Just wrote an email telling my new chair that he should be aware that because of what I research and post, I sometimes get death threats that may affect what I am able to teach in a given semester.

That's the chilling effect on free-speech that we're always talking about

Now back to the writing 🫠

This, uh, is not my bird

She (?) has however claimed a stake in my apartment

Found her on my window screen. When I went out onto the fire escape to check on her, she jumped on my shoulder and then right in through the open window

I guess she knows a chill place when she sees one

My first experience experience with Apple Silicon was lackluster when it was new. Now I'm slackjawed that my new job's MBP can run 200B parameter LLMs without even sweating (decent battery drain, tho)

Literally just drove from Pasadena to Anaheim and you’d have no clue that any of this is happening. And I was in that tiny square for 3 hours today before the LAPD lost its mind and started trapping people in for standing on sidewalks. LA is absolutely not burning. Tell your Midwestern family.

Every day should be like this for all of them. ALL OF THEM. ALL THE TIME. EVERYWHERE THEY GO. They shouldn't be able to go out to eat, to relax, to vacation, to shop, without someone making a noise.

I’m helping with organizing for @standupforscience.bsky.social in SF! Here are some poster templates you can print and take to your local event!

Based on the provided context, it appears that Nick Lutz won first place at the Nick Lutz Invitational 2025. However, I don't have enough information to provide a comprehensive evaluation of his work. Could you please provide more details or clarify what specific aspects of Nick Lutz' work you would like me to evaluate? For example, is it related to his YouTube content, NFL Sunday Ticket performance, or something else? If you have any additional context or clarification, I'll do my best to provide a helpful response.

Llama 3.2 says you're good:

Labor for Higher Education

Higher Ed Labor United, AAUP, CWA, AFT, and the UAW—that’s who’s fighting; join or die www.labor4highered.org

Deepseek going nuts after just being asked, "are you working?"

I don't think anyone needs to worry about Deepseek

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Wacom - Wikipedia

According to Wikipedia and a conversation on NYE, Wacom is pronounced /ˈwɑːkəm/ (like "wok 'em") and not /ˈwɑːkɑm/ ("wah comm") and I wasn't ready for that

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacom

Hey cosmologists check it out!

Wikipedia extract: racial superiority or white supremacy.[122] Fisher had a close personal relationship with Indian statistician P.C. Mahalanobis, and significantly contributed to the development of the Indian Statistical Institute; and Fisher's graduate

TIL Mahalanobis distance was invented to deal with skull measurements to examine variation based on caste and so maybe not the best guy to bring up in your "maybe he wasn't racist!" section

I lost all my GPUs

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Oversight of AI: Insiders’ Perspectives | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Honored to participate in Senators Blumenthal & Hawley's "Oversight of AI: Insiders’ Perspectives" Hearing on Tuesday. The hearing is intended to explore guardrails to protect consumers from the harms of AI, aided by firsthand experience in the industry.
www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...

All I want for my birthday is a negative COVID test

KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While MLPs have fixed activation...

Has anyone tried KANs yet? I'm always about the promise of fewer, more interpretable parameters, but the last (few) time(s) an arXiv model came my way hyped, it was a bust: arxiv.org/abs/2404.19756

Chatbots' inaccurate, misleading responses about US elections threaten to keep voters from polls Chatbots are spitting out fabricated and misleading information that risks disenfranchising voters leading up to the 2024 U.S. election.

Original link: apnews.com/article/ai-c...

ORLY?

AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source While there have been efforts by AMD over the years to make it easier to port codebases targeting NVIDIA's CUDA API to run atop HIP/ROCm, it still requires work on the part of developers.

Please! The world is begging to quit being vendor locked: www.phoronix.com/review/radeo...

How does "AI bias" relate to "existential harm" -- a tech-oriented term for machine-made murder? Here's a quick jump with me deeply into the heart of the math of misunderstanding: False Positives, False Negatives, and You: 🧵

Haven't posted on here yet—

We're hiring a junior faculty member in computational linguistics at Georgetown! 🎓😎 There's a tremendous amount of talent in the field right now, so I can't wait to read the applications.

Apply by Nov. 1. DMs/email open for questions. #NLProc #CompLing

Thanks to @virginiaconn.bsky.social for the invite. Giving this a try

Folks, Michigan Linguistics is hiring and the deadline is extended to Nov 5th!

Seeking candidates who apply computational methods for linguistics research; sub-discipline open. This is a wonderful department to be a part of. Feel free to reach out to me with questions.