Elli E. Bourlai

Information Science, PhD • Computational Linguist

[Elli E. Bourlai @eebourlai]

@duolingo @alizwinters Hi @duolingo ! My bonus Idioms skill has disappeared too. Could I please get reimbursed for it? The username is ebourlai -thanks!

[Brenda Darden Wilkerson @BrendaDardenW]

Watching Malala Yousefzai right now at #vGHCEMEA. Amazing leader! #TogetherWeBuild @AnitaB_org

[Gretchen McCulloch now at @gretchenmcc.bsky.social @GretchenAMcC]

We're extremely excited to announce a pair of events on successive weeks:

#LingComm21, the International Conference on Linguistics Communication, April 19-23

#LingFest, a fringe-festival-style program of independently organized online pop linguistics events, April 24 to May 2

[Gretchen McCulloch now at @gretchenmcc.bsky.social @GretchenAMcC]

Just over a year ago, I played along with a meme tweet about how you'd run a fantasy convention if you were given hotel space and a budget

...and shortly after, physical conferences shut down. I forgot all about the meme tweet.

We were all, let's say, a little bit distracted.

[Elli E. Bourlai @eebourlai]

Now that I’ve stopped ugly crying, many MANY congratulations to @NASA and the @NASAPersevere team for their phenomenal work and today’s incredible achievement!

[NASA @NASA]

Touchdown confirmed. The #CountdownToMars is complete, but the mission is just beginning.

[NASA @NASA]

"That descent stage takes us all the way down to about 20 meters off the ground. That's when we start the skycrane maneuver."

Tomorrow is our @NASAPersevere rover's entry, descent and landing on Mars. Get ready: https://t.co/Y0O9T1rDov

[Greek Girls Code @GreekGirlsCode]

Hi everyone! This is Marily Nika (@marilynika). Here's how I got into tech: it started when I was 7. I found my brother's old BASIC programming book, and I started typing in commands to an old Amstrad machine. I created a little calculator, it was so much fun. I then discovered..

[Greek Girls Code @GreekGirlsCode]

Hi! My name is Marily Nika (@marilynika) and I'm a Speech AI Product Manager at Google, based in San Francisco. In 2014 I completed a PhD in Machine Learning and I've loved AI ever since. Taking over this week's tweets, looking forward to sharing my story with you! #womenintech

[Gretchen McCulloch now at @gretchenmcc.bsky.social @GretchenAMcC]

just used the phrase "left to our own devices" and future generations are never gonna believe that this phrase meant something other than "each of us on our own phone/computer" are they

[Elli E. Bourlai @eebourlai]

@MrsMRS_PhD @zephoria Hmm, I have seen the use of @ in pronoun/noun endings of Greek on social media, as in όποι@.

[Elli E. Bourlai @eebourlai]

@alyssa_linguist This is awesome -congrats! 🎉

[Rachel Thomas @math_rachel]

Like @cfiesler, I've gotten a lot of "It's not the algorithm, it's the training data" explanations/responses over the years (including IRL when I give talks), and I want to explain the problem with these 1/ [THREAD]

https://t.co/VtH8sexRUL

[Elli E. Bourlai @eebourlai]

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[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

Well, rewatching Lord of the Rings this year was... different.

Consider BILBO: just wants to finish his damn book; “butter spread over too much bread”; ages dramatically

[NASA @NASA]

🚀LAUNCH SUCCESS! 🐉

The latest @SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft is now on its way to the @Space_Station with more than 6,400 pounds of science investigations and a shiny new airlock! https://t.co/ew1cJJ2dhd

[Gretchen McCulloch now at @gretchenmcc.bsky.social @GretchenAMcC]

Zoom meetings and book clubs and coffee dates are fine. But unstructured Zoom parties are still so painfully awkward.

Surely we can do better?

I wrote for @WIRED about how to make virtual parties feel real, just in time for the holidays
https://t.co/AwBLYxeeYN

[Gretchen McCulloch now at @gretchenmcc.bsky.social @GretchenAMcC]

Study finds no association between smartphone use and mental health issues if you actually measure people's usage, but does find relationship if you just ask people to report their usage, suggesting that people are projecting their worries onto technology (full text at link)

[Elli E. Bourlai @eebourlai]

Only made it to 30K for #nanowrimo2020. I’m still in the process of recovering my lost joy in reading/writing after my dissertation, so I think it went okay? 😬
More importantly, this novel is finally taking shape and moving forward!

[Dr. Casey Fiesler is no longer on here @cfiesler]

happy unsubscribe-to-all-the-shopping-email-lists-you-didn't-realize-you-were-on day!