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People make fun of government agencies for still being on Flickr but photos produced by the government are copyright-free and I have yet to see a better photo-centric platform for delivering higher resolution photos that anyone can easily download.
Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.
As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII
Science is good. We should fund it.
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All the little quail hatched out today. The hen had laid a bunch of eggs in a planter and she hunkered down under last season’s dried-out basil. I went out to check on them today and they were just leaving the nest. I counted 11 on the ground and another 5 still bopping around in the planter.
A man sitting at a working desk, in 1540 setting, with a drinking cup, a few books, a writing desk with paper sheets, and lots of more details.
Working the morning shift as a scholar in 1540, a browser tab and a word document opened on two screens, other needed texts opened and handy, an overfull mail account nearby, and a hot beverage in reach to make for the best working condition. Bonus: wearing a thinking hat. #academicchatter
📦 My first #RStats package on CRAN:
{readelan}
A package dedicated to reading all files associated with ELAN: eaf, etf, ecv. Reads annotations, metadata, controlled vocabularies. Relevant for many in #linguistics perhaps?
More info here:
borstell.github.io/misc/readelan/
No big deal just a solar eclipse as seen from the moon streamed to us here on Earth by astronauts who are farther away from their home planet than any human has ever been
we need to establish bonkers as a technical term...
I think we have no reason at this point not to take the illustrations at face value, but I don't think we can use them to interpret the text yet (from Kircher's heiroglyphics interpretations to whole reading, working out text from illustrations doesn't go well unless you can also read the words)
I think the balance of probability is on it being meaningful. It was a collaborative effort (we know that thanks to Lisa's detective work!) and the statistics on page and paragraphs look in many ways like natural language. At the word-level however it's bonkers
it got a lot worse when some of the LLMs started suggesting that people with solutions send them to @lisafdavis.bsky.social and me for verification (though Lisa's been under this deluge for a lot longer than me!)
An average of three voynich "solutions" per week
I get an average of three a week at the moment
Congratulations!!!!
That would be your method I presume? Seems to fail on 3, 4, 6, and 7 at first glance
Hi to all!!
The temperature in Adelaide is 25 degrees Rømer, with wind wandering at 6 furlongs per calendar month
Languages change constantly, and how people are using it now IS the right way to use it (despite what that cranky old guy muttering about “bad grammar” wants you to think)
Nice counterbalance to the news of UAF’s Alaska Native Language Center shrinking
My lates paper in LD&C with @chirila.bsky.social is now out! This tutorial teaches you everything about video-based fieldwork on spoken lang 🗣️ that I learned the hard way, from buying peripherals to archiving. 🐦🐦
how it feels to read demotic
(all that said, it's a fun book that introduces a bunch of historical concepts very accessibly and is a great way to introduce students to language dynamics)
the other part of his argument is that the algorithm manipulates frequency, leading to different types of change (which is probably overstated since there's no one algorithm)
that'spart of the premise of "AlgoSpeak", the book that @etymologynerd.bsky.social recently wrote. His argument is that a fundamentally new type of language change is happening. I'm with you - algospeak is the same response we've seen in the past
ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ
Maybe one a year? Off the top of my head, 2 inquiries about things that couldn't be easily googled and one interesting idea
Three voynich solutions arrived in my inbox today