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socrates you gotta stop. you question too tough. your method too didactic. your dialogue too piercing. your life too examined. they’ll kill you
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Na-Baron Feyd-Rautha lives on Giedi Prime under the Black Sun that wipes away all color. he has access to the best education possible, and so knows all he can about color, intellectually. does his understanding of color change when he visits Arrakis?
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@idavidrein pretty hard to tell in these situations, there’s not really enough to go on, she might be canadian
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@jxmnop hmmm what about saved as one giant jpeg in MS Paint, decoded back to text with OCR?
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@pli_cachete emerald-tier bait
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@sentdefender how was that nap?
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@UnhWut because they’re perfectly aware they share far more ideological and social connections to the democratic party, and so are far more likely to push the democrats into concessions by virtue of being adjacent to the party base
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@samswoora notion is the perfect productivity tool for people who want to be permanently logged out of an amorphous database
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@mattyglesias Conversely, we draft the Port Authority to occupy Gaza. A complete and total cessation of all tunneling, the likes of which the IDF could only dream of enforcing
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Actually the US date format is underlyingly YYYY-MM-DD, there’s just movement of the MP into [spec,DateP]
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@BeijingPalmer > doesn’t want israelis to live in israel > doesn’t want israelis to live outside of israel hmmmmmm
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@AlbertBuchard epiphenomenal qualia DESTROYED with FACTS and FARMING SIMULATORS
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@dhh VCs be like “you compensate your employees with money earned through sustainable growth? that pales in comparison to my strategy, forcing startups to chase impossible growth” and then dilute the equity pool, do layoffs, and sell the brand for scraps
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How does Galois theory help show that the state-tracking capabilities of current (!) SSMs are illusions? What makes S5 & A5 “hard”? And why do we consider A5 & friends here instead of S5? A thread on the algebra behind our paper!
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✨Excited to finally drop our new paper: SSMs “look like” RNNs, but we show their statefulness is an illusion🪄🐇 Current SSMs cannot express basic state tracking, but a minimal change fixes this! 👀 w/ @jowenpetty , @Ashish_S_AI
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@zeta_globin right it’s Science Technology Engineering Media literacy
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@eigenrobot social sciences (chemistry) hit hardest
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NYU dismissed a chemistry professor after students said his class was too hard, igniting a debate about the relaxing of academic standards.
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@eigenrobot @marilynmaupin when a regional mideast power decides to go for the conventional, direct attack on israel
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@Goodtweet_man it’s like part of his soul lives in every photo this is probably why ancient religions developed aniconism
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@TheSeaMouse yah i’m ignoring that for the sake of the joke/allusion :)
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@jessesingal > biden steps down > open convention > DNC nominates Trump the path forward is clear
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@SwannMarcus89 @agraybee This is obviously a protest about the exchange rate of the shekel!
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Do deep transformer LMs generalize better? In a new preprint we ( @vansteenkiste_s Ishita Dasgupta @feishaAI @dhgarrette @tallinzen ) control for parameter count to show how depth helps models on compositional generalization tasks, but diminishingly so🧵 📜
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@8hipulin he certainly behaves as if he does…hmmmm
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@jonathanbfine correct, for that you’d need the duolingo for philosophy app; it’s a common mistake
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@andrewwhite01 Yes! Now that I can prompt GPT-4 about basically anything I can get rid of that remaining 4.25 years of research and devote all my time to figuring out why my docket files aren’t building
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@knifefight may THY subjective conscious experience chip and shatter
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@DrDavidInDC There’s a bitter irony here, that this kind of thing is exactly what ‘intersectionality’ is supposed to explicate
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@jarvis_best it’s called ‘we have a little fun with the Century typeface’
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Now that Ocean Spray has effectively make “cran-” a productive affix, we must rename “cranberry morphemes.” The Age of the Huckleberry Morpheme has arrived!
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@NateSilver538 If you haven’t encountered it before, pragmatics is the discipline of linguistics which studies the way language is used! There’s a ton of really interesting work both qualitatively describing this and quantifying it
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“you’re missing the satire! the art is mocking your perspective!!”, i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a feather in his cap and call it macaroni
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@SaysSimonson being from St. Paul? Minnesota. being from Green Bay? believe it or not, also Minnesota.
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Doing a PhD helps me develop strong project management skills and a sense of independence in my research
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for my next magic trick, i’ll transform a possessive genitive into an objective genitive using only the mere passage of time
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The killer app of LLMs is Scarlett Johansson. You all thought it was math or something
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@eigenrobot man good thing there isn't a serious naval threat to us interests from a near-peer antagonistic power materializing in the next few years cause this would probably be a bad sign for that haha gosh can u even imagine
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i didn't even know it was POSSIBLE to fuck up biblatex formatting so much that cite labels were negative but here i am
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Broke: ˈlɛɪ.tɛks Woke: ˈla.tɛk Bespoke: ˈlæ̃.tɛχ
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I’m presenting today at #NAACL24 on our @GoogleAI / @GoogleDeepMind paper “The Impact of Depth in Compositional Generalization in Transformer Language Models” If you can’t make it, here’s a thread on what we found! paper, poster, slides, & video at
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Are you coming to #NAACL24 ? 🇲🇽 DM if you wanna meet up, grab coffee, and/or talk about - predicting model generalization behavior - state tracking - using pure math to reason about language models - formal languages and LLMs
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@DrDavidInDC Technically, it says “from the water to the water, Palestine is Arab” (من المية للمية فلسطين عربية) but yes
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oh boy, what did he say about functional heads this time?
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@Mr_Andrew_Fox hamas be like
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@simonsarris Often the understanding comes from the doing
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@JewYid Ḥristmas. Just to annoy _everyone_
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@jessesingal that option was always on the table, though. they could have left at any point and completed the semester without even having to sign anything
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@RachelMoiselle > Zionists out of Ireland gosh i wonder where the Zionists will go if expelled from Ireland
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@OrenSMizr @nyulaw The NYU grad student unions (which we HAVE TO PAY MONEY TO) are doing the same
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@davidleo24 @mattyglesias We’re sorry Mr Haniyeh but the subcommittee for noise pollution has determined that tunneling in this sector will adversely affect local pigeon populations; we’ll have to kick this up the the commission on environmental equity for another 3-month review
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So the unions which NYU graduate students are legally obligated to fund are selectively weighing in on foreign policy in favor of pogroms against Jews Any 1A con-law firms wanna take a stab at expanding Janus? My speech is feeling rather compelled….
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@eigenrobot oh man the just stop oil guys are gonna be so pumped when they hear how much we stopped oil i hope someone tells them
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@Albz321 Preface: This text assumes no familiarity beyond naive set theory Chapter 1.1: * Entire undergraduate curriculum and 3 semesters of grad algebra * (17 pages)
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@sentdefender CENTCOM when al qassam threatens to send a mortar their way
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@idavidrein y’know I’m something of an unsupervised learner myself
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How well do LLMs generalize to novel distributions? Our (Michael Wilson @bob_frank ) new TACL / #EMNLP2023 paper uses argument structure to test this, finding that LLMs succeed within known contexts but fail to do so between appropriately related ones. 🧵
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please stop its physically painful
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@Noahpinion do you mean “last as in not broken” or “last as in competitively useful for training future models”?
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@andersonbcdefg “three tickets for challengers”
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@Here_2_complain @UnhWut if you think they won’t, i’ve got a vice-presidential nomination, a DoJ investigation in to campus civil rights violations, and 31 charges Alvin Bragg won’t drop to sell you.
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@jarvis_best To Save Capitalism From Itself, I Am Voting for Price Controls By David French
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@artetxem I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as <model>, is in fact, Llama 3/<model>, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Llama 3 plus <model>.
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@typedfemale we have strayed from the True Path (scotch-taping JavaScript together in 10 days)
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@sahar_tartak Were any Jews at all admitted? And what’s Yale’s policy on using the LC lecture halls for events where students are prohibited from attending for political/religious affiliation?
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@eigenrobot valence aside, it’s basically impossible to have been in middle/high school during the middle teens and not know them crash course was (is?) universal study material for ap/ap-adjacent high school courses
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🕎 🕯️ חג שמח לכל עם ישראל
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@eigenrobot chesterton’s load-bearing wall
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@qntm Isn’t it obvious?
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Pingali and Bilardi (2015) just get me
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yearly reminder every point on the pathological Weierstrass function looks like every other point in the pathological Weierstrass function
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yearly reminder everything looks exponential from the middle of a sigmoid
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@eigenrobot gotta be a big market tho, right? kinda same problem as china: big market using its market power to dictate terms to US companies
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@heidi_harley 😬 yikes
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@clapifyoulikeme @ryxcommar is that what the NY Governor’s Office is calling itself these days?
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@Yair_Rosenberg Why is Egypt given such a long leash? the US is perfectly willing to threaten Israel in public, but Egypt straight up lies to the US, scuttles a deal, and withholds actual aid from reaching Gaza and all they get is anonymously-sourced reprimands in a CNN article?
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@littmath Editors of the Oxford English Dictionary after suing everyone for plagiarism (they invented words)
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@miniapeur [rings of characteristic 2 have entered the chat]
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@eigenrobot i still think this was the most effective attempt at dealing with irksome protestors bc it lets the silent majority identify with “hell yeah let’s grill and party” instead of “riot police”
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@MaryJackalope *h₂ŕ̥tḱos
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@eigenrobot wouldn’t it be hilarious if there were a caucus of the democratic party which had expressed their explicit desire to disrupt and forestall biden’s nomination, prolly would make attempts to move the convention or hold a quick online vote earlier kinda difficult
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@eigenrobot Just upset everyone by referring to Harvard as “the Dartmouth of the South”
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@academic_la why has there been literally no diplomatic blowback against Egypt here from the US? This entire time, the US has refused to exert any pressure on Egypt to take in refugees, or to permit aid since the Rafah takeover. Now it’s obvious they have been lying about the tunnels and they
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So the unions which NYU graduate students are legally obligated to fund are selectively weighing in on foreign policy in favor of pogroms against Jews Any 1A con-law firms wanna take a stab at expanding Janus? My speech is feeling rather compelled….
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@littmath “Facts don’t care about your feelings” but make it blue
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@jxmnop first ml class i took had the first few homework assignments like this (eg, prove the chain rule and hand-compute gradients on paper, then do it with python lists, then build a neural net in numpy)
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Our paper on how model depth impacts compositional generalization was accepted to #NAACL2024 🇲🇽 A new version is up on arXiv! We've added a discussion of how making models deeper makes them slower, without adding much benefit for compositional tasks
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Do deep transformer LMs generalize better? In a new preprint we ( @vansteenkiste_s Ishita Dasgupta @feishaAI @dhgarrette @tallinzen ) control for parameter count to show how depth helps models on compositional generalization tasks, but diminishingly so🧵 📜
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@samswoora how is it ALWAYS logged out?? why do the cookies not persist?? but yknow what’s never logged out? Work Log.txt
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@allgarbled boy it sure would be devious if some of those sides were mislabeled
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@smod4real the memetic equivalent of gain-of-function research
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@pli_cachete What are some tweaks?
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@Scholars_Stage Do you think it’s something more than “selection effects gave us a class of students hyper focused on credentialed advancement and they don’t want to stop”?
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Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of research, this term paper contains no further information on background, methodology, analysis, conclusions, or datasets used.
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@eigenrobot a once-in-a-generation politico with superb oratory skills who promised to transcend partisan politics but whose governance ultimately resulted in the rise of right-wing populists and the breakdown of trust in the institutions of the republic? now THAT’S change i can believe in
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Na-Baron Feyd-Rautha lives on Giedi Prime under the Black Sun that wipes away all color. he has access to the best education possible, and so knows all he can about color, intellectually. does his understanding of color change when he visits Arrakis?
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@simonsarris @eigenrobot Yeah, I don’t think this rises to the level of an actionable violation. It may technically be true that it’s in violation of Harvard’s policy but it doesn’t seem like a smoking gun for academic fraud
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my favorite part of linguistics is debugging the docker files
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@eigenrobot US needs to start actually addressing european interference in the american economy
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@TheOmniZaddy Unfortunately, inflicting MTA governance on Gaza would constitute a war crime :(
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(chuckles) I’m in danger!
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no you can’t delete that that’s my emotional support pytorch-1.13.1-py3.9_0
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there’s soooo much alpha in being an undergrad who gets professors’ references, if u laugh at the jokes once in lecture they’ll put you on a research project
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@the_transit_guy @TommyInPA it means that moderate and centrist voters won’t have to wonder “why am i being asked to vote for a ranting antisemites who excuse abhorrent sexual violence and who voted against the premier legislation of the Biden administration” which seems like an absolute win
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