New horizons in word sense analysis
Mouseover title: IMO the thymus is one of the coolest organs and we should really use it in metaphors more."
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Archive for Linguistics in the comics
IRL reverse dictionary
… or maybe I should say "associative memory"? Or whatever we should call the emerging modes of interaction with Meta Ray-Bans? Anyhow, here's a recently re-published Girls With Slingshots comic (original in 2008):
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Mathematical synchronicity in the comics
(…with a bit of philosophy and psychiatry in the mix…)
Dinosaur Comics for 6/17/2024:
The same day's xkcd — "Pascal's Wager Triangle":
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xkcd: Fluid Speech
Today's xkcd is (or should be) the illustration for a week or two in every introductory course on the sound side of language:
Mouseover text: "Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay."
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Bloom filters
Today's xkcd:
According to Wikipedia,
A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure, conceived by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970, that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not – in other words, a query returns either "possibly in set" or "definitely not in set". […]
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New worlds, words, and letters
A recent strip from Dinosaur Comics:
Mouseover title: "stop, you fool! you're building a world far too quickly and far too awesome! no narrative will ever live up to it!!"
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