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15 hours ago · e. Avram Noam Chomsky [a] (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", [b] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.
15 hours ago · Hello everyone, I’m trying to collect some random samples from Uniform distribution Uniform(0,1) . What I observe is that most of values are around 10^-1 range so like 0.1, 0.3, 0.7 something like that but it rarely hits low values like 0.001 or 0.0001 etc. Is there a reason for that ? it feels it more preference is given to 0.1 interval based values. Can someone explain it? example : 100 ...
15 hours ago · However, some linguists consider the borrowing of words or morphemes from another language to be different from other types of code-switching. Code-switching can occur when there is a change in the environment in which one is speaking, or in the context of speaking a different language or switching the verbiage to match that of the audience.
15 hours ago · With a larger district magnitude, it is more likely that more than two parties have a good chance having some of their candidates elected. For example in Malta, where STV is used in 5 member districts, the one candidate needs about 16-20% vote to get elected, making it an effectively high threshold among PR systems, and the country maintains a ...
15 hours ago · Sir Keir Starmer has paid tribute to "trailblazer" Diane Abbott, but has had to deny he's carrying out a left-wing cull as several would-be election candidates bemoan their deselections. Meanwhile ...
15 hours ago · Satanic panic. The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse ( SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting ...
15 hours ago · The Tories have pledged to unfreeze tax thresholds for those receiving the state pension to avoid them having to pay taxes. We asked shadow Treasury minister Darren Jones what Labour's plans are ...
