cognitive scientist: so the lesson of Clever Hans is we need..
engineer: more horses
cognitive scientist:
engineer: stacked horses. parallel horses. pooled horses. horse dropout. RL with horses in the loop.
cognitive scientist:
engineer: Hans is All You Need
(And yes, I acknowledge that the current structure of the academic and academic publishing systems tends to support individualism rather than cooperation. This is also a problem.) (4/4)
The note I write THE MOST on nearly every single student paper I have to comment on is that we should not egotistically think of our proposals as completely contrarian and shiny *new* to everything that’s come before. Instead, our proposals are best framed as… (1/4)
My general critique of AI language models is the same critique one should have of models in general, which is that giving an approximately correct solution in 98% of cases isn't particularly valuable if the 98% are trivial and the 2% are what you really care about.
P.S. thanks to a suggestion, I've verified that every currently available hard science job ad at the uni for a TT or tenured faculty position asks for candidates to address diversity/inclusion. 💁♀️
Whelp, it’s 2022 and I’m here to remind everyone that we still apparently have people on the faculty vehemently arguing that diversity and inclusion are irrelevant to science. 🤷♀️😮💨 I’m so tired.
@mixedlinguist @pomonacollege Yay!! So glad to have you back in the area! We’ll need to find a chance to actually get you to USC for a talk this time around!
Sharing some thoughts that are more important than my tenure news that I've jotted down over the last year.
Applicable really to any field, just sub "phonology" for "field of choice." #AcademicTwitter
Have always said if this day came, I would blast this song out of my office door. Was working from home today so didn’t get that satisfaction, so I’m blasting it here out my twitter door.
https://t.co/nlfJBJTIh6
They gave me a fancy plaque recently for some reason… I’m convinced it was just so they could take my picture because I refuse to update my outdated department one. 💁♀️