Congrats to my grad alma mater Stanford University for their new #openaccess policy, widening the 2010 Stanford Graduate School of Education policy to the whole university. Fantastic! And thanks go to Stanford University Libraries for establishing the new Office of Scholarly Communications. stanford.io/37lKHdB

New NeurIPS Conference paper: "Investigating Gender Bias in Language Models Using Causal Mediation Analysis" Link: proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/fil… With Jesse Vig Sebastian Gehrmann Sharon Qian Daniel Nevo Yaron Stuart Shieber (@[email protected])

Why the Constitution specifies copyright’s exclusive rights “for limited Times” only: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdom…

Every time someone says we are close to solving NLG they should be forced to read 5 of these summaries from Shashi Narayan's paper. huggingface.co/datasets/viewe…

I've never asked for retweets before, but please retweet this in an effort to put an end to this madness: tinyurl.com/x3ywt3ca CNN et. al. Please. It's "MLB," not "the MLB." It stands for "Major League Baseball." No one says "The Major League Baseball is working with. . . ."

Sometime in the last month, the guide to good practices for university #openaccess policies that I maintain with Stuart Shieber (@[email protected]) passed the milestone of 300,000 page views. bit.ly/goodoa

Carlos O'Donell That’s the most important thing I learned in college. (Unless you count meeting my wife. But we’re still married because I try to make it easy for her to give me an “A”.) Giving credit where it’s due, I learned it from Stuart Shieber (@[email protected]).

The results are in this new #ACL2021NLP paper: arxiv.org/abs/2106.06087 Hoping this encourages more work using mediation analysis to reveal internal mechanisms in language models. 4/4

Exactly 11 years ago today I was on this trip: shbr.link/scouring #uffington #whitehorse #preservation #libraries

I do not think it is possible to say very much with confidence about the sentience of LaMDA — or of any other computer system — on the basis of transcripts. Stuart Shieber (@[email protected])’s “The Turing Test as Interactive Proof” convincingly explains why not. dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/20272… 1/

Which patents get accepted? How do the standards for innovation evolve over time? What kinds of technologies turn over more quickly? In joint work with Mirac Suzgun Luke Melas-Kyriazi Scott Kominers and Stuart Shieber (@[email protected]), we introduce a dataset that may help address questions like these [1/n]

Moderating principles blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2022/…

@SplitSeason1981 All records pre-2023 increase in size of bases.

Since we first distributed our #goodOA guide 10 years ago today, over 70 institutions have enacted simpatico #openaccess policies. We'd love to know ([email protected]) if it's helped you too! bit.ly/goodoa h/t Peter Suber (@[email protected])