It’s a very satisfying thing to learn that there’s a word for an experience you didn’t know could be described by a word. Learning that, for example, clinomania is an “excessive desire to stay in bed” ...

There are different ways to be a good reader. There has been much discussion over the years about some readers having more of a sound-based style and others having more of a meaning-based style. But ...

We will discuss word embeddings this week. Word embeddings represent a fundamental shift in natural language processing (NLP), transforming words into dense vector representations that capture ...

Use 'semantic gradients' to turn vocabulary study into a shared thinking activity that explores the subtle differences ...

An amble through the neighborhoods of North Berkeley often turns into an introspection and a treasure hunt. On one such stroll, I and my fellow amblers stumbled across an empty, upturned flower pot, ...