Language

No Heart can thinke to what strange ends the Tongues unruely Motion tends (Yes, this is a flying tongue. Why, what did you think?)

Voice transcriptions and speech recognition 2019-01-08 – 2023-12-05

Natural language processing software Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move. 2018-01-11 – 2023-12-03

Learning new languages Mostly as an adult 2020-06-16 – 2023-11-11

Rationalists in Australia and surrounding regions 2023-10-30

Technological singularities Incorporating hard AI take-offs, game-over high scores, the technium, deus-ex-machina, deus-ex-nube, nerd raptures and so forth 2016-12-01 – 2023-10-11

Code generation, programming assistants 2021-10-14 – 2023-08-28

Snowmobile or bicycle? Complement or substitute? 2023-03-23 – 2023-08-07

Economics of large language models 2023-03-23 – 2023-08-07

Neural nets that do symbolic maths 2019-12-09 – 2023-06-14

Neural vector embeddings Hyperdimensional Computing, Vector Symbolic Architectures, Holographic Reduced Representations 2017-12-20 – 2023-06-13

Medicalisation 2020-01-28 – 2023-06-10

Nerdview 2014-12-27 – 2023-05-23

Dynamics of recommender systems and other AI social interventions at societal scale Variational approximations to high modernism 2023-07-03 – 2023-04-26

Generative AI workflows and hacks 2023-03-23 – 2023-04-26

Practical text generation and writing assistants 2019-01-08 – 2023-03-23

Transformer networks The transformer-powered subtitle for this article is “Our most terrifyingly effective weapon against the forces of evil is our ability to laugh at them.” 2017-12-20 – 2023-03-22

Contemporary techno-horror On eldritch terrors from beyond and their Twitter accounts 2019-12-23 – 2023-02-20

Disgust 2019-12-23 – 2023-02-19

Scientific writing In which tips are given for the projection of status through nominal phrases and passive voice 2014-12-31 – 2022-11-06

Learning stuff Shoving knowledge into my brain 2020-06-16 – 2022-08-30

Semantics Compressed representations of reality for syntactic agents; which might be what meaning means 2014-12-29 – 2022-08-28

Contemporary rationalists Cloth mother/wire mother for cognition 2020-09-06 – 2022-08-09

Proof assistants Automated theorem provers 2019-12-09 – 2022-08-09

Neural net attention mechanisms On brilliance through selective ignorance 2017-12-20 – 2022-08-05

Microstressors Asymmetric interactions in aggregate, microinequity, microaggressions 2020-02-01 – 2022-07-28

The language game Coevolution of words and meanings 2014-12-29 – 2022-04-01

German Für Konsonantkenner 2014-10-17 – 2021-10-20

Economics of automation When to the robots come for my job? 2021-09-20

Biological basis of language 2018-01-11 – 2021-09-16

Natural language processing Automatic processing of words and sentences and such 2018-01-11 – 2021-09-16

Grammar induction 2011-05-30 – 2021-08-09

Applied string mangling Regexes, parsing, tokenising etc 2019-12-09 – 2021-07-05

Voice fakes 2018-09-06 – 2021-06-17

Assorted laws and paradoxes Mostly-eponymous laws I would confound without this note 2019-12-22 – 2021-03-18

Technopoetics 2016-07-26 – 2021-03-12

Memory in machine learning 2021-03-03 – 2021-03-03

Historical English 2014-09-23 – 2020-03-05

Schwiizertüütsch … isch aifach schön 2014-09-22 – 2020-03-04

Learnable indexes and hashes 2018-01-12 – 2020-02-18

Aksara Sunda ᮃᮊ᮪ᮞᮛ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ 2015-10-08 – 2019-10-30

Dictionaries 2016-01-31 – 2019-01-24

Australian English 2014-08-11 – 2017-07-06

Chinese language 2017-06-27

Flashcards Spaced repetition systems 2015-01-02 – 2017-04-01

Syntax Formal language theory 2015-01-18 – 2016-06-22

Bahasa Indonesia 2015-03-02 – 2016-03-05

Basa Sunda The Sundanese Language 2015-11-11

Dialects 2014-09-05

Research proposal: Grammars of music 2012-11-11