Notices tagged with language

Simple science summaries written by AI help people understand research and trust scientists, argues a professor of communication.

From @ConversationUS: "AI-generated summaries not only improved public comprehension of science but also enhanced how people perceived scientists."

https://flip.it/hohE5O

#AI #Science #ArtificialIntelligence #Communication #Language

@p@fsebugoutzone.org @i@declin.eu @feld@friedcheese.us @j@shitposter.world @mint@ryona.agency

Imagine #learning a whole-ass interpreted #language and #runtime environment just so you can run a #fedi #instance

Bilinguality is a huge advantage for children and adults. Nearly 22 percent of Americans speak a language other than English at home, and many kids struggle to achieve full proficiency in two tongues. @KnowableMag spoke with Adriana Weisleder, a developmental psychologist and language scientist, about learning to speak and read two languages at the same time, and how schools, parents and caregivers can help kids.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/how-a-child-becomes-bilingual

#Parenting #Education #Children #Language #Bilinguality #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

A beluga can change the shape of its "melon" (the bulbous mass on its head) at will. Could this be used as a form of communication? A new study indicates that it might. Here's a story from @hakaimagazine with a six-panel comic illustrating the five different melon shapes and in what contexts some are used.

https://flip.it/xAQKg0

#Science #Animals #Nature #Communication #Language #Comics

Never mind Siobhan, Merriam-Webster should mind its language and remember that English is not the only window on the world.

#Gaelic #Gaeilge #Irish #language #MerriamWebster #dictionaries #MastoDaoine #ignorance

Scientists are learning the basic building blocks of sperm whale language after years of effort.

AP reports on new research from the Caribbean island of Dominica: https://flip.it/43UWRD

#Whales #Animals #Language #Science

What if we DIDN'T define "language" via human-only standards? What if we trained ourselves to see animal languages in the world? My review of Arik Kershenbaum's WHY ANIMALS TALK is up at the TLS. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/why-animals-talk-arik-kershenbaum-book-review-barbara-j-king/ #language #bookreview #animalcommunication #anthropology #biology #zoology #books #bookstodon

New evidence suggests dogs may "picture" objects in their minds, similarly to people.

@popsci reports: "Scientists measured canine brain waves to shed light on language learning."

https://flip.it/7b4a_m

Here's the original study in Current Biology: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00171-4

#Dogs #Animals #Science #Language #Neuroscience

How do babies learn words? An AI experiment may hold clues
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/babies-ai-learn-words-model #language #learning #AI #babies #association #SmallLanguageModel #video #NeuralNetwork

So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punch cards.

"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."

https://chsi.harvard.edu/harvard-ibm-mark-1-language

#til #computers #development #language #history

Indigenous languages are founts of environmental knowledge.

@KnowableMag reports: "Peoples who live close to nature have a rich lore of plants, animals and landscapes embedded in their mother tongues — which may hold vital clues to protecting biodiversity."

https://flip.it/54wnsY

#Biodiversity #Indigenous #Environment #ClimateChange #Language #Science

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AI has much to offer. Yet, we want to ensure it happens responsibly.

On top of the world-first #AI Act and cutting-edge supercomputers, we are taking action to boost innovation, including:

🔸 setting up AI Factories to support European start-ups and SMEs;
🔹 an AI Office to oversee the implementation and enforcement of the AI Act;
🔸 language data to boost #language model development.

More: https://europa.eu/!V6WKmX

#DigitalEU

К картиночке, которую я только что бустанул:

> Когда ты замазываешь одну букву в матея, боженька всё равно всё видит. Просто он думает, что ты ссыкло ебаное.

Хуй с ним, что "ссыкло". Меня всегда раздражало другое.

Человек, который говорит или пишет - понимает, что пытается донести. Принимающая сторона - понимает, что хотят сказать.

Тем не менее всё равно устраивается клоунада непонятно для кого. Сказать, что ты таких слов не знаешь после этого не получится. Сказать, что не употребляешь - тоже, т.к. только что употребил.

Даже так нелюбимая мной замена "fuck" на очередной "блин" при переводе - менее отвратительное занятие, чем замазывание и запикивание букв.

Это все равно, что вывалить в лицо огромнейшие сиськи или хуище, но на самый кончик наклеить кружочек из бумаги чтобы "прикрыть" отверстие и сказать, что это теперь PG-13 👌

#censorship #idiots #language #swearing #people #thoughts #log

You just can't minimise what it means to delete a brand like Twitter. Language is fundamental to our experience of the digital world. More than its name, the concept of a 'tweet' has become so simple as a reference. Changing that to 'a post on X' really does make that platform lose a touchstone and become Just Another Platform in the wide world of socials.
#twitter #x #socialmedia #media #language

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