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world's smallest violin rings out -- somehow can be heard all the way from michigan

from has this super-myopic view of language technology changed much in the US research context?

sometimes thinking about durians

okay but 2 sentences in I am very skeptical about: "although current LLMs, including GPT-3, were trained on predominantly human-generated text..." is that even close to being the case? incentives for mass produced spam content have been around a while...

@potatoslav if you can get kanopy via a usa-ische library, they have a decent selection!

creating problems for other people (submitted a paper)

LLMs: 🚫 LLFs (Large Lines of Flight): ✅

not hard to think of uni buildings in germany that are super leaky or need to close at sundown due to lack of lighting maintenance -- while simultaneously being full of academics w/ tons of active research!

@languistical it's still good -- I think anything abutting the LLM craze would gloss over more fundamental questions about tokenizing/lemmatizing text etc etc. The nltk book works with 'big enough' data that can still run really fast on any old computer

creating more problems for myself in the future (writing code)

@jjoque a couple episodes of 'eight hours don't make a day' would qualify also! (bizarrely wholesome fassbinder tv series)

@jjoque The Organizer, Sorry to Bother You, Salt of the Earth (on Kanopy I think) could also recommend this:

@kevinbaker @_henry_snow it's very convenient that no word has ever changed its meaning!