NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines.
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi, languages, big data, algorithms, software design, and more, including #EthicalAI
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y'all; migrating from here to @trochee over the next few hours
feels like moving from one centenal to another. I'm grateful to the maintainers of dot-social for giving me a straightforward place to land, and I feel like dair-community has a governance philosophy that I'm more enthusiastic about.
that doesn't mean you're wrong if you're on dot-social! I'm still in agreement for the greater "yes" #infomocracy federated future but I want a "home-base" where I can have better representation
@aaron i count psycholinguistic research as a "downstream task" !
but I hear you how NLPers, especially industry NLPers like me, can get dismissive fast about things that don't do well on leaderboards or commercial applications
I'm going to keep sharing this info until it sinks in.
Young voters do not get significantly more or less politically activated. Voter suppression gets more or less effective. Ballot drop boxes and mail-in voting, prevents suppression.
People do not become more conservative as they get older. There is not an increasing difference between white GOP and Dem voters as they get older.
Black people don't live long, and many brown voters aren't born yet
Sorry to be snarky, but i read this as a solution looking for a problem
What problem is an OTS propbank role labeler solving?
I heard there was a secret note
That William Carlos Williams wrote
But you don't really care for sorries, do you?
It goes like this, they're cold, they're sweet
You saved them for a breakfast treat
But from your fridge, I took the plums and screwed you.
@paninid Thank you for the work that you do and did! But I think it's better to address the real issue.
Explaining to young folk struggling to make rent why they should take a day off of work to stand in line for 10 hours in the rain to vote, is not as effective as asking the questions "Why is it 10 hours? Why are they standing in the rain? Why do they have to remember a specific day? Why are there men with guns and Confederate flags?"
This is why I, and so many other Black voters, are so often right about who is going to win a US election, and your favorite statistician, or election pundit, is so often wrong.
Your polls don't matter. Campaign promises don't matter. It's all about turnout. And turnout is all about voter suppression. And voter suppression is all about racism.
Without understanding US racism, your election predictions will always be woefully wrong.
Mekka 
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