# language data — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 5 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover language data. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Bullish Case For Boredom](https://sentimentsully.substack.com/p/the-bullish-case-for-boredom) _2026-08-19 · Michael Sullivan · Bitcoin Sentiment Weekly_ Speculative attention is leaving Bitcoin... and that’s exactly why I’m so bullish. ## [Human-like isn't the same as good: Rethinking Conversational AI's North Star](https://irhuru.github.io/blog/human-like-as-good/) _2026-08-15 · Irati Hurtado_ There's an assumption baked into most conversational AI roadmaps that nobody really questions anymore: more human-like is better. Friendlier persona, more natural turn-taking, more emotional mirroring, all treated as obvious improvements, the same way 'more accurate' or 'faster' would be. But is that actually true? Or have we been chasing a proxy for quality and calling it the goal itself? Why… ## [MSTR's Hidden Momentum](https://sentimentsully.substack.com/p/mstrs-hidden-momentum) _2026-08-13 · Michael Sullivan · Bitcoin Sentiment Weekly_ Analyzing the widening sentiment gap between MSTR investors and Bitcoiners. ## [Protein language models are overly constrained by covariation](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/protein-language-models-are-overly) _2026-08-12 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ Why good performance on one set of goals can lead to poor performance on another ## [Coldcard Carnage](https://sentimentsully.substack.com/p/coldcard-carnage) _2026-08-04 · Michael Sullivan · Bitcoin Sentiment Weekly_ How the Coldcard fallout reshaped Bitcoin’s narratives and revealed its real leaders. ## [Text is the new interface and not everyone speaks it well](https://irhuru.github.io/blog/prompt-literacy/) _2026-08-03 · Irati Hurtado_ For most of computing history, the interface stood between you and the machine, and good UX meant designing that interface so a user's skill level stopped mattering much. LLMs quietly broke that deal. The interface is now a text box, and 'prompt engineering' is mostly just writing well: knowing what you want, saying it clearly, structuring it so someone (or something) can follow your logic, etc.… ## [The error bar cargo cult](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/the-error-bar-cargo-cult) _2026-08-02 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ You don't need to understand error bars. You just need to draw them. ## [Nene Royal—A generational talent](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/nene-royala-generational-talent) _2026-07-30 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ The kids in Thailand are alright. ## [Tracking Traders](https://sentimentsully.substack.com/p/tracking-traders) _2026-07-28 · Michael Sullivan · Bitcoin Sentiment Weekly_ What the language data reveals about Bitcoin’s most price-sensitive cohort. ## [Fading the Four-Year Cycle](https://sentimentsully.substack.com/p/fading-the-four-year-cycle) _2026-07-22 · Michael Sullivan · Bitcoin Sentiment Weekly_ Let’s imagine what it looks like if Bitcoin’s most durable narrative finally breaks to the upside. ## [Point once, get highlights (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wLQHMvMmGoNi) _2026-07-22 · **Sponsored**_ Get minutes worth watching from a whole game — point once ## [If the work is good why does it need a story?](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-the-work-is-good-why-does-it-need) _2026-07-21 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ I thought we do science here, not fiction or romance ## [Breaking Down (BIP-110)](https://sentimentsully.substack.com/p/breaking-down-bip-110) _2026-07-13 · Michael Sullivan · Bitcoin Sentiment Weekly_ What the language data tells us about Bitcoin’s most divisive debate. ## [How useful are zero-shot predictions of mutational effects?](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/how-useful-are-zero-shot-predictions) _2026-07-13 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ Zero-shot predictions are great, except for when it matters ## [Stop blaming the interface: Conversational AI fails in the user's head first](https://irhuru.github.io/blog/user-expectations-cai/) _2026-07-10 · Irati Hurtado_ A lot of conversations with AI products go wrong. But if you dig into why these interactions really fail, you'll often find that the problem isn't in the interface at all, but it's psychological and it starts in the user's head, before they've even typed a word. Everyone walks into a conversation with a chatbot, voice assistant, or AI companion already carrying a set of expectations: about how… ## [Three Surprising Sentiment Signals](https://sentimentsully.substack.com/p/three-surprising-sentiment-signals) _2026-07-06 · Michael Sullivan · Bitcoin Sentiment Weekly_ Bitcoin’s emotional signals are stranger, messier, and more useful than they first appear. ## [“Tell a story” is not helpful advice](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/tell-a-story-is-not-helpful-advice) _2026-07-06 