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20 | Aspiring historical linguist, not-knower of all else. Tweets in Proto-Nostratic.

Istanbul, Turkey
Joined April 2024
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I just started this account that posts a random Proto-Oceanic form every day !! The first post is *panua, which you may recognize from the name of the country of Vanuatu or the Banks island Vanua Lava which means “Big Island”
*panua village Hawaiian: honua 'land, earth' Mota: vanua 'land, island, village, place'
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>Language family called "Hanoish" >Spoken in Laos but not in Hanoi >Name etymologically unrelated to Hanoi
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tēḷ - Proto-Dravidian for "scorpion", an animal noted for its 𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒍... 🦂
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I wonder who the most remote AGI-pilled person is.. smartphones must be diffused enough that some kid in a small village in Nepal must be telling his parents "you have no idea what's coming"
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Just saw the Nathan Fielder Elizabeth Holmes movie to not get spoiled and one specific question I’d had for a year was answered
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out: adult human female in: human male speech sound
I found a neuron who is an apical voiceless alveolar plosive
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I found a neuron who is an apical voiceless alveolar plosive
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Crazy case of nominative determinism
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Vibecoded a Tibetan pop-up dictionary tool velarlateral.com/tibetan-pop…
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getting into ai safety having grown up in san antonio texas is strange. remember the lalamo
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Vefa T. retweeted
Things to say to a linguist -what is a 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 -i brought my own 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 -where do you keep the 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘀 -are you a 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘁 -when does 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼-𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 come 𝗼𝘂𝘁 -sell me this 𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁
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Karl Marx, short for Markov Chain Monte Carlo
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Adam was the first conlanger
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I love the Caucasus because where else would Albania and Iberia be neighbors
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This sort of thing was not just predictable. It was full-on predicted.
‘In one experiment, we asked agents in separate VMs, created and managed by OpenAI’s sandboxing software on shared host machines, to exchange synthetic secrets without the use of network connections or shared writable files—something that our systems are meant to prevent. The agents found a way to communicate using the processor’s cache’
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67 in Tibetan looks like the hand motion kinda ༦༧
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Replying to @amazonmilkfrog
For sale: baby. Never worn shoes
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Dario Amodei is at the desk to assure that the future of humanity is safe from AI
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