Josef Fruehwald
@jofrhwld.bsky.social
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i’m a linguist. he/him
https://jofrhwld.github.io/
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Check out the docs & intro tutorials for new-fave!
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new-fave
https://forced-alignment-and-vowel-extraction.github.io/new-fave/
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david tennant is entering the game
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based on my tiktok feed, it’s the season for Americans to realize that the same quantitative temperature is qualitatively hotter in the UK
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a giant malicious terror looming over us is very of the moment I guess
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hearbreaking
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healing my inner child by playing Riven with a walkthrough
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saw a TikTok of a teen showing her dad music made by a Weird A.I. that takes popular songs and creates spoofs of them, called like “Fat” and “Amish Paradise”
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any ideas why in BG3 my sister playing on PC sees her character name as “Abigal E Abbey”, but i see it on console as “Abigal * Abb*y”?
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"You expect every author to check every citation and make sure every citation is real and accurate?" what is GOING ON!
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Just a little post where I work through the implications of estimating direct effects on the *predictions* of the model. Like you can see in the share card, sometimes you'll get predicted values that look really atypical for the sample.
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Getting predictions when estimating direct vs total effects. – Væl Space
https://jofrhwld.github.io/blog/posts/2026/05/2026-05-15_total-vs-direct-predictions/
22 days ago
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if you were ever annoyed by “6-7”, don’t worry, it’s over:
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22 days ago
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sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about
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broke: two spaces after each sentence woke: one space after each sentence bespoke: a newline after each sentence
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Make it make sense
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I started singing the Pokémon them song to my 7yo nephew, then realized he might not know it. To ask if he knew it I said “Does the Pokémon theme song mean anything to you?” He said “Yeah. Empathy and hard work.”
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an rlang update caused warnings to start throwing on tidynorm and 1) *rlang* devs opened an issue on tidynorm about it 2) CRAN gave me a deadline to address it or tidynorm would be pulled. the python ecosystem could never
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of all course notes I've written up, I think I'm proudest of these about "What is a mean?"
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What is a mean? – Lin611-2024
Let’s say I gave you these values on a number line:
https://lin611-2024.github.io/notes/meetings/2024-09-25_mean-sd.html
29 days ago
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you know what, I'm *not* going to re-grade an entire semester's worth of coursework before the monday deadline, which has not been shifted.
29 days ago
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looking at my context, it’s kind of nuts that I continue not to regret getting out of the U.K. [🇬🇧]
29 days ago
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hot tip: you wanna reduce your standard deviation? just sort it in ascending order!
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30 days ago
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Now on LingMethodsHub,
@rpuggaardrode.bsky.social
's tutorial on multitaper spectra in R!
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Generating and analyzing multitaper spectra in R – LingMethodsHub
This is a tutorial showing how to generate multitaper spectra in R and how to compute spectral moments and DCT coefficients from multitaper spectra.
https://lingmethodshub.github.io/content/R/multitaper-tutorial/
30 days ago
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I would 100% this was cockney rhyming slang
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30 days ago
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imagining a ttrpg built around Muscular, Cerebral, Resipiratory and Digestive ability scores
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about 1 month ago
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LingMethodsHub has been in need of some devops TLC for a while, and I finally got around to it! To make sure things are working as intended, I've put together this tutorial on using
@vincentab.bsky.social
's {marginaleffects} package!
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Using {marginaleffects} to understand statistical models – LingMethodsHub
This is a tutorial about how to use the {marginaleffects} package to extract and plot predictions of interest from a statistical model.
https://lingmethodshub.github.io/content/R/using-marginal-effects/
about 1 month ago
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an AI would not have giggled to itself while doing this.