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ If people knew how to tell a story they wouldn't need the advice in the first place ## [The Conversation Is Over](https://sentimentsully.substack.com/p/bitcoin-sentiment-weekly-the-conversation) _2026-06-29 · Michael Sullivan · Bitcoin Sentiment Weekly_ Bitcoin’s biggest debates are still raging, but the emotional lines have already been drawn. ## [Talking Sentiment on The Bitcoin Layer](https://sentimentsully.substack.com/p/talking-sentiment-on-the-bitcoin) _2026-06-23 · Michael Sullivan · Bitcoin Sentiment Weekly_ I had the chance to join The Bitcoin Layer for a conversation on Bitcoin sentiment, market mood, and what language data can reveal about where we are in the cycle. ## [The Opposite of Euphoria](https://sentimentsully.substack.com/p/bitcoin-sentiment-weekly-the-opposite) _2026-06-22 · Michael Sullivan · Bitcoin Sentiment Weekly_ The emotions that usually define blow-off tops are collapsing instead of rising. ## [WMT26 Open Data shared task announcement](https://openlanguagedata.substack.com/p/wmt26-open-data-shared-task-announcement) _2026-04-26 · David Dale · Open Language Data Initiative_ And some other Open Language Data Initiative news ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/vMfse7oRMD4S) _2026-04-26 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [The Google Scholar preprint bug strikes again](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/the-google-scholar-preprint-bug-strikes) _2026-03-31 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ Google is never going to fix this bug, are they? ## [Creating reproducible data analysis pipelines](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/creating-reproducible-data-analysis) _2026-03-27 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ There was a discussion recently on Bluesky about reproducible data analysis pipelines. ## [Protein language models are bad at mutational effect prediction](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/protein-language-models-are-bad-at) _2026-03-19 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI. ## [Sociopathic AI agents](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/sociopathic-ai-agents) _2026-02-15 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ AI alignment will likely require creating AIs with genuine empathy ## [Google's sketchy AI](https://ptsefton.com/2026/01/22/sketchy-ai-slide-notes/) _2026-01-22 · PTsefton.comBlog Title_ You've all noticed that Google is a bit shit lately, right? You get AI answers instead of decent search results, and for me at least it always sends me to Reddit where there's more AI shit. Quite a few of the bloggers I follow have been talking about how they are extracting themselves from the services run by the big tech companies, for all sorts of reasons to do with risk, privacy, social justice… ## [OLDI November updates: FLORES+ v4 and other news](https://openlanguagedata.substack.com/p/oldi-november-updates-flores-v4-and) _2025-11-29 · David Dale · Open Language Data Initiative_ In this post, we share the results of the 2025 Open Data shared task at WMT, a release note for FLORES+ v4, and a couple of other updates on open datasets for massively multilingual machine translation. ## [The End of The World is Nigh (ish)](https://ptsefton.com/2025/11/20/eotwin/) _2025-11-20 · PTsefton.comBlog Title_ \[UPDATED 2025-12-01\] Recorded a demo for this song and made a lyrics video: Skip the intro, straight to the live video Or play using the chart or read up on the background in the free PDF . I am getting around to setting up a part of this website for all my songs as something to leave behind for the two people who might care about that (they know who they are). Meanwhile, I have this blog so I'm… ## [Python is not a great language for data science. Part 2: Language features](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-for-2e0) _2025-11-17 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one. ## [Python is not a great language for data science. Part 1: The experience](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-not-a-great-language-for) _2025-11-13 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one. ## [From Grice to GPT: What classic linguistics can teach conversation designers](https://irhuru.github.io/blog/grice-to-gpt/) _2025-11-08 · Irati Hurtado_ Have you ever noticed how even the best chatbots sometimes sound off? Not because their grammar’s wrong, but because something about the conversation just doesn’t feel natural. It turns out that long before GPT and LLMs, linguists were already thinking about what makes communication flow (what keeps a dialogue cooperative, relevant, and satisfying). One of them, Paul Grice, offered a framework in… ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/t4U556GERyZj) _2025-11-08 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [LLMs excel at programming—how can they be so bad at it?](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/llms-excel-at-programminghow-can) _2025-11-06 