What ever it is, hell yes! Congrats!
New preprint from one of my colleagues in the Math department studying the dimension and Ricci curvature of the token embedding space in several LLMs, and connecting it in part to differences in model behavior (e.g. GPT2 and Mistral7b embed numerical tokens in very different ways).
Large language models encode the correlational structure present in natural language by fitting segments of utterances (tokens) into a high dimensional ambient latent space upon which the models then ...
I wrote the official crossword for next yearās aasasianstudies.bsky.social conference in Columbus. If you work in Asian Studies (in any capacity) and like puzzles, DM me if youāre down to test solveā¦ itās on the easy side. Thanks!
Oooh!! If I can swing it Iāll be there!
You are being asked, now, to do the absolute smallest thing, the bare minimum, to keep this man out of power.
And to be fair, I'm a lit prof, not a history prof! So I suppose it still doesn't count
There is huge demand for this kind of course, but I think it may have been the only one of its kind taught at WM during the terms I taught it.
When I taught at William & Mary I taught a freshman seminar I called "Electrifying Information in China" which was precisely this. We talked about the development of information tech all the way from oracle bones through to transformer models. It was quite popular!
My condolences for your loss. I too would always call my parents when I was leaving on trips. My dad passed a few months after I started my first faculty position (in Europe). Flying home to Kansas for his funeral that first time, I fully broke down knowing I'd never get to call him again.