Rebecca Mason

How does a halfjew, woman/Jersey girl now in New England/Neuroatypical computational linguist and/a feminist/nervous&awkward/Grow up to be a Googler & a mother?

[Rebecca Mason @adhdphd]

@othercriteria Huh, I haven't been on Twitter in ages but then someone on discord linked me to this tweet and you're the first reply. How are you doing?

[🧐 @Kazoobaby2]

@blgtylr 39 years ago nearly to the day I was a Tufts student facing Boston police in riot gear. A few hundred of us clumped the administration building to encourage the university to divest from South African investments. That ended peacefully and I pray tonight does as well

[Rebecca Mason @adhdphd]

Solar eclipse. near Dallas Texas

[MMitchell @mmitchell_ai]

I really love the active discussion abt the role of ethics in AI, spurred by Google Gemini's text-to-image launch & its relative lack of white representation. As one of the most experienced AI ethics people in the world (>4 years! ha), let me help explain what's going on a bit.

[Auburn Fire Rescue @auburnmassfire]

Mass Pike Command reporting the entire contents of the tanker, 10,000 gallons of milk has spilled on to the roadway. They are working a diesel fuel spill as well.
#gotmilk #matraffic @WBZTraffic

[Rebecca Mason @adhdphd]

@paperpenguin If you have an entertaining character the DM will let you do whatever you want 😅

[Rebecca Mason @adhdphd]

Nothing makes me feel more American than watching people buy the 12 pound blocks of cheddar on Super Bowl weekend.

[Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip]

A new idea for work-life balance: Join a union

[Rebecca Mason @adhdphd]

@paperpenguin Nooo

[Rebecca Mason @adhdphd]

Apparently this is in the news again, I had two separate reporters show up at my home this evening.

So I'll just say here, I have a 101 degree fever, and I'm honestly not thinking about the MBTA right now. Or anything else for that matter. 🤒

[Rebecca Mason @adhdphd]

Just had a terrifying experience on the MBTA Green Line. I was helping my 4 year old get off the train and my leg got trapped in the door!

It happened at the Medford/Tufts station, on a car like this where you have to step down to get off... 🧵

[Rebecca Mason @adhdphd]

@paperpenguin @aproclivity I'm planning to go but on the fence about whether to bring Stu & the kids

[Rebecca Mason @adhdphd]

@jherrerx @UnionDrip Dog in solidarity

[Djamé.. @zehavoc]

Very cool paper on the curse of multilinguality. Those guys trained more than 10k models over 250 languages !
https://t.co/tmAe7nNkVp

Cherry on the cake: they use the (Smith et al. ) citations format !!!
I so want to sing their praises all day :)

[Acting Secretary Julie Su @ActSecJulieSu]

One of the union leaders looked the CEO in the eye and said, “I matter, we matter and we deserve better.” 
 
I think about that moment a lot, and what this new era of worker power means for workers.

[Chris Friend @friendchristoph]

the blue line has the opportunity to do the funniest possible thing

[Rebecca Mason @adhdphd]

@Carnage4Life Actually, times like right now are when I find the union to be most valuable. The energy goes internally -- helping people connect with new jobs, get help with visa or health insurance, sharing information, etc etc

[Arthur Spirling @arthur_spirling]

This got some attention; FYI, here's a nice piece on "Berkson's Paradox" (bias) which is related to conditioning on a collider. In fact, the first ex is abt college admissions, and "weird" induced correlations for admitted students:
https://t.co/RBr3iibf4E

[Stella Biderman @BlancheMinerva]

This paper is a banger.

*surreptitiously crosses it off of her "open problems someone should work on" list*

[Rebecca Mason @adhdphd]

@clhubes @HannahPosted FYI you might not need to buy it, my kids' health insurance covered all the baby formula. Our pediatrician wrote a 90 day script and then it was shipped through CVS caremark. I can ask my husband the details if you're interested?