Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260226-how-ai-can-read-your-thoughts

#HackerNews #Evolving #descriptive #text #of #mental #content #from #human #brain #activity #AI #BrainActivity #ThoughtReading #Neuroscience #Innovation #FutureTech

Yes, yes, I know it's Latin and old-fashioned and more or less means "slash" but... come on. I think the internet has won this one and the old-school writers need to admit defeat.

#language #descriptive #notPorn

Linguistic battles I have lost (American English) because people can't figure this shit out so now wrong is right:

The subjunctive case is dead: "I would prefer you not do that" has become "I would prefer you don't do that," and "He suggested we go quickly" has become "He suggested we went quickly" (or something even sillier).

How much I care: 7/10 (tooth-grinding level)

The past perfect tense: "If I had done that..." is now "If I would have done that", etc.

How much I care: 6/10 (hard grimace level)

Step foot: "I have never set foot in that house" is now "I have never stepped foot in that house".

How much I care: 9/10 (choked-down swear words level)

Based off of: This is deeply stupid and should never be used, ever. The correct form is "based on."

How much I care: 113/10 (will correct the fucking president in the middle of his fucking State of the Union if I'm in the room)

Edit: Yes, I know I've lost these battles and more. That doesn't mean I'm happy about it.

#english #language #grammar #pedantic #oldperson #GetOffMyLawn #IKNOW #descriptive

My university's registrar has decided, in their online forms and in emails, that "withdraw" is a noun.

Students are requesting a withdraw from the course.

Yes. like that.

They need to get off my fucking lawn. For one thing, it is crowded out there.

#language #descriptive #prescriptive #oldperson #getoffmylawn #fuckingNo

I am glad to share the first quantitative research on the evaluation of descriptive metadata of Ukrainian academic events and conferences DOI: https://doi.org/10.47909/ijsmc.91

#academic events #conference management #conference culture #descriptive metadata

A quotation from Maggio, Rosalie:

«
Language doesn’t belong to grammarians, linguists, wordsmiths, writers, or editors. It belongs to the people who use it. It goes where people want it to go, and, like a balky mule, you can’t make it go where it doesn’t want to go.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/maggio-rosalie/64460/

#quote #quotes #quotation #descriptive #expression #grammar #language #popularity #rules

Two main statistical methods are used in data analysis: #Descriptive statistics, which summarize data from a sample using indexes such as the mean or standard deviation, and #Inferential statistics, which draw conclusions from data that are subject to random variation (e.g., observational errors, sampling variation).

#WorldStatisticsDay

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Descriptive-and-Inferential-Statistics-5a76f5ee4cbd61254449572c