White guy fails to understand quantifiers, news at 11
January 4, 2026 at 7:09 PM
White guy fails to understand quantifiers, news at 11
Physically pains me when people write ""syllogisms"" with premises that do not begin with one of the appropriate quantifiers. Get thee behind me stoic.
August 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Physically pains me when people write ""syllogisms"" with premises that do not begin with one of the appropriate quantifiers. Get thee behind me stoic.
Do you think picomatch has a ReDoS vulnerability via extglob quantifiers or not really
May 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Do you think picomatch has a ReDoS vulnerability via extglob quantifiers or not really
No wonder the quantifiers are so greedy 😎
November 20, 2024 at 11:48 PM
No wonder the quantifiers are so greedy 😎
quantifiers in bio (any/all)
March 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
quantifiers in bio (any/all)
Today's self-editing tip: look for the quantifiers and weak words you're using to prop up sentences: suddenly, after all, somehow, just, very.
You don't need to delete them all, but see if your sentence would have more impact without them.
Somehow, though. Somehow you can pretty much always kill.
You don't need to delete them all, but see if your sentence would have more impact without them.
Somehow, though. Somehow you can pretty much always kill.
March 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Today's self-editing tip: look for the quantifiers and weak words you're using to prop up sentences: suddenly, after all, somehow, just, very.
You don't need to delete them all, but see if your sentence would have more impact without them.
Somehow, though. Somehow you can pretty much always kill.
You don't need to delete them all, but see if your sentence would have more impact without them.
Somehow, though. Somehow you can pretty much always kill.
In better news a brilliant undergrad student working with me is making progress on a cool experiment with quantifiers sooooo 🤓
October 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
In better news a brilliant undergrad student working with me is making progress on a cool experiment with quantifiers sooooo 🤓
For every like this receives, there will be a response which includes a fact about the semantic scope of quantifiers
July 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
For every like this receives, there will be a response which includes a fact about the semantic scope of quantifiers
Get ready for some Generalized Quantifier Theory 1/
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
February 19, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Get ready for some Generalized Quantifier Theory 1/
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Funny enough, it's also about quantifiers (any / not one)
AV is despicable. He's bending the words and the truth. So much for his intellectual honesty and the good faith he shouldn't be credited with.
AV is despicable. He's bending the words and the truth. So much for his intellectual honesty and the good faith he shouldn't be credited with.
April 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Funny enough, it's also about quantifiers (any / not one)
AV is despicable. He's bending the words and the truth. So much for his intellectual honesty and the good faith he shouldn't be credited with.
AV is despicable. He's bending the words and the truth. So much for his intellectual honesty and the good faith he shouldn't be credited with.
Next semester I'm teaching a course on Intuitionistic Logic. I'll be covering natural deduction, normalization, Hilbert systems, Kripke models, Heyting algebras, alternative connectives, quantifiers, and a little constructive maths. I'm looking forward to really digging into that material.
December 31, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Next semester I'm teaching a course on Intuitionistic Logic. I'll be covering natural deduction, normalization, Hilbert systems, Kripke models, Heyting algebras, alternative connectives, quantifiers, and a little constructive maths. I'm looking forward to really digging into that material.
New paper led by Vini Macuch-Silva: "Strategic use of English quantifiers in the reporting of quantitative information".
In our experiments, participants used the approximate nature of quantifiers strategically to make exam results appear as good/bad as possible:
doi.org/10.1080/0163...
In our experiments, participants used the approximate nature of quantifiers strategically to make exam results appear as good/bad as possible:
doi.org/10.1080/0163...
November 25, 2024 at 1:28 PM
New paper led by Vini Macuch-Silva: "Strategic use of English quantifiers in the reporting of quantitative information".
In our experiments, participants used the approximate nature of quantifiers strategically to make exam results appear as good/bad as possible:
doi.org/10.1080/0163...
In our experiments, participants used the approximate nature of quantifiers strategically to make exam results appear as good/bad as possible:
doi.org/10.1080/0163...
#MathsToday Leaving my future self some big "NOT THAT WAY" notes about how I introduced and & or in Discrete today, but we ended up at some good conversations about equivalent propositions anyway. And solid first steps into quantifiers (using materials from @thewordninjabk.bsky.social)
September 22, 2026 at 8:55 PM
#MathsToday Leaving my future self some big "NOT THAT WAY" notes about how I introduced and & or in Discrete today, but we ended up at some good conversations about equivalent propositions anyway. And solid first steps into quantifiers (using materials from @thewordninjabk.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1093/jos/...
