Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D.

Tech Start-Up Advisor & Investor | AI & Learning Scientist | Previously @Columbia @Columbia_Tech @MTV

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

First public version. Want a heads-up on future skills + grant tools? I send occasional updates: https://t.co/d0j6M1cpq3

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

I reviewed for NSF SBIR panels. The same fixable writing mistakes sank strong proposals over and over.
Grantproof — a free Claude skill that flags them, quoted from your draft:
https://t.co/JxOMRz6qCm

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

Narrow by design — not a full editor. One class of writing-style mistakes that consistently cost proposals. Not content, not structure, not research design.
npx skills add ellewangyuan/grantproof --global
https://t.co/JxOMRz6qCm

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

If you have used #chatgpt for a while, a fun question to ask it “based what you know about me, what is my MBTI profile?” The result can be revealing as much as amusing. :-)

[Quincy Larson @ossia]

If you want to start a charity of your own, I sat down with @ellewy to answer her questions about the practical realities of running a charity.

We also talked about the future of education and the role LLMs are playing. 90 minute watch / listen.

https://t.co/XITLiAWC5m

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

@ossia Thank you for sharing your wisdom Quincy! It was an honor chatting with you!

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

@nntaleb The most important message to spread, in a holiday season or not!

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

“Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean (average performance).” - #CharlieMunger

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

I do see more coders transition to Claude these days.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Shoutout to the team that built https://t.co/sJnTRDfHGF . Really neat site that benchmarks the speed of different LLM API providers to help developers pick which models to use. This nicely complements the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, Hugging Face open LLM leaderboards and Stanford's HELM that focus more on the quality of the outputs.

I hope benchmarks like this encourage more providers to work on fast token generation, which is critical for agentic workflows!

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

Completed #rwri 19! Lots to digest, reflect, and apply.

Concepts helpful to understand tail risks and complex systems:

- Entropy
- Cellular Automaton
- Pareto distribution

It's not about precision into risk estimation. Rather "how NOT to get surprised by loss". - @nntaleb

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

@nntaleb Thank you for posting!

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

Attending #RWRI seminars is a privilege, made possible by the latent privilege of being able to attend from '8 AM to 12 PM on weekdays'. #Gratitude

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

Interesting since I first picked up “Antifragility” by @nntaleb via the “Phoenix” public library 4 years ago, of all places I could get a book. Didn’t realize the connection until the 2nd day of #rwri #rwri19

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

Started reading “A Man for All Markets” by @EdwardOThorp waking up at 2:30 am at age 11 to work on top of school… in awe

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

Human beings ingest tons of training data every day. Some of us use unsupervised models; some use supervised ones. #ai #ThoughtForTheDay

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

@ltelkins Surreal! Cuteness attack!

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

Impressive!

[Quincy Larson @ossia]

On Wednesday I'm going to announce several new FREE interactive learning resources that the freeCodeCamp community has been building all year. 🎄🏕️

[Elle Yuan Wang, Ph.D. @ellewy]

@nntaleb So it may not be a good idea to read other ppl’s summaries and skip reading the book (unless the book is bad)