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Faculty of Language: 2018
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Faculty of Language: Academia as business
One of the forces behind the "crapification" of academic life (see here) is the fact that it is increasingly being managed by "bidnessmen."...
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Faculty of Language: Ideas that break the mold
I am currently re-reading a terrific book on the history of modern molecular biology called The Eight Day of Creation ( here , henceforth...
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Faculty of Language: Comments on lecture 4-II
This is the second installment of comments on lecture 4. The first part is here . The Minimal Labeling Algorithm (MLA) ...
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Faculty of Language: Learning Fast and Slow I: How Children Learn Words
My inaugural post is the first of a three part sequence on language acquisition, which has become something of a signature issue for thi...
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Faculty of Language: Felinology
(In memory of Felix d. 1976, Monty d. 1988, Jazz d. 1993) In Nature today, some evidence that cats can distinguish their own names. The c...
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Faculty of Language: A game I play
Every now and then I play this game: how would Chomsky respond? I do this for a variety of reasons. First, I respect his smarts and I think...
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Faculty of Language: Nice one line joke regarding falsification
University closed today due to some snow. While consoling myself reading some blogs I came across this great one liner in Andrew Gelman's b...
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