Mastodawn

Just what does it take to #read? And to read #online?

Do we absorb information better on paper than screens? depends on the screen
https://theconversation.com/do-we-absorb-information-better-on-paper-rather-than-screens-it-depends-on-the-screen-281849

#reading #amreading #visualprocessing #eyemovement #perceptualspan #wordidentification #languageprocessing

Do we absorb information better on paper, rather than screens? It depends on the screen

Reading is arguably the most difficult task one must learn. To understand why it is difficult, one must understand the physiology of reading.

The Conversation

N-gated Hacker News Jun 7

🎉 Ah, yet another mind-blowing revelation: #computers don't actually read words like humans do. 🤯 Who would've guessed that "strawberry" isn't spelled with three Rs? Clearly, #tokenization is the real villain here, not your LLM's lack of eyesight. 🍓🔍
https://bearisland.dev/posts/tokens-and-tokenization/ #LLM #AI #languageprocessing #HackerNews #ngated

Tokens and Tokenization

How LLMs split text into tokens, the BPE algorithm, and why 'strawberry' has 3 r's the model can't see.

Simon's Journal

Online Marketing Scoops Jun 2

Semantic Knowledge Is Key To Human Innovation

Neuroscience News A new study has isolated the foundational cognitive engine driving human creativity and technological advancement. The research demonstrates that our “semantic knowledge”, the internal cognitive map of how concepts connect and apply to one another, is the absolute precondition for meaningful invention. By combining computer modeling of cultural development with a human trial of over 1,200 participants, investigators proved that without an underlying understanding of […]

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/06/02/semantic-knowledge-is-key-to-human-innovation/

Semantic Knowledge Is Key To Human Innovation

Online Marketing Scoops

Hacker News May 8

Researchers discover advanced language processing in the unconscious human brain

https://www.bcm.edu/news/researchers-discover-advanced-language-processing-in-the-unconscious-human-brain

#HackerNews #languageprocessing #neuroscience #research #brainunconscious #cognition

Researchers discover advanced language processing in the unconscious human brain

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from...

Baylor College of Medicine

aproposnix Jan 23

#Neuroscience #LanguageProcessing #Cerebellum #ScienceNews

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cerebellum-brain-role-language

A spot in the base of the brain has a love of language

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's importance for language.

Science News

Hacker News Dec 15, 2025

Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

#HackerNews #SpeechProcessing #LanguageProcessing #NLP #StanfordJurafsky #DraftEdition

Speech and Language Processing

tech news ᳇ eicker.news Nov 29, 2025

A survey of 1,004 #UK #journalists reveals that over half use #AI professionally at least weekly, primarily for #languageprocessing tasks like transcription and translation. However, AI is also used for substantive tasks such as #storyresearch and #ideageneration. AI use is more common among younger, male journalists. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ai-adoption-uk-journalists-and-their-newsrooms-surveying-applications-approaches-and-attitudes?eicker.news #tech #media #news

AI adoption by UK journalists and their newsrooms: surveying applications, approaches, and attitudes

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Connected 2 Future Sep 23, 2025

🗣️ Natural Language Processing is changing how we interact with technology in 2025! From chatbots that truly understand context to real-time translation that breaks language barriers, NLP is making AI more human than ever. The future speaks all languages! 🌍✨ #NLP #AI2025 #LanguageProcessing #ConversationalAI

rainey 🌻Sep 20, 2025

#science #cognition #CogSci #language #LanguageProcessing #AudioVisual #AudioVisualProcessing

Please boost for reach, and please participate if you both see and hear well enough on the right and left. I promise it will be quick and easy and fun.

In this video, there are occasionally two singers singing something different at the same time. One comes through the right audio channel, the other through the left audio channel. Please follow along at the bottom of the screen. Do note that the left-audio lyrics are on the right and the right-audio lyrics are on the left.

Question: Do you find it slightly harder to read/process when the corresponding visual input is on the opposite side of the auditory input?

Bonus question: Please state what, if any, neurodivergence(s) you might have.

Please wear headphones for this experiment. It won't work otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN_qt5QlKQU