æʃliŋ, loaf of autismo @aescling@cat.family

@coriander @wallhackio not to be on brand but i’ve loved a lot of what i have read of Mao

@wallhackio @coriander i love ideas of unclear purracticality but unarguable application like type theory

@wallhackio @coriander honestly ML’s not one of the things that has excited me but i’ve never studied the underlying theory either

@wallhackio @coriander *Calvin of and Hobbes voice* cattifying weirds language

@wallhackio @coriander i feel like “furmal” is one of my pretty common cattifications

@coriander i’ll fully admit part of this is like, pettiness, but LLMs feel like the industry smashing a giant hellish probabalistic sledgehammer to Ideas and Theory and Math that excite me. and it makes me so sad

@coriander i somewhat contest this because it depends on how you define “best”; LLMs are not remotely informed by Real Linguistic Theory and you can go pretty interesting places translating that shit into something computers understand. (machine learning can even be done in ways that is at least infurmed by ideas in the field; i’ve done contact work annotating sentences fur some kind of speech recognition system that never ended up going anywhere…) which honestly just makes LLMs piss me off way more; it’s just the completely wrong direction fur this kind of research and application imo

@coriander it’s WORTH exploring language with computers, it leads to a bunch of really interesting ideas. computational semantics is cool as shit. but hell if anything has gotten solved

@coriander decades if not centuries of research into furmal models of language have only ever yielded more questions than answers

@vaporeon_ oh! how long have you been using he/him fur, i just noticed it’s been added to your purrofile

@wallhackio sucks fur you that you’re not Water Absorb (bans you via Hydro Pump)

@vaporeon_ vap vap vap, vap-vap

@vaporeon_ *Vaporeoning Vaporeonly, in the most Vaporeon manner imaginable* Vaporeon :3

@vaporeon_ i think it’s great that you’re named Vaporeon, fur what it’s worth

the reason i adopted cat as a name was the most mundane one pawsible but i don’t regret it in the least

slaps my big fishy tail on the ground like in that one tontaro image

@wallhackio they’re nervous about the Horsepuncher being near