.Arsenal "Remember who you are, what you are and who you represent." A statement from the We Care Do You Campaign. wecaredoyou.co.uk/2019/11/24/rem… #WeCareDoYou #Arsenal

How it started vs. How it’s going

I just graduated from Yale and realized how much more there is to learn. But I did uncover 7 lies you've been told about the world. Here's the truth🧵

To increase transparency around grad school stipends, retweet this tweet with your department, university, and annual stipend. I'll go first: I'm a PhD student in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CMS) department at Caltech, and I'm paid $36k/year. #StipendTransparency

If you want to get serious about training big deep learning models, you'll need some serious compute. However, knowing what GPU to rent can be very intimidating and hard to research. So, I decided to provide you with a buyer's guide! Here's your guide to data center GPUs 🧵

My practical advice for students doing research projects in Machine Learning or NLP. Collected over several years, it has grown to a list of 44 suggestions. marekrei.com/blog/mphil-pro… #MachineLearning #NLProc

For my spring NLP/NLU course, I had a series of conversations with outstanding researchers, aiming to provide students a sense for these people and how they think about the field. The conversations were really rewarding, so I turned them into a podcast: web.stanford.edu/class/cs224u/p…

"Woman working on a computer, Jamini Roy style" #dalle2 😮

I am meeting ML researchers all the time. There are two worlds. One world's problem is "should I go to Google or Deepmind next summer" and the other is "a small opportunity, however small, please." All problems are valid. But my heart sinks at this chilling, disorienting divide.

Can we learn anything about human language learning from everything that’s going on in machine learning and NLP? In a new position piece Sam Bowman (Sam Bowman) and I argue the answer is “yes”. …If we take some specific steps. 🧵

1/20 MEGA THREAD Overheard from BigTech engineers in the Bay Area: “Man, I know I get paid $350k to work 20hrs a week but I just want to work on something state of the art and world changing! Like AI or blockchain. Only 20hrs/week tho”

I'm currently pursuing an MA in Linguistics from the University of Mumbai. We have a mandatory year long field linguistics course where every year, we try to document either an endangered or a lesser studied language. A few things I learnt from this course, a 🧵

Can Large Language Models (#ChatGPT) transform Computational Social Science? Our recent work shows how they might (in partnership w/ experts). We evaluate on 24 #CSS tasks + draw a roadmap 🚗🗺️ to guide #LLM-augmented social science 🚀 Paper: calebziems.com/assets/pdf/pre… 🧵 thread

#PhD student: Makes $30k a year. Works on weekends as well. Zero life-work balance. "Do you think I have a chance to become a professor?" Prof: "Yes, of course! Finish this project and we will publish excellent papers. I am sure you will easily find a faculty position." ▫️ 2

This is me and my family's story. The Players’ Tribune theplayerstribune.com/posts/aaron-ra…

Sam Register, President of Warner Bros. Animation, is against using AI. "I just think it’s important we protect the artists and the art form as long as we can. [With storyboarding], we should give jobs to people who really do that so they can get their entry-level experience."

🚨Job Announcement🚨 I'm looking for a PhD student w/ an interest in low-resource #NLProc and #NLProc for medical applications to join my group (NALA) at JGU (Universität Mainz), Germany. More details here: t.ly/2dJP3 Application deadline: 05/15/24 Please retweet!😊

So chuffed and excited that Maria Antoniak is joining us at Boulder NLP! 🎊🎉

I proposed the ACL Anthology at the ACL exec meeting at ACL'01 in Toulouse in response for a call for proposals for a 40th anniversary initiative for ACL'02. I offered to build it with the support of LDC plus donations, on condition that it would be freely available.

The highlight of EMNLP for me, other than the beach, was @MMandelkern's slideless philosophy talk. People couldn't handle it.