It was my last weekend with the amazing people at the Centre for Argument Technology. I learned so much about this interesting area of philosophy and computation corpus linguistics. Let's see what the future holds

The wildflowers in Dundee are in full bloom. I've never really noticed them before this summer. At least I got to enjoy them during my last week in Scotland (for now anyway)

Current state of grant writing

Well said and this distinction between grammaticality and acceptibility judgments in language processing tasks is important to make explicitly clear. New paper by Vittoria Dentella, Fritz Günther. and Evelina Leivada https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309583120

Ah yes. It's time to pop out to the Christmas market and have a traditional German chicken burger

A good quality and necessary discussion on semantics in LLMs by Giovanni Pezzulo, Thomas Parr, Paul Cisek, Andy Clark, and Karl Friston, "Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI" https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(23)00260-7

Thank you for your service

They broke