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Linguistics and Data Science
Personal blog · makingnoiseandhearingthings.comdatascience
Linguistics and Data Science is a personal blog at makingnoiseandhearingthings.com about data and science. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this linguistics and data science blog for posts on emoji as a form of language and on bias in health technology and AI training data, such as a 2016 post on Google's data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Linguistics and Data Science
What Hacker News says?
Like this one: https://makingnoiseandhearingthings.com/2016/07/12/googles-s... AI/ML inherits the bias from it's trainers - this is pretty well accepted.
Comment linking /2016/07/12/googles-speech-recognition-has-a-gender-bias/
on “The health-technology sector overlooks women and their bodies”Submitted Is there a difference between frosting and icing? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFrom the post: Since emojis often bear graphic resemblances to our real faces, the understanding has often been that there would be no problems in interpreting them, and that the sender and the recipient would agree on such interpretation. As someone fairly immersed in the emoji community, this is a strawman argument (i.e., no one really tries to argue this). People love and use emoji not in spite of their ambiguity…
Comment linking /2016/12/07/do-emojis-have-their-own-syntax/
on “Why emojis are failing to evolve into a form of language”Submitted Large language models cannot replace mental health professionals as a story · 2 points
HN discussion