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    1. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 31 Dec 2019
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      A lot of people just don’t believe in their hearts that different skills are a thing, that you can be good at one thing and bad at another. And people especially don’t like the notion that you can be better at the stylistic part of writing than the “making sense” part.

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    2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 31 Dec 2019
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      But look: my mom, who worked in academic publishing, could do a brilliant job editing a math manuscript for style without knowing calculus.

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    3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 31 Dec 2019
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      She also subconsciously imitated the accent of whoever she was speaking to. And picked up Romanian by listening to phone conversations. She had a freakishly good ear. I’m convinced this is a single phenomenon.

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    4. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 31 Dec 2019
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      If I watch an episode of Peaky Blinders I’ll acquire an Irish accent by osmosis for the next hour. I subconsciously pastiche whichever writer I’ve been reading lately. I can’t *not* mirror conversational tone & emotion. One phenomenon.

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    5. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 31 Dec 2019
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      I claim Scott Alexander has the same thing: writes compulsively, great at style pastiche, nobody believes him when he says he’s bad at math.

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    6. michael_nielsen‏ @michael_nielsen 31 Dec 2019
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      There are posts on Scott's blog which are Scott being extremely good at math (but not noticing, because he thinks math is something it's not). So count me as someone who doesn't believe he's "bad at math".

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    7. John Manoochehri‏ @jmanooch 31 Dec 2019
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      I'm not sure of all of what you are referring to since I am not an ML researcher, but I am a trained linguist & read the paper out of curiosity. I don't think he is being reasonable to the state of machine transalation and UG in the 2000s. Everyone thought the paradigm wld work.

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    8. John Manoochehri‏ @jmanooch 31 Dec 2019
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      Computational ('connectionist') models if used correctly could not only formulate better surface forms, but reveal more of the syntactic architecture even symbolic architecture underlying. He quotes Marcus well:pic.twitter.com/2QkTeV0qFY

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    9. John Manoochehri‏ @jmanooch 31 Dec 2019
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      What I think Marcus and Pinker are resisting now therefore is the idea that ML is now revealing deeper truths of the quasi-computational (or at least extremely logically rigorous, since the Chomsky stack, which was set up to counter bad machine-trans) Universal Grammar paradigm.

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    10. John Manoochehri‏ @jmanooch Dec 31
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      The surface forms are good, but insights into the presumed universal mode of human manipulation of syntax are gone. Marcus/SP seem fair. But I guess linguists cld be more excited about what GPT-2 does do... FWIW I take it for granted Chomsky would see style as a separate skill.

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      Sounds to me like Nostalgebraist is saying “GPT2 could be used to make discoveries about the universal mode of syntax, but nobody’s doing it”. So maybe you & he don’t disagree?

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        2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Dec 31
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          Btw am I understanding you right that “syntax”, to a linguist, means the truth claims language refers to, & is separate from style?

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        3. John Manoochehri‏ @jmanooch Dec 31
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          No. That is semantics. In classical linguistics language is made up of phonology (and orthography) - sounds (and written symbols) morphology - word composition syntax - idea-unit composition (eg sentence) semantics - 'meaning' at all levels, eg word, sentence, paragraph etc.

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        1. John Manoochehri‏ @jmanooch Dec 31
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          He might mean that but he's hardly saying it bc after setting it all up he talks only about GPT-2 in terms of the quality of the what, not really anything on syntax-specific how. And the lack of real depth on that anywhere is what I presume sets off Marcus and Pinker.

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