Day before month before year??? Blasphemy! I rename my students’ files to end with yyyymmdd so that the sorting makes sense.

Yes, and I replied to the specific part that doesn’t resonate with me.

I don’t think banning a super helpful technology in classrooms is useful. For me, it’s better to create assignments that disincentivize its use (under critical views on AI, this should be easy) and actively teach students to use it critically (when & why it’s useful vs. bad).

I think there is an audience for cranky. So many good stand up comedians are cranky! And maybe having a beer or two at a bar makes people more receptive to that?

You have such interesting data drama stories! They’re like detective novels.

Yes, in class would probably be even better! For me that would mean a flipped classroom and I don’t trust my students to watch lectures at home 😳 but if you can make that happen, that would be awesome! Happy to share my materials for setting up pods, etc.

In some of the meetings they are tasked with using AI in structured ways (e.g., as tutors) and reflect on strengths and limitations. Hopefully they develop some critical thinking about this tech.

Change the assignment structure! I have students discuss readings in “Learning Pods” and submit video recordings of those meetings (faces + screen sharing) - it discourages using AI to do your work because I can detect that so easily in the videos. And it teaches collaboration / communication.

We only looked at hidden representation, not perplexities, so I don’t know! (btw we didn’t use models trained on RLHF because that, to us, is non-linguistic training, which was outside the domain of our research question). But take a look at this:

He also imputed every lexical feature in the literature for ~every word in English. Which is absolutely amazing. But, again, I need someone who can figure out the pipeline (if I can even find all his code) to write it up. 2/2

He wrote a beautiful mega-paper on it that I can’t finish on my own because it was his area of expertise. If you know anyone who’s interested in carrying it to completion, I’d LOVE to have Bryor’s creation out in the world! 1/2

Thank you, Jamie. Yes, he was so kind to everyone, and I think he would have become a leader in comp psycholing. He passed in 2023. Still hard to believe. I wouldn’t have a lab if it weren’t for him.

Indeed shocking, and infuriating. I’m sorry. One of your papers is an assigned reading in my class. We’ll make the youths understand the value of this work!

It's the *anti-DEI* drive now that has outsiders acting "like many faculty members' direct supervisor and telling them how and what to teach."

DEI officials never reviewed syllabi or challenged course titles or targeted entire fields of scholarship. That's what the anti-DEI forces do.