My understanding is that it is wise for them to wait on ads until they have sorted out their profit/non-profit status, so that the non-profit is worth as little as possible: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Joe Boyd is also a pivotal figure in what is probably my favorite podcast episode of all time: @99pi.org episode 141, "Three Records from Sundown", about Nick Drake: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/thre...

And a big thank you to everyone who came to the talk itself. The discussion period after was really rich and wide-ranging.

I thank lots of people at the very end for their role in shaping this work. A special shout-out to @aryaman.io for creating CausalGym, which made it very easy for me to conduct all the intervention-based analysis in the talk: github.com/aryamanarora...

This, from James Gandolfini, is one of the best line deliveries in all of cinema: youtu.be/2GW_KjMoLPw?...

I hope those 2 citations are floating around out there for you, but you can also toast to continued year-over-year 200%+ citation count increases in 2025!

I am very fortunate – I experience mostly thoughtful comments here and on Twitter, and so Twitter mostly just offers me more of that. In addition, I do not feel that BlueSky is intrinsically a more considered or caring place than Twitter. I've seen truly awful attacks in both places.

I would like to leave Twitter, but I get engagement from a really broad range of people there, and that's what I am looking for from social media. I like to encourage people getting into my field, and I benefit from consuming the full smorgasbord of hot takes I read there.

There may be a bubble, but I think I'd still bet in their favor. It would sound to me like another parallel with Amazon – perhaps the most famous case of a company that was predicted to never be profitable, is sometimes still described that way, but has a market cap of $2.2T.

I found it so touching! The Belchers are rare among TV families in being totally supportive of each other. The conflict between the sisters in this episode was so realistic, and treated seriously, and the episode itself was still also very funny.

MoEUT: Mixture-of-Experts Universal Transformers
Róbert Csordás, Kazuki Irie, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Christopher Potts, Christopher D Manning
Fr, Dec 13, 16:30 PST - Poster Session 6 East

ReFT: Representation Finetuning for Language Models
Spotlight Poster
Zhengxuan Wu · Aryaman Arora · Zheng Wang · Atticus Geiger · Dan Jurafsky · Christopher D Manning · Christopher Potts
Fri 13 Dec 07:00 PM UTC [West Ballroom A-D]

The idea certainly takes some getting used to, and it still seems very mysterious to me if I think about it in a focused way for too long!

Yes, you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. For AI, we've entered an era in which people basically say, "I want to build something with hammers. I don't care what it is. Using hammers is my main requirement."