timorous bestie 😷

mutuals ask for my cohost pls • @[email protected] • pfp by @mailboxsnot

[timorous bestie 😷 @vnfrombucharest]

New blog post: introduction to gradient-based optimization with constraints: reparametrization, projected gradient, cool connections in between.

🔮Geometry insights show that 🪞mirror descent = reparametrization with a "straight-through" sigmoid!

https://t.co/KQcq6mkM1i

[Andreas Vlachos @vlachos_nlp]

Looking forward to AthNLP 2024! Thanks to the fantastic speakers who will join us:
@anas_ant
@raquel_dmg
@fhuszar
@MKrallinger
Mirella Lapata Ryan McDonald
@aidanematzadeh
@vnfrombucharest
@barbara_plank
@annargrs
! Deadline for applications 20th of June! https://t.co/wDaUfLsIoo

[Wafaa @Wafaa01997]

📢 I will be at @eaclmeeting next week presenting our work “On Measuring Context Utilization in Document-Level MT Systems” https://t.co/dl4oY5bUTZ
We propose an interpretable approach to evaluating context utilization by answering two questions:
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[Wafaa @Wafaa01997]

The Chat Shared Task (WMT2024) is live! 💥💥

Happy to announce this year’s Chat Shared Task which aims to translate a corpus composed of genuine bilingual conversations from the customer support domain!

[Arianna Bisazza #EMNLP 🇨🇳 @AriannaBisazza]

I have 2 openings for my VIDI project on modeling low-res morphologically rich languages, taking inspiration from child language acquisition insights!
@GroNlp @univgroningen
📢 a Postdoc (apply by 15 Feb)
https://t.co/ItxDFt9NP4
📢 a PhD (apply by 11 Mar)
https://t.co/E07YHzJjRB

[Barry Haddow @bazril]

Funding call! Utter project https://t.co/OSHmbWCvDi has launched a call for small grants (up to €60k each) for European Univs. and SMEs working on multimodal technology and applications. Closes in October. See https://t.co/iCWPdYqCZQ , FSTP (financial support for third parties)

[Eva @epdelap]

Studie in @nejm toont aan dat bescherming tegen herinfectie met eerdere omikron infectie snel daalt. Dit haalt het argument onderuit dat nu de meeste kinderen zijn geïnfecteerd, ze niet hoeven te worden gevaccineerd. 3 doses van het vaccin zijn nodig @rivm @ministerVWS @MinVWS

[Reluctant MSW is on semi-hiatus 🍉🌱 (she/her) @ReluctantMSW]

and it's not that stuff is just NOW ableist, it's that disabled & neurodivergent folks have been hidden away in homes and institutions or on the streets for decades

bc of social media, the conversations we were already having with each other in private are now on public display

[Eliza Sorensen @Zemmiph0bia]

This is NOT an extraordinary decision, @SwitterSocial was removed without notice or a blog post.

Do not let @eastdakota convince you otherwise.

[Reluctant MSW is on semi-hiatus 🍉🌱 (she/her) @ReluctantMSW]

Y'all be MASKLESS in fat folks' faces talmbout some "I just care about your health"

[Chaos Wants Palestine To Be Free @ChaosIsCrying]

Someone once told me I'm "not working class" because I'm disabled (by my chosen career of serving) and I don't work anymore? Like becoming disabled by my job suddenly rendered me "out of touch" with workers and working? I got "I'm disabled too and I work" which....yikes?

[timorous bestie 😷 @vnfrombucharest]

I am hiring a PhD candidate in ML for NLP to work on deep generative models of language.

Fully funded 4-year position at the University of Amsterdam, Language Technology Lab.

Apply by August 21.

Details and link to call at https://t.co/eeTF9UYk01

[Zar ✰ @Zarinacar]

Minions rise of gru gonna be the first movie to make 1 minlion dollars

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

i do not think we should purée humanity into a gel that could fit in central park, this is too far for me