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🧊 PSA: if you’re in a heat wave, consider putting ice out in bowls/bird baths for the birds. A lot of them will die otherwise. 😔

@kevinweil Hi, as the owner/maintainer of erdosproblems.com, this is a dramatic misrepresentation. GPT-5 found references, which solved these problems, that I personally was unaware of. The 'open' status only means I personally am unaware of a paper which solves it.

I tried the new Meta Ray-Ban Display “Hypernova" glasses that Meta just announced (thanks for the demo @ahimel!) TL;DR it's a really well-executed take on a simple idea: a crisp heads-up display with precise micro-gesture control of mini apps My quick takeaways from the demo I got: 1/ The monocular heads-up display (yup, Google Glass vibes!) is surprisingly usable despite "only" 20 deg FOV; pretty crisp and bright enough even in broad daylight; with enough space for fully functional widgets that are much bigger than anything you could fit on a watch display (BTW, the display specs are worth mentioning because they are nuts: 5,000 nits peak brightness + resolution of 42 PPD… vs. 34 PPD on Vision Pro) 2/ Meta is shipping their neural interface wristband (for micro-gesture control) much earlier than I expected; it’s by far the most mind-blowing part of the product and might be setting the standard for all smart/AR glasses to come: By sliding your thumb over your index finger, you get a 4-way mini touchpad that allows you to really easily navigate around the UI + pinch to select + pinch and turn for volume/zoom + handwriting recognition on any surface (this last one won't launch right away, but I tried and it actually really works) 3/ The voice assistant experience has a clever twist: a dedicated double thumb tap micro-gesture (instead of an annoying wakeword) and mics that support low-volume speech so you can almost just whisper to the glasses 4/ To me, the magic of the experience came down to the fact that it felt much more effortless than I expected; I can use simple apps without taking the phone out of my pocket – reading & replying to messages, controlling music, walking navigation, fly through ‘snackable’ content 5/ One of Meta's biggest technical achievements on this product is zero light leakage from waveguides; this makes them much more polished and socially acceptable (folks who have been around AR glasses will know this is a big deal) 6/ Really enjoying the fact that Meta Ray-Ban Display (including the neural band) is conveniently priced at the same $799 as Apple Watch Ultra :) P.S. Here’s my vote: would love to see Meta launching an app store for these glasses sooner rather than later — and match it with a strong developer push. This new category deserves the momentum.

@vikib0y @kurtluther @QVeraLiao @snaglee @syljohns Congrats Vikram!

Still soaking in yday's season finale of my PhD journey. Overwhelmed by all the support from everyone who attended & messaged!🥹 Extremely lucky and grateful to have been advised by @kurtluther! A huge 🙏 to my amazing committee @QVeraLiao @snaglee @syljohns and Dr. North!

Researchers in our #AI Engineering Group & CTO Office are publishing 11 papers this week at @aclmeeting; learn about their #NLProc research, why the results are notable, and how their work will advance the state-of-the-art bloom.bg/3XLe037 #ACL2023NLP

I’ll be at #ACL2023 in person. Excited to catch-up with folks. Feel free to DM.

Fascinating to see GPT give a wrong answer with this simple blocks puzzle. (Both 4 and 3.5 fail at this, even after asking it to verify the answer.)

Hi, Twitter Fam just wanted to say our final good byes. It’s been a pleasure serving you this past 11 years. Twitter really made us feel apart of the culture and we will never forget that. 🎤🎤 drop

Exciting research directions in future work to make this approach more efficient.

We find that RC systems perform better at event extraction on simplified candidates than on original candidates. This result is somewhat surprising given how proficient BERT-based models have become at reading comprehension.

If you're at EMNLP 2022, check out our paper titled "Improving Zero-Shot Event Extraction via Sentence Simplification" with @DMfun and @profnaren presented at W1(CASE). In this paper, we formulate event extraction as a reading comprehension task.

The sentence does not mention any other individuals, so there are only two people mentioned in this sentence.

ChatGPT: This sentence mentions two people: Shuttle veteran Fred Gregory and NASA executive Fred Gregory. The sentence indicates that Fred Gregory is a Shuttle veteran and a NASA executive, and that he has been appointed to a board.

Co-ordination scope ambiguity can confuse ChatGPT.

For past 1.5 years we worked on building TweetNERD a dataset of 340K+ Tweets with Named Entities annotated and linked to @wikidata. Join our poster at @NeurIPSConf in afternoon today. Work with @sainiAman14 @rahelehmakki @snehaSM @AMollahosseini @aria42 #NeurIPS22 #NLProc 🧵👇

@NeurIPSConf I paid for full registration, but can’t access the virtual conference because I no longer have access to the email id I registered with. Contacted IT support twice. Can you please loop in the relevant people to resolve this asap?

and it filled up so fast! exciting to welcome 10K+ in person attendees

the emptiness before the show begins #Neurips2022 kick-off in five mins

@TheShubhanshu 🫡

To all my Tweeps. 🫡 Just remembering this song from GoT before the long night youtu.be/ZCnEJYds1iA

Additional analysis in our paper. Work done as part of @jinninguiuc's @terns ship, and collaboration with Ahmed El-Kishky, @snehaSM, & @viveksck Youtube: youtu.be/BjAmQjs0sZk Paper: aclanthology.org/2022.wnut-1.7/ Workshop: noisy-text.github.io/2022/ #COLING #COLING2022