Stephan Hurtubise

Linguist, in principle! Parameters may vary. Also writer, prompt engineer (it’s a thing), and director of @TheLingSpace.

[Stephan Hurtubise @GravityAllen]

My latest article on https://t.co/kYQvErN6el! With a section on technology inspired by one of @wavyphd’s latest videos, no less!

Comments most welcome.

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Did Scientists Really Have a Conversation With a Humpback Whale? New article on the Stated Clearly website by linguist, @GravityAllen

https://t.co/LBTEdBsdUt #biology

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@StatedClearly Hm. Not sure this is what you have in mind, but I’m not sure how they can claim
that later developmental milestones are generally learned instead of innate. It would seem there are plenty of counter-examples.

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@Leophilius @TheOutsiderHum1 Linguists?

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@MasterTimBlais Fish fish fish fish fish.

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@langofmind Only just saw this! Thanks for continuing to make wonderful videos!

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@StatedClearly @Philip_Goff @DrRupertS People gon’ be maaaaaad.

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Hey guys, it's finished: https://t.co/jTRZASeSf1

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@langofmind Do you know if the prosodic explanation supersedes this? Or are they independent factors?

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@langofmind Oh, I’d never encountered the prosodic mitigation of the centre embedding peoblem. I *had* encountered cases like this:

“The reporter everyone I know likes said the president won’t resign.”

The offered explanation being that there are fewer novel referents to track.

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@StatedClearly I know what you keep in your house, is how I know.

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@StatedClearly And so we can’t ever truly know what’s been selected for (and why).

I’m probably not fully doing the objection justice. But, then, I’m not sure how much justice can be done either.

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@StatedClearly This is inspired by (somewhat silly, in my view) philosophical objections I’ve encountered w.r.t. whether evolution has explanatory power. The objection. basically runs that traits are complex and rarely unitary – they come bundled with other properties.

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How did bacteria flagella evolve? Happy Darwin day! https://t.co/McBe0Bz2WS

@smartereveryday

Big thanks to Destin for sending out these lovely questions.

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Where does an ant colony keeps its brain? https://t.co/UrskdS5rnQ

Check the credits at the end ;)

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My friend Jon (@StatedClearly) wrote this!

Watch it!

https://t.co/ldvQJL863v

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@StatedClearly Which is a little jarring for a linguist, admittedly. Linguists do talk about content and information and the like, but don’t tend to think about it like an information theorist, since there’s no big incentive to pin it down and quantify it. At least, not from what I’ve seen.

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@StatedClearly The “bit” in the paper you mentioned isn’t from linguistics, but information theory. It’s a measure of “surprisal” – how expected or unexpected a given syllable is, relative to the syllables that came before; the more predictable (the less surprising), the less informative it is.

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The real biology of Pluribus: https://t.co/pBY69cCRwN

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@StatedClearly Sounds like you’re engaging in some Practical Philosophy.

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@StatedClearly @SciBugs Awesome.