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Jesse SheidlowerTerrific antedating for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a>, for _xenocide_, from 1973 to 1964, thanks to <a href="https://wandering.shop/@ausir" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ausir</a>. Also brought it up to date with a 2020 quote.<a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2216/xenocide" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/2216/xenocide</a>

Jesse SheidlowerImportant new Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> entry: _clanker_ 'a robot', which, despite the 50 articles last week claiming this is a 2005 Star Wars thing, has been in use since the '50s, from major authors such as Tenn, Saberhagen, Pohl, Rucker, &c.<a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/3048/clanker" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/3048/clanker</a>

HorrabinDecidme raro pero este libro ronda por casa y me da mucho yuyu 😟 <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FromInstagram?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FromInstagram</a> - 21/10/2021 <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/libros?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libros</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/books?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/llibres?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llibres</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/librosviejos?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#librosviejos</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/oldbooks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oldbooks</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/llibresvells?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#llibresvells</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/catalan?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#catalan</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/diccionario?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#diccionario</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/diccionari?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#diccionari</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/dictionary?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/humor?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humor</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/instagramimport?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#instagramimport</a>

Jesse SheidlowerNew entry for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a>: "terrestrial" adj., in reference to Earth. We hadn't bothered with this before. Quotes from (translated) Jules Verne onwards. Cf. many earlier examples in non-SF contexts: not always easy to tease apart.<a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2488/terrestrial" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/2488/terrestrial</a>

Brains MatterThe ANU is moving to kill the <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Australian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australian</a> National <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> – this is why it matters <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-anu-is-moving-to-kill-the-australian-national-dictionary-this-is-why-it-matters-261844" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/the-anu-is-moving-to-kill-the-australian-national-dictionary-this-is-why-it-matters-261844</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#australia</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#STEM</a>

:rss: Hacker NewsThe Bluesky Dictionary <a href="https://www.avibagla.com/blueskydictionary/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.avibagla.com/blueskydictionary/</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/ycombinator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ycombinator</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bluesky</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#english</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/social_media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#social_media</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/tracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tracking</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a>

HabrКак я заменил кучу флагов двумя словарями в PythonЯ создаю приложение с GUI для сбора и обработки данных с микроконтроллера на Python с помощью PyQt. И вот я наконец-то доделал часть функционала, предназначенного для взаимодействия компьютера с платой STM32, теперь необходимо было сделать интерфейс для обработки данных, в котором легко можно было бы настраивать параметры выполнения программы. Я начал думать, как не вносить в программу кучу флагов с соответствующими if-else конструкциями, и вот, что я придумал.<a href="https://habr.com/ru/articles/934314/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://habr.com/ru/articles/934314/</a><a href="https://zhub.link/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/ifelse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ifelse</a> <a href="https://zhub.link/tags/gui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gui</a>

Jesse SheidlowerNew entries for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a>: _metahuman_, as noun and adjective. Inspired by discussion of the new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Superman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Superman</a> movie. From 1970s, with non-SF antecedents.<a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/3042/metahuman" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/3042/metahuman</a> <a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/3041/metahuman" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/3041/metahuman</a>

Sascha WolferJust published:Supplementing CEFR-graded vocabulary lists for language learners by leveraging information on dictionary views, corpus frequency, part-of-speech, and polysemyA machine-learning method to suggest word candidates for CEFR-graded vocabulary lists.<a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05446-y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05446-y</a>- We compare 4 machine-learning algorithms: Regression trees, ordinal logistic regression, random forests, & naïve Bayes - All are better than a random baseline (approx. double the accuracy). - From these we use random forests (2k trees) to impute the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CEFR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CEFR</a> level of previously unlabeled words<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CEFR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CEFR</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/frequency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#frequency</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LanguageLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageLearning</a>

Jesse SheidlowerSpectacular Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> antedating of "jump gate", otherwise associated chiefly with Babylon 5. <a href="https://wandering.shop/@ausir" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ausir</a> found a 1966 example from Poul Anderson in Galaxy, antedating 1993.<a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/250/jump-gate" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/250/jump-gate</a>

Jesse Sheidlower Spectacular Historical <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Dictionary" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ScienceFiction" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> antedating of "jump gate", otherwise associated chiefly with Babylon 5. <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/ausir.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ausir.bsky.social</a> found a 1966 example from Poul Anderson in Galaxy, antedating 1993. <a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/250/jump-gate" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sfdictionary.com/view/250/jum...</a> <a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/250/jump-gate" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Historical Dictionary of Scien...</a>

