Paul Nulty

Lecturer in Comp Sci at Birkbeck, London. Natural language processing for social science and humanities. @[email protected] , pgnulty on bsky and threads

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

@TheStalwart It seems like they selected on the dependent variable to some extent: manually identifiying writing tics that Satoshi and Back shared, and then quantitatively confirming that those features overlapped with Back most from the list of candidates

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

https://t.co/5NkkFSu790

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

Very happy that our review article "Dual-process theory and decision-making in large language models" has been published in Nature Reviews Psychology, with Oliver Brady, Lili Zhang, Tomas Ward and David McGovern @DP_McGovern (link below..)

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

@quadrismegistus @kingsdigitallab @KingsCollegeLon Congratulations Ryan, great news that you'll be in London.

[Karol Hausman @hausman_k]

A beautiful LLM visualzation tool https://t.co/0YnloMjoft

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

@braaannigan "Lexical expressions of semantic relations between nouns"

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

@IslingtonBC @diarmaid_w Very disappointing. @PricedOutUK

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

@dmimno This is a good paper from a few years ago dealing with those questions https://t.co/0s39AHwgel

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

Polars is a very fast DataFrame library for python with clean syntax and lazy evaluation - this course is a great guide to doing data analysis in python with polars.

[Liam Brannigan @braaannigan]

Polars is the fastest data analysis tool on the 🌍

What's the fastest way to get going with Polars?

The Data Analysis with Polars course I'm launching today on udemy:
https://t.co/NmIT9Ax5Ly

I've priced the course to be accessible for all - it's just $15 at the moment.

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

@FelixHill84 @spiantado @shimonedelman @DeepMind This paper has an interesting discussion about why and how expressions in text tend to correspond to facts in the real world https://t.co/SOn5NFMwf1

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

Tomorrow evening I'm talking in-person @BirkbeckUoL for #BEIWeek about opportunities for applying natural language processing methods to research questions in social science and the humanities. Details here: https://t.co/Bj9hobzwnS

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

@midjourney

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

@quadrismegistus @Ted_Underwood @Adam_Crymble @jeddobson @_akpiper I've stayed in "latest" mode and I still really like it. You have to be more selective in following but that's not a bad thing.

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

Some really nice examples of effective deliberation in these dialogues

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Newsletter! A lens on the magic of deliberation https://t.co/FsDAOTbriN let me tell you why I'm so excited about the work @G_Karadzhov has done, with myself and @vlachos_nlp

[John Cullinan @beta1hat]

Between 2008/9-2020, there was a 9.5%⬇️in annual funding (real terms) for public HEIs in Ireland, a 3%⬆️ in academic staff, and , wait for it, a 31.7% ⬆️ in students. 😬

[Rada Mihalcea @radamihalcea]

#ACL2022 will be held in beautiful Dublin, Ireland. Looking forward to celebrating Irish style the 60th anniversary of the ACL!

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

@janimarjanen If you don't mind the association with "essentially contested concepts", you can talk about "contested concepts". Describing the process as a "contest" maybe sounds a bit strange though (it's not a gameshow!). "dispute" is also a bit less dramatic than struggle

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

@adinamwilliams @dmimno There's a nice series of @LanguageLog posts about this: https://t.co/pQ2NGvyOvt I don't think they reach a clear answer, but it's not just a Google books thing.

[Paul Nulty @pgnulty]

@AaronRHanlon @quadrismegistus @Ted_Underwood @calebsmith203 Part of it is maybe that the subject of "pay" directs their own attention, while the other verbs refer to directing the attention of others. Interesting that it is economic when "paid" by the agent, but not when "gathered" or "drawn" like a natural resource