#sapirwhorf — Public Fediverse posts

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗦𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻 -

Mullen's poetry is at first playful, full or puns and puzzles: wordplay. But then, along the way, somewhere between reference books, other patterns emerge!

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #quotes #reading #harryettemullen #sleepingwiththedictionary #poetry #wordplay #language #sapirwhorf #referencebooks #dictionary #wordgames

Up or down?

There is a system that UPloads files to a DOWNstream system.

Caveat operator.

#SapirWhorf
#SoftwareEngineering

Has anyone checked to see if the whales have been watching "Arrival"?
https://www.sciencealert.com/humpback-whale-bubble-rings-may-be-an-attempt-to-communicate-with-us
#whales #SapirWhorf

What if…

As far as comprehension and accuracy is concerned, we use a sophisticated LLM to do something like chain of thought but in doing so we also have it translate both the initial prompt and the CoT from (eg) English into a diverse range of other languages

All this is with the aim of retrying the result using different language prompts in an ongoing way, analyse the agreement or spread of the results, as a guide to likely accuracy.

Because, it could well be that if you give a prompt in English, you get a quite different result from an otherwise equivalent prompt in French, the Gaelics, Maltese, Chinese, Russian, Hungarian, Japanese, Mongolian and so many more, etc. Is one language “better” than another for prompting? It may be that on a contingency level, ie, per individual prompt, the LLM “understands” it differently per language – obviously it won’t be completely different but there may be subtle shifts in the task and reward, enough to make a difference to accuracy or depth. Creating a wide array of alternative choices at each step of the CoT may improve the situation by a sort of “voting/sampling” stage to choose the best result before moving forward.

It'd be vaguely like Sapir-Whorf hypothesis to gain a higher requisite variety of tokenisation richness.

#LLM #AI #language #SapirWhorf #CoT

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonathan-wonderlang/wonder-language-the-quest-for-language-mastery/posts/4259093

#lang #language #learn #learning #linguist #linguistic #linguistics #duolingo #translate #translation #interpret #interpretation #comms #communication #game #gaming #gamer #videoGame #videoGames #SapirWhorf

Do You See Blue or Green?

https://janetannelogan.com/2024/09/17/do-you-see-blue-or-green/

#ColorPerception, #Language, #SapirWhorf, #Science

Do You See Blue or Green?

https://janetannelogan.com/2024/09/17/do-you-see-blue-or-green/

#ColorPerception, #Language, #SapirWhorf, #Science

Do You See Blue or Green?

https://janetannelogan.com/2024/09/17/do-you-see-blue-or-green/

#ColorPerception, #Language, #SapirWhorf, #Science

Do You See Blue or Green?

https://janetannelogan.com/2024/09/17/do-you-see-blue-or-green/

#ColorPerception, #Language, #SapirWhorf, #Science

Do You See Blue or Green?

https://janetannelogan.com/2024/09/17/do-you-see-blue-or-green/

#ColorPerception, #Language, #SapirWhorf, #Science

Thanks to @smellsofbikes for reminding me this little pearler exists:

https://youtu.be/3MWpHQQ-wQg

LANGUAGE!

#FryAndLaurie #Language #SapirWhorf #Linguistics #Philosophy #IDIC

Good podcast by @hiphilangsci on linguistic relativity and the origins of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: https://hiphilangsci.net/2023/04/01/podcast-episode-31/

#linguistics #language #LinguisticRelativity #SapirWhorf #podcast #HistoryOfScience

Never would I have imagined, while taking undergrad linguistics in 2016, that the highlight of my day would be arguing the finer points of Sapir-Whorf with a snarky Norwegian. 😂
#MastoLife
#FediFriends
#SapirWhorf
(Now I really need an image of Worf holding a spear ;)
@sotolf @benjaminhollon
Also tagging @joel to be annoying. ;D