Joel Walsh
@joelwa.bsky.social
CS prof @ Oxy. Software @Privateer Space. Former public school teacher. multimodal models, computational models of cognition, and structured knowledge. Math and CS education. Justice.
Partner is an attorney and I don't understand why they haven't adopted git for version control
August 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Partner is an attorney and I don't understand why they haven't adopted git for version control
Accidentally became the AI guy at work
August 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Accidentally became the AI guy at work
X has turned into like being in times square if the billboards were racist
August 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
X has turned into like being in times square if the billboards were racist
Defended the honor of deepseek in front of 200 people ama
February 13, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Defended the honor of deepseek in front of 200 people ama
Lambda functions in AWS and general programming have nothing in common, except that I love to use them unnecessarily
January 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Lambda functions in AWS and general programming have nothing in common, except that I love to use them unnecessarily
Reposted by Joel Walsh
BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.
An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.
An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.
January 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.
An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.
An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.
A prof from the music school told me to check out suno and I prompted it to make me a 90s style rnb song about being in love with an LLM
suno.com/song/2f01653...
suno.com/song/2f01653...
Byte-Sized Love by @phantasmagoricnerdmetal4720 | Suno
rhythmic, 90s r&b, smooth song. Listen and make your own with Suno.
suno.com
January 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A prof from the music school told me to check out suno and I prompted it to make me a 90s style rnb song about being in love with an LLM
suno.com/song/2f01653...
suno.com/song/2f01653...
I'm sure this is stating the obvious but being back in academia has been a wakeup call, so far behind in compute
January 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I'm sure this is stating the obvious but being back in academia has been a wakeup call, so far behind in compute
I was in Maui for work during the 23 fires and live in Northeast LA for the 25 fires. infuriating bc ppl in HI and CA generally revere nature and believe in doing what they can to mitigate climate change. But will continue to pay the cost. Tired of seeing this play out.
January 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I was in Maui for work during the 23 fires and live in Northeast LA for the 25 fires. infuriating bc ppl in HI and CA generally revere nature and believe in doing what they can to mitigate climate change. But will continue to pay the cost. Tired of seeing this play out.
On the move stay safe y'all
January 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
On the move stay safe y'all
Who has time to do all this leetcode
January 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Who has time to do all this leetcode
Reposted by Joel Walsh
Norovirus is surging, which reminds me of one of the grosser studies I read this year. Researchers wanted to see if high hydrostatic pressure processing (HPP) of oysters would get rid of norovirus, so they tested it on humans. But norovirus spreads through fecal contamination, which means... 🧵
December 31, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Norovirus is surging, which reminds me of one of the grosser studies I read this year. Researchers wanted to see if high hydrostatic pressure processing (HPP) of oysters would get rid of norovirus, so they tested it on humans. But norovirus spreads through fecal contamination, which means... 🧵
In STEM grad school every Asian-American student has a come to Jesus moment after spending time w/classmates fr IIT, Tsinghua, Peking,etc. where you are like "was I raised soft?" And the answer is yes
December 28, 2024 at 4:14 PM
In STEM grad school every Asian-American student has a come to Jesus moment after spending time w/classmates fr IIT, Tsinghua, Peking,etc. where you are like "was I raised soft?" And the answer is yes
UCLA is looking to hire a math prof as part of HSI initiative. Sounds cool! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10045
Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position with HSI Initiative
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu
December 23, 2024 at 3:52 PM
UCLA is looking to hire a math prof as part of HSI initiative. Sounds cool! recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10045
