Sascha Wolfer

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Linguist @ IDS Mannheim
Quantitative and corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, empirical research methods, data visualization, research into dictionary use, #Rstats
GitHubhttps://github.com/saschawo
Webhttps://perso.ids-mannheim.de/seiten/wolfer.html
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ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8893-8153
Show threadSascha WolferNov 12, 2022
@jensclasen There is a typical snappy reply to someone you don‘t like: „Hat jemand eine Null gewählt?!?“ It could mean „Did someone elect an idiot?“ or „Did someone dial a zero?“
Show threadSascha WolferNov 11, 2022
@outdooracademic @InternetlinguistiKonstanze what? wow!
Show threadSascha WolferNov 11, 2022
@outdooracademic @InternetlinguistiKonstanze
Been there. The resistance of some people to wear a mask is taking ridiculous forms. It would be so funny if it wouldn't be so sad!
Show threadSascha WolferNov 11, 2022
@CzuloOliver I already knew about the replies issue. I don't like that although I understand why it's done this way. The hashtag issue is also interesting. Thanks for your help!
Show threadSascha WolferNov 11, 2022
@kbusse Thanks for pointing out the difference between blocking and muting – that's an important difference. And also thanks for your assessment! That's helping a lot.
Sascha WolferNov 11, 2022

I have a question: scholar.social is currently blocking a lot of other servers. I don't know what that means exactly, yet. What are the most important consequences of this blocking policy?

Also, I am considering a server change to fediscience.org. Are there any (dis)advantages of fediscience.org vs. scholar.social except the blocking issue I mentioned above?

Thanks for your help!

Sascha WolferNov 9, 2022
Interviews for mass #media are a bit tricky. On the one hand, it‘s good to be be asked about your expertise (here: comprehensible legal #language) and promoting #linguistics to a large audience. On the other hand, you have to be able to bear funny stuff like wishing a good a morning in (especially incomprehensible) #legalese. I‘d say the positives outweigh the negatives. In the end, it‘s also a good thing to take your work not TOO seriously, right?
Sascha WolferNov 8, 2022

@rstats people! Could you please help me find a solution to this problem I have just posted on StackOverflow?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74364357/get-codes-for-lowered-forms-in-the-same-data-table-faster-implementation-wanted

It's about data.table and a faster implementation of a specific problem. Reproducible example is given. Thank you all so much!

Get codes for lowered forms in the same data.table: Faster implementation wanted

I have a data.table x with approx. 2M rows and 2 columns: entry and code. entry contains character values that might be repeated elsewhere in entry in lowered form. Also, all-lower entries exist, t...

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Sascha WolferNov 7, 2022
@ElenLeFoll @CzuloOliver At least it seems as if the network is getting modernized now. One can only hope that this indeed will change things in the near future!
Sascha WolferNov 7, 2022
@ElenLeFoll You are perfectly right. Especially, we should not blame or harass the employees of DB in the trains - I‘m seeing this far too often. Not so much in the typical „commuter trains“ I‘m taking most of the time.