Erum mushtaq

PhD Candidate @USC

[Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils]

Pessimism and cynicism are often self-fulfilling. Be a glass half full person and you'll do greater things and have a better life.

[David Bau @davidbau]

At the #Neurips2025 mechanistic interpretability workshop I gave a brief talk about Venetian glassmaking, since I think we face a similar moment in AI research today.

Here is a blog post summarizing the talk:

https://t.co/LSwBf9XQzE

[Gowthami @gowthami_s]

Interviewer: Why does <fill a model> work?
Me: Divine benevolence.
Interviewer: Says who?
Me: The priest himself! 🙂🙃

from - https://t.co/nRNBosrXpG

[Sebastian Farquhar @seb_far]

Is your LLM hallucinating? 👻

Our @Nature paper shows how to detect when an LLM is making things up.

A 'confabulating' LLM answers with inconsistent meanings when re-asked the same question. We use this to estimate uncertainty and detect confabulations.

Learn more 🧵👇 1/

[Pedro Leão @Leao_pel]

Advice for PhD Candidates:

1. Choose a supportive advisor.
2. Seek sincere connections, not just "networking."
3. Papers open doors; ethics and meaningful connections open the right ones.
4. Stay connected to your initial motivation.
5. Your actions define you, not your title.

[Michael Black @Michael_J_Black]

Repeat after me: "Reviewer 2 is not an idiot. It's my fault for not writing things more clearly."

[Daniel O'Connor @Singularitarian]

A thread of quotes I've collected about learning in a "big picture first" style. Ravi Vakil once stated:

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness." - Aristotle

[Sharon Li @SharonYixuanLi]

If you are submitting to NeurIPS, please consider avoiding title like “X is all you need”. It goes against the spirit of science, which is acknowledging and exploring the many possibilities that we don’t know yet.