CJ
@virmalised.us
Assistant professor with too many opinions. Texpat, politics academia, gay stuff, anti-carbrain. Not an AI brain genius guy. "Train Linguist." 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
"See you divas on the streets."
E me aperta pra eu quase sufocar
BayesForDays@lingo.lol on Mastodon.
"See you divas on the streets."
E me aperta pra eu quase sufocar
BayesForDays@lingo.lol on Mastodon.
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Less is more: Probabilistic reduction is best explained by small-scale predictability measures
The primary research questions of this paper center on defining the amount of context that is necessary and/or appropriate when investigating the relationship between language model probabilities and ...
arxiv.org
We wrote a thing -- showing you don't need LLMs to model language production dynamics like the tendency for speakers to reduce predictable words. All you have to do is better model how speech rate varies depending on where a word is and how long the utterance is. arxiv.org/abs/2512.23659
We wrote a thing -- showing you don't need LLMs to model language production dynamics like the tendency for speakers to reduce predictable words. All you have to do is better model how speech rate varies depending on where a word is and how long the utterance is. arxiv.org/abs/2512.23659
Less is more: Probabilistic reduction is best explained by small-scale predictability measures
The primary research questions of this paper center on defining the amount of context that is necessary and/or appropriate when investigating the relationship between language model probabilities and ...
arxiv.org
December 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We wrote a thing -- showing you don't need LLMs to model language production dynamics like the tendency for speakers to reduce predictable words. All you have to do is better model how speech rate varies depending on where a word is and how long the utterance is. arxiv.org/abs/2512.23659
I love that all the surprisal bros have suddenly discovered mutual information like the collocations people haven't been working with this for the last thirty years
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I love that all the surprisal bros have suddenly discovered mutual information like the collocations people haven't been working with this for the last thirty years
It is always so exciting when people who have publicly anguished about transitioning finally transition
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It is always so exciting when people who have publicly anguished about transitioning finally transition
Not including random effects by items when you're studying effects for which different items are known to show vastly different patterns of results is scientific malpractice in 2025
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Not including random effects by items when you're studying effects for which different items are known to show vastly different patterns of results is scientific malpractice in 2025
I'm not on here anymore and I think everything is just as horrifying as it was. I'm on mastodon
what if i look away for just a second and everything is different
November 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I'm not on here anymore and I think everything is just as horrifying as it was. I'm on mastodon
what if i look away for just a second and everything is different
September 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
what if i look away for just a second and everything is different
Insane to do a coup in broad daylight jesus
Secretary of State Marco Rubio backed by CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller are pushing to remove Venezuela’s Maduro from power, the NYT reports.
There have already been meetings with opposition leaders.
There have already been meetings with opposition leaders.
September 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Insane to do a coup in broad daylight jesus
new benchmark: any profile that looks like a prompt is a bot
September 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
new benchmark: any profile that looks like a prompt is a bot
god the botnets are swarming this fucking sucks
September 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
god the botnets are swarming this fucking sucks
i just got followed by a bot account called purple house photos????????
September 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
i just got followed by a bot account called purple house photos????????
"The most important thing about AI isn't its technical capabilities or limitations. The most important thing is the investor story and the ensuing mania that has teed up an economical catastrophe that will harm hundreds of millions or even billions of people."
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
September 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"The most important thing about AI isn't its technical capabilities or limitations. The most important thing is the investor story and the ensuing mania that has teed up an economical catastrophe that will harm hundreds of millions or even billions of people."
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
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The line people ran with when Harvard was under the crosshairs was that Ivy League schools are just training grounds for the elite, and the actual fight for racial equity would be won in regional, state, and trade schools where “real” Black people could improve their economic outcomes.
Nevada State University closed its Office of Community, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and scaled back other diversity programs. Faculty and students say they have faced retaliation for speaking out against university administration after they shuttered those programs. via @nevadacurrent.com
Nevada State faculty fear retaliation for denouncing shuttering of diversity programs • Nevada Current
Nevada State University current and former faculty members and students say they have tried to speak out, in vain, against a push from the university’s administration to tear down diversity serving pr...
nevadacurrent.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The line people ran with when Harvard was under the crosshairs was that Ivy League schools are just training grounds for the elite, and the actual fight for racial equity would be won in regional, state, and trade schools where “real” Black people could improve their economic outcomes.
it is very funny to me to see the "genius" level folks in my field just re-hash older papers and present the work as if it were their own
September 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
it is very funny to me to see the "genius" level folks in my field just re-hash older papers and present the work as if it were their own
indistinguishable from the snitches at Texas universities in gender studies classes, btw
At Cornell University, an eminent prof, whose work I was reading in graduate school got suspended b/c an IDF veteran grad student enrolled in his class for the express purpose of disrupting it. We are all cooked.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
www.thenation.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
indistinguishable from the snitches at Texas universities in gender studies classes, btw
i am so tired of hearing the voices of other people lol
September 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
i am so tired of hearing the voices of other people lol
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Everyone in the kill chain should be prosecuted but we have an opposition leadership that thinks this is a distraction from funding rural hospitals in +70-80% trump country
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Everyone in the kill chain should be prosecuted but we have an opposition leadership that thinks this is a distraction from funding rural hospitals in +70-80% trump country
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Tired: Salt Fat Acid Heat
Wired: Harissa Explains It All
Wired: Harissa Explains It All
September 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Tired: Salt Fat Acid Heat
Wired: Harissa Explains It All
Wired: Harissa Explains It All
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I encourage you all to add your voice to protectiing the U.S. National Fungus Collection! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends
An important reminder the USDA plans to close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, home of the U.S. National Fungus Collection.
The public comment period is open until 9/30. I encourage you to submit comments to: reorganization@usda.gov
Why does it matter? www.plantopiapodcast.org/55
The public comment period is open until 9/30. I encourage you to submit comments to: reorganization@usda.gov
Why does it matter? www.plantopiapodcast.org/55
Why a Collection of Dead Fungi Matters
www.plantopiapodcast.org
September 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I encourage you all to add your voice to protectiing the U.S. National Fungus Collection! #Mushrooms #FungiFriends
Bikes are freedom
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
September 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Bikes are freedom
The federal government lists "indica" (sic) of violence and I'd like to know whether fascists instead have "sativa" of violence
September 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The federal government lists "indica" (sic) of violence and I'd like to know whether fascists instead have "sativa" of violence
There's a lot of history in this photograph ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_... )
September 29, 2025 at 12:22 AM
There's a lot of history in this photograph ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_... )
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"out of the three mass shootings today,"
Iraq War veteran Thomas Sanford has been identified as the gunman who attacked Grand Blanc Mormon church, killing 2 people and setting it ablaze. Out of the three mass shootings today, two of them have been carried out by Iraq war veterans.
September 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"out of the three mass shootings today,"