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ My explanation for the mystery of why LLMs can be both exceptionally good and quite terrible at programming. ## [1000 subscribers feedback and AMA thread](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/1000-subscribers-feedback-and-ama) _2025-10-26 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ A few days ago I broke 1000 subscribers here on Substack. ## [Random seeds and brown M&Ms](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/random-seeds-and-brown-m-and-ms) _2025-10-23 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ Your first mistake was assuming people actually understand how random numbers work. ## [Low friction FAIR interoperability using RO-Crate metadata in text analytics pipelines](https://ptsefton.com/2025/10/23/eResearch-2025-ro-crate-analytics/) _2025-10-23 · PTsefton.comBlog Title_ PDF version Copyright Rosanna Smith, Mike Lynch, Peter Sefton, Simon Musgrave, River Tae Smith 2025 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International . This presentation is from the eResearch Australasia Conference . It was delivered by Rosanna Smith and Michael Lynch. I'm putting it here as one of the authors. We followed this presentation with an RO-Crate Birds of a Feather session with… ## [If your random seed is 42 I will come to your office and set your computer on fire🔥](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-random-seed-is-42-i-will) _2025-10-22 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ Figuratively. More likely you'll get a stern talking to. ## [Most graduate students propose to do too much](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/most-graduate-students-propose-to) _2025-10-16 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ No thesis proposal has ever been critizied for lack of ambition ## [We still can’t predict much of anything in biology](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-cant-predict-much-of-anything) _2025-10-07 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI. ## [How to write an NSF GRFP research plan](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/how-to-write-an-nsf-grfp-research) _2025-10-02 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ This is my second post about the NSF GRFP. ## [How to write an NSF GRFP personal statement](https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/how-to-write-an-nsf-grfp-personal) _2025-09-29 · Claus Wilke · Genes, Minds, Machines_ The personal statement can make or break your application. ## [LDaCA Technical Architecture Update](https://ptsefton.com/2025/09/24/ldaca-architecture-update/) _2025-09-24 · PTsefton.comBlog Title_ This presentation is an update on the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) technical architecture for the LDaCA Steering Committee meeting 22 August 2025, written by members of the LDaCA team; me, Moises Sacal, and Ben Foley edited by Bridey Lea. This version has the slides we presented and our notes, edited for clarity. There's a more compact version of this up over on the LDaCA site The… ## [How digital avatars can change the way we talk to machines](https://irhuru.github.io/blog/digital-avatars/) _2025-07-27 · Irati Hurtado_ The way we interact with machines is evolving rapidly, and digital avatars are at the forefront of that transformation. As conversational AI systems become more powerful and human-like, avatars are reshaping not just how these systems look, but how we experience and engage with them. But what exactly is a digital avatar and why does it matter in the world of conversational AI? What is a digital… ## [OLDI, FLORES+ v3.0 release, and WMT25 shared task on Open Language Data](https://openlanguagedata.substack.com/p/oldi-flores-v30-release-and-wmt25) _2025-07-07 · David Dale · Open Language Data Initiative_ And a short summary of our quest towards machine translation for every language ## [Coming soon](https://openlanguagedata.substack.com/p/coming-soon) _2025-07-01 · David Dale · Open Language Data Initiative_ This is Open Language Data Initiative . ## [Can LLMs understand emojis?](https://irhuru.github.io/blog/llms-emojis/) _2025-02-06 · Irati Hurtado_ Emojis are graphic symbols or ideograms that represent not only facial expressions, but also ideas and concepts. Emojis are extremely popular worldwide, primarily in chat and social media. They can appear as an additional element in the sentence, as in 'I liked the cake 😊', or replacing a word, as in 'I liked the 🍰'. From the perspective of large language models (LLMs), emojis are interesting… ## [Talking to machines: A brief history of chatbots](https://irhuru.github.io/blog/history-chatbots/) _2024-11-15 · Irati Hurtado_ Chatbots, although a trendy product now, have existed for decades. Advances in AI have transformed chatbots from simple and rule-based systems to more complex and sophisticated conversational agents. Let’s dive into the history of chatbots, from their beginnings to the modern AI-driven companions we see today. ELIZA: The first chatbot (1966) ELIZA was the first chatbot, developed by professor…