The spring is upon us, my fellow north-hemispherians. Imbolc - Setsubun - Maslenitsa FTW. 🍀🌼🌸

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Ladies and gentlemen, it is almost here, one and a half days left! Mark your calendars, register for PPoPP - it’s dirt cheap. Attend our workshop on benchmarking everything everywhere - start April 2nd, 9am ET. Awesome speakers, panelists, attendees too! parallel.computer

⭐Hey hey we are hiring! 🤖AI + supercomputers + awesome team + experience of living in Tokyo, Japan 🍣🗻 ⛩️. Apply directly or ask me about the details. And please retweet! NLP, AI for science, compute platforms for AI - you name it. riken.jp/en/careers/res…

.ACL 2025 will soon be over, but the fun continues. The Third Workshop on Insights From Negative Results is happening tomorrow! Here's what's on the menu: insights-workshop.github.io/2022/program/ /1

Compute enabled deep learning - are other AI paradigms waiting for their AlexNet moment? What are computational challenges? More insights from neuroscience? These and related topics at cortex.ws workshop by Artur Podobas, Barry Devereux, Catherine (Katie) Schuman, and yours truly.

Doing #Anki for 14 years now 💪🏼. First was burn, then burnout, then finally steady pace. This is Japanese deck, but that's the only one I do regularly. Days studied: 60% (3043 of 4996) Total: 359690 reviews Average reviews/day: 72.0 Average minutes/day: 9.3

well, the #stablediffusion thing is indeed fun to play with. But feels rather then prompt engineering, might be better to shortcut directly to tuning the input vector.

📢 #NLPaperAlert: Outliers Dimensions that Disrupt Transformers Are Driven by Frequency with giovanni Aleksandr Drozd Felice Dell'Orletta TLDR: remember how BERT over-relies on just 48 magic params? They're related to token frequency in training! /1 arxiv.org/abs/2205.11380

I think I have some sort of sleepwalking issue... I suspect I wake up at night, unconscious go to my PC and delete those email to which it was too bothersome to reply...

The 'Myths' paper is out: Satoshi Matsuoka, Jens Domke, Mohamed Wahib, Aleksandr Drozd, Torsten Hoefler. "Myths and Legends in High-Performance Computing" arxiv.org/abs/2301.02432" undergoing peer review. Hopefully the community will be engaged in yes/no discussions on Twitter!

You can do animation in PDF slides with latex ONLY with multimedia package, ONLY with LuaLaTeX ONLY in okular (on linux). JS based animation out for "security" reasons, XeLaTeX etc can't build multimedia, evince etc needs mouse click but in presentation mode it means next page 🤦

#hpcmyths 6: We Will Soon Run at Zettascale! Read our discussion in Satoshi Matsuoka et al. arxiv.org/abs/2301.02432 and discuss here at the #HPC twitter! Will we reach zettaflop/s performance or will fp64 lose relevance before?

As I'm trying to teach my daughter a bit of programming, had to brush the dust off the pycontextfree library... Here's the code for this one: github.com/undertherain/p…

me: I’m pretty good with CSS. also me: and I don’t want to use JS on the server, so I’ll use a static site generator in Go... Static site generator in Go: running a JS-based JIT-compiler for a CSS framework used by a theme I choose... JIT-compiling CSS... damn hipsters...

arxiv.org/abs/2404.08676 🚨Introducing ALERT🚨 , a large-scale safety benchmark of > 45k instructions categorized using our new taxonomy. ✨Using prior work such as Bo Decoding Trust and our Aurora-m huggingface.co/datasets/auror… and Jack Clark's awesome Anthropic-HH. 🙏

Workshop on Large Language Models and HPC will be in Kobe Sept 24 at IEEE Cluster 2025, still more than a month to submit a paper! Organized by Kevin A. Brown , Tanwi Mallick, Juliane Mueller and yours truly. Details at llmhpc.github.io/2024, 🔁 appreciated!

Great news! Based on requests, the submission deadline for the LLMxHPC workshop (@ IEEE #Cluster) has been extended to June 29, 2024. Submit your novel research on using #HPC to advance #LLMs and using LLMs to improve the design/operation of HPC systems. llmhpc.github.io/2024/

📢 #NLProc I'm hiring! 2x PhD students (apply by Nov 22) & postdoc (Nov 15). These positions are part of a large project on the problem of attribution for LLM outputs to the original data sources, on which LLMs were trained. Job links on my website (in the bio) /1

Now I'm a man of culture too! I tried kuwai! I mean クワイ. I mean 慈姑. Tastes like a chestnut who became a root vegetable. Deep-fried. A bit bitter, but maybe that's from frying. Gives you that "find it in the forest and eat" feel, though this one was from the shop :)