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3/ Cooler Workshop. Eigentlich haben keine zwei dieselben Meinungen zu irgendeinem Thema. #GALL

Hatte gestern ein Treffen mit Gerald Penn und er hat ein paar Fehler in meinem Grammatik-Code repariert und auch einen Bug in #TRALE gefixt.

Heute habe ich mich dann mit Frank Richter getroffen. Der hat mir gezeigt, wie man SOMEAISYSTEM mit TRALE koppeln kann. Ich brauchte Code, der mir phonologische Information in Lexikonregeln einbaut. Das System hat den kompletten #Prolog-Quellcode von TRALE eingelesen und meine Grammatik auch. Es hat ein bisschen „nachgedacht“ und getestet und hat eine Lösung gefunden. Auf Nachfrage hat es mir ein Wort im GUI angezeigt. Ich hätte nicht gewusst, wie ich von der Kommandozeile ein Wort einfach so hätte anzeigen können. Obwohl ich die GUI-Sachen von TRALE ja mitprogrammiert habe.

Ich habe die Lösung dann Gerlad Penn gezeigt und er konnte sie vereinfachen (was an kompliziertem Hin-und-her zwischen Prolog und TRALE-Code lag, das in diesem Fall nicht nötig war).

Das alles ist krass.

Es gibt nur einen Mensch auf der Welt, der TRALE versteht. Und vielleicht zwanzig #KI-Systeme. Und wer programmiert noch #Prolog?

#Grammatik #Linguistik

1/ Bin gerade auf dem #GALL-Workshop und da sind Wissenschaftler*innen aus den verschiedensten Ländern (GB, Schweden, Bulgarien, Israel, Kanada, D).
Aus den Bereichen #Informatik, #Mathematik, #Logik, #Linguistik.
Die Mathematiker*innen und Informatiker sagen, dass Student*innen zu großen Teilen betrügen und LLMs für Hausaufgaben und Prüfungen verwenden.

Die Frage, die sich alle stellen: Wie soll man Menschen ausbilden? Was kann man machen, wenn sie nicht lernen wollen?

Shuly Winter hatte die Idee, einfach Bestätigungen auszustellen, dass sie ihre Studiengebühren bezahlt haben. In der Bundesrepublik gibt es keine Studiengebühren, deshalb würde das nicht funktionieren. Aber Lesitungsnachweise werden zunehmend wertlos und selbst Anwesenheitsbescheinigungen kann man nicht geben, weil oft nicht mal die Anwesenheit kontrolliert werden kann. Abgesehen davon, dass man das irgendwie auch nicht erfassen will.

Letztendlich ist der Punkt aber, dass wir eigentlich gar keine benoteten Abschlüsse vergeben wollen. Die Industrie will eine 1 oder 2 auf dem Zeugnis, aber das ist ihr Problem. Wenn wir einfach nicht mehr prüfen würden, würden die Prüfungen auf die Einstellung verlagert. Das ist eigentlich ein cooler Ansatz, denn wenn das Ziel ist, einen Job zu bekommen, dann wäre dadurch, dass dann eine Jobeignungsprüfung kommt, eine Motivation gegeben, für diese Prüfung zu lernen.

Nice workshop about #LLMs with the Constraint-based Grammar gang.

#GALL: Grammar in the Age of Large Language Models

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~gpenn/gall/programme.html

#ThursdayThoughts

Black walnut gall, a pretty good specimen found in our backyard 😮

#BlackWalnut #Gall #Mite #Tree #Nature #Backyard #Photography

Brewery brings Washington’s over 250-year-old beer recipe to life https://www.diningandcooking.com/2674261/brewery-brings-washingtons-over-250-year-old-beer-recipe-to-life/ #align='center #America #America250 #Beer #BeerRecipe #brewery #cooler #drink #gall[on #GeorgeWashington #HistoricRecipe #history #hour #life #militia #mmnd #molasse #NewYorkPublicLibrary #NewYorkPublicLibraryannounced #recipe #RecipeTopics #Recipes #SmallBeer #TaleaBeerCo #taste #ToMakeSmallBeer #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #USA #Washington #water

https://www.walknews.com/1244734/ 仏、豪州の重要鉱物に投資意欲　供給確保を急ぐ | ロイター #AMERS #ASIA #ASXPAC #ATMY #AU #AUNZ #Australia #BMAT #CMPNY #CN #COM #DEST:NOJPTPM #DEST:NOJPWDM #DEST:NOJPZTM #DIP #DIVMIN #EASIA #EMEA #EMRG #EU #EUROP #EZC #FR #GALL #GEN #INTAG #JFOR #JLN #MEMI #METL #MIN #MINE #MINMTL #MTAL #MTPIX #NAMER #POL #PUBL #RAREE #TOPCMB #TOPNWS #TRN #US #WEU #オーストラリア

