely the opposite of meaninglessly or hypocritically “performative.”

Q&A with Nick Bostrom on his book Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World, which considers a future in which AI solves all of humanity's problems (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nick-bostrom-fear-ai-fix-everything/
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The sounds of science a symphony for many instruments and voices part II
Gerard t Hooft, William D Phillips, Anton Zeilinger, Roland Allen, Jim Baggott, Francois R Bouchet, Solange M G Cantanhede, Lazaro A M Castanedo, Ana Maria Cetto, Alan A Coley, Bryan J Dalton, Peyman Fahimi, Sharon Franks, Alex Frano, Edward S Fry, Steven Goldfarb, Karlheinz Langanke, Cherif F Matta, Dimitri Nanopoulos, Chad Orzel, Sam Patrick, Viraj A A Sanghai, Ivan K Schuller, Oleg Shpyrko, Suzy Lidstrom
<…

The sounds of science a symphony for many instruments and voices part II
Despite its amazing quantitative successes and contributions to revolutionary technologies, physics currently faces many unsolved mysteries ranging from the meaning of quantum mechanics to the nature of the dark energy that will determine the future of the Universe. It is clearly prohibitive for the general reader, and even the best informed physicists, to follow the vast number of technical papers published in the thousands of specialized journals. For this reason, we have asked the leading ex…

Funny Polish* word that most Poles don’t realise comes directly from German: wichajster
Pronounced exactly as „wie heißt er”.
Meaning: something. As in. Give me that „thing/something”.
* it actually is a Silesian word.

“In this magazine, we have long advocated (and will continue to do so) for ideas usually associated with “eastern philosophy;” such as patience, collectivism, meaning, empathy, ethics, and unity. Not in the vague or vacuous sense of “changing the world” or “put a dent in the universe” but in the basic idea of building a new world through ethical, conscious, and quality software.”

Geoffrey James
Western culture has long been fascinated with what the French call "Extrême-Orient"; since the times of Marco Polo, most probably since biblical times. We (the editors of a magazine that is, after all, a pure product of Western civilization) assign certain qualities to the thinking patterns of those regions: wisdom, calmness, thoughtfulness, and reflection. Eastern philosophy is often analyzed in counterpoint, in a tangential or even orthogonal fashion from its western counterpart: Confucius v…

Pokémon X: completed!
The little diversion saw me travelling through fields of flowers and encountering a large number of new pokémon, meaning that I depleted my stocks of all types of pokéballs while travelling through the flora. I also met a couple of trainers with a massive unit of a pokémon. I finally found Wulfric, the eighth gym leader, frolicking in the meadow, and convinced him to return to his responsibilities in the ice world.

https://youtu.be/CL--1Z_g4DE @…

Millions of small coffee growers vs. central monitoring from 7000 km away: a classic #commons governance story?
https://www.theguardian.com/global-de…

Dallas Cowboys Coach Issues Blunt Response To CeeDee Lamb’s Absence https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_coach_issues_blunt_response_to_ceedee_lambs_absence/s1_17068_40365472

Dallas Cowboys Coach Issues Blunt Response To CeeDee Lamb’s Absence
The 2024 NFL season has a lot more meaning to the Dallas Cowboys than many years in the past have. It is a make or break season that could result in the complete dismantling of the team if they do not live up to expectations. Both Mike McCarthy and Dak Prescott are on the hot seat, but the season could have a big impact on CeeDee Lamb’s future with the team as well. Lamb has been rumored to potentially leave the Cowboys if the two sides can’t work out an extension. Things have not gone easy…

Today's trivia: "bloviate" is a made up word, coined in 1857, midwest US
https://www.etymonline.com/word/bloviate

bloviate | Etymology of bloviate by etymonline
to talk aimlessly and boastingly; to indulge in 'high falutin', according to Farmer… See origin and meaning of bloviate.

