It's time we stopped treating languages as sacred fixed objects. We need now, more than ever, languages we can change.
Opinion | Why Save a Language? (Published 2014)
Hint: It’s not to preserve a different way of seeing the world.
dev log #5 - language
Today we get to talk about a topic everybody loves to get excited about - programming languages! More specifically, we're going to talk about the needs when making games with luxe, the landscape of language choices, and the goals of the project being the most relevant decider. Note that the
Amy J. Ko : Searching for Justice in Programming Language Design
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the language models
Language models (LMs) can produce fluent, grammatical text. Nonetheless, some maintain that language models don’t really learn language and also, even if they did, that would not be informative for the study of human learning and processing. On the other side, there have been claims that the success of LMs obviates the need for studying linguistic theory and structure. We argue that both extremes are wrong. LMs can contribute to fundamental questions about linguistic structure, language processing, and learning. They force us to rethink arguments and ways of thinking that have been foundational in linguistics. While they do not replace linguistic structure and theory, they serve as model systems and working proofs of concept for gradient, usage-based approaches to language. We offer an optimistic take on the relationship between language models and linguistics.
The Next 7000 Programming Languages
Landin’s seminal paper “The next 700 programming languages” considered programming languages prior to 1966 and speculated on the next 700. Half-a-century on, we cast programming languages in a Darwinian ‘tree of life’ and explore languages, their features (genes) and language evolution from the viewpoint of ‘survival of the fittest’.
A break from programming languages
This is a blog post I have been considering writing for a long time.
Controls as language
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Esteban said some stuff on Twitter that got me thinking (again) about the value of looking at a game’s control scheme as a sort of language. The whole series of tweets is worth a read, but the concluding tweet in p...
Why Anthropic believes its latest model is too dangerous to release
“The language models we have now are probably the most significant thing to happen in security since we got the Internet.”
Translating non-trivial codebases with Claude
I don’t think it’s [me writing about LLMs] likely to happen anytime soon: I prefer to write about things that I’m excited about.
The future of language
These charts will help you choose the language you should focus on today.
machines will never understand language
I thought language was too complicated for machines to understand, until I got sick. a lifelong, meandering journey of parsing, learning, and fixing my broken body.
First Languages AI Reality | Mila
The FLAIR initiative aims to develop a method for the rapid creation of customized ASR models for Indigenous languages.
Alignment Is Proven To Be Solvable
That LLMs understand natural language as well as they do should dramatically change our understanding of the problem.
Recursive Language Models: the paradigm of 2026
How we plan to manage extremely long contexts
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Project Fluent
Natural-sounding translations with genders and grammatical cases only when necessary. Expressiveness is not limited by the grammar of the source language.