computational linguistics / cogsci. phd @mcgillu linguistics / @Mila_Quebec. mul on täisnimel neli o’d. @postylem@mathstodon.xyz @postylem.bsky.social
Montréal, Québec
Joined January 2008
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しょうがないのでデバイス2つ用意して同時に演奏するとこんな感じ
okathira-dev.github.io/clien…
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🚨ATTN Natural Stories users!🚨
We found a misalignment in the self-paced reading times. Everything is off by one position. In the released dataset, the SPR RTs for the word at index t are actually for index t+1. If you are using the dataset, please use the realigned data.
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Once, we ran a study on Prolific and a participant wrote on Reddit that the study “Felt like I was losing the will to live.” I went on the Prolific Subreddit (24k members!) and asked what matters. Here is what they told me. A thread on happier participants and better studies 1/9
ALT A meme featuring a man looking excitedly at a text that says "a simply study that pays well" and below the same man with a disappointed facial expression looking at a text that says "200 yes/no questions and it's not over yet"
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Now that the eclipse is within the short range, global ensembles add less value while more high resolution models become available.
I switched my eclipse page to use the High Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF), including a cloud layer breakdown:
arctic.som.ou.edu/tburg/prod…
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It was an amazing experience to film our music video at the beautiful historic @est8ofmind Oakhurst Manor back in November. Very sadly, I learned that they suffered a devastating fire there on March 1st. Thankfully and most importantly no one was injured. But they are - (1/2)
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🔔🌟 New Preprint Alert 🔔🌟 “An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Targeted Regressions during Reading” with @tpimentelms , @clara__meister , @ryandcotterell - Psycholinguistics 🧠 Computational Modeling 🤖 Crosslinguistic Studies 🌍 Information Theory 📡 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/3q…
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Now out in @PNASNews! Large-scale reading evidence that next-word predictability effects in humans are driven by *inference* (logarithmic in predictability) rather than preactivation (linear in predictability). pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish colors to hyperparameters for which training diverges.
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👋I boost a lot of job opportunities on here and now it's time to boost my own! I'll be arriving at #Stanford in fall of 2024 and I'm looking for awesome people to help me figure out language. 🧵👇
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🚨🚨New Paper Announcement (to appear in TACL) 📜
from me, @tpimentelms, @clara__meister, @ryandcotterell and @roger_p_levy: Testing the Predictions of Surprisal Theory in 11 Languages arxiv.org/abs/2307.03667 🌎
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How can we leverage a theory of linguistic meaning to build machines that think in more human-like ways?
New paper with Lio Wong, @alexanderklew, @noahdgoodman, @vmansinghka, @jacobandreas, and Josh Tenenbaum.
arxiv.org/abs/2306.12672
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Thanks to several hundred of you for doing some crosswords for science! We’re excited to start some analysis soon but if you haven’t yet, please enjoy some puzzles: iliad.stanford.edu/experimen…
And thanks again to boswords.org!
Please do some crosswords for science! iliad.stanford.edu/experimen…
We're studying how people solve xwords, and we are looking for solvers of all experience levels: from novices to ACPTers. High-quality puzzles generously provided by the wonderful boswords.org/ team.
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Let X = exp(U²/2) and Y=exp(V²/2) where U,V are joint normal with mean 0, variance 1, and 50% correlation. Then,
E[X|Y] = 2Y
E[Y|X] = 2X
They are each, on average, twice as big as the other!
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New paper with @roger_p_levy:
Prompt-based methods may underestimate large language models' linguistic generalizations.
Preprint: lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007313
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What our streets looked like 100 years ago. The snow was just shoveled to the side of the road and left there all winter.
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Siberia is getting colder and colder. 🥶 There was -62.7°C in Tongulakh this morning. This station broke its absolute minimum record for the third time of this month. It is coldest temperature recorded in Russia in January since 1982. ventusky.com/?p=62;124;2&l=t…