Here is a not too recent paper on this …
Here is a not too recent paper on this …
QUANTIFIERS AND FOCUS
Abstract. This paper concerns a neglected but potentially important aspect of natural language quantifiers. Certain quantifiers serve to identify various p
doi.org
December 16, 2024 at 8:38 PM
doi.org/10.1093/jos/...
Here is a not too recent paper on this …
Here is a not too recent paper on this …
this needs mathematical quantifiers
X = user
Y = topic
Q(X,Y) = X will get into it with Stancil about Y
∀X∃Y Q(X,Y)?
X = user
Y = topic
Q(X,Y) = X will get into it with Stancil about Y
∀X∃Y Q(X,Y)?
September 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
this needs mathematical quantifiers
X = user
Y = topic
Q(X,Y) = X will get into it with Stancil about Y
∀X∃Y Q(X,Y)?
X = user
Y = topic
Q(X,Y) = X will get into it with Stancil about Y
∀X∃Y Q(X,Y)?
Quantifier-specific usage patterns shape learning—A corpus analysis on universal quantifiers in English and Dutch child-directed language. Final version by @miekeslim.bsky.social , Elizabeth Tobyn & @carorowland.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/01427237251385837
doi.org/10.1177/01427237251385837
Quantifier-Specific Usage Patterns Shape Learning—A Corpus Analysis on Universal Quantifiers in English and Dutch Child-Directed Language - Mieke Sarah Slim, Elizabeth Tobyn, Caroline F. Rowland, 2026
Quantifiers specify semantic relations between sentence constituents. Due to their meanings, they form a learning challenge for children. This challenge is made...
doi.org
April 10, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Quantifier-specific usage patterns shape learning—A corpus analysis on universal quantifiers in English and Dutch child-directed language. Final version by @miekeslim.bsky.social , Elizabeth Tobyn & @carorowland.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/01427237251385837
doi.org/10.1177/01427237251385837
“If the quantifiers did that to the non-quantifiers, it sounds like not quantifying is a great way to die”
March 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
“If the quantifiers did that to the non-quantifiers, it sounds like not quantifying is a great way to die”
Contained to the entire warehouse building?
That's a statement that needs a lot of quantifiers to really mean anything :)
That's a statement that needs a lot of quantifiers to really mean anything :)
August 7, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Contained to the entire warehouse building?
That's a statement that needs a lot of quantifiers to really mean anything :)
That's a statement that needs a lot of quantifiers to really mean anything :)
Observed a mother and child pair of quantifiers in the wild. By the summer, the child will leave its mother and begin binding its own variables.
April 22, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Observed a mother and child pair of quantifiers in the wild. By the summer, the child will leave its mother and begin binding its own variables.
i feel like the fact that they actually flat out flags every single instance of passive voice and every single instance of indefinite quantifiers means they must use sth more simple
September 23, 2026 at 6:57 PM
i feel like the fact that they actually flat out flags every single instance of passive voice and every single instance of indefinite quantifiers means they must use sth more simple
"Coordination" being one of those tasks whose value is hard to quantify, especially in the absence of an emergency, and therefore a target for cuts by aggressive quantifiers.
"Oh, your job is to convey already-existing information to someone else? And we pay how much for that?"
"Oh, your job is to convey already-existing information to someone else? And we pay how much for that?"
July 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Coordination" being one of those tasks whose value is hard to quantify, especially in the absence of an emergency, and therefore a target for cuts by aggressive quantifiers.
"Oh, your job is to convey already-existing information to someone else? And we pay how much for that?"
"Oh, your job is to convey already-existing information to someone else? And we pay how much for that?"
Do you want to study quantifiers and nonsymbolic quantity processing? Then we may have some ideas for you in our new survey paper "Questions About Quantifiers: Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Quantity Processing by the Brain" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…
November 22, 2023 at 11:21 AM
Do you want to study quantifiers and nonsymbolic quantity processing? Then we may have some ideas for you in our new survey paper "Questions About Quantifiers: Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Quantity Processing by the Brain" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…
today in “gpt shut up”
“The universe remains strange, but at least the quantifiers stop secretly shapeshifting.”
“The universe remains strange, but at least the quantifiers stop secretly shapeshifting.”
today in "gpt shut up"
"That said, there are two ways this can still bite you, and workshop reviewers are exactly the kind of creatures who live to bite."
"That said, there are two ways this can still bite you, and workshop reviewers are exactly the kind of creatures who live to bite."
gpt shut UP
“The universe remains cruel, but at least it’s predictably cruel.”
“The universe remains cruel, but at least it’s predictably cruel.”
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
today in “gpt shut up”
“The universe remains strange, but at least the quantifiers stop secretly shapeshifting.”
“The universe remains strange, but at least the quantifiers stop secretly shapeshifting.”