N-gated Hacker News🎤 Wow, "Coldplayed" is the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/groundbreaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#groundbreaking</a> verb nobody asked for! In a world where <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scandals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scandals</a> are rebranded as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vocabulary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vocabulary</a> lessons, it seems Coldplay's greatest hit wasn't musical but lexical. 🎶 Guess that means we're all just living in a 'yellow' <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> now! 📚😂 <a href="https://suntechpulse.com/coldplayed-a-new-verb-is-born-after-viral-coldplay-concert-scandal/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://suntechpulse.com/coldplayed-a-new-verb-is-born-after-viral-coldplay-concert-scandal/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coldplayed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coldplayed</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coldplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coldplay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yellow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#yellow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ngated</a>

Deborah MakariosToday I learned a new word: Tityre-tu. The slightly fictional-sounding definition: "one of an association of well-to-do roughs who infested London streets in the 17th c." (The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Third Edition Revised With Addenda, Volume II) Named after the first two words of Virgil's first eclogue, which is considerably more classy - or at least, classical - than your average gang name. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to look up eclogue in Volume I. <a href="https://theres.life/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crime</a>

Jesse Sheidlower Nice antedating for the Historical <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Dictionary" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ScienceFiction" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> for _Afrofuturist_, from 1994 to 1979 (Jon Pareles, now (temporarily?) at the NYT, reviewing Talking Heads in Rolling Stone). <a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2544/afrofuturist" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sfdictionary.com/view/2544/af...</a> <a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2544/afrofuturist" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Historical Dictionary of Scien...</a>

Knowledge Zone<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ITByte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ITByte</a>: <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Business</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Glossary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Glossary</a> vs <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Data</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> vs Data <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Catalog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Catalog</a>.Definition and comparison of some of the commonly used terms in data <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Modelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Modelling</a> and management.<a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Business-Glossary-vs-Data-Dictionary-vs-Data-Catalog-6278c1e6ab2fa5827bbb3008" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Business-Glossary-vs-Data-Dictionary-vs-Data-Catalog-6278c1e6ab2fa5827bbb3008</a>

Jesse SheidlowerNew old-skool entries for the Historical <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a>: "interspace" as noun and adj. (in rather different meanings) both from the 1920s, both now rare.<a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/2769/interspace" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/2769/interspace</a> <a href="https://sfdictionary.com/view/3038/interspace" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sfdictionary.com/view/3038/interspace</a>

Dining & CookingThe Political Journey of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/2179593/the-political-journey-of-german-chancellor-helmut-kohl/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.diningandcooking.com/2179593/the-political-journey-of-german-chancellor-helmut-kohl/</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/britannica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#britannica</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/encyclopaedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#encyclopaedia</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Encyclopedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Encyclopedia</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/GermanWine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GermanWine</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Online" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Online</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Reference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reference</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/store" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#store</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/thesaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thesaurus</a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Wine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wine</a>

Hacker NewsCompression Dictionary Transport<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Compression_dictionary_transport" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Compression_dictionary_transport</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Compression</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Transport</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HTTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HTTP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Compression</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Web</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Development</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Technology</a>

Arthur Hau, PhD🐶🐱🌱🎵🦣<a href="https://tribe.net/tags/Claude4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Claude4</a> <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/Sonnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sonnet</a> and I just created this new <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/AIAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIAgent</a> (<a href="https://tribe.net/tags/AgenticAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgenticAI</a>) app called Context Dictionary for our <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/ICandy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ICandy</a> <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#browser</a> <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/dashboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dashboard</a>. A user can upload a text or pdf file to read in this app. To check the definition and contextual meaning of a word, the user only needs to left click the mouse. A bubble will appear to give the user the contextual meaning of the word. We are using <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IBM</a> <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/granite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#granite</a> 3.3 8B on my local LM Studio server as the AI agent. <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://tribe.net/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#English</a>

Hacker NewsA Dictionary of the Language of Myst's D'ni<a href="http://www.eldalamberon.com/dni_dict.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.eldalamberon.com/dni_dict.htm</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dictionary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Myst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Myst</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Eldalamberon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Eldalamberon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Culture</a>

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