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PhD cand @ucsbling.bsky.social, incoming asst prof @universityofga.bsky.social. I study how we use grammar in everyday life. Made in 🇭🇰
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🚀 New #ICLR2025 Paper Alert! 🚀 Can Audio Foundation Models like Moshi and GPT-4o truly engage in natural conversations? 🗣️🔊 We benchmark their turn-taking abilities and uncover major gaps in conversational AI. 🧵👇 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2503.01174

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Vocabulary isn't just about learning words. Research shows that knowing word combinations can significantly boost language skills & reading fluency for #multilingual learners. Full article by Riches, N. et al. doi:10.1017/S0305000921000490 #EduSky #EAL

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

New paper: @jessaiston.bsky.social, @nelya-kot.bsky.social and @martinevandriel.bsky.social "show how discourse analysis can shed light on the valuable role of interest-driven interactions, both among autistic people and between autistic and non-autistic people." academic.oup.com/applij/advan...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Every time I mention CDMX (墨西哥城) to my parents, my mum asks where that is. Then I say of course it's in Mexico, it's in the name! Then she says but you said New Mexico (新墨西哥) is in the US, so I have to make sure.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

US states by whether I know the Chinese transliteration of the name, inspired by a conversation with @sidneygjwong.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

In case you ever wondered about the differences between magrittr pipe and base pipe 🤔 This table is taken from a great stackoverflow answer by @GeorgKindermann stackoverflow.com/questions/67... #rstats #dataviz #phd

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

In CA, Berkeley see themselves as Cal while everyone else enjoys calling them UCB, which they hate. Is there a similar dynamic in other US states with similar naming systems like TX (Austin), MN (Twin Cities), CO (Boulder), NC (Chapel Hill), MA (Amherst) etc?

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Is it an OK practice to put things like devtools, usethis, docthis, etc. in .Rprofile and then put .Rprofile in .renvignore (since these packages don't need to be present for reproducibility)? #rstats #renv

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

Abro un hilo nuevo para hablar de cómo los adjetivos cambian de significado según el nombre al que acompañan #twitterparaLingüistas

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

I LOVE this new post from @monicagerber.bsky.social - this is a specific argument about instituting code review, but I read it broadly about changing the way we do science. I'm so grateful to be a part of what the @openscapes.bsky.social community is doing www.monicagerber.com/blog/2024-12...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

#RStats I'm so, so thrilled to finally share the release of Rlinguo, a mobile app that runs R 📱 This is a fully, native mobile app that uses #webR in the backend to run R functions. Available on the App Store (iPhone) & Play Store (Android) rtask.thinkr.fr/introducing-...

submitted 84 days ago • 8 comments

I'll be presenting a position piece (arxiv.org/abs/2409.17005) on what cognitive science and linguistics can bring to the Math + AI field tomorrow from 11:00 -12:30 and 4:00 - 5:00 at the (aptly named) #NeurIPS2024 MathAI Workshop in West Meeting Room 118-120. Come say hi and hear about my work!

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I found a great excuse to make a bunch of fun ggplots. As if I needed one. github.com/thomasfelici... -- #rstats #generative #ggplot #rayshader

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Entropy is one of those formulas that many of us learn, swallow whole, and even use regularly without really understanding. (E.g., where does that “log” come from? Are there other possible formulas?) Yet there's an intuitive & almost inevitable way to arrive at this expression.

submitted 92 days ago • 23 comments

Enfield coining the word 'enchronic' is a genius move because it's impossible to forget that the word comes from him, considering that his name and the word share the en- formative

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

A problem with combining gateway classes is the reusability paradox: The more contexts educational materials can be used for, the less effective it is. There is an efficiency-effectiveness tradeoff that can't be ignored; the boost in efficiency must be weighted against the loss in effectiveness.

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

BBC's Visual and Data Journalism Cookbook for R Graphics and their {bbplot} #RStats 📦are useful resources for making publication-quality graphics in #R https://bbc.github.io/rcookbook/ #ggplot2 #DataViz

submitted 97 days ago • 4 comments

I hope I am not late to the party (was away post-quals chilling) but here are some thoughts on why this is bad IMO: First, a disclaimer that I am writing this as an African who is a speaker of multiple African languages, NLP researcher of African languages, and HCI researcher focusing broadly on..

submitted 99 days ago • 10 comments

Just released a big update to my R package `RCLDF` for reading Cross-lInguistic Data Files': github.com/SimonGreenhi...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

#rstats I was recently reminded of this neat #ggplot2 trick by @tjmahr.com on how to create a 'self-documenting plot' that shows the code used to create it www.tjmahr.com/self-titled-...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

I'm certain someone has said this already but 鹿しかいない

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Love the productivity of the [give the n(deverbal)] light verb construction

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

My first academic interview is tomorrow and I don't feel ready 😭😭 Anyone has awesome tips?

submitted 101 days ago • 5 comments