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🔑 🗝️ The Article+Adjective+Numeral+Noun (e.g., “a lovely five days”) construction is quite rare, and yet people and LMs know it’s grammatical. What is the key to learning such a rare construction? Kyle Mahowald and I answer this question in the context of LMs in our new paper:

I'm recruiting grad students for Fall '25 at UMass PBS! You can read about the lab at auletlab.com and find my contact info there. I'm reviewing apps through the cog and dev areas, as well as through the Neuro PhD. Reach out if you're interested / have any questions!

Never thought I would be a podcast host, but... my arm was twisted and I'm co-hosting this season's Complexity Podcast from Santa Fe Institute. Our topic is "The Nature of Intelligence" 🧠🤖 We have an amazing lineup of guests over six episodes. I hope you'll check it out!

"It's an insult when a magazine that is supposed to care about science and facts supports the only candidate who cares about science and facts", did I get that right Tom Nichols?

Global temperature change from 1850-2023. Watch till the end. There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #phaseoutfossilfuels #go100re

(1/X) I hate doing these, but I feel like I'm being baited to do so. A few days ago Maggie H did an interview where she complained criticism of her reporting, James Fallows answered back (mentioning this account) and Jon Chait and some Reason bro took a shot at Fallows for...

You are watching the end of civilisation...

Hot new preprint just dropped w/@NeuroPolarbear and Rubén Moreno-Bote , on where we explore “Rational Inattention" and how it drives optimally irrational choices and neural coding of value. 1/n biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

quite a week

What does it say about our legal system when the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to stop an execution even when the county prosecuting agency that handled the original trial files a brief in support of a stay and supports vacating the entire conviction? #MarcellusWilliams

It's incredible what Sam Gershman and Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT have accomplished at the helm of Open Mind. Here's to many more years of high quality free-to-publish open access science. Consider submitting today 👉 direct.mit.edu/opmi/pages/sub…

No risotto recipes.

Just to put this in perspective, the cost of running Open Mind for a year is roughly the total APCs collected by Nature Communications in a single day. Journals can be run inexpensively, without gouging authors (and by extension taxpayers).

Can I just step back for a second and say that it is RIDICULOUS that we live in a "democracy" where Kamala Harris is going to clearly, overwhelmingly, win the popular vote... and yet that doesn't matter in the slightest and everybody just blithely accepts that it doesn't matter.

Today's must-read: "lobbyists working for major North American oil and gas companies were key architects of anti-protest laws that increase penalties and could lead to non-violent environmental and climate activists being imprisoned up to 10 years." theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s…

Congratulations to Chaz Firestone of Johns Hopkins University on receiving the 2024 Joseph B. Gittler Award!🎉 Dr. Firestone has made an incredible impact in the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge, and we're proud to give him the recognition he deserves.👏 #Psychology

happy to share that we'll be presenting this work at neurips 2024! 🥳 some *surprising* updates coming for the results soon 👀 but all the code/images/data are already available at project page: tzler.github.io/MOCHI/ 🤗: huggingface.co/datasets/tzler… code: github.com/tzler/mochi_co…

Goodbye twitter, for real this time.