Archive for Linguistics in the comics
LLMs, cats, and fig trees
The latest Questionable Content follows Yann LeCun:
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_ Mode
Mouseover title: "I think I accidentally installed an Overton window in my bedroom. A few months ago, the sun wasn't in my face in the morning, but now it is."
ICYMI: Wikipedia on "Overton Window".
More comically interesting: the menu of "Mode" choices now routinely displayed below the cartoon:
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TIL: "Sealioning"
Sealioning […] is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate",[9] and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings.[10] The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki, which The Independent called "the most apt description of Twitter you'll ever see".
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Pi(e) Day
I don't recall whether we've had anything interesting to say about "Pi Day", other than a reference to SMBC's "PIE Day" back in 2023.
Today's Frazz notes the adjacency to the Ides of March:
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ChatG(eppetto)P(inocchio)T
The start of today's SMBC:
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AI in education
Sunday's Doonesbury addresses possible restrictions on the use of AI in higher education. Here are the middle four panels:
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