To mine own opinions be true
Research scientist @ Google Deepmind. Prev: postdoc @ UW, PhD UCSB, BSMS ASU
Evals, metrics, multilinguality, multiculturality, multimodality, and (dabbling in) reasoning
100% Product of public schools
https://saxon.me/
Michael Saxon
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The ban is an incredibly successful maneuver if the aim is ham up the drama surrounding supposed ‘snowballing capabilities’ without needing to demonstrate any actual advancement in performance.
there's actually being chill about your degree or credentials, which is of course totally cool and good, and then there's the whole meta-snobbery thing some people will do where they make a show of humbebragging about how little [prestigous credential] means to them, and I really hate the latter.
This was very obviously always the plan, and anyone who believed that Meta had any qualms about maximum privacy invasion is a rube. We must deploy rigorous mockery to fully socially ostracize anyone who attempts to wear these things. We have to go full Scoble on Meta glasses.
problem is that language model, unlike a cannon, isn't actually dangerous
Low key pulling for Spurs because my Yankee hatred has jumped sports
Not to mention West bias
The best sports banter is "my team bad, your team worse"
Had a nightmare that arxiv links on twitter started getting indexed as citations by google scholar
I appreciate this tack toward the slop(like) submitters. The point is to gatekeep on whether something is contribution-shaped
Got booed on the caltrain for wearing my dbacks jersey. Listen, how about you guys win against us ONCE, and then you get to boo
