Chathuri Jayaweera

Does anybody remember this OG feature available on Surface Duo with stock Android 12L? Well DUO-DE has it now on Android 15!! archfx.me/duo-de/ github.com/Archfx/duo-de

⭐️ Lesson learned during Thanksgiving Day🙏 This will be a long thread. Brace yourself! 🧵 🤔Which is more important: quality or quantity? - Recently, an ARR reviewer criticized our paper for including only three languages, despite each dataset costing us over $100 due to thorough quality control and human annotations, resulting in a low score of 1. - On the other hand, I encountered a new VL dataset paper that included hundreds of languages, but the quality was lacking, with examples in the main paper being notably inaccurate. These datasets were entirely AI-generated. I hope they address and correct the figures since I have high expectations. I believe researchers should prioritize quality over quantity, as creating a high-quality dataset is not cheap. While AI-generated data can be valuable, it should be complemented by rigorous human annotations. It is unfair to assess the quality of a paper solely based on the number of languages it includes while overlooking the importance of data quality. I hope @ReviewAcl can highlight this point in the reviewing guidelines. #NLProc @aclmeeting #LLM #data

@_joestacey_ Yep, I will be there in the remaining days too. I'd love to have a chat with you. Will contact you on the app!!

@Wh52Chestnut Hey @Wh52Chestnut ! That's fantastic! I'd love to hear more about your work - if you're around the next few days and would like to have chat, please send me message on the conference app :)

Tomorrow morning at #EMNLP2024 (the morning after the social) I'll be presenting a poster about our recent work on Atomic Inference. Super excited to share the work with you! It will be at 10:30 in the poster room downstairs (Jasmine). x.com/_joestacey_/st…

Excited to share that our paper 'AMREx: AMR for Explainable Fact Verification