Alyson 🧪

Inorganic PhD candidate @Concordia with @XoRGLab

[Alyson 🧪 @alysonmackay]

After two decades of debate about how Cu/TEMPO catalysts oxidize alcohols, our latest @J_A_C_S finally settles it: one electron at a time. @XoRGLab

Out now: https://t.co/C9S9OqNdaQ

Super excited to finally be able to share this work!!

[CIC Montreal @CICMtlSection]

🧠🧪Up for a challenge? Join us for Chemistry Trivia Night on Nov 6th, 2024 from 7-10 PM at Ye Olde Orchard Pub in downtown Montréal!

Bring your friends for a chill night of trivia, laughs, and pub snacks! 🍻 18+

#Chemistry #ChemEng #Montreal #CICMontreal

[Alyson 🧪 @alysonmackay]

@quezada_novoa @ChemAshlee @alchemistmarek Congrats Victor!! 🥳

[Nicholas Meade @ncmeade]

Adversarial Triggers For LLMs Are 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹!😲

It is believed that adversarial triggers that jailbreak a model transfer universally to other models. But we show triggers don't reliably transfer, especially to RLHF/DPO models.

Paper: https://t.co/nRdw2h1rgS

[Nicholas Meade @ncmeade]

Can retrieval-augmented generation reduce toxicity in #NLProc? We find retrieving even from a pool of 10 demonstrations can reduce toxicity by ~14% and when using a larger pool of demonstrations, we outperform BlenderBot3 in human evaluation!

📎: https://t.co/Ar6s3euLXS

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[Nicholas Meade @ncmeade]

Social bias mitigation techniques in #NLProc require a holistic evaluation (bias, language modeling & downstream)!

Work w/ Elinor Poole-Dayan & @sivareddyg at #acl2022nlp.

📄Paper: https://t.co/xKUPKEMq2K
🔧Code: https://t.co/ZXJvFmIXHh
📋Website: https://t.co/PRF3chmcg9

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[Alyson 🧪 @alysonmackay]

@gabimandl Thank you Gabi!! 😊

[Alyson 🧪 @alysonmackay]

So excited to share that my first paper is now published in ChemComm!! https://t.co/N8ITly72NZ

[Alyson 🧪 @alysonmackay]

Excited to be presenting my project, Arrested Development: Stabilization of an Aromatic Primary Hydroxylamine Function Upon Coordination with Transition Metal Ions at #IUPAC2021 this summer! @CIC_ChemInst @IUPAC

[Alyson 🧪 @alysonmackay]

Nice clean(ish) hood and some cute new pins from @dorbitalgames today!!!