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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I think it's fascinating that things like "a", "an", and other smaller discourse particles just get totally wiped out in LLM style analyses of language. Unless they don't? Correct me please!!

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I really appreciate how much natural light we get in my department’s new space…

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

at least as the sole mechanism, so LLMs are participating in this human enterprise without the full scope of human cognitive capacity... it’s almost easier to imagine each AI model as a strange individual human with their own personality quirks w/r/t linguistic behaviors.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

So does anyone think LLMs are “doing language?” In one sense, yes, because what they are outputting is language. In another sense, I am not convinced there is a human out there that “does” language using transformers or diffusion …

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Y'know, since ideology shapes our understanding of at least our social reality, and language is the primary vehicle of ideology, I can't help but think about a fun conversation between Zizek and Whorf.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

splurging for the laptop with the touch screen was a great choice

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"To act intelligently and see intelligently become one" - C. S. Peirce

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The way you describe wolves howling in Mohawk, kontiwén:note, literally means they (konti) are standing (ote) the words (wenn) up. It is the same word for talking about a group of people speaking. #kanienkeha #linguistics #indigenous

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Dan Everett writing a biography on C. S. Peirce does not surprise me: Peirce's semiotic theory is probably the most significant possible challenger to Chomskyan thought about language. I would recommend reading Peirce. #cspeirce

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

LMAO wow, ok — yes these two names are very helpful in understanding this table of contents

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Today, I repaired my broken pair of glasses (pictured) today, and relieved myself of the headache my contacts were giving me. 🤓

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Anyone got a good youtube about the Minimalist program of linguistics? Or a podcast. ngl I'm into Lakoff/embodied cognition and Peircean semiotics. How is this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJSz... #linguistics #minimalism #chomsky

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Noam Chomsky, Genuine Explanation and the Strong Minimalist Thesis (MIT Linguistics Colloquium)

YouTube video by Abdessamia Bencheikh

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A community of settlers claiming to be Indigenous were recognized by the state of Vermont ten years ago, but it has come to light that the Vermont state legislature made a wrong call, and, imo, ought to rectify it: vtdigger.org/2025/02/20/a...

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At contentious Statehouse panel, Abenaki leaders urge lawmakers to reconsider recognition of Vermont groups - VTDigger

The event was hosted by Rep. Troy Headrick, I-Burlington, who plans to introduce a bill that would set up a task force to review past tribal recognition decisions in the state.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Yeah, or if I’m shaking a dog’s hand / paw. I’m actually good calling it either of those in that situation, but not foot. Lol

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

My current method is to grade them with the same rubric and just make sure to penalize AI misuse just as I would other kinds of factual or structural errors. I also let them know if they write something they don’t want to read, I don’t want to read it, either.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Ok, so here’s a question. I have an undergrad course, I assign my students a 500-word response paper. They are allowed to use AI as long as they disclose AI. Should the AI and non-AI papers be graded with the same, or a different rubric?

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

"Do not block the way of inquiry." - C. S. Peirce, 1899

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

also a win: managed to switch my dad’s tv preferences from fox to msnbc, which had a good bit on about history and the war in Ukraine

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The presence of Ohio as a (meme) word in a significant amount of the populations’s vocabulary means that this same population is now highly cognizant of a word of Iroquoian origin - ohí:yo’ “beautiful river” #linguistics

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The only reason people want humanoid robots is because they want indentured servants, they have a god complex or both. A human is such a stupid design for a robot. However, most other animals (birds, snakes, fish) are cool designs for robots.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Just used Zoom's AI summary for some meetings I had yesterday. I don't think I lost anything in using it. Mentally correcting the notes it sent after the meeting helped me consolidate my memory, even.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I'm glad the judge is making them listen to it even though they don't want to hear it.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

got the reviews of my book back from the press... I should have a contract in March!

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Got my reviews for the first chapter of my book, and I will hopefully have a publishing contract in hand sooner than later!

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The coke economy is huge, so. Y'know.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I occasionally enjoy watching other people get lectured for know-it-all questions.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The first chapter using sexual violence as an example leaves a very bad taste in my mouth though. The book moves on from that but I'm just like... wow.. any other example involving the body? Like, hunger as a force or something.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Lakoff's Philosophy in the Flesh is dope. I am just now getting into Mark Johnson's Body in the Mind and it is very good.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Machines shouldn't be used to make aesthetic decisions, i.e. decisions where there are multiple rational, correct choices. The thing is, you use machines to get you to that point, and part of being human (or, what makes you, you) is making the aesthetic decisions yourself.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I don't like the that Google AI/spellcheck in Docs told me to prefer sentence A over sentence B. A: Today we will look at the work you completed. B: Today we will look at the work you finished. It's a purely stylistic thing; I would have a very hard time finding a context where this mattered.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

www.wivb.com/news/local-n... RIP to a good venue. Although the last few shows I went to, it was pretty dead... in the past they turned the Xtreme Wheels (a venue I used to go to in my teens) into condos! Buffalo is definitely changing.

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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I feel like Catch 22 is one of the most obviously leftist books just bc the protagonist is a smart guy who understands the insanity around him in perfect clarity, but nobody takes him seriously because it's also turned him into a miserable, high-strung neurotic And what's more leftist than that

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I love listening to random language pedagogy on like FB or TikTok… hearing a Chinese instructor label the English pronoun system as more complicated than Chinese’s seven character pronoun system really puts things in perspective.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It’s really cool when games make smoke grenades good!

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

the mechanics in the magic: the gathering online set that just dropped are a blast!!

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Goad (Legal Expert) @goad.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Looks like it's a transgender snow storm in Virginia.

map of Virginia with snow accumulation totals that is color coded in pink, blue, and white.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

yep, it's how commodifiable something is

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It seems like it would be kind of tough to develop an AI+ course using only Indigenous Studies. It feels like bringing in other disciplines to make an AI+Relationality (which I'm already using for a class!!) would work.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The local Burger King is again open for 24 hours. Nature is healing.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The local parks people plowed about a .5 mile corridor of the walking path at the park I usually go to and it made my day! I will usually just walk in the snow but this was a lot more pleasant.

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Watching the Chiefs lose feels great tbh

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This year’s superbowl commercials (on Tubi, for what that’s worth) seem a lot more crass and uncomplicated .. go Philadelphia lol

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’ve been thinking about charts and other representations in language. Like, Iroquoian languages have a huge prefix system: what are the modes of visual representation of linguistic structure, and which are interesting or good fitting? I think the default mode is a list or table, but sometimes not..

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montgomery hill @doctormont.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Lakoff’s idea of Idealized Cognitive Models is super interesting, especially because I think it shows the divergence in the concepts of “idealized” and “best fit”. i.e. to say a model is “more ideal” is not the same thing as saying as “more accurate (or other preference”…

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