Malavika

grad student, psych/neuro @BrockUniversity. can’t shut up about language, storytelling, and everything in between. previously @cogsiitgn | they/them

[Yao Fu @Francis_YAO_]

Don’t race. Don’t catch up. Don’t play the game. Instead, do rigorous science. Do controlled experiments. Formulate clear hypothesis. Carefully examine alternative hypothesis. Rule out confounders. Listen to the physics of LLM tutorial 10 times and recite every single word of it. I do not remember last time I read an LLM paper clearly state their hypothesis nor do controlled experiments nor rule out confounder nor examine alternative hypothesis. They just say we try few things and this one works but not sure why, maybe data is good, but again not sure what good means. Do we even remember what is the definition of an alternative hypothesis? It’s taught in high school man. So please, help us turn the alchemy into science.

[Malavika @malavikakkumar]

@BodhiCogSci looks like the usual state of my brain

[Malavika @malavikakkumar]

@BodhiCogSci I’d love to be part of this! Also Discord sounds great.

[Malavika @malavikakkumar]

@karthikvin2000 Thanks so much, Karthik :)

[Malavika @malavikakkumar]

A little late to share (I’m catching up to a busy few weeks), but I’m grateful to be able to see this piece in #InPlainspeak— it would otherwise have remained one of the many rants endured by my friends!

[TARSHI @tarshingo]

@malavikakkumar asks what constitutes a #queer narrative and celebrates how queer narratives explore the in-betweens and grey areas of #sexuality, gender, relationships, and human nature in general.

https://t.co/oTu59ANlyl

#InPlainspeak

[Anil Ananthaswamy @anilananth]

An intense 2 wks of @NCBS_Bangalore's journalism workshop ended. A fab cohort. I'm sure we'll see them write for others and for themselves @Shubawrite @prarabdh2804 @charudatta_n @dbdttpl @malavikakkumar @mahimasamraik_ @RithikaFernand7 Nishant Singh, Karthik Vinod, Hardi Talwani

[Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 @langofmind]

Linguistics is a modeling science. The purpose is to create formal models that describe the behavior of a system. The models can be falsified by checking the outputs of the model against the outputs of the system.
Which is exactly how theoretical physics happens to operate!

[dash @thedigitaldash_]

there may come a day (very soon) where you realize you don’t have a specific passion for a career, you just want to make a sustainable amount of money in as ethical of a way as possible to live your life. realize that now before choosing your degree or career field

[Michael J. Miraflor @michaelmiraflor]

Saw this posted on LinkedIn as a leader’s recommended reading list (or something along those lines).

Once again I am begging of you, please read more fiction. I promise that it will do more for you vs another productivity optimization book.

[anna ??? :00 🇵🇸✨🌸✨🇵🇸 @frogsforgirls]

*sees a rock* damn man i should’ve gone into geology *sees a phrase* damn man i should’ve gone into linguistics *sees a cell* damn man i should’ve gone into biology *sees a painting* damn man i should’ve gone into art history *sees

[Malavika @malavikakkumar]

@GwilliamsL @StanfordBrain Hi, is this position open to international applicants? I recently graduated with an MSc in Cognitive Science, with my master's thesis being in the area of language production, and am looking for work experience :)

[Malavika @malavikakkumar]

this just explains my entire trajectory in life (one-time physics major to psycholinguistics enthusiast)

[IIT Gandhinagar @iitgn]

#IITGNResearchCapsule 134: Prof Jooyoung Kim of @iitgn works towards understanding the cross-linguistic commonalities and differences in processing and producing language. Her research interests focus on exploring how language acquisition emerges in the multilingual setting.

[Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 @ev_fedorenko]

As promised, a🧵on language and thought. The relationship between language and thought has long been pondered and debated. It may be one of the deepest and most exciting questions in cognitive science. 1/n

[Malavika @malavikakkumar]

@flyspicejet thank you for your prompt service!