While I enjoy (and crave) the waves (of time) that make my brain obsess over things which bring me immense joy to the point I neglect essentials (food and water), what follows is a hard learned crash where I have no energy (or dopamine) left to give to anything!
I am currently at the stage from where I admire the software world from outside, trying to be competent one day at a time. The author is a badass for landing tailscale!
While mapping vector embeddings of arXiv abstracts, I came across some surprising clusters that I hadn’t seen before. This post is an attempt to dig deeper into what they might represent.
FYI, the link to the previous blog post is broken. You may also want to add a link to the blog's landing page somewhere near the top.
On the content itself, have you tried to find pairs of abstracts from the two clusters that differ as little as possible along the other dimensions, to see what's different about them?
I recently got to know about this[^1] paper that differentiates between 'uh' and 'um'.
> The proposal examined here is that speakers use uh and um to announce that they are initiating what they expect to be a minor (uh), or major (um), delay in speaking. Speakers can use these announcements in turn to implicate, for example, that they are searching for a word, are deciding what to say next, want to keep the floor, or want to cede the floor. Evidence for the proposal comes from several large corpora of spontaneous speech. The evidence shows that speakers monitor their speech plans for upcoming delays worthy of comment. When they discover such a delay, they formulate where and how to suspend speaking, which item to produce (uh or um), whether to attach it as a clitic onto the previous word (as in “and-uh”), and whether to prolong it. The argument is that uh and um are conventional English words, and speakers plan for, formulate, and produce them just as they would any word.
I hate when you get "out of sync" with someone for a whole conversation. I imagine sine ways on an occilloscope and there they just slightly out of phase.
You nearly have to do a hard reset to get things comforatble - walk out of the room, ring the back.
But some people are just out of sync with the world.
The link is broken though and you may want to remove the `:` at the end.
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