great call out: 1. NN learned neither from observations nor from self-play. It learned from teacher: Non-neural program StockFish. 2. During training search was used indirectly (via StockFish), but not during actual play. Whether or not this counts as using search is debatable.

Until recently, I really enjoyed the Bai drinks. They recently rebranded the drink as 'wonderwater' from 'antioxidant infusion' and shrunk the bottle, and charge the same price. It tastes different to me. I don't like it, I think it's worse now.

what if we take all bad names and merge them

I am very happy to announce our new work "FLawN-T5: An Empirical Examination of Effective Instruction-Tuning Data Mixtures for Legal Reasoning"! 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2404.02127 💾: huggingface.co/datasets/lawin… 🧵👇 1/7

so do I tell this guy that a16z and andreessen horowitz are the same VC

Lots of great libraries here, not least of which is Patrick Kidger’s Equinox, which is one of the core libraries Levanter is built on. github.com/patrick-kidger…

Kristian Lum Me: exact inference is NP hard Someone somewhere: have you tried Mamba

I know EACL was last month, but at least I did (eventually) do it😶‍🌫️ Read our paper: "Code-Switched Language Identification is Harder Than You Think" aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long…

Undoubtedly, it is Raffel et al (2020), the T5 paper, which came earlier. You can see the beginnings of supervised instruction/prompting there (see red highlights) and it was the first ever paper to show you can use formulate any task as a text to text task and train multiple

There’s always a relevant xkcd: m.xkcd.com/810/

Some good news that I'm excited to share today: I've received an NSF CAREER award! This award will support my group's research on robust, fair, and culturally aware commonsense reasoning in natural language. Feeling grateful to my students & the many people who have supported me!

In🇦🇹this week ICLR 2026 to present: 1⃣Privacy-preserving in-context learning with DP few-shot generation arxiv.org/abs/2309.11765 🖼️Tue 10:45 B-229 2⃣Can LLMs Keep a Secret? Testing Privacy Implications via Contextual Integrity arxiv.org/abs/2310.17884 🖼️ Wed 16:30 B-215

New pub w/ Matt DeButts in Journal of Communication "Reporting after Removal: Effects of Journalist Expulsion on Foreign News Coverage". What happened to coverage of China after a large portion of the reporting corps of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal were expelled from China in 2020? 1/3

Step 0. If there’s a peer-reviewed version, cite that instead. Usually conferences and publishers put effort into BibTeX that’s more complete and beautiful than arXiv’s. (Did this for TACL with Matt Post)

Drop by my talk at LREC-COLING on Thursday on unsupervised cognate induction between closely related data-imbalanced language pairs :) arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14012

Congrats to CLSP’ers graduating this year! 🥳🥳 Photo credit: Elizabeth Salesky

Visited Claude today

✨I’m on the faculty job market for 2024-2025! ✨ My research focuses on advancing Responsible AI—enhancing factuality, robustness, and transparency in AI systems. I’m at #EMNLP2024 this week🌴 and would love to chat about research and hear any advice!

👾 Full-time research assistant position (1 year) with Sebastian Schuster and me! 👾 We're looking for someone to join the research agent evaluation team, starting Fall 2025. Application link to be available soon, but feel free to send us your CV and/or come talk to us at #ACL2025. 🧵

I'm recruiting MLEs at #ACL2025! Find me/reach out if you're into legal NLP & structured prediction at a Series A startup in NYC I'll also always chat about: • population-level inference on corpora • broad-coverage semantics • which café has the best Sachertorte in Vienna