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To help explain the weirdness of LLM Tokenization I thought it could be amusing to translate every token to a unique emoji. This is a lot closer to truth - each token is basically its own little hieroglyph and the LLM has to learn (from scratch) what it all means based on

2-year funded postdoc positions in Konstanz! Linguists who are interested are welcome to ask me for more information.

I have a post-doc position available for 5 months in this project: tinyurl.com/376byn8n Remote work with occasional visits to Konstanz can be considered. The starting date is 1 December or soon thereafter. Send me your CV with informal motivation email if interested!

Calling PhD students in #Classics! Together with my friend Daniele Borkowski, I will be the convenor of the Lyceum Classics Community Seminars (LCCS) 2024/2025. The doctoral seminars will be international and will mostly take place online. Call for abstracts here: ucllyceumseminar.wordpress.com/call-for-abstr…. Spread the word!

Preprint of my introduction to LLMs for quantitative and corpus linguists is out. It is mostly an advertisement for j⧉nus's simulator theory, but there are some hopefully original ideas as well. arxiv.org/abs/2408.16740

Here are my three lectures titled "Probability for Language Modeling" delivered for the Quantitative Cognitive Linguistics Network: home.ipipan.waw.pl/l.debowski/doc… home.ipipan.waw.pl/l.debowski/doc… home.ipipan.waw.pl/l.debowski/doc… Thanks to Andrea Nini Therfer Richard Futrell Jiří Milička for listening!

Here is my new textbook in progress: "A Short Course in Universal Coding". home.ipipan.waw.pl/l.debowski/doc…

Abiertas las inscripciones a las VII Jornadas (in)formativas de Lingüística Forense. linguisticaforensemadrid.wordpress.com/inscripcion-20… UAM Autónoma Madrid

📣 Applications are open for the fully funded #PhD #studentship opportunity at the University of Cambridge, co-supervised by the Forensic Voice Centre. ⏲️ Closing date for applications: 3rd December 2024 > bit.ly/4eyRhhP Cambridge Uni Phonetics & Phonology Lab UK Research and Innovation Arts and Humanities Research Council Cambridge University

Continuing our CPD Training Programme series, here's Forensic Linguistics for A-level English teachers! Join us on Friday, 29th of November 2024 for a one-day course where we will explore how topics in forensic linguistics can be used to support teaching

We are very proud to launch our new PhD programme in Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media! School of Arts, Languages and Culture manchester.ac.uk/study/masters/…

👀 More exciting news... York is now offering the world's only PhD in Forensic Speech and Audio. More info here: york.ac.uk/language/postg… Get in touch if you're interested!

Are you a student interested in learning more about automatic speaker recognition systems and how you can use them in research?? We're running a course with Oxford Wave Research on just this topic. Find out more here: york.ac.uk/business/cpd/s… #forensics #speechtechnology #asr #cpd

We are looking for a full-time, temporary teaching-focused Lecturer in Discourse Analysis/Stylistics/Register analysis/forensic linguistics. Details of the job are available here: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…. Deadline 12th Dec. Please retweet/share!