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“Social Physics” is Alex Pentland’s term for this kind of analysis. He’s been using it for a decade or two https://a.co/d/0jcnmbap it’s almost a trademark at this point. Most people (including me when I was working on this stuff) refer to it as human dynamics

That being said, August Comte came up with the name back in the 19th century before settling on “Sociology”

Cool way to get names associated with IP addresses

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If by “one day” you mean Feb 2026… https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

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I can’t confirm or deny the Guardian story, but I do personally know someone who found a small baby in a bus in Kenya and preceded to adopt and raise her.

As a wise man once said, the difference between a dialect and a language is that a language has an army and an navy

Similarly, I’ve been told that “te quiero mucho” can mean very different things depending on where you are

British English is quickly becoming Americanized… (at least according to my results a few years back https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00781v1)

A few years back I analyzed how (informal, social media) written Spanish differs from place to place and (re-)discovered that the vireynados were a thing a while back :)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

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I would argue that, before we can begin to address whether or not AI can instantiate consciousness, we should agree on a practical, unequivocal definition of what consciousness is... and I think we're still pretty far from that milestone... Until then, this kind of argument are nothing more than pipe dreams, solipsism, and idle philosophising

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Thank you

That’s interesting, thank you.

Thank you, that’s helpful.

Thank you for the thoughtful answer

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It goes back a bit further than that. His 1948 “Mathematical theory of communication” [1] already has (what we would now call) a Markov chain language model, page 7 onwards. AFAIK, this was based on his classified WWII work so it was probably a few years older than that

[1] https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno...

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Are those considered colonies or territories?

A lot of which are Sino-Portuguese from Macau that moved (or their families moved) after Macau was returned to China...

Technically, also the last global empire. Macau wasn't returned to China until 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Macau

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