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David Mimno

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He teaches information science at Cornell

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Sorry, but the actual experience of VHS video stores was wandering around for half an hour failing to agree on anything and then randomly grabbing something from New Releases. Pretty close to Netflix honestly

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Whether Biden drops out or continues, I expect a primary target of foreign info operations this year to be the legitimacy of the Democratic candidate and the legimitacy of the courts in relation to the the GOP candidate. Expect them to target audiences on both sides and exploit organic criticism.

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It is a national disgrace that a dinky island with 20% of our population has like 50% more representatives in its lower house

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masonry: not sure what you mean, is there an example you like? y-axis: tried it, most topics just look very flat average: view as proportion might answer this better? membership: this is mixed-membership token-level LDA. 65k docs takes ~20 mins on one CPU.

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Llama3 title: "Biomedical Poetry"

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But can your neural network give you topics like THIS??? "drug poetry protein molecular chemical poems adverse discovery biological reactions drugs chemistry reaction literature molecules molecule poem properties interaction proteins"

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No one is above the law, but some people are more not above the law than others

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So if someone heckles the State of the Union, an official duty specifically enumerated in the constitution, can the president shoot them?

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Alaric the Goth was probably like “hey you know that band The Cure? They’re pretty chill” and then FOR ALL TIME…

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Is this about the new budget model?

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We release our code and 1.4k public domain poems with form tags, as well as metadata about their presence in popular pretraining datasets and memorization by GPT-4:

github.com/maria-antoni...

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Poetry is weirdly prominent in LLM conversations. But what do models really "know" about poetry?

We tested how well LLMs can recognize 20+ poetic forms in English & probed major pretraining datasets to see which poems might be memorized.

New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2406.18906

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I decided against adding adding 🙄🤷‍♂️, but you can imagine it

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I'm looking for a good example of LLM fine-tuning + preference learning that's compelling to students but small enough to run as an in-class demo. Ideas?

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That would be one of the prompts I'd like to see variants of! I'm about to do some experiments myself (realized I was missing a big chunk of arxiv cs.CL, rerunning models now)

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In practice it seems to be berttopic (ie hard clustering on doc embeddings + post-hoc keywords). I think it's mostly popular because the package is well written. I'm most excited about the Stanford CHI paper version that seems to let you have a dialog of "like that, but with more..."

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DM for a shared doc

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I’m really impressed by llama3 in ollama for Humanities applications. Thinking of adding a prompt collection to aiforhumanists.com, would people contribute?

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I appreciate that Google is trying to attribute suggested code from Colab to sources, but the threshold is set waaaay too low. Possible opportunities for malicious license trolls.

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Laure and I found that there’s a lot of terms that are author specific beyond named entities, I wonder if there’s a similar boost from swapping synonyms there too? (Cf “authorless topic models”)

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After 4mins, pretty unimpressive. Seems like a good model but not for this.

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Got to the point of spinning progress thingy! Gemini in colab was quite helpful in debugging an image format error

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I want to try the new Florence models OCR but stuck yak-shaving on JBIG2 file formats

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What did little tiny ants do before they invented sidewalks?

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I know you’re working on a write up, but any info on how you’re prompting it would be great!

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UMass administration building

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Was debating whether to use the p word

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It’s great that ACL ARR has a section for Comp Soc Sci and Cultural Analytics, but all the keywords seem to be CSS. What are the key NLP problems for CA? Narrative? Character? Dealing with complex documents? Language change?

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If mosquitoes were like “hey can I have a minuscule amount of your blood so I can have my babies?” I’d be like “sure! Here you go” but they have to be dicks about it

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Just saw Hitman. Seemed totally plausible except he’s supposed to be a professor of Psychology AND Philosophy? Like wtf

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This is chapter 80 of de rebus gestis ricardi primi, in 81 there’s a tour of other English cities and how bad they are, eg Bath is “ad portas inferi”

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Galaxy brain: Big language models represent your docs in the context of a massive background collection. That may or may not be what you want.

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So AI is going to destroy us by blindly optimizing objective functions despite devastating practical or human cost? Don't we already have this, and it's called private equity?

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I can guarantee you that fucksmith did not see one penny of that $60m

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Waikiki could be one of the world’s great biking cities but they somehow manage to treat everything but cars as an afterthought AND create a miserable experience for drivers

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Also, Master of the Senate

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Tacitus, “Agricola”

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It’s been pretty clear for a while they use punctuation tokens this way

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Yes, this photo was taken at Ithaca Beer Company

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In the totality, Chimney Bluffs NY

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