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Memorial Service for Victor Mair
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The psychology and history of English genitives
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OpenMai, Sam Outman, and Navia Stokes
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OpenAI's historic math solution overshadowed by credit controversy
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"Today's morphology is yesterday's syntax"
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"Illiterate Boyfriend" tests
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Backronym of the year
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"Colonel Tom Parker" == Andreas Conelis van Kuijk
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Evolution of laughing
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Unusual risks
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"David Advanced Plus+"
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F.A.N.Y.P.A.C.K.E.
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"We shall fight on the Bloombergs"
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Caveman linguistics
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Transliteration mystification
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"See me after class"?
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AI and bureaucratic productivity
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"Basically pleasant bureaucrat" vs. "Sexy murder poet"
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