I use computers to study how humans make up words @LTIatCMU. phonology • morphology • language change • #NLProc data resources.
Seasonal reminder: If you're applying to PhD programs and are interested in the work someone is doing, it's fine to email them with specific questions. But that's not how you *apply* to grad school. There's an application process, and you need to follow it.
Every year, individual STEM professors get spammed by a tidal wave of unsolicited email with boilerplate text, transcripts, letters of recommendation, etc, overwhelmingly from abroad. No one gets in to a program that way. Just apply.
Statement from Media Matter CEO Angelo Carusone regarding Elon Musk’s lawsuit threat.
Nine hours driving home on the Hume, thinking, listening. Youngest came down to Melbourne on the night train to hang out with friends and ride shotgun home with me, and we learned a lot about each other through road trip music choices.
Came home to find my cactus flowering. Still astonishing, still and always. It belonged to my friend, and flowered on the night he died in November 2020, so every year it brings him back in such a good way.
Edited to add @plants and #bloomscrolling.
Must suck to realize that there are some forms of epistemic grounding that you and your pals can't simply purchase and torch to the ground.
Amidst a sea of bad news, here's something cheerful: Poland's far-right ruling party tried every conceivable trick to hold onto power, but with a massive turnout voters rejected the effort
This story of Sikh-Oaxacan anti-caste solidarity in California is probably the best thing you’ll read today
#Fresno #Oaxacan #Sikh #CaliforniaPol #caste #SouthAsianAmerican
Help Valentin Hoffman (LMU Munich) Leonie Weißweiler, and I annotate some English nonsense words (in order to measure how human-like LLMs are in their handling of word formation): https://survey.ifkw.lmu.de/morph/ Takes 10-20 minutes. Please pass it on!
@dingemansemark Our experiments so far have mostly been with GPT-J (since we have access to the complete training set) and, secondarily, GPT-3.5 (because people are familiar with it). For the current experiment, those and other open source LLMs would be appropriate, but this is not finalized (and the annotated data resource is not model-specific).
The Genentech CEO says he's considering delaying the release of a new treatment for ovarian cancer patients in order to make more money.
https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/10/genentech-drug-price-cancer/
![Guard: Welcome traveler. The sphere of knowledge will grant you the answer to one question.
[a person enters a cave and speaks to a floating sphere]
Person: Where are my scissors?
Sphere: In the craft drawer with all the other-
Person: No! My good scissors! Not the crappy decoy ones I leave out for the kids to find!](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/849/663/009/986/997/original/843270f0bbc7c9fc.png)
📱 Rooting your device in the EU won't void its 2-year warranty!
Enjoy control over your phone, extend its lifespan & choose your software freely. Stay updated with the FSFE on any changes.
#EUWarranty #SoftwareFreedom #ConsumerRights 🛡️✅
https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230807-01.html
Image: CC-BY-NC-SA by Rahak
A few bees 🐝🐝🐝
A few blooms 💙❤️💛