TIL: a new word - contumelious, meaning scornful and insulting. I'm thinking Tribunal Deputy President Richard Grueber is now part of the art work.
MONA ordered to allow men into ‘Ladies Lounge’ after discrimination complaint - Pulse Tasmania
https://

MONA ordered to allow men into ‘Ladies Lounge’ after discrimination complaint
The Museum has been given 28 days to allow men into the women’s-only…

TIL. The word "picayune", a synonym for "trivial". 🌈
"Picayune is an obsolete term for a coin of small value. Its meaning has been extended to the figurative sense of "trivial" or "of little value"."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picayu<…

I hope people look at this and realize that licenses will not protect them; they will only ever protect capital in the long run https://aus.social/@KathyReid/112413898118066645

Has anybody any details regarding the training of #gpt4o ? I'm intrigued by this sentence in the #openai blog and would love to know more about it:
"With GPT-4o, we trained a single new model end-to-end across text, vision, and audio, meaning that all inputs and outputs are processed…

Some personal #lreccoling2024 highlights:
"Lexicalized Meaning Representation (LMR)" by Jorge Baptista et al. (DMR workshop): a representation that retains compatibility with AMR while anchored to the (more observable) syntactic form of an utterance.

Lexicalized Meaning Representation (LMR)
Jorge Baptista, Sónia Reis, João Dias, Pedro Santos. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations @ LREC-COLING 2024. 2024.

An analogue of non-interacting quantum field theory in Riemannian signature
Mikhail Molodyk, Andr\'as Vasy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11821 https://

An analogue of non-interacting quantum field theory in Riemannian signature
In this paper, we define a model of non-interacting quantum fields satisfying $(Δ_g-λ^2)ϕ=0$ on a Riemannian scattering space $(M,g)$ with two boundary components, i.e. a manifold with two asymptotically conic ends (meaning asymptotic to the "large end" of a cone). Our main result describes a canonical construction of two-point functions satisfying a version of the Hadamard condition.

When Patrick Bringley’s beloved older brother fell ill with cancer,
he found that he no longer had much appetite for his ritzy job in the events department of the New Yorker.
Life then was about hospital rooms and love and “all the very basic things” in this world;
there seemed no meaning in hanging his jacket over his desk chair every morning.
But what to do instead?
In 2008, Tom died, and all Patrick knew was that he needed the kind of work that would not r…

Waldgrenze
"Cooper Pairs vol.2"
#ambient

It seems I have ghosts 👻 that used to be trolls 🧌in my timeline, meaning I can't see them or hear their ghastly gargles anymore because I blocked 🚫 them. Thank goodness.🕊
I only know they are still there because I see your toots 📣 arguing with them.

Lovely message from Basil's humans (used with permission as a testimonial). Harder work than a greyhound but a good experience. 😀
#ShibaInu

“The military operation in Gaza has altered the shape, perhaps even the meaning, of the struggle over Palestine – it seems misleading, and even offensive, to refer to a ‘conflict’ between two peoples after one of them has slaughtered the other in such staggering numbers.”
https://www.lrb.co.u…

Adam Shatz · Israel’s Descent
Eight months after 7 October, Palestine remains in the grip, and at the mercy, of a furious, vengeful Jewish state, ever...

I hope people look at this and realize that licenses will not protect them; they will only ever protect capital in the long run https://aus.social/@KathyReid/112413898118066645

Willkommens-Merkel, Chaos-Johnson, and Tore-Klose: Modeling the Evaluative Meaning of German Personal Name Compounds
Annerose Eichel, Tana Deeg, Andr\'e Blessing, Milena Belosevic, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Sabine Schulte im Walde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04031

Willkommens-Merkel, Chaos-Johnson, and Tore-Klose: Modeling the Evaluative Meaning of German Personal Name Compounds
We present a comprehensive computational study of the under-investigated phenomenon of personal name compounds (PNCs) in German such as Willkommens-Merkel ('Welcome-Merkel'). Prevalent in news, social media, and political discourse, PNCs are hypothesized to exhibit an evaluative function that is reflected in a more positive or negative perception as compared to the respective personal full name (such as Angela Merkel). We model 321 PNCs and their corresponding full names at discourse level, and…

More on the case against Mckesson:
Supreme Court allows police officer’s suit to move forward against Black Lives Matter leader | The Hill
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-b…

Supreme Court allows police officer’s suit to move forward against Black Lives Matter leader
The Supreme Court allowed a police officer’s lawsuit against a Black Lives Matter leader to move forward Monday. In a brief order, the justices turned away activist DeRay Mckesson’s First Amendment appeal, meaning he must face the lawsuit brought by the anonymous officer who was injured during a 2016 protest. Days after police fatally shot…