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about 1 month ago
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Both me and my sis’ strategy for our Honor Mode BG3 run relies on Elixirs of Hill Giant, so we’ve been very strategic with leveling, cause Auntie Ethel’s stock replenishes every time a character levels up. And then tonight, my sis pickpocketed back *47k gold”
about 1 month ago
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WIP of my favorite that-guy Jared Harris
about 1 month ago
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has anyone written about emo palatalization?
about 1 month ago
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they are allowed to
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about 1 month ago
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Is it the system prompt or the RHLF that makes them sound the way they sound? I doubt the training data was entirely insipid LinkedIn posts
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about 1 month ago
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sometimes I think about how my greatest societal impact is accidentally creating an urban legend about Mario
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Mario's Catchphrase Is 'Itsumi Mario,' Meaning 'Super Mario' in Japanese?
Social media users claimed "Itsumi" meant "super" in Japanese and therefore Mario's catchphrase was the name of the Nintendo game he was featured in.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mario-itsumi-nintendo-catchphrase/
about 1 month ago
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got an email from a casting agency looking for slang experts for a video series with Duolingo. I politely declined citing the termination of language and curriculum experts in favor of an "AI first" approach.
about 1 month ago
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trying to bring the energy this guy deserves to a D&D session isn’t easy
about 1 month ago
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people getting their outrage crosswires is always interesting
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reposted by
Josef Fruehwald
teej
about 2 months ago
i love living in the first village of an rpg man. friendly neighbors, music is chill af, we even got that one kid we adopted into the village of whom the ancient prophecy was written about. anyway there’s a big ceremony tomorrow can't wait to still be alive after it
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Josef Fruehwald
Mark Dingemanse
about 2 months ago
It's okay, you don't need my permission
ideophone.org/dont-seek-pe...
As for what I do or do not realize about LLMs, feel free to peruse my work
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
or that of colleagues like
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Don’t seek permission, center values
When you're enamoured of a technology and someone points out important ethical challenges, a typical reflex is to seek permission:…
https://ideophone.org/dont-seek-permission-center-values/
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just ocurred to me you could model any ratio with a log-link and an offset brm( bill_len ~ species + offset(log(bill_dep)), data = penguins, family = gaussian(link = "log") )
about 2 months ago
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a DMing thing i’ve started doing: I realized i don’t like playing D&D against myself, so when there are friendly NPCs in the party and combat begins, they’ll call out “what should I do?” and whichever PC answers, i hand over the stat block for them to run
about 2 months ago
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has anyone ever *not* had divergent transitions on a real model with the default adapt_delta?
about 2 months ago
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i was gonna joke, but telling people that english has more than 5 vowels (and they're not AEIOU) is shocking enough to some students that they never incorporate it into their knowledge of the world...
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about 2 months ago
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when getting predictions from brms models, does `re_formula = NA` also remove random-factor smooths?
about 2 months ago
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ok, an ettiquite q: in analyzing a data set on OSF, i’ve found that a poppy result is probably much less reliable than reported in a paper (absolutely no indication of fraud or statistical malpractice). I think it’s maybe worth writing up *why*, but what’s the best first step?
about 2 months ago
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acquiring multidialectal competence sets you up for surprise humorous moments no one else around you will get
about 2 months ago
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Next they’ll partner with Charmin for the people who need to ask a chatbot how to wipe their ass
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about 2 months ago
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is it a sign of a rational market when a shoe maker says they're AI now and their stock increases (at time of writing) 700%?
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about 2 months ago
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At this rate, we’ll stop speaking altogether by 2050! (… this has the whiff of statistical anomaly about it, but I’ll have to dig into it later)
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about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Josef Fruehwald
CJ
about 2 months ago
Three years ago I pointed out some things that were bad about AI. Basically none of them have changed. Many things have gotten worse. Among other things, the attack on labor has intensified. Here's why to resist dehumanizing your work:
www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cxjacobs/Bl...
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oh shit, oh sorry! oh god i’m making it worse now? Shit, sorry!
about 2 months ago
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in response to a survey asking authors if they intentionally put symbolism in their novels, Iris Murdoch said “There is much more symbolism in ordinary life than some critics seem to realize.”
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about 2 months ago
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Microsoft, to its billions of customers
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about 2 months ago
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fwiw, i started drafting my blog post about LLMs weeks ago and only got around to finishing it a few days ago. its timing with the AI guy crashing out is completely coincidental
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