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Simon J. Greenhill
@simongreenhill.bsky.social
I study how languages and cultures evolve. Primarily with phylogenies and other assorted computational methods. Based at @Biology_UoA. Never met a language phylogeny or a cultural phylogeny I didn't like. #phylolinguistics
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Wow. That requires an email to the handling editor to tell them that reviewer is bonkers

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"ethnographic present"

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Looking for examples for class of STRUCTURE/ADMIXTURE-style bar plot of hunter gather, early farmer, and steppe ancestry proportions for Europeans. Arranged temporally so it shows the various turn overs. Looking for something broad in temporal scope but simple enough to talk undergrads through.

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A study measured the performance of 800 developers before and after getting GitHub's Copilot. It found: - No change in productivity - No change in burnout levels - A 41% increase in the bug rate!?? Aren't you thrilled we're burning the world to power these AI models?

Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants
Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.

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music was the only thing that brought mum back. Even towards the end

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'The language universe is shrinking – can we stop it?' Interview with Evan Kidd on the importance of initiatives that document and help strengthen Australia’s first languages, and foster a multilingual future

The language universe is shrinking - can we stop it?
The language universe is shrinking - can we stop it?

Languages across the planet are disappearing at an alarming rate. Are multilingual societies key to reversing this trend?

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"Perceived gendered self-representation on Tinder using machine learning" now out in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications in the Sexuality, gender & society collection www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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“Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all Routledge Books data to Microsoft to train their AI”

Dr Ruth Alison Clemens
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UPDATE: yesterday @routledgebooks @tandfonline told all staff that it's extra important to meet 2024 targets as they have promised the LLM companies a quota of books for them to digest to train their Als. So if your editor is pushing you to meet that deadline, this is why!
a Dr Ruth Alison Clemens @Ruth... •17/07/2024
Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all @routledgebooks data to Microsoft to train their Al. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-in...
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Simon J. Greenhill
@simongreenhill.bsky.social
I study how languages and cultures evolve. Primarily with phylogenies and other assorted computational methods. Based at @Biology_UoA. Never met a language phylogeny or a cultural phylogeny I didn't like. #phylolinguistics
361 followers316 following168 posts