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gganimate has reached the gapminder state of its development as transition_time() has been added #rstats p + ... + transition_time(year) + ease_aes('linear')

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Using the jupyter-matplotlib project, you can enable interactivity of Matplotlib figures in the Project Jupyter notebook and #jupyterlab. To get started: `pip install ipympl`. github.com/matplotlib/jup…

We just merged the new Video and Audio widgets into #ipywidgets's master branch !! Will be in the next release :)

A Brief Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers [237pp] From King's College London arxiv.org/abs/1709.02840

Here's the Autumn 2018 release of draft chapters for Speech and Language Processing! Enjoy! web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

Global-scale phylogenetic linguistic inference from lexical resources nature.com/articles/sdata…

We are looking forward to hosting the Perspectives on Word Order Evolution workshop this week, with keynotes from Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT Dr. Julia Uddén & Tatiana Nikitina! More info here: comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/events/work…

Bouckaert et al. review the latest BEAST 2 advancements with 'BEAST 2.5: An Advanced Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis' biorxiv.org/content/early/…

#language in Science Magazine! Huge congratulations to ISLE and @DeptCompLing members Damian Blasi, Steven Moran, Paul Widmer, @BalthasarBickel and colleagues Dan Dediu, Scott Moisik for this amazing work on the evolution of the human sound system! sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/a…

I quickly made this template for a #betterposter after seeing so many great examples led by Mike Morrison. This uses the {posterdown} #rstats package where you can create a beautifully designed poster, quickly and efficiently, using #markdown. See the 📦at github.com/brentthorne/po…

New article out with Simon Kirby Rob Truswell & @kennysmithed showing the emergence of compositional hierarchical structure in an #iteratedLearning exp via same cultural transmission mechanisms as #kirbyCornishSmith2008 w/ a more complex meaning space academic.oup.com/jole/advance-a…

Looking for a postdoc? Got an interest in linguistics and expertise in computational modelling? Join my ERC project "Syntax Shaped by Cognition" in beautiful Edinburgh. @UoE_CLE @EdinUniLEL vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecr…

New R package alert: chkptstanr Start and stop the MCMC sampler at will, and pick up right where it left off. Perfect for AWS "spot instances", among several other use cases... Fully compatible with brms, posterior, bayesplot, cmdstanr, etc.. donaldrwilliams.github.io/chkptstanr/

New paper!📌 The GeLaTo dataset (Genes and Languages Together) is out.🍦In this study we ask the question: are genes and languages transmitted in parallel? Darwin first predicted a correspondence between language classification and population history…pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New database #Grambank documents patterns of grammatical variation in over 2400 of the world’s #languages & shows their diversity. This project was initiated by the Dept. of Linguistic & Cultural Evolution MPI-EVA Leipzig. See: bit.ly/3mDOQWg & doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…

Logistic classification (regression…) defines fuzzy classification boundaries using the soft-max operator. At the heart of countless (most…) supervised learning classification approaches. Introduced by David Cox in 1956. nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/gpeyre/…

Can We Stop a ‘Mass Extinction’ of Human Languages: 95 percent of the global population represent 400 languages. That leaves five percent of the global population spread across 6,600 different languages, hundreds of them now spoken by less than ten people. bit.ly/2jhcV0s

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