As a qualitative researcher and learning scientist, it's helpful to study a little bit of quantum mechanics Bc it complicates schema, ontologies, and positivism in a meaningful way that has implications for knowledge and learning
December 21, 2024 at 4:40 PM
As a qualitative researcher and learning scientist, it's helpful to study a little bit of quantum mechanics Bc it complicates schema, ontologies, and positivism in a meaningful way that has implications for knowledge and learning
What are you trying to say about me Linkedin
December 21, 2024 at 7:00 AM
What are you trying to say about me Linkedin
This watch counts my steps and gives me historical data. Never have to update time as it syncs with my phone. If I hold the button on the bottom right my phone makes a noise. Incredible watch. 75 dollars abl100-we
December 13, 2024 at 6:04 PM
This watch counts my steps and gives me historical data. Never have to update time as it syncs with my phone. If I hold the button on the bottom right my phone makes a noise. Incredible watch. 75 dollars abl100-we
If I end up starting my own lab I am going to establish lab wide model agnostic object templates and pipelines
December 11, 2024 at 6:27 PM
If I end up starting my own lab I am going to establish lab wide model agnostic object templates and pipelines
Doing work at the USC Phil library is crazy bc the books are just there to serve as a catalyst for an existential crisis. What is thought tho
December 10, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Doing work at the USC Phil library is crazy bc the books are just there to serve as a catalyst for an existential crisis. What is thought tho
2 people who I respect published a paper, used former teachers for model tuning. Paid 2/3 of the minimum wage in the city where their university is located. Please do not do this. I used a teacher for my dissertation to make knowledge graphs. As student, I paid 40/hr. Plz do better
December 9, 2024 at 5:23 PM
2 people who I respect published a paper, used former teachers for model tuning. Paid 2/3 of the minimum wage in the city where their university is located. Please do not do this. I used a teacher for my dissertation to make knowledge graphs. As student, I paid 40/hr. Plz do better
I watched his rise in atx politics, this guy has the goods
Newly elected Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar is already cooking
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
December 7, 2024 at 4:35 AM
I watched his rise in atx politics, this guy has the goods
umd is hiring 30 cs faculty, USC has plans to hire 60 by 2030. Texas and Florida unis are about to be picked dry by all of these hiring initiatives, thanks to mismanagement and state gov
December 6, 2024 at 1:13 PM
umd is hiring 30 cs faculty, USC has plans to hire 60 by 2030. Texas and Florida unis are about to be picked dry by all of these hiring initiatives, thanks to mismanagement and state gov
Reposted by Joel Walsh
Introducing Global-MMLU🌍: A multilingual benchmark featuring MMLU translations in 42 languages crafted with:
✅ Human curation
✅ Extensive metadata
✅ Insights into cultural sensitivity
Proud to have collaborated with Shivalika Singh, @sarahooker.bsky.social and Cohere For AI!
✅ Human curation
✅ Extensive metadata
✅ Insights into cultural sensitivity
Proud to have collaborated with Shivalika Singh, @sarahooker.bsky.social and Cohere For AI!
Is MMLU Western-centric? 🤔
As part of a massive cross-institutional collaboration:
🗽Find MMLU is heavily overfit to western culture
🔍 Professional annotation of cultural sensitivity data
🌍 Release improved Global-MMLU 42 languages
📜 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.03304
📂 Data: hf.co/datasets/Coh...
As part of a massive cross-institutional collaboration:
🗽Find MMLU is heavily overfit to western culture
🔍 Professional annotation of cultural sensitivity data
🌍 Release improved Global-MMLU 42 languages
📜 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.03304
📂 Data: hf.co/datasets/Coh...
December 5, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Introducing Global-MMLU🌍: A multilingual benchmark featuring MMLU translations in 42 languages crafted with:
✅ Human curation
✅ Extensive metadata
✅ Insights into cultural sensitivity
Proud to have collaborated with Shivalika Singh, @sarahooker.bsky.social and Cohere For AI!
✅ Human curation
✅ Extensive metadata
✅ Insights into cultural sensitivity
Proud to have collaborated with Shivalika Singh, @sarahooker.bsky.social and Cohere For AI!
If you as a university want to attract Asian or Asian American faculty, you must first build an hmart or ranch 99 within city limits
December 5, 2024 at 3:10 AM
If you as a university want to attract Asian or Asian American faculty, you must first build an hmart or ranch 99 within city limits