#BREAKINGNEWS: Join us in welcoming Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary to the National Marine Sanctuary System as the third largest national marine sanctuary! sanctuaries.noaa.gov/news/oct24/chu… noaa.gov/news-release/b…

🧙 Come be my colleague! We have TWO Assistant Professor positions that might be of particular interest to folks in my reach, in Linguistics and CS. These hires are parts of an AI cluster hiring initiative led by BU Computing & Data Sciences. More below 👇

Weirdly, for the past week or so, my email's suggested completion for my name has been "Tomorrow_" (with the underscore). Do other Outlook users get this?? I don't think I've ever typed "Tomorrow_", so I'm not sure where this would be coming from.

The ability to properly contextualize is a core competency of LLMs, yet even the best models sometimes struggle. In a new preprint, we use #MechanisticInterpretability techniques to propose an explanation for contextualization errors: the LLM Race Conditions Hypothesis. [1/9]

Excellent discussion of how some important limitations of neural networks can be overcome via meta-learning!