With funding from NSF, IES, NIH, and DOD, we researched and built a successful company with educational software used by millions. This would not have been possible without robust government research funding. DOGE’s cuts are going to severely limit the innovation that makes the U.S. competitive.

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy “I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

The National Science Foundation 55 percent budget cut is a deliberate dismemberment of America's innovation engine by Russell Vought and DOGE. This is exactly the type of behavior you would expect from someone seeking to make America weaker ... (1/2)

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Hi Maria, Thanks for starting this starter pack! Please do add me to the list as well. And welcome to CU!

Assessing dimensions of thought disorder with large language models: The tradeoff of accuracy and consistency - PubMed Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods have shown promise for the assessment of formal thought disorder, a hallmark feature of schizophrenia in which disturbances to the structure, organization, or...

Yes, and the randomness can have critical impacts on downstream tasks. Here's a recent paper where we look at the effect of LLM temperature on diagnostic accuracy for mental health assessment. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39226873/