Tag: semantics

The former approach was used in the early web because pages were immutable back then, and it felt natural to have a separate page URL just because it had a form and not the other content. To set up such redirects, you make pages without the authentication check and extract that check to some kind...

Semantics — the study of meaning — is a profoundly complex topic that has challenged linguists, philosophers, and AI researchers for decades. With the recent explosion in large language models, interest has surged in understanding these models’ capabilities and limitations when ...

I was writing something up about presuppositions when I realized that I really wanted to be able to write things somewhat formally. So for the purposes of building our shared vocabulary, I decided to write a layperson’s guide to formal semantics. I’m writing it up in the way that most he...