2/3 of the Supreme Court are Catholics. 2/3 are conservative Republicans. So the odds favor another large crack in the wall of separation between church and state.
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Disgusting corruption. They are all cashing in on the powers of their office.
Students need to demonstrate competence in the subject matter, so I do think that LLMs can impede their intellectual development. I doubt that they will actually influence the way people converse with each other. Teachers face quite a challenge in dealing with this problem.
The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Linguistics is scheduled for publication in July. Here is a synopsis of my contribution to it. #linguistics
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This is a phonemic chart for what looks like a standard version of a British dialect. The symbols come from the IPA, but it is not intended to represent purely phonetic transcription. Phonemes represent the set of speech sounds that can be used to encode words in memory.
It is difficult to imagine how the Republican rank and file manage to cling to this narcissistic megalomaniac. If they had any sense left, they would impeach and remove him from office. He embarrasses us daily.
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Donald Trump couldn't say enough good things about Orban, and he even sent JD Vance to campaign for him. Vladimir Putin also backed him. Orban is probably wondering how he could have lost with such strong endorsements. 🤔
Both Trump and Secretary of State Rubio watched sports while amateur diplomat JD Vance failed to negotiate a peace deal with Iran. The US used to be run by serious people. Now we have the Mad Hatter and his Tea Party.
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Trump's unhinged rhetoric makes him sound like a teenage bully. Targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime that imitates Putin's tactics in Ukraine. Trump has made all of us an involuntary party to an illegal undeclared war.
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This man will stop at nothing to put his stain on everything he touches.
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This is such sweet news. Trump campaigned for Gregory's opponent. And Trump voted by mail. So he is no longer a just a hypocrite. He is a hypocrite and a loser.
Kneejerk AI hype. I doubt Suleyman even knows what "most white collar tasks" are. He appears to be thinking about coding tasks--his world. It also has the potential to introduce errors that require human assistance for debugging and rework.
I cannot imagine a Democratic president saying and doing what Trump does--handing out government funds to states whose populations he sees as supporting him. Nor can Republicans. So they have little incentive to push back against it. They do not expect what goes around to come around.
I agree, and I see that as a side-effect of embodied intelligence. All our concepts ground out in associations with bodily experiences. We see ourselves everywhere and in everything.
Animal intelligence depends on an ability to model future events in order to survive in chaotic environments. Primates know what cups are for, so it would surprise me if they could not imagine the existence of cups.
There is no question that Chomsky had a profound effect on linguistic theory, and that needs to be addressed on its own merits. I agree that he dragged people into unproductive intradisciplinary battles. The field still struggles to recover from those.
I think Chomsky has made mistakes in his moral choices, his activism, and his scholarship. But I would criticize those three aspects of his life for very different reasons.
I don't think we should let our feelings about Chomsky's moral choices cloud our judgement about his linguistics. I happen to disagree with both, but for different reasons.
These are largely suppliers of AI technologies and self-styled visionaries, not those with expertise in demand for solutions. So far, business leaders seem to see these programs as helping them to control labor costs rather than actually improving what they can sell.
Springsteen pays Trump back for unauthorized use of his songs at campaign rallies.
#Minneapolis #ICE
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No, generative grammars are about calculating well-formedness judgments. Chomsky never claimed to have a comprehensive theory of linguistic performance. So not all psychologically significant sequences of words need to be constituents in the sense of classical phrase structure theory.
Thank you! That's exactly what I needed to better understand what points the authors were trying to make.
I do not have access to the study mentioned here. Can anyone shed light on what the researchers mean by "long held theory"? There are a lot of long held theories of grammar out there.
#Linguistics
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Unfortunately, most Republicans in Congress seem more willing to see the end of the NATO alliance than come out openly in defiance of Donald Trump. Who is crazier? A rogue president or those willing to let him go rogue?
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Brilliant! If he can't have his way, he'll make Americans pay even higher import taxes. This is why all those people voted for him, isn't it?
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These images are important to the Trump regime, because the whole point of these ICE surges to blue states and cities is to intimidate and terrify people who might openly oppose their presence in their communities.
