By now, it's no secret that large language models (LLMs) are experts at mimicking natural language. Trained on vast troves of data, these models have proven themselves capable of generating text so ...

Researchers from The University of Osaka compared psychological ratings of various words from humans and large language models (LLMs) along different dimensions in order to compare the ways in which ...

Ever have your attention hijacked by something appealing? Research using alcohol cues reveals how this bias works.

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Choosing between in, on, and at can be confusing when talking about time. This lesson breaks down the simple rules and everyday examples that help learners use time prepositions accurately and ...

Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and cumulative.

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Its basic sense, going back many centuries, is “obtain” or “acquire,” with a direct object, as in get a job or get a haircut.

Do we lose something when words are shortened, verbs are reinvented, and swearing becomes casual? From vanishing prepositions to newly minted verbs, these everyday alterations chart cultural drift, ...

A random weighted item chooser with custom seed option for JavaScript. This package allows you to choose an index from an array of weights (simplest case), or an object from an array of objects that ...

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