ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online
I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players
ssh snakes.run to join!
We visualize the Olympic medal count as Norwegian-style scarf. :) 📊
Check out how Germany looks like and generate your own scarf – including download of the knitting pattern.
We were excited to host @naitian.org at today’s lab seminar for a talk on variation, semiotics, fashion, and style. A refreshing perspective at the intersection of sociolinguistics and NLP!
#NLProc
Claude Code says that it has been Canoodling for 2 minutes and 46 seconds.
ew why is claude doing that
(And prob need to refine those thoughts some more anyway)
And I’d go a step further and say that I believe “position papers” are a useful / unique avenue for interdisciplinary work to get picked up (and that, e.g., HCI papers that aren’t position papers are maybe definitionally more disciplinary), but I don’t really wanna get into the weeds of that on bsky
Ya I was being kinda flippant in the original post — but I think the existence claim is true, that there are interdisciplinary theoretical papers that are branded as position papers.
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If by position paper you mean papers that are “just, like, your opinion, man”, I think that’s not what most (self-declared) position papers are. If you mean papers that are extending a theoretical argument without any math, that‘s kind of my point.
(Ok maybe not “just”, but certainly that is one of its uses, and lines up w/ the distribution of subfields here) (I can’t help but hedge on the spooky scary internet)
“Position paper” is just a label to make some kinds of interdisciplinary theoretical work fit into the CS publishing schema.
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Screenshot of Apple weather app for Berkeley, CA with a warning for an “extreme cold watch”. Today shows currently mostly sunny 53 degrees with a high of 57 and low of 48.
I just got back from Michigan and—
Showing this to everyone that I meet at a conference that thinks I’m an extrovert
Excited to get this work out in the world at #chr2025 (with Sabrina Baur, Mackenzie Cramer, Anna Ho and Tom McEnaney) -- asking: how much do contemporary songs tell stories, and how has that changed over the past half century?
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Keeping this at hand in case I need to point to it and tap
New grant program announcement: You've heard me talk this morning about those 23 new DH awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program? Well, we just announced our new RFP for 2026! Teams can be global too! Please consider applying. RFP here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...
Slide showing significant differences in implicit references to bible verses by US political parties
Lavinia Dunagan and @dallascard.bsky.social find implicit references to bible verses using a combination of neural embeddings and text similarity—neither is enough on its own #CHR2025
Awesome, the Edinburgh HCRC map task corpus 30 years later without the insane "different maps" complication.
Of course, not really fully embodied, but at least spatial, and super well controlled. #AI
Here's the older one: groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/maptask/
via @zaqdelinguist.bsky.social
This looks really interesting. Seems primarily targeted at cog-sci and/or linguistics research, with Portal 2 just the example problem-solving domain, but probably also of interest to game-studies and game-AI people.
some of them are football games and some of them are… football games, but different
Yes! All credit to @teaywright.bsky.social!
We hope this corpus will be useful for linguists, cognitive scientists, or anyone else who wants to study language use in complex + goal-oriented environments! You can explore our data here:
Data explorer: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo...
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCQw...
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Figure from the paper which shows how, for difficult tasks, directives and options tend to increase immediately before tasks are completed and drop afterwards, whereas the inverse is true for confirmations and expressives.
We also provide dialogue act annotations and timestamps of when players completed subtasks for each level. We can use these annotations to show that, e.g., directives are more common before the completion of hard tasks, while confirmations are more common after. 3/n
Many linguistic phenomena like spatial reference or convention formation are underrepresented in existing datasets, because they’re not embodied in complex or goal-oriented environments. In this clip, players combine both language and movement to successfully establish left vs right. 2/n
A figure demonstrating the different aspects of the corpus described in the tweet. There is a main isomorphic 3D view of a level in the Portal 2 co-op game, with some portals, lasers, and the blue and orange players. Inset, there are first-person captures of the blue and orange player views. There is also a box containing the transcribed dialogue with timestamps and labels for the discursive acts. Finally, there is a box containing a task and a list of subtasks. Some subtasks are already crossed out, with the time that they have been completed. The last subtask ("Player 2 places portal 4 on wall 4") is marked incomplete. The dialogue is as follows: Blue: Can you put your other portal up here? (tagged as directive) Orange: Where? (tagged as request for clarification) Blue: On uh, on this wall. (tagged as directive) Blue: So that it uh points at the circle. (tagged as directive) Orange: Okay. (tagged as commit) The full list of subtasks is: Task: Redirect lasers Subtask: Player 1 places portal 1 on wall 1. (completed) Subtask: Player 1 polaces portal 2 on wall 2 or 3. (completed) Subtask: Player 2 places portal 3 opposite of portal 2. (completed) Subtask: Player 2 places portal 4 on wall 4. (incomplete)
A couple years (!) in the making: we’re releasing a new corpus of embodied, collaborative problem solving dialogues. We paid 36 people to play Portal 2’s co-op mode and collected their speech + game recordings.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03381
Website: berkeley-nlp.github.io/portal-dialo...
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Oh how I yearn for happier days
The pelican looks great but the bike is completely absent; I’d give it a 3/10 at best.
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
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No better time to start learning about that #AI thing everyone's talking about...
📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social!
If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!
