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BradRubenstein

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Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like bananas.
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Tech Project Therapist (moderately retired)
#ProjectManagement #FinTech #OrganizationalBehavior #Finance

My friend Adam and I wrote a contrarian how-to book, distilling decades of our experience running projects and project teams (link in profile).

Also: #theater toots, bad #puns, #language hacks

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BradRubenstein, to languagelovers
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In french, is a formal toot a voust?

@languagelovers

BradRubenstein, to linguistics
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One of the shortcomings of most online language learning systems is that they cannot teach language-specific conversational turn-taking cues. Without them, conversations feel awkward and frustrating, and the participants often don't know why.

@languagelovers @linguistics

BradRubenstein,
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@kechpaja @languagelovers @linguistics

I've seen ASL conversations where a non-native speaker, wanting to interject, touches the speaker's hands.

Turn-taking errors can be brutal.

BradRubenstein, to languagelovers
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Learning Spanish: If I understand correctly, "a database of finger dice" is "una base de datos de dados de dedos".

@languagelovers

ScienceGirl, to random
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Hello ! I am making the jump from X to here. Too many of my and buddies left X. If you switched from X, how do you like it here?

BradRubenstein,
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It's nice. A bit less spammy, a bit less cantankerous.

I started by following the hashtag and following the @science account, that exposed me to a lot of users talking about science, from which I could choose whom to follow.

For topics like that, I tend to organize my follows onto lists divided by their main focus (it's a rough sort), and set each list to "hide these posts from home". That way I can see posts on that topic when I'm in the mood (rather than all muddled together on my home feed, which is more for close friends and serendipity).

@ScienceGirl

jerry, (edited ) to random
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Because of the spam, I’ve been looking more closely at new signups. It’s odd to see people create an account, login, then delete their account less that 30 minutes later. I guess we aren’t for them.

(Edit: turns out the one I saw was someone testing. Nothing to see here. Move along.)

BradRubenstein,
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My bad. I was just trying to reproduce a notifications bug for a new github issue, and it required a second account briefly.

@jerry

tiago, to academicchatter
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It seems like Mastodon is losing its mindshare to #Bluesky among many academics.

I can't help but think this has to do with the self-imposed limitations of Mastdon — lack of quotes, ordered timeline, etc. Makes it less interesting to use, for no real advantage.

Sad, because the underlying decentralization is much more robust.

@academicchatter

BradRubenstein,
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FWIW, Mastodon, out of the box, admits the following curated feeds:

  • Feed of everyone I follow (Home)
  • Feed of the local and federated firehoses.
  • Feeds of particular hashtags.
  • Feeds of one or more people selected from among those you follow (Lists).

I'm finding both useful, the former for discovery, the latter for not missing posts by people I like a lot, or who tend to mostly post on a particular topic area I'm interested in.

A nice feature of a List feed is the "Hide these posts from Home" checkbox, which allows me to partition all the posts on a particular topic, so I only see them when I want to, which makes my Home feed more interesting.

@mtcerio @tiago @academicchatter

BradRubenstein, to languagelovers
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For every language, a personality.

@languagelovers

jerry, to random
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This cranky boy has been my best friend for 17 years now.

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BradRubenstein,
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Postitively Churchillian.

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BradRubenstein, to languagelovers
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This is amazing:

"Teaching ChatGPT to Speak my Son’s Invented Language"

https://szopa.medium.com/teaching-chatgpt-to-speak-my-sons-invented-language-9d109c0a0f05

@languagelovers @linguistics

h/t @pancake

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@languagelovers @linguistics @pancake

My favorite book is Arika Okrent's In the Land of Invented Languages.

BradRubenstein, (edited ) to random
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I suspect even ChatGPT doesn't believe that it is saying what it is saying.

#ChatGPT #Hallucination @languagelovers

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But Google's Bard LLM wins for sheer commitment to the bit:

Q: What is a french city that has an accent in its name?

  • Bordeaux (with an acute accent on the "o") is a city in southwestern France, on the Garonne River. It is known for its wine production and its beautiful architecture.
  • Nantes (with a grave accent on the "a") is a city in western France, on the Loire River. It is the capital of the Pays de la Loire region.
  • Strasbourg (with an umlaut on the "a") is a city in eastern France, on the Ill River. It is the capital of the Grand Est region.
  • Lyon (with a cedilla on the "n") is a city in eastern France, on the Rhône River. It is the third-largest city in France.

@languagelovers

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To be fair, there is an ņ in Latvian - a voiceless palatal nasal.

But I don't think any Latvian word ends with ņ (as does Bard's city of Lyoņ). Perhaps one of the Latvian Language Lovers knows.

@j @languagelovers

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BradRubenstein,
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Whoa. This is beautifully done.

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BradRubenstein,
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What emotion does "frowning face with open mouth" convey?

I'm not exactly sure if it's more like Lebensmüde, Weltschmerz, Fernweh, Erklärungsnot, or Torschlusspanik?

Or does it express a feeling that does not have a name in German?

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BradRubenstein, (edited )
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From the verb "hot-dog", originally '50s surfer slang for showing off a move that demonstrates great skill and finesse. Now pulled into skate-board culture. From there, you get "raw-dog", which is, naturally, the opposite.

https://lastwave.com/blogs/news/the-origins-of-hotdogging

(the porn term is AFAICT unrelated)

@azforeman @linguistics

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