NYT obit for Robin Lakoff

@bsavoldi.bsky.social taking us back in time at #GITT2025 ⌚⏳ focusing on the first discussions of gender bias in language technology as a socio-technical issue. No, the problem hasn't been fixed yet. But what has happened?

to quote a colleague quoting a goose: “alignment to what? alignment to what??”

MIT releasing new live sessions I can't www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTX4...

we've been laughing at so many of the twitter responses to this, its very funny

My main take away of the Deepseek paper is not scientific but organizational: we need an European industrial plan in AI right now. No safety summit, no peppered compute grants, no funding processes that take two years.

Goodreads for arXiv papers💡 What if instead of arbitrary algorithms and tweets, arXiv papers were curated by your research community? Introducing communities on alphaXiv: bridging papers, discussions, and people in one space.

Realising my way of writing is akin to Penn and Teller's approach to magic; "Magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." My unique advantage / fatal flaw is sinking absurd hours into researching & writing things no one else would ever write about

Nice use case! Terrible replies.

omg this Justice show was so freaking cool. Definitely Alive 2007-tier. I want to see them live so much now

Sad news from the linguistics community: the great sociolinguist William Labov has died at age 97 languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399

So cool!

It's now been months since I have started using alphaXiv (www.alphaxiv.org), a platform that allows anyone to comment on any arXiv paper.

me on Nov 30th, looking forward to Advent of Code: "ok, this year I'd like to at least achieve day 10. I think that's a reasonable goal! I just need to allocate some time to it." my schedule on Dec 2nd: "lol what were you thinking?"

A message from me, to me. #AcWri #GetYourManuscriptOut

🗣💬 Major update: the corpus collection tool BlueskyScraper now comes with a live stream module which lets you collect posts in real time, either randomly or through filters, then download the results as a file in the format of your choice. 🔗 Info: fmoncomble.github.io/blueskyscrap...

A markdown-like journal language for plainly writing logs , gantt charts , blogs , feeds , notes , journals , diaries , todos , timelines , calendars or anything that happens over time. https://markwhen.com/

Every time I read "deadjectival", I can't help but break it down into "dead" and "jectival"… This is where you'd need a hyphen. (actually, I'm in favour of pronouncing it /ˌdɛdʒɪkˈtaɪvəl/ and even shortening it to 💀jectival)

It's pretty sad to see the negative sentiment towards Hugging Face on this platform due to a dataset put by one of the employees. I want to write a small piece. 🧵 Hugging Face empowers everyone to use AI to create value and is against monopolization of AI it's a hosting platform above all.

Howard's A Beautiful Mind was a great surprise! Didn't except much of it at first but Crowe's performance was top-notch.

Hello, Computational linguistics/NLP world in Bluesky! We're creating the same accounts on other social media platforms in Bluesky! #NLProc

There are a lot of discussion on if "scaling is done," with stories from the Information saying that the latest GPT models aren't showing what OpenAI wanted while Sam Altman still parades around saying AGI is near. I wanted to explain why both of these can be true.

In addition to this intro to embeddings: technicalwriting.dev/data/embeddi... I strongly recommend this survey of stuff you can build with embeddings by @simonwillison.net simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/... And this deep dive into what embeddings are + how they work by @vickiboykis.com

I think this misreads it. Per their own discussions from 2016, they believe (with some justification) that they can use trolling to convert people. White supremacists used Xitter as a means to direct mainstream discourse. So they need to be where mainstream discourse is.

It's graduate application season! See below for two resources that people have found useful: - Blog post on writing a Ph.D. statement of purpose - List of many North American linguistics departments with computational/NLP research #NLProc #CompLing #phdchat

Have you heard about Lumina Probiotics? Research has been focused on finding ways to stop tooth decay, and this product is poised to become the first widely available solution purported to stop cavities. While it sounds promising on paper, there are still some caveats to be aware of. 🧵

This is ridiculous, y'all. Google's distillation of Gemma down to *2 bil* parameters beats GPT-3.5 and other models 35 times its size. LLMs have shrunk by two full orders of magnitude since 2020 while getting more useful and much cheaper to run. developers.googleblog.com/en/smaller-s...

That opening ceremony was really neat. Quite surprised honestly. And that ending...!

As someone who has personally experienced this, it's not that surprising -- but I'm still glad to see that topic being tackled in a research context. 🧵