Many rooms were like this at Sofia's National Palace of Culture (ACL 2013). Sadly I didn't photograph the best one, which i remember as a wall mural of a worker being crucified right above the projector screen
deleted a QT discussing a shockingly sexist email written by roger schank. these people were so evil just seeing their emails is not good
(i never met her - i think she retired before i started here.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_L...
to be clear, in this instance the former student went on to a 30 years or so career as a professor, including recognition as a AAAI Fellow.
bsky.app/profile/bren...
i get the impression everyone thought schank was terrible? (very secondhand - he left academia a few decades ago, long before died)
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re centrists complaining about the Mellon Foundation, if this at least this polarizes conservatives into restoring NEH / federal funding for the humanities, that would be nice
whybot prototype for kids
turing test I made for class
I am flabbergasted I am by how much vibe coding has expanded my capacities as a scientist and teacher.
In the last few weeks, I've mocked up class demos of a live turing test, generated cross-references for an encyclopedia, and prototyped new tablet tasks for developmental psych.
It's wild.
pointing at the hamburger menu icon in the top left hand corner of a mobile bluesky app screen
settings menu option circled
content and media menu option circled
autoplay videos and gifs toggled off
to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app
select the icon in the top left corner
go to settings
go to content and media
make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off
Paul's back and he nails it here
✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨
And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes!
Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc...
Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR)
#NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP
@aclmeeting.bsky.social
"Why agent-based modeling could happen in economics. Eventually." Good piece by @mikemakowsky.bsky.social
economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/12/29/p...
I'd argue that the "new era of theory" is already underway, though, led not by economists, but by comp social sci/cultural evolution folks.
ah yes bsky.app/profile/dmim...
> looking like mostly on-paper, going forward
coding on non-internet devices may be an option to explore
computer labs? new portable option? i dunno but we need something
The next edition of the NLP+CSS will be at ACL 2026! It includes an open-ended shared task (work with the Opioid Industry Documents Archive) with travel grants as prizes!
Here at UMass Amherst CICS, we’re searching for TT faculty in NLP – see the link from
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
I’m happy to answer questions of course, too!
and, whatever mechanisms that can aid *mentorship* and training of more junior reviewers. leading by example is one such avenue.
though, like everything, it could be the case that sheer scale destroys everything. if experienced reviewers are a small enough %age, nothing works well
as he said at the time -- the NCSA environment as incubator for Netscape builds on the "tradition" of university-supported student innovation that "has been a long-term positive aspect, and indeed a driving force, of the American economy" groups.google.com/g/comp.infos...
also they had REU grants specifically right around the time he worked there as an undergraduate programmer (reported as 1991-1994). i dunno if his personal salary/expenses were directly paid by an NSF grant, but the existence of the project & student staff was deeply tied to NSF funding streams
it's money well spent which, the article argues, folks like andreessen ought to know. SV companies need to support federal research funding for whatever the next important ideas will be.
re @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com on NSF support for the web www.liberalcurrents.com/marc-andrees... --
the NSF specifically gave $3.7M just for Mosaic
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
and $4.6M for a related effort
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
and of course i'd want my review to not be bad since they'd see it and (potentially) know who i was!
the argument for full anonymity is this of course can lead to groupthink. true, but i feel motivation & whatever means can get more high-quality reviews is the most important desideratum now
i agree, huge change.
also as a reviewer, it used to be other reviewers on a paper were non-anonymous. when i was junior, i found this motivating and conducive to learning & community-building - i might see a review i admired, then learn more about the reviewer's work and their way of thinking.
The posting was just updated - applications due Dec 15.
Great connections between our linguistics department and the CICS NLP program (including Katrin Erk now in a joint appointment). Also happy to communicate with prospective applicants.
#nlp #nlproc (has a hashtag been canonicalized here yet??)
Here at UMass Amherst CICS, we’re searching for TT faculty in NLP – see the link from
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
I’m happy to answer questions of course, too!
the way this is going the only trustworthy information will be from in-person interviews.
for annotation projects i find it much easier to trust small numbers of expert or local students annotators, compared to broad-audience online recruiting
bsky.app/profile/elis...
i can’t believe how terrible larry summers is
