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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 7d

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

AI isn't replacing radiologists

Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.

www.understandingai.org

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks, Chenhao! It's my pleasure helping with streamlining things in the backend - quite some pain but also fun :-)))

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · 9d

🚀 ACL ARR is looking for a Co-CTO to join me lead our amazing tech team and drive the future of our workflow. If you’re interested or know someone who might be, let’s connect!

RTs & recommendations appreciated.

ACL Rolling Review (ARR) @aclrollingreview.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 ARR is looking for a volunteer Co-CTO to help improve tech infrastructure!
🛠️ Preferred:
• 5+ years in NLP research
• Git, CLI tools, Python, and basic HTML
• 2-year role, overlapping with current Co-CTO
Interested? DM @fredashi.bsky.social or email [email protected]
#ARR #ACL #NLProc

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · 10d

Same! I‘ve literally unbidden 0 out of my recommended batch.

Martin Trapp @trappmartin.bsky.social · 10d

I have soooo many interesting-looking papers in my ICLR - AC bidding batch... I am so happy... 🤩

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Aug 5

Also, is it now common to assume all reviewers are irresponsible and start to threaten them before deadline?

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Aug 5

Is there a specific reason that NeurIPS does not show AC identity to reviewers? I'm very curious about who sent the polite reminders, and of course, even more curious about the rude ones.

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Hokin @hokin.bsky.social · Jun 30

#CoreCognition #LLM #multimodal #GrowAI We spent 3 years to curate 1503 classic experiments spanning 12 core concepts in human cognitive development and evaluated on 230 MLLMs with 11 different prompts for 5 times to get over 3.8 millions inference data points.

A thread (1/n) - #ICML2025 ✅

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · May 5

Just in case this personal latex environmental setup is helpful to a broader crowd ⬇️

Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · May 5

I use local complication w/ VSCode latex workshop plugin + git for version control.
Pros: better hierarchical organization & doesn’t require internet.
Cons: sometimes need to resolve conflict (usually fine if commit frequently) & require a powerful laptop to match overleaf compilation speed.

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · May 5

I use local complication w/ VSCode latex workshop plugin + git for version control.
Pros: better hierarchical organization & doesn’t require internet.
Cons: sometimes need to resolve conflict (usually fine if commit frequently) & require a powerful laptop to match overleaf compilation speed.

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Ana Marasović @anamarasovic.bsky.social · May 3

I'm late to the NAACL party, but I've just arrived in Albuquerque! I'll talk about measuring faithfulness of verbalized reasoning on *Sunday* at Repl4NLP at *9:45*.

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Najoung Kim @najoung.bsky.social · May 4

hello NAACL friends I'm giving a keynote today at RepL4NLP at 1:30PM local time, come say hi! I'll mostly be musing about things with light research discussions

Screenshot of a slide that says "what does it take to convince ourselves that a system is exhibiting compositionality?" with a side comment "mostly AI, but humans too!!" for the word system

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Apr 29

If you are also at NAACL, let's chat!

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Apr 29

Tutorial website here: language-grounding.github.io. More material forthcoming.

Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Apr 29

On my way to NAACL✈️! If you're also there and interested in grounding, don't miss our tutorial on "Learning Language through Grounding"!
Mark your calendar: May 3rd, 14:00-17:30, Ballroom A.

Another exciting collaboration with @marstin.bsky.social @kordjamshidi.bsky.social, Jiayuan, and Joyce!

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Yi (Joshua) Ren @joshuaren.bsky.social · Apr 21

📢Curious why your LLM behaves strangely after long SFT or DPO?
We offer a fresh perspective—consider doing a "force analysis" on your model’s behavior.
Check out our #ICLR2025 Oral paper:

Learning Dynamics of LLM Finetuning!

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Apr 24

Congratulations Danica and Joshua!

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Apr 23

Also happy to chat if you are interested in grad school and academic job opportunities in Waterloo and Canada, quite a sane place to live in and work for.

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Apr 23

Find me at:
- Fri Apr 25, 10am-12:30pm Hall 3 + Hall 2B #212, presenting the poster below w/ @kordjamshidi.bsky.social and Joyce
- Fri Apr 25, Oral Session 4c w/ Joyce
- All mentorship hours (12:30pm-2pm) on Apr 24-26 - proudly chairing (i.e., supporting) the sessions w/ @rosanneliu.com

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Apr 23

✈ Just landed in Singapore for #ICLR 2025! DM or email me if you'd like to chat about
- Grounded language acquisition and learning
- What do vision-language models "know," and what they don't
- (Computational) linguistics with/for language models, especially grounded LMs

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Good idea! 💯

Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Mar 29

Oh wow, so TINlab Is Najoung’s lab?

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Mar 28

I received a review like this five years ago. It’s probably the right time now to share it with everyone who wrote or got random discouraging reviews from ICML/ACL.

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Mar 27

Wow fantastic!!! Congrats to both you and BU!

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Nouha Dziri @nouhadziri.bsky.social · Mar 27

I still can't comprehend how an AC (a professor) accepts the role but then never responds back to emails and never completes their tasks😖! We need urgent 5 emergency reviewers to complete reviews for ACL by the end of today. Area: Ethics, Bias, and Fairness. Please reach out if you can help! Thanks🙏

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Freda Shi @fredashi.bsky.social · Mar 17

I was assigned to review three, and fortunately got a decent one. This is probably just the submission distribution nowadays.

Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · Mar 17

I love position papers, I've written at least 4, but ICML has made a mistake somewhere in their position CFP. Submissions cover non-editorial experimental work, flag-planting grant proposals, compilations of random thoughts, or normative declarations without support. What went wrong?

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