Big Think
New AI translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets instantly
6 min · · Translation isn’t simply a matter of swapping one word for a corresponding word in another language. A high-quality translation requires the translator to understand how both languages string thoughts… · Shared by 404, including Carla Gentry 🎶, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Simon Kuestenmacher, Joscha Bach, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Michael Shermer, Pascal Sulser, Peter van Sabben.eth, Kevin Kelly, Josep M. Ganyet, Warren Whitlock, Essaadi
OpenAI
Government of Iceland
4 min · · How Iceland is using GPT-4 to preserve its language. · Shared by 13, including Josep M. Ganyet, Thomas Frank
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Google’s powerful AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch: Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought
10 min · · Fluent expression is not always evidence of a mind at work, but the human brain is primed to believe so. A pair of cognitive linguistics experts explain why language is not a good test of sentience. · Shared by 152, including Steven Pinker, Bob E. Hayes, Josep M. Ganyet, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Shepal, Howard Getson
The New York Times
The Meaning and History of Memes
5 min · · Internet culture is saturated with memes, but how would you explain a meme to someone who doesn’t get it? · Shared by 20, including Josep M. Ganyet
zyppy.com
Googlespeak™ - How Google Limits Thought About Antitrust
8 min · · “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”… · Shared by 71, including Cyrus, Rand Fishkin, Josep M. Ganyet, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Scientific American
How Language Shapes the Brain
4 min · · The ascent of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito offers a lesson in the neuroscientific power of words · Shared by 52, including Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Josep M. Ganyet, Dominik Grolimund, Jane, Ward Plunet
Fast Company
How language shapes our perception of reality
5 min · · The many subtle differences across languages might actually change the way we experience the world.
· Shared by 65, including Josep M. Ganyet, Guy Kawasaki, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Gérard Godin, Krishna
TED Talks
How language shapes the way we think
· There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language -- from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian -- that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. "The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and h · Shared by 17, including Stanford NLP Group, Josep M. Ganyet, Lera Boroditsky
The New York Times
Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
18+ min · · The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all. · Shared by 21, including Josep M. Ganyet, Valiskster
altalang.com
Does the language we speak shape the way we think?
6 min · · If we have no word for the color blue, it’s not that we cannot see it, but that we are very focused on talking about red. · Shared by 6, including Josep M. Ganyet
rodamots.cat
‘Gran’ i ‘gros’
10 min · · Joan Solà A l’Adelaida, la Nausica, en Martí, la Laura, l’Isra, la Maria i l’Oriol 1. Un col·lega barceloní jove i bon filòleg em deia un dia que ell ja no havia “rebut” la distinció entre gran i gros… · Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet
youtube.com
Evolution of the Alphabet | Earliest Forms to Modern Latin Script
· Buy the chart:https://usefulcharts.com/products/evolution-of-the-alphabetTypes of Writing Systems video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmz42awTRsACREDITS:Ch... · Shared by 6, including Josep M. Ganyet
nuvol.com
https://www.nuvol.com/llengua/guia-per-mantenir-el…
· Shared by 7, including Josep M. Ganyet, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛
blocs.mesvilaweb.cat
CUCAINA | Etziba Balutxo...
16+ min · · CUCAINA; EL PAÍS DE LA LLIBERTAT UNA PARAULA D’UNA SOLA FAMÍLIA? Recentment, amb les meves tres germanes, hem evocat un record d’infantesa compartit. Amb petits matisos, per a nosaltres Cucaina era… · Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet