Aaron Steven White
@aaronstevenwhite.io
computational semanticist. into modular synths, film photography, and rum. developing @panproto.dev, @idiolect.dev, @chive.pub, and @layers.pub. @anglebas.in is my alter ego. https://aaronstevenwhite.io
Super cool paper by my student @pkuchmiichuk.com that synthesizes Dylan Bumford and @simoncharlow.com's work on effect-driven interpretation with probabilistic dynamic semantics to understand how slack regulators like "exactly" and "approximately" work.
New preprint: In Ukrainian, several approximating devices can stack on a single numeral, and the result conveys the same interval as one device alone. I argue that a numeral introduces the resolutions it can be read at, and that approximators operate on that set the way indefinites and definites do.
Restricting resolutions: effect-driven semantics of numerical approximation
Approximators such as *approximately* or *exactly* have been analyzed either as operators that manipulate a numeral's denotation, or as devices that select a granularity level at which the numeral is
chive.pub
September 15, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Super cool paper by my student @pkuchmiichuk.com that synthesizes Dylan Bumford and @simoncharlow.com's work on effect-driven interpretation with probabilistic dynamic semantics to understand how slack regulators like "exactly" and "approximately" work.
Reposted by Aaron Steven White
We have new versions of panproto (0.74) and didactic (0.15). didactic adds a public general first-order generalized algebraic data type (GADT) and indexed-family language, and panproto checks the resulting theory.
GitHub - panproto/didactic: A typed data library for Python on top of panproto.
A typed data library for Python on top of panproto. - panproto/didactic
github.com
September 12, 2026 at 8:08 PM
We have new versions of panproto (0.74) and didactic (0.15). didactic adds a public general first-order generalized algebraic data type (GADT) and indexed-family language, and panproto checks the resulting theory.
If you are looking for an NSF Linguistics solicitation, you can stop looking. @juliangrove.bsky.social, @h-a-t.bsky.social, and I got confirmation from SBE that Linguistics has no active solicitation.
September 12, 2026 at 2:19 PM
If you are looking for an NSF Linguistics solicitation, you can stop looking. @juliangrove.bsky.social, @h-a-t.bsky.social, and I got confirmation from SBE that Linguistics has no active solicitation.
Imagine telling someone in 2009 that this is what python would become. Deeply cursed.
September 9, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Imagine telling someone in 2009 that this is what python would become. Deeply cursed.
Reposted by Aaron Steven White
Alongside a bunch of bug fixes, we've got a few new features on chive.pub we're excited about. Most of them involve connecting a paper to other things that relate to it on the Atmosphere and beyond.
Chive | Decentralized Eprint Service
Decentralized eprints on ATProto.
chive.pub
September 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Alongside a bunch of bug fixes, we've got a few new features on chive.pub we're excited about. Most of them involve connecting a paper to other things that relate to it on the Atmosphere and beyond.
After using a lot of cubic grain film (Tri-X, HP5), it really is striking just how sharp T-grain film (Ektapan, formerly T-Max) can be at the exact same ISO.
September 6, 2026 at 3:28 AM
After using a lot of cubic grain film (Tri-X, HP5), it really is striking just how sharp T-grain film (Ektapan, formerly T-Max) can be at the exact same ISO.
Stoked for this to finally be up. Think it came out pretty well.
Eigengrau is out 6 Nov 2026. The pre-release is up now on @subvert.fm and @bandcamp.com.
Subvert: www.subvert.fm/angle-basin/...
Bandcamp: anglebasin.bandcamp.com/album/eigeng...
Subvert: www.subvert.fm/angle-basin/...
Bandcamp: anglebasin.bandcamp.com/album/eigeng...
September 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Stoked for this to finally be up. Think it came out pretty well.
Is indie good again?
Bandcamp Radio
Tune in weekly to hear new music and artist interviews.
bandcamp.com
September 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Is indie good again?
What do we Rochesterians do for fun? Well. Mostly we just sort of walk around the Genny Brewhouse and take photos of the old flour mill on our Kodak film.
September 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
What do we Rochesterians do for fun? Well. Mostly we just sort of walk around the Genny Brewhouse and take photos of the old flour mill on our Kodak film.
Really excited about this project. You can now access effectively all of UniMorph, Universal Dependencies, Universal Decompositional Semantics, MegaAttitude, and various other linguistic resources in a unified format. And there's a lot more coming down the pike in the near future.
layers.pub now has an official data PDS at repo.layers.pub as well as a python client and CLI that you can read about at layers.pub/lairs/!
GitHub - layers-pub/lairs: A read/write dataset client for the Layers format, built on didactic.
A read/write dataset client for the Layers format, built on didactic. - layers-pub/lairs
github.com
September 3, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Really excited about this project. You can now access effectively all of UniMorph, Universal Dependencies, Universal Decompositional Semantics, MegaAttitude, and various other linguistic resources in a unified format. And there's a lot more coming down the pike in the near future.
Reposted by Aaron Steven White
We made a thing!
Check out our new #ATScience ecosystem map ✨
All projects, organized in one place: atproto.science/ecosystem/
Check out our new #ATScience ecosystem map ✨
All projects, organized in one place: atproto.science/ecosystem/
August 28, 2026 at 4:28 PM
We made a thing!
Check out our new #ATScience ecosystem map ✨
All projects, organized in one place: atproto.science/ecosystem/
Check out our new #ATScience ecosystem map ✨
All projects, organized in one place: atproto.science/ecosystem/
Come work with CM on multilingual and low-resource NLP!!!
I'm recruiting Linguistics PhD students! Come work with me on all things multilingual and low-resource NLP! NLP background welcome, but commitment to scientific study of language is essential. My recent work has included ASR for field linguistics and compact LLMs for heritage languages
Graduate Program
sas.rochester.edu
August 21, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Come work with CM on multilingual and low-resource NLP!!!
The solution to one's blood sugar being in the boolean algebra is indeed generally Tanqueray 10 and a walk. post-like.exe.xyz
August 19, 2026 at 3:47 PM
The solution to one's blood sugar being in the boolean algebra is indeed generally Tanqueray 10 and a walk. post-like.exe.xyz
Reposted by Aaron Steven White
We have a new release (v0.71.0) that substantially improves automated migration discovery by updating schema morphism search from enumeration and ranking to exact optimization.
Release v0.71.0 · panproto/panproto
Added
panproto_schema::induce and induce_on_vertices (panproto-schema): the supported way to cut a sub-schema, accounting for all twenty-one Schema fields in their own key spaces and rebuilding th...
github.com
August 19, 2026 at 2:38 PM
We have a new release (v0.71.0) that substantially improves automated migration discovery by updating schema morphism search from enumeration and ranking to exact optimization.
Everyone listens to Grouper at the gym, right?
August 17, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Everyone listens to Grouper at the gym, right?
Reposted by Aaron Steven White
Anyone ever use the geometric Poisson distribution? If I've implemented it correctly in Stan, it's giving me better fits than negative binomial according to PSIS-LOO-CV with a big count occupancy model.
August 1, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Anyone ever use the geometric Poisson distribution? If I've implemented it correctly in Stan, it's giving me better fits than negative binomial according to PSIS-LOO-CV with a big count occupancy model.
Training a semantic tagger/parser for ~30 datasets right now, and it is truly wild that, even if this ends up SOTA on all of them, this is at best something that gets shoved into an appendix nowadays.
July 30, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Training a semantic tagger/parser for ~30 datasets right now, and it is truly wild that, even if this ends up SOTA on all of them, this is at best something that gets shoved into an appendix nowadays.
Reposted by Aaron Steven White
If you're at SALT, make sure to chat with @juliangrove.bsky.social about arrows for conventional implicature!
July 25, 2026 at 9:38 PM
If you're at SALT, make sure to chat with @juliangrove.bsky.social about arrows for conventional implicature!
If you're at SALT, make sure to chat with @juliangrove.bsky.social about arrows for conventional implicature!
July 25, 2026 at 9:38 PM
If you're at SALT, make sure to chat with @juliangrove.bsky.social about arrows for conventional implicature!
This was very good.
July 24, 2026 at 11:33 PM
This was very good.
Hypo is now out!
It provides a rich metadata layer on top of @grain.social records, including gear and workflow abstractions as well as tools for photo annotation and search. If you shoot film, it also provides a stockpile tracker, shot logger, and development timer.
It provides a rich metadata layer on top of @grain.social records, including gear and workflow abstractions as well as tools for photo annotation and search. If you shoot film, it also provides a stockpile tracker, shot logger, and development timer.
Hypo
Hypo is a tool for organizing and sharing your film or digital photography: the gear you shoot, develop, and scan with; the workflows that take a film roll from capture to finished scan; and the prove...
hypo.graycard.app
July 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Hypo is now out!
It provides a rich metadata layer on top of @grain.social records, including gear and workflow abstractions as well as tools for photo annotation and search. If you shoot film, it also provides a stockpile tracker, shot logger, and development timer.
It provides a rich metadata layer on top of @grain.social records, including gear and workflow abstractions as well as tools for photo annotation and search. If you shoot film, it also provides a stockpile tracker, shot logger, and development timer.
Getting some writing done.
Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, by Horse Lords
12 track album
horselords.bandcamp.com
July 21, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Getting some writing done.
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Honestly, I think a whole generation of experimental psychologists fell for this mistake. Toddlers give the wrong answer in the false belief task because the answer is bloody obvious and they don't know why the adult is asking such a silly question
I currently spend a lot of time asking my toddler daughter what noises different animals make and the other day it crossed my mind that maybe she just thinks I’m really stupid and can’t remember
‘Ugh, mummy, dogs go woofwoofwoof, we’ve been through this SO many times’
‘Ugh, mummy, dogs go woofwoofwoof, we’ve been through this SO many times’
July 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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Congratulations to Dr. Jin Dou (@jin-dou.bsky.social) on successfully defending his dissertation yesterday!The dissertation focuses on understanding how humans process naturalistic speech using EEG. Check out all the awesome work he did during his PhD! powerfulbean.github.io
July 17, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Jin Dou (@jin-dou.bsky.social) on successfully defending his dissertation yesterday!The dissertation focuses on understanding how humans process naturalistic speech using EEG. Check out all the awesome work he did during his PhD! powerfulbean.github.io
Doing some final tweaks on the lexicons for a little hobby project.
July 9, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Doing some final tweaks on the lexicons for a little hobby project.