Aaron Steven White
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computational semanticist. into modular synths and cocktails.
http://aaronstevenwhite.io
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Max Kennerly
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This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.
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MAGMaR Workshop
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📹 + 🧠 + 📝 = 🔥 First call for MAGMaR 2026, the 2nd workshop on multimodal augmented generation via multimodal retrieval! If
#RAG
isn't hard enough for you, try multilingually and multimodally. Collocated with @aclmeeting in San Diego in July.
nlp.jhu.edu/magmar/
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MAGMaR Workshop
MAGMaR
https://nlp.jhu.edu/magmar/
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Legends.
ra.co/exchange/826
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EX.787 Voices From The Lake ⟋ RA Exchange
For the Exchange's Season Two relaunch, the visionary duo discuss their first release in 13 years and the inspiration behind their trailblazing sound.
https://ra.co/exchange/826
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Another fun little question in this vein: which classes in the subregular hierarchy (if any) generate a σ-algebra that is not 2^Σ* (as REG itself does)?
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Put together a python/typescript package called bead for constructing, deploying, and analyzing large-scale linguistic judgment experiments with active learning. Very tailored to the way my lab works, but might be useful to others. Repo:
github.com/FACTSlab/bead
Docs:
factslab.io/bead/
12 days ago
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Week 4 and I'm at the point in my intro to computational linguistics course where I can ask the students questions like "are the regular languages a sigma-algebra?"
13 days ago
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I've listened to the recent OPN album a few times on setups with bad localization and was sort of meh on it. Had insomnia and decided to brew some coffee, finally crack open my vinyl copy, and push through the delirium. Let me tell you: this album was made for a 4am headphone listen.
16 days ago
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Sometimes you have a beer with one of your academic heroes and they’re chill as fuck and still doing sick shit.
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In Philly today and tomorrow for a Penn MindCORE/ILST seminar. DM if you’re in the area and up for coffee or a cocktail.
mindcore.sas.upenn.edu/calendar_eve...
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robert henderson
29 days ago
when the issue on the table is demonic
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Wesley Finck
29 days ago
Some thoughts about what it's been like building and shipping
@semble.so
notes.wesleyfinck.org/3md75xpwml222
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Swaying in the Wind - Wesley's notes
Reflections on shipping my first product
https://notes.wesleyfinck.org/3md75xpwml222
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Finally started managing python projects with uv and kicking myself for waiting so long.
docs.astral.sh/uv/
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uv
uv is an extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/
29 days ago
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Rust is such a good language.
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David Brang
about 1 month ago
Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
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github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
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Super excited to talk about
@chive.pub
at
#ATScience
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patak
about 1 month ago
I'm wrapping my mind around Wikipedia's 25th birthday. It means they started it before the launch of Internet Explorer 6 and the creation of JSON. The collective force they were able to organize with the technology of that time should give us wild hope about the crazy things people are starting now.
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Chive
about 1 month ago
Chive is a decentralized eprint service built on AT Protocol. Here's what it does and a bit on its design.
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Chive
about 1 month ago
Chive alpha applications are now live at
chive.pub
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Chive | Decentralized Eprint Service
Decentralized eprints on ATProto.
https://chive.pub
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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt
about 2 months ago
You’ve build a probabilistic model and, for a small data set, computed posterior inferences with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. Everything works great and, flush with confidence, you throw the model against all of your data only for everything to go to hell....
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Kicking around JHU for the next couple weeks and, man, I miss Baltimore.
about 2 months ago
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Wild how 2016 was like 4 years ago.
about 2 months ago
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Ordered this when it came out. Been waiting for the physical copy to listen to it. Was away when it arrived and just got cracked it open. Transcendent.
horselords.bandcamp.com/album/frkwys...
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FRKWYS Vol. 18: Extended Field, by Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt
4 track album
https://horselords.bandcamp.com/album/frkwys-vol-18-extended-field
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Taught my five-year-old how to detect and address phase anticorrelation using a vectorscope. His ambient mixes are going to be so lush.
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about 2 months ago
It is unclear to me how much traction Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is getting on BlueSky. I am thinking of switching communication about new papers to LinkedIn, which gives better insight into the # of views garnered. Give us a like if you want Glossa to stay on the Blue side of things.
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This generic is so bizarre. “Rotators bring with them the ethos and world view of academia, and it takes them a while to understand the views of whoever is in the White House,” [Dan Reed] says. “Career staff are more attuned to those priorities.”
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NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists
Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-pares-down-grant-review-process-reducing-influence-outside-scientists
2 months ago
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If you're submitting to SALT, note that the deadline is UTC, *not* AoE.
2 months ago
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Also check out the probabilistic dynamic semantics codebase, which contains implementations of the analyses in this paper that compile down to stan code!
github.com/probabilisti...
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3 months ago
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Stephen Ramsay
3 months ago
New blog post: "If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C?"
stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-c...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
3 months ago
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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The new Carrier album is so good.
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Carrier - Rhythm Immortal. Bleep.
Buy Rhythm Immortal by Carrier on Bleep.
https://bleep.com/release/527729-carrier-rhythm-immortal
3 months ago
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Love teaching stats because I can write a 10-page document explaining to students my custom hierarchical IRT model for curving exams and justify the time spent as instructional material development (which it is!).
3 months ago
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lol.
3 months ago
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back on my bullshit
3 months ago
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This new Arp album is a *wild* pivot from the previous one (New Pleasures).
3 months ago
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My son wore a Josh Allen jersey his grandfather gave him to school. (Rochester is deep Bills country.) We got multiple “Go Bills!” greetings that day. Meanwhile, the only sport we watch in our household is women’s soccer (NWSL). Like, my son was baffled when we told him men play pro soccer too.
3 months ago
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deadlift day.
3 months ago
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Yoav Goldberg
3 months ago
lets talk about "In context learning". it is clearly NOT "learning", because its ephemeral. It IS some form of generalization from examples, which is very cool. but we need a name. how do we call this skill of generalization from example?
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
3 months ago
The most chilling thing about this is the way it feels like an ancient evil that has imbibed a thousand pharmaceutical ads to camouflage itself
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Just saw a post referring to R.E.M. as “elder millennial music”. And no.
3 months ago
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Lot of filler on this Lily Allen album, but the high points are high.
3 months ago
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This is a frequent point of discussion in our household—both because we have a kindergartener and because
@bonnierok.bsky.social
has written (
bellwether.org/publications...
) on the policy/implementation blockers to fixing the problem—but this is just so deeply infuriating.
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3 months ago
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Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈
4 months ago
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Come join us at Rochester to work on low-resource NLP with
@cmdowney.bsky.social
! 👇
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bergelsonlab
3 months ago
lots of invigorating discussion this year at
#BUCLD2025
. Unsurprisingly, LLMs as models & as tools made many appearances w/a wide range of views/claims/caveats ab what they can(not) tell us ab language development I'm still chewing on a few things that seemed to get short shrift 1/4 🐦🐦
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Undetached bus(es) parts.
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These Fucking Hats
4 months ago
I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
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This language model is very 2018.
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Every music genre is ambient if you just vibe hard enough.
4 months ago
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