Aaron Steven White
computational semanticist. into modular synths and cocktails. http://aaronstevenwhite.io
- I've listened to the recent OPN album a few times on setups with bad localization and was sort of meh on it. Had insomnia and decided to brew some coffee, finally crack open my vinyl copy, and push through the delirium. Let me tell you: this album was made for a 4am headphone listen.
- Sometimes you have a beer with one of your academic heroes and they’re chill as fuck and still doing sick shit.
- In Philly today and tomorrow for a Penn MindCORE/ILST seminar. DM if you’re in the area and up for coffee or a cocktail. mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/calendar_eve...
- Reposted by Aaron Steven Whitewhen the issue on the table is demonic
- Holy sh cc @unormal.bsky.social
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- Finally started managing python projects with uv and kicking myself for waiting so long. docs.astral.sh/uv/
- Rust is such a good language.
- Reposted by Aaron Steven WhiteInterpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap. dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D... Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
- Super excited to talk about @chive.pub at #ATScience!
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- Kicking around JHU for the next couple weeks and, man, I miss Baltimore.
- Wild how 2016 was like 4 years ago.
- Ordered this when it came out. Been waiting for the physical copy to listen to it. Was away when it arrived and just got cracked it open. Transcendent. horselords.bandcamp.com/album/frkwys...
- Taught my five-year-old how to detect and address phase anticorrelation using a vectorscope. His ambient mixes are going to be so lush.
- Reposted by Aaron Steven WhiteIt is unclear to me how much traction Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is getting on BlueSky. I am thinking of switching communication about new papers to LinkedIn, which gives better insight into the # of views garnered. Give us a like if you want Glossa to stay on the Blue side of things.
- This generic is so bizarre. “Rotators bring with them the ethos and world view of academia, and it takes them a while to understand the views of whoever is in the White House,” [Dan Reed] says. “Career staff are more attuned to those priorities.”
- If you're submitting to SALT, note that the deadline is UTC, *not* AoE.
- Also check out the probabilistic dynamic semantics codebase, which contains implementations of the analyses in this paper that compile down to stan code! github.com/probabilisti...
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- Reposted by Aaron Steven WhiteIt’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
- The new Carrier album is so good.
- Love teaching stats because I can write a 10-page document explaining to students my custom hierarchical IRT model for curving exams and justify the time spent as instructional material development (which it is!).
- lol.
- back on my bullshit
- This new Arp album is a *wild* pivot from the previous one (New Pleasures).
- My son wore a Josh Allen jersey his grandfather gave him to school. (Rochester is deep Bills country.) We got multiple “Go Bills!” greetings that day. Meanwhile, the only sport we watch in our household is women’s soccer (NWSL). Like, my son was baffled when we told him men play pro soccer too.
- deadlift day.
- Reposted by Aaron Steven Whitelets talk about "In context learning". it is clearly NOT "learning", because its ephemeral. It IS some form of generalization from examples, which is very cool. but we need a name. how do we call this skill of generalization from example?
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- Just saw a post referring to R.E.M. as “elder millennial music”. And no.
- Lot of filler on this Lily Allen album, but the high points are high.
- This is a frequent point of discussion in our household—both because we have a kindergartener and because @bonnierok.bsky.social has written (bellwether.org/publications...) on the policy/implementation blockers to fixing the problem—but this is just so deeply infuriating.
- how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
