Abhishek Purushothama
intractable.bsky.social
Abhishek Purushothama
@intractable.bsky.social
CS Phd Student @ Georgetown who still doesn't know what to add to his bios.

Currently resides in some Nacotchtank and Piscataway Lands.
Woh! I had been a noob and wrote bash wrapping on `--dependency`
December 20, 2024 at 5:47 PM
+ Zotero released their ipad app in 2023. I have for consistency stuck to it for reading/synthesis. Just makes it easy that I don't have to manage it in different places for different devices.
- Goodnotes, their annotation tools even with premium seem somewhat deficient.
November 27, 2024 at 6:43 AM
I have heard tales of browser add-ons that takes care of it for you.
Seems simple to program, a bit of work to maintain.
November 27, 2024 at 6:39 AM
But that's all highly confident unfounded meta cognitive guess.
November 27, 2024 at 6:37 AM
So I do to pay approximate same level of attention to both of them, which is higher than that of a white-noise TV show that I play in the background when cooking/cleaning.

The main difference for me is probably that podcasts are smaller and don't have "large" plot that needs to be followed.
November 27, 2024 at 6:37 AM
I maybe in a different bucket slightly. I rarely listen to audiobooks for fiction, so both audiobooks and podcasts are for content rather than pure delight (which I read fiction as e-books).
November 27, 2024 at 6:37 AM
I have come to count and let count audiobooks as books read. However, I would vehemently defend someone's argument how audiobook is passive reading while text medium is active reading.

Audio and Visual processing are not the same.
November 26, 2024 at 4:16 AM
I am really curious to see what semantic task does not require modeling syntax.
I would expect a non-lexical abstract semantic task, maybe something exists in the corners of theoretical semantics where we stop thinking about forms and only work with features.
November 25, 2024 at 4:33 AM
I think Semantic Parsing would be a good option, although to which representation probably depends on your requirements.
arxiv.org/abs/2206.10668 seems to have both side by side.
BenchCLAMP: A Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models on Syntactic and Semantic Parsing
Recent work has shown that generation from a prompted or fine-tuned language model can perform well at semantic parsing when the output is constrained to be a valid semantic representation. We introdu...
arxiv.org
November 25, 2024 at 3:08 AM