Strong showing from Boulder NLP at #EMNLP2025! 🚀 Come find us at these sessions to discuss morphology, semantics, LLMs, cultural analytics, HCI, and more. See you in Suzhou! 🇨🇳
Also check out Grameen Bank which is a microfinance org that caters to the poor and is owned by the borrowers.
Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grameen...
In the Indian context, Amul stands out as a shining example of the co-operative model that revolutionized the dairy industry.
Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amul
Consider registering the bike on the CU Bike Index (just in case) - www.colorado.edu/police/crime...
Big news! Sundance Film Festival reveals Boulder, Colorado as our new location starting in 2027 and beyond. The annual event by the nonprofit Sundance Institute will continue to entertain and inspire audiences through independent film. 🎬
Read more: sndnc.org/boulder2027
#SundanceFilmFestival
Already a time capsule, but back in January a bunch of us working at the intersection of the humanities and AI/ML came together to sketch out eight provocations from the humanities for genAI research. Here's a 🧵 1/
arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190
Spent a great day at Boulder meeting new students and old colleagues. I used to take this view every day.
Here are the slides for my talk titled "Alignment Beyond Human Preferences: Use Human Goals to Guide AI towards Complementary AI": chenhaot.com/talks/alignm...
IDE: I can't recommend PyCharm enough for Python heavy workflows. The good folks at JetBrains truly deserve some flowers, and I think everything they build is chef's kiss! I love PyCharm's debugger and python shell implementations (I dislike notebooks with a vengeance.)
Terminal Emulator: A switch to Termius last year massively sped up my somewhat complex workflow that interfaces with CU's HPC cluster. It has mostly everything that Warp offers (I think?) + smart SSH and FTP client, port forwarding, and automation routines.
dodgy solution for CU's implementation of O365 Mail/Exchange Online.
Email: Having tried tons of different email clients over the years, I like Spark Mail the best (which is what I use on my phone/tablet, and probably one of the few services I would pay a subscription fee for. But they don't support Linux, and so on my laptop I am stuck with Thunderbird with a
Browser: I switched to Brave last year after having used Firefox forever. It is chromium-based, (supposedly) privacy-centric, and tabs live indefinitely by default. However, I think Vivaldi is the most like for like replacement for Arc - never tried it since it is an overkill for my needs.
Bonus: You get to work out of a lab with not only windows but also gorgeous views of the Rockies! ⛰️
If you're applying to NLP PhD programs, consider Maria’s new group at CU Boulder - she’s amazing, and the larger Boulder NLP community is a great place to learn, grow, and collaborate!
Feel free to reach out if you want to chat about the CS PhD program or life in Boulder! My DMs are open.
After going to NAACL, ACL and #EMNLP2024 this year, here are a few tips I’ve picked up about attending #NLP conferences.
Would love to hear any other tips if you have them!
This proved very popular on another (more evil) social media platform, so sharing here also 🙂
My 10 tips:
Happy to report that the event was a disaster. Took us an hour to even get into the venue. Long winding queues everywhere and barely any room to stand. 🤡
📢 Check out the lineup of papers our students will be showcasing at #EMNLP2024 in Miami next week! 🌴 We'll be presenting new work on morphology, Q&A, and narratives.🔍