https://www.wacoca.com/life/371262/ 仏、豪州の重要鉱物に投資意欲　供給確保を急ぐ | ロイター ##eu ##us #AMERS #asia #ASXPAC #ATMY #AU #AUNZ #BMAT #CMPNY #CN #COM #DEST:NOJPTPM #DEST:NOJPWDM #DEST:NOJPZTM #dip #DIVMIN #EASIA #EMEA #EMRG #EUROP #EZC #FR #GALL #GEN #INTAG #investment #JFOR #JLN #MEMI #METL #min #mine #MINMTL #MTAL #MTPIX #NAMER #POL #PUBL #RAREE #TOPCMB #TOPNWS #toshi #TRN #WEU #投資

A flight over what I saw on today’s walk. #Wisconsin #March #SandhillCrane #LichenSubscribe #Gall

https://www.wacoca.com/news/2761141/ ＥＵ重要物資備蓄、仏独伊が役割分担　中国依存脱却へ＝関係筋 | ロイター #ANLINS #Asia #ASXPAC #ATMY #BACT #BASMTL #Biz #BMAT #BRU #CEEU #CN #Com #de #Def #DEFBUY #DEST:NOJPTPM #DEST:NOJPWDM #DEST:NOJPZTM #dip #EASIA #EMEA #EMRG #ENV #EREP #ESG #ESGENV #EU #EUROP #EXCLSV #EZC #fr #GALL #Gen #GRMN #GRNTCH #INDI #INTAG #IT #Italy #JFOR #JLN #METL #MINE #MINMTL #MLDM #MNGISS #MTAL #MTPIX #NEWS1 #POL #PXP #RAREE #RSBI:CLIMATECHANGE #SCI #SCRP #TGSN #TOPCMB #TOPNWS #TRD #TRN #WEU #イタリア

https://www.walknews.com/1197078/ ＥＵ重要物資備蓄、仏独伊が役割分担　中国依存脱却へ＝関係筋 | ロイター #ANLINS #ASIA #ASXPAC #ATMY #BACT #BASMTL #BIZ #BMAT #BRU #CEEU #China #CN #COM #DE #DEF #DEFBUY #DEST:NOJPTPM #DEST:NOJPWDM #DEST:NOJPZTM #DIP #EASIA #EMEA #EMRG #ENV #EREP #ESG #ESGENV #EU #EUROP #EXCLSV #EZC #FR #GALL #GEN #GRMN #GRNTCH #INDI #INTAG #IT #JFOR #JLN #METL #MINE #MINMTL #MLDM #MNGISS #MTAL #MTPIX #NEWS1 #POL #PXP #RAREE #RSBI:CLIMATECHANGE #SCI #SCRP #TGSN #TOPCMB #TOPNWS #TRD #TRN #WEU #中国 #中華人民共和国

Step 8-1/2 A month later toddler and I actually found time to experiment a bit with the ink.

We (tbh, this has not been a fully 50/50 partnership..) unfortunately didn't have a fountain pen to play with so made stamps.

One from mushrooms, one from an #oak #gall and one birch leaf. We also used a pencil.

Results are interesting. With some fine tuning we got a VERY black, black. I suspect it might be extremely corrosive to the paper. We'll see. Looks super pretty and stains well.

#InkMaking

In summer when I was looking for galls to photograph for National Gall Week, I suspected that many were high above in the trees. Come autumn some of the leafy sort began drifting to ground...the first I noticed literally fell into my lap as I was sitting for a coffee break while woodcutting! That one is yet to come, this one came along the next day (mid October). Possibly Poplar Gall Mite Phyllocoptes populi, on a leaf of Populus balsamifera Balsam
Poplar
#Alberta #insects #Gall #Mite #nature

Harmandiola sp. Gall on European Aspen (Populus tremula)

#Gall #Populus #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #Aspen #CCBYSA #Flies #Diptera #Galls #Plant #Plants #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

This time of year is so interesting for interesting people interested in interesting things. Saw so much
#fungi today, and here are three of the best, plus a really interesting gall

1) Upright Coral fungus
2) Candlesnuff fungus
3) Snowy waxcap
4) Common spangle gall wasp's gall

#mycology #mushroom #nature #wildlife #coral #waxcap #gall #wasp #oak #autumn #walking #outdoors #alttext

https://www.walknews.com/1111590/ 中国、ガリウムやゲルマニウムの対米輸出禁止措置を停止 | ロイター #AMERS #ASIA #ASXPAC #ATMY #Business #CN #COM #DEST:NOJPTPM #DEST:NOJPWDM #DEST:NOJPZTM #EASIA #ECI #ECO #EMEA #EMRG #EUROP #GALL #GEN #GRMN #JFOR #JLN #MCE #METL #MINMTL #NAMER #NEWS1 #POL #POTUS #TRD #TRN #US #WASH #WEU #ビジネス

#TheMoonsHindMostWound.

6. Bleeding Moon 出血月

#FanFiction #TheApothecaryDiaries
#wss366 #MastoPrompt

Shortly after Basen left, Tinkle arrived with additional cloth and a flask of spirits.

Mao took the flask and set up a table with her tools next to Jinshi's prone body. Among them was a slender, sharp lancet.

"Please get me a clean bowl or vessel for liquid. It must be clean."

She frowned, then continued, “Then I’ll need your help. If you’re going to be squeamish about blood, then leave. I won't hold you back. If things go wrong, it will cost us our lives. Decide by the time you get back.”

The girl soon returned with a bowl and handed it to Mao.

“Hold the bowl so it catches any blood,” Mao said. “Be careful not to cast a shadow on the patient. When I ask for a cloth, hand me one. There is an iron in the brazier. If I need it, fetch it instantly.”

#Loosing no time, the woman nodded, moved the candle to better illuminate Jinshi, and picked up the bowl again.

Mao nodded almost imperceptibly in approval. She wouldn't need to worry about her help.

"I'm going to bleed the wound to remove as much poison as possible. That just leaves the tainted blood that has already spread to his body."

The woman nodded again and stood ready.

After washing the area with alcohol, Mao carefully cut two diagonal lines across the wound, ensuring it bled freely.

Mao glanced at her aide once. Satisfied, she looked back at her work. Tinkle held the bowl steady and deftly handed her the cloth when needed.

Mao gently massaged the tissue around the wound.

"Hand me the packets next to the cotton," Mao said. Tinkle held them out to her, the bowl barely trembling.

Mao tore open the packet and began sprinkling its contents onto the wound. The faint smell of #gall scented the air as she did so. "That's to help stop the bleeding."

"Cloth," she ordered.

Again, it was handed to her flawlessly, and she bandaged the wound while applying gentle pressure to the area.

"If you have any gods, pray to them." Not having much faith in gods herself, Mao didn’t follow her own advice. Beyond downcast eyes, it didn't appear that Tinkle did either.

“He should live for a while,” Mao resumed. “Hopefully, that will give us enough time to identify the poison and find an antidote.”

Continued next week

#MicroFiction #TootFic #Serial #NMV366 #NMFic
#ApothecaryDiaries

"Oak galls! I'm going to make iron #gall ink!"
"We have ink," his mom said.
He gave her a silent stare.
"Are you going to make paper too?"
"You can do that too?" Ink forgotten, his excitement was palpable.
"Sure. Let me show you. We can find that other stuff later."
"You're the best!" (2/2) #wss366

Ripe and ready to eat :)

#gall #galls

These colorful lesions were originally thought to be just fungal infections (Botryosphaeria dothidea) but were eventually found to harbor midge larvae (Asteromyia carbonifera) that farm the fungi for food and use the hardened hyphae to prevent (sometimes) parasitic wasps from ovipositing into the gall. In turn, emerging female flies dutifully transmit spores to new plants each generation. #goldenrod #fly #diptera #fungus #fungi #mutualism #gall #galls #solidago #cecidomyiidae #insects #entomology

A Gall growing on a small leaf - not sure of the plant species or what insect/other has caused the Gall. Any ideas or identifications welcome.
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #biodiversity #Gall #Ireland

Here are the stats for Gall Week 2025: 13,300 observations, 1004 species, and 886 participants. These numbers will climb as people upload their pics and manually add them to the project. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #inaturalist #insects #mites #nature https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/gall-week-september-2025

One thing you learn very quickly when photographing oak galls is that bald-faced hornets are huge gall fans, too. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #cynipidae #oaks #nectar #wasps #insects #biology #hymentopera #hornets

Found some banded bullet galls (Kokkocynips imbricariae) yesterday. I also found a dollar near the tree. It was a good day. Media, PA, USA. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #wasps #cynipidae #insects #entomology #oaks #quercus

Excellent podcast on galls featuring Adam Kranz. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #insects #mites #biology https://naturesarchive.com/2023/04/10/spring-galls/

Black cherry leaf gall (Eriophyes cerasicrumena) that has split open and released the vermiform mites that have spent the summer inside. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #mites #cherry #prunus #biology #eriophyidae #macrophotography

These oak button galls (Neuroterus umbilicatus) give a nice sense of how small cynipid wasps are. I've seen photographs that are so loaded them that you can barely see the leaf surface. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #cynipidae #oaks #quercus #entomology #nature #wasps

Jewel oak gall (Acraspis quercushirta), living up to its name. Little Crum Creek Park, Swarthmore, PA, USA. #GallWeek2025 #gall #galls #cynipidae #oaks #quercus #entomology #nature #wasp