Barry Devereux
@barrydevereux.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Natural Language Processing, Queen's University Belfast. NLProc • Cognitive Science • Semantics • Health Analytics.
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"The EU supplies at least a third of Israel’s arms imports and has its most comprehensive association agreement with the country. Conditional on respect for international law.
If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act."
- Josep Borrell
I wonder if she knows him?
If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act."
- Josep Borrell
I wonder if she knows him?
In a phone call, I told Gideon Sa'ar that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is untenable.
Humanitarian aid must resume immediately and should never be politicised.
The new aid delivery mechanism should run through humanitarian actors.
Humanitarian aid must resume immediately and should never be politicised.
The new aid delivery mechanism should run through humanitarian actors.
May 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"The EU supplies at least a third of Israel’s arms imports and has its most comprehensive association agreement with the country. Conditional on respect for international law.
If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act."
- Josep Borrell
I wonder if she knows him?
If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act."
- Josep Borrell
I wonder if she knows him?
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Work in progress -- suggestions for NLP-ers based in the EU/Europe & already on Bluesky very welcome!
go.bsky.app/NZDc31B
go.bsky.app/NZDc31B
November 10, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Work in progress -- suggestions for NLP-ers based in the EU/Europe & already on Bluesky very welcome!
go.bsky.app/NZDc31B
go.bsky.app/NZDc31B
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"LLMs come to decisions then make up reasons that sound plausible" "LLMs are just bags of heuristics" welcome to weeks one and two of my human reasoning class.
April 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"LLMs come to decisions then make up reasons that sound plausible" "LLMs are just bags of heuristics" welcome to weeks one and two of my human reasoning class.
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Europe Must Avoid Becoming a Digital Colony. The EuroStack is the continent’s last chance for technological sovereignty in the era of AI. My latest on @foreignpolicy.com with Haroon Sheik. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/31/e...
Europe Must Avoid Becoming a Digital Colony
The EuroStack is the continent’s last chance for technological sovereignty in the era of AI.
foreignpolicy.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Europe Must Avoid Becoming a Digital Colony. The EuroStack is the continent’s last chance for technological sovereignty in the era of AI. My latest on @foreignpolicy.com with Haroon Sheik. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/31/e...
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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
February 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
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Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini.
February 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini.
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Testing web page summarization with Gemini Flash, and I feel like calling it a day. (I have for a week now.) For this news article, www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/g..., I got this summary.
January 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Testing web page summarization with Gemini Flash, and I feel like calling it a day. (I have for a week now.) For this news article, www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/g..., I got this summary.
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New bsky users, are you looking for really cool ideas? Look no further. go.bsky.app/H61xswq
January 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
New bsky users, are you looking for really cool ideas? Look no further. go.bsky.app/H61xswq
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I noticed a lot of starter packs skewed towards faculty/industry, so I made one of just NLP & ML students: go.bsky.app/vju2ux
Students do different research, go on the job market, and recruit other students. Ping me and I'll add you!
Students do different research, go on the job market, and recruit other students. Ping me and I'll add you!
November 23, 2024 at 7:54 PM
I noticed a lot of starter packs skewed towards faculty/industry, so I made one of just NLP & ML students: go.bsky.app/vju2ux
Students do different research, go on the job market, and recruit other students. Ping me and I'll add you!
Students do different research, go on the job market, and recruit other students. Ping me and I'll add you!
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Terrible tragedy. Douwe posted this on X:
x.com/douwekiela/s...
With a link and details about the service London:
> his family have asked to share this webpage for the celebration of his life: pp.events/felix
x.com/douwekiela/s...
With a link and details about the service London:
> his family have asked to share this webpage for the celebration of his life: pp.events/felix
January 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Terrible tragedy. Douwe posted this on X:
x.com/douwekiela/s...
With a link and details about the service London:
> his family have asked to share this webpage for the celebration of his life: pp.events/felix
x.com/douwekiela/s...
With a link and details about the service London:
> his family have asked to share this webpage for the celebration of his life: pp.events/felix
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I have newly taken a solemn oath about abstaining from plays and wine, which I am resolved to keep according to the letter of the oath which I keep by me.
December 31, 2024 at 9:47 PM
I have newly taken a solemn oath about abstaining from plays and wine, which I am resolved to keep according to the letter of the oath which I keep by me.
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I wrote about a scientific paper called “The Unbearable Slowness of Being” which finds that the human brain’s throughput is just 10 bits per second. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/s...
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Human Thought Is Far Slower Than Your Internet Connection (Gift Article)
A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” one researcher said.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2024 at 1:49 PM
I wrote about a scientific paper called “The Unbearable Slowness of Being” which finds that the human brain’s throughput is just 10 bits per second. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/s...