Qualia and the Formal Structure of Meaning
Xerxes D. Arsiwalla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01148 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.01148

Qualia and the Formal Structure of Meaning
This work explores the hypothesis that subjectively attributed meaning constitutes the phenomenal content of conscious experience. That is, phenomenal content is semantic. This form of subjective meaning manifests as an intrinsic and non-representational character of qualia. Empirically, subjective meaning is ubiquitous in conscious experiences. We point to phenomenological studies that lend evidence to support this. Furthermore, this notion of meaning closely relates to what Frege refers to as…

PLpol
People in Poland keep being "surprised" by left wing parties losing elections here, but really, what could you expect? You just have to listen to how my parents' generation thinks, and I suppose many youngsters believe the same story.
Of course, left wing politicians are "commies". And communism is the synonym of evil incarnate (it doesn't really matter that their primary problem was actually capitalism, the way People's Republic of Poland did it). "Commies" took away their freedom — "freedom" meaning the access to limitless consumption of wares of the great "western" culture.
So Tusk (the leader of the more liberal right wing party) is seen as the only "real" alternative to Kaczyński (the leader of PiS, the other big right wing party). That said, PiS is bad not because they're nazis. They're bad because they are "thieves" (but Tusk's thievery is fine, after all "every politician is a thief"), because they don't uphold democracy (when Tusk did it, it was fine, because they had to "restore order" after PiS's defeat) and most importantly, because they "give money away to people", and the country "is broke" as a result. You can't help people that way! The only people you should help are entrepreneurs, and that's going to solve all the problems. People just need to "move their asses" and start working.
And of course, these awful left wing politicians want to take their freedom. Saving the planet? Naah, they won't live long enough to suffer the worst (they're going to find a nasty surprise, or perhaps not, because they're not going to see through their illusion), so why should they give up on anything. They've "earned" everything they've got. And their grandchildren? They don't need clean air or water, they just need more toys and sweets.
And their bubble is always right. They have their new god to confirm that, their previous TV. The national TV, serving right wing propaganda, and private TV, serving capitalist propaganda. But it's all truth, because private TV obviously doesn't serve interests of a specific party. Besides, nobody would be watching news broadcasts full of lies! They'd lose viewers, and therefore money. Ergo, it all must be true.
Finally, all that's evil is the fault of immigrants, nonbinary people, people of different religion, skin color, culture, people who "are too lazy to work". There's always a better suspect than the white, cis, hetero, Catholic, truly polish bourgeois.

American cows now have bird flu.
But it’s time for planning – not panic
Since being identified in late March this year (meaning it was spreading for months among cattle unnoticed),
the virus has been confirmed in 33 herds in eight states.
Given how infectious H5N1 is
(the R number can be as high as 100 among birds
– meaning each infected bird could infect 100 others
– and is still unknown for cows),
and the fact cows are asymptomatic or hav…

Rick Wilson (via e-mail list): 'A well-meaning Republican friend recently asked me why Biden would be better than Trump. He voted for Trump in 2016 and (in his words, “very reluctantly') in 2020. I could tell he was looking for something, anything to hold on to in making a stand against Trump.

Besides Wittgenstein, we also quote linguist John Rupert Firth (1890–1960) with "You shall know a word by the company it keeps!" when introducing the principles of distributional semantics as the foundation for word embeddings and large language models.
J.R. Firth (1957), A synopsis of linguistic theory, Studies in linguistic analysis, Blackwell, Oxford:

So, yes! to DEI, etc.,: "Scientists at CANDLE have discovered that adolescents who grapple with the bigger meaning of social situations experience greater brain growth, which predicts stronger identity development and life satisfaction years later."
Scientists Discover That “Transcendent” Thinking May Grow Teens’ Brains

Scientists Discover That “Transcendent” Thinking May Grow Teens’ Brains
Scientists at CANDLE have discovered that adolescents who grapple with the bigger meaning of social situations experience greater brain growth, which predicts stronger identity development and life satisfaction years later. Scientists at the USC Rossier School of Education’s Center for Affective