professor @UofT @UofTLinguistics, phonology, phonetics, EDI-focused pedagogy, 🇨🇦🇺🇸🌈 in Toronto (he/him), ludling on 🦋
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12 Nov 2024
Not sure whether I'll post much over on 🦋 but if you care to follow me there, I'm ludling [the usual].
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I had something similar happen. I had a student who came to weekly office hours for help. They would ask about some concept, so I would ask about a related concept to help prompt their thinking. But they rarely knew enough to respond, so they asked ChatGPT on their laptop.
May 26
necessary counterpoint bound to get less traction, from the in-person class w/ lots of frank discussion: student told me he’d *reversed* his AI usage. previously, he’d have LLMs finish essays whenever he felt overwhelmed. but he stuck w/ it all semester, now writes independently
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After a few weeks (and some failed quizzes), the student finally realized that they just weren't learning anything, so they followed my advice and stopped using AI for studying. After that, their office visits were much more productive AND their marks improved.
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This is why it's so important that we call out over-reliance on AI when we can, because the students who care might respond and have a chance at actually learning how to learn. Since I teach large courses, I focus on the most egregious cases, but it's better than doing nothing.
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"Does the existence of one hallucinated reference mean the entire paper is worthless?"
Yes! I don't see how that isn't obvious.
(1) If you support claim X with a hallucinated reference, then X can no longer be taken as true, and everything derived from it is questionable.
May 20
I don't read the OP as being "indifferent" to hallucinated references. I'm certainly not. The issue is the magnitude of the sin. Does this existence of one hallucinated reference mean the entire paper is worthless? The OP doesn't think so. If you do, make an argument.
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(5) Hallucinated references may spread through continued careless citation practices, which pollutes the literature and makes every scholar's job harder. LLM junk is particularly pernicious because it can be produced so much more quickly and convincingly than traditional junk.
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(6) Academics are already under constant attack from anti-intellectuals who want to delegitimize and defund us. Why give them more fodder?
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15 Dec 2025
Amazing edit! Their should be awards for this kind of art.
14 Dec 2025
heated rivalry hollanov edit shane hollander ilya rozanov all the things she said
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#heatedrivalry #hollanov
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12 Dec 2025
"All the Things She Said" by Harrison, for anyone who's trying to find THAT song. #heatedrivalry
youtube.com/watch?v=rqZGns_5…
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12 Dec 2025
Cover* by Harrison, of course! I'd never forget you, t.A.T.u.!
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Nathan Sanders retweeted
5 Nov 2024
We ran 80,000 simulations, and you spelled 'definitely' wrong in 71,052 of them.
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5 Nov 2024
Nate using Stata instead of R is even more evidence that he's unserious.
5 Nov 2024
The STATA output window that has a 50.015% chance of living in glory and a 49.985% chance of living in infamy.
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As someone born and raised in Dalton, all I can say is "bless your heart".
4 Oct 2024
Yes they can control the weather.
It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.
Community note
Weather manipulation is possible at small scales (for example, “cloud seeding”).
However, weather patterns in general are naturally occurring and cannot be “controlled”. Hurricanes and other large storms cannot be created artificially with modern technology.
politifact.com/factchecks/202…
usatoday.com/story/news/fac…
dri.edu/cloud-seeding-…
npr.org/2024/10/03/nx-…
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Nathan Sanders retweeted
24 Sep 2024
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22 Sep 2024
See Chapters 3 and 4 of Essentials of Linguistics for a broader view of phonetics and phonology that includes other modalities: essentialsoflinguistics.ca/
22 Sep 2024
ALT Linguistics has a number of subfields. Here are just a few: phonetics Phonetics is the study of how humans produce and perceive sounds. It has 3 branches: the physiology of how we produce sounds (articulatory phonetics); the acoustic properties of speech sounds (acoustic phonetics); and how humans perceive sounds (auditory phonetics).
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Nathan Sanders retweeted
5 Sep 2024
It’s time to geek out the vote!
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