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Humans vs Ants: Problem-solving Skills
December 25, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Humans vs Ants: Problem-solving Skills
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They are ants solving a geometric problem 🐜
December 25, 2024 at 11:52 PM
They are ants solving a geometric problem 🐜
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New episode!! 🧠🎙️
A conversation w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social about the neurobiology of language.
How does the brain support our complex, multi-faceted capacity for language? How much specialization is there? How much plasticity? And how can we figure all this out?
Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...
A conversation w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social about the neurobiology of language.
How does the brain support our complex, multi-faceted capacity for language? How much specialization is there? How much plasticity? And how can we figure all this out?
Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...
December 17, 2024 at 9:00 PM
New episode!! 🧠🎙️
A conversation w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social about the neurobiology of language.
How does the brain support our complex, multi-faceted capacity for language? How much specialization is there? How much plasticity? And how can we figure all this out?
Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...
A conversation w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social about the neurobiology of language.
How does the brain support our complex, multi-faceted capacity for language? How much specialization is there? How much plasticity? And how can we figure all this out?
Listen: disi.org/your-brain-o...
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Just gave a talk at the INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico in Florence on our new paper disputing the "Hard Steps" model for the evolution of intelligence.
Lesson: Astrobiology needs deep conversations with domain experts.
arxiv.org/abs/2408.10293
@astrowright.bsky.social
Lesson: Astrobiology needs deep conversations with domain experts.
arxiv.org/abs/2408.10293
@astrowright.bsky.social
A reassessment of the "hard-steps" model for the evolution of intelligent life
According to the "hard-steps" model, the origin of humanity required "successful passage through a number of intermediate steps" (so-called "hard" or "critical" steps) that were intrinsically improbab...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Just gave a talk at the INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico in Florence on our new paper disputing the "Hard Steps" model for the evolution of intelligence.
Lesson: Astrobiology needs deep conversations with domain experts.
arxiv.org/abs/2408.10293
@astrowright.bsky.social
Lesson: Astrobiology needs deep conversations with domain experts.
arxiv.org/abs/2408.10293
@astrowright.bsky.social
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A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills.
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
November 27, 2024 at 9:09 PM
A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills.
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
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Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
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I started a list of journalists covering AI to follow on Bsky! It’s a WIP, so lmk who to add! go.bsky.app/NJ3xtGM
November 22, 2024 at 8:06 PM
I started a list of journalists covering AI to follow on Bsky! It’s a WIP, so lmk who to add! go.bsky.app/NJ3xtGM
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I made a starter pack for machine learning researchers working on Bayesian optimization and Gaussian processes!
It's *very* sparse ATM since the migration is still in progress.
Please reply to make me aware of people - potentially yourself - who should be added to it!
go.bsky.app/QYMEQ52
It's *very* sparse ATM since the migration is still in progress.
Please reply to make me aware of people - potentially yourself - who should be added to it!
go.bsky.app/QYMEQ52
November 21, 2024 at 8:00 PM
I made a starter pack for machine learning researchers working on Bayesian optimization and Gaussian processes!
It's *very* sparse ATM since the migration is still in progress.
Please reply to make me aware of people - potentially yourself - who should be added to it!
go.bsky.app/QYMEQ52
It's *very* sparse ATM since the migration is still in progress.
Please reply to make me aware of people - potentially yourself - who should be added to it!
go.bsky.app/QYMEQ52
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OK, here it is:
the starter pack to get to know the #multimodalists on Bluesky.
Who is missing?
go.bsky.app/QPLSxuX
the starter pack to get to know the #multimodalists on Bluesky.
Who is missing?
go.bsky.app/QPLSxuX
November 19, 2024 at 6:35 AM
OK, here it is:
the starter pack to get to know the #multimodalists on Bluesky.
Who is missing?
go.bsky.app/QPLSxuX
the starter pack to get to know the #multimodalists on Bluesky.
Who is missing?
go.bsky.app/QPLSxuX
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I made a #cognitivelinguistics starter park - please share and let me know who I missed! #linguistics #starterpack go.bsky.app/EtMaSX5
November 16, 2024 at 10:53 PM
I made a #cognitivelinguistics starter park - please share and let me know who I missed! #linguistics #starterpack go.bsky.app/EtMaSX5
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Hello, Computational linguistics/NLP world in Bluesky! We're creating the same accounts on other social media platforms in Bluesky! #NLProc
November 14, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Hello, Computational linguistics/NLP world in Bluesky! We're creating the same accounts on other social media platforms in Bluesky! #NLProc