Processor of Natural Languages
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natural language processing
How it feels to introduce my own methodology as "a novel methodology" in the introduction.
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
How it feels to introduce my own methodology as "a novel methodology" in the introduction.
Hurts to see a dear friend go into the alignment-ist AI safety research direction.
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Hurts to see a dear friend go into the alignment-ist AI safety research direction.
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a training algorithm that didn't work with LLMs. However, this changed when researchers from Hugging Face developed their own version, called RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Hugging Face), which has been used to make state of the art models, such as Llama 4.
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a training algorithm that didn't work with LLMs. However, this changed when researchers from Hugging Face developed their own version, called RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Hugging Face), which has been used to make state of the art models, such as Llama 4.
Having to come out of research retirement at 65 because my chud grandson couldn't publish an ACL before high school smh
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Having to come out of research retirement at 65 because my chud grandson couldn't publish an ACL before high school smh
very valid counterargument to many woeposts
It is perfectly reasonable for a reviewer to ask for very expensive experiments if those expensive experiments are necessary to show the result is true
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
very valid counterargument to many woeposts
Is noone mentioning that the authors of the ICLR fabricated best-of-n submission paper has the same last name, and the second author appears to be a "Researcher" at a prep school?
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Is noone mentioning that the authors of the ICLR fabricated best-of-n submission paper has the same last name, and the second author appears to be a "Researcher" at a prep school?
still uncertain whether inviting all of internet to gawk at long-tailed instances of spectacular review outliars is a good productive thing
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
still uncertain whether inviting all of internet to gawk at long-tailed instances of spectacular review outliars is a good productive thing
fellas we need to reject more slop papers
November 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
fellas we need to reject more slop papers
the memification of llm reviews have people posting bad reviews (that are obviously not llm-generated) and everyone assumes its llm-generated
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
the memification of llm reviews have people posting bad reviews (that are obviously not llm-generated) and everyone assumes its llm-generated
Lots of new insights gained during EMNLP. LLMs will never replace the joys of conversing with fantastic people with their own perspective.
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Lots of new insights gained during EMNLP. LLMs will never replace the joys of conversing with fantastic people with their own perspective.
Big hit viral papers are 80% of people are very impressed and the smart 20% that knows the subject are like "this is wrong/misleading"
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Big hit viral papers are 80% of people are very impressed and the smart 20% that knows the subject are like "this is wrong/misleading"
If OpenAI doesn't care about my privacy and data, why does their chatbot model say they do?
checkmate atheists
checkmate atheists
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If OpenAI doesn't care about my privacy and data, why does their chatbot model say they do?
checkmate atheists
checkmate atheists
how to tell if your model is becoming worse:
perplexity goes up
how to tell if society is becoming worse:
Perplexity goes up
perplexity goes up
how to tell if society is becoming worse:
Perplexity goes up
October 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
how to tell if your model is becoming worse:
perplexity goes up
how to tell if society is becoming worse:
Perplexity goes up
perplexity goes up
how to tell if society is becoming worse:
Perplexity goes up
I've been noticing an increasing amount of Argument by Karpathy-said-so recently.
October 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I've been noticing an increasing amount of Argument by Karpathy-said-so recently.
It's sentiment classification all the way down.
October 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It's sentiment classification all the way down.
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What does an LLM do when it translates from Italian "amore" to Spanish "amor" or French "amour"?
That's easy! (you might think) Because surely it knows: amore, amor, amour are all based on the same Latin word. It can just drop the "e", or add a "u".
That's easy! (you might think) Because surely it knows: amore, amor, amour are all based on the same Latin word. It can just drop the "e", or add a "u".
October 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
What does an LLM do when it translates from Italian "amore" to Spanish "amor" or French "amour"?
That's easy! (you might think) Because surely it knows: amore, amor, amour are all based on the same Latin word. It can just drop the "e", or add a "u".
That's easy! (you might think) Because surely it knows: amore, amor, amour are all based on the same Latin word. It can just drop the "e", or add a "u".
There exists a man who has the highest Erdos number in the world.
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
There exists a man who has the highest Erdos number in the world.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head
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Keynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic
"Are language models worth it?"
Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.
"Are language models worth it?"
Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.
October 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Keynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic
"Are language models worth it?"
Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.
"Are language models worth it?"
Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.
everyone focused on superintelligence
they wont be ready for duperintelligence
they wont be ready for duperintelligence
October 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
everyone focused on superintelligence
they wont be ready for duperintelligence
they wont be ready for duperintelligence
few years ago I would have thought this was an overreaction to dull/unimaginative usage of tools that are actually legitimate/cool
but it is now quite clear that the providers of the technology are settling for a culture of sloposphere as a goal rather than a side effect.
very sad.
but it is now quite clear that the providers of the technology are settling for a culture of sloposphere as a goal rather than a side effect.
very sad.
Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔
October 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
few years ago I would have thought this was an overreaction to dull/unimaginative usage of tools that are actually legitimate/cool
but it is now quite clear that the providers of the technology are settling for a culture of sloposphere as a goal rather than a side effect.
very sad.
but it is now quite clear that the providers of the technology are settling for a culture of sloposphere as a goal rather than a side effect.
very sad.
Previous work on sandwiches has investigated using meats (Yang et al., 2014; Fisher et al. 2019), cheeses (Stevens et al., 1998; Meng et al., 2023), and sauces (Hellmann et al., 1989; Geiger et al., 2008). However, little is known about using liquefied petroleum gas. Our work closes this gap by ...
September 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Previous work on sandwiches has investigated using meats (Yang et al., 2014; Fisher et al. 2019), cheeses (Stevens et al., 1998; Meng et al., 2023), and sauces (Hellmann et al., 1989; Geiger et al., 2008). However, little is known about using liquefied petroleum gas. Our work closes this gap by ...
wait everyone hates utf-8 now??
September 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
wait everyone hates utf-8 now??