Thanks to several hundred of you for doing some crosswords for science! We’re excited to start some analysis soon but if you haven’t yet, please enjoy some puzzles: iliad.stanford.edu/experiments/te… And thanks again to boswords.org!

How can we leverage a theory of linguistic meaning to build machines that think in more human-like ways? New paper with Lio Wong, Alex Lew, noahdgoodman, Vikash Mansinghka, Jacob Andreas, and Josh Tenenbaum. arxiv.org/abs/2306.12672

🚨🚨New Paper Announcement (to appear in TACL) 📜 from me, Tiago Pimentel, Clara Isabel Meister, @ryandcotterell and Roger Levy: Testing the Predictions of Surprisal Theory in 11 Languages arxiv.org/abs/2307.03667 🌎

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👋I boost a lot of job opportunities on here and now it's time to boost my own! I'll be arriving at #Stanford in fall of 2024 and I'm looking for awesome people to help me figure out language. 🧵👇

no, that’s not the kind of latex support i want

Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish colors to hyperparameters for which training diverges.

Now out in PNASNews! Large-scale reading evidence that next-word predictability effects in humans are driven by *inference* (logarithmic in predictability) rather than preactivation (linear in predictability). pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 1/10

🔔🌟 New Preprint Alert 🔔🌟 “An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Targeted Regressions during Reading” with Tiago Pimentel , Clara Isabel Meister , @ryandcotterell - Psycholinguistics 🧠 Computational Modeling 🤖 Crosslinguistic Studies 🌍 Information Theory 📡 osf.io/preprints/psya…

Need a reminder about how to report effect size or confidence intervals for your frequentist stats model? This looks very promising resource: matthewbjane.quarto.pub/guide-to-effec…

Wow that’s a really cool visualization of an LLM completion distribution. I want to see more interactive visualizations like this.

It was so much fun to be a part of this production.

It was an amazing experience to film our music video at the beautiful historic Estate of Mind Oakhurst Manor back in November. Very sadly, I learned that they suffered a devastating fire there on March 1st. Thankfully and most importantly no one was injured. But they are - (1/2)

Now that the eclipse is within the short range, global ensembles add less value while more high resolution models become available. I switched my eclipse page to use the High Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF), including a cloud layer breakdown: arctic.som.ou.edu/tburg/products…

Once, we ran a study on Prolific and a participant wrote on Reddit that the study “Felt like I was losing the will to live.” I went on the Prolific Subreddit (24k members!) and asked what matters. Here is what they told me. A thread on happier participants and better studies 1/9

しょうがないのでデバイス2つ用意して同時に演奏するとこんな感じ okathira-dev.github.io/client-web-api…

🚨ATTN Natural Stories users!🚨 We found a misalignment in the self-paced reading times. Everything is off by one position. In the released dataset, the SPR RTs for the word at index t are actually for index t+1. If you are using the dataset, please use the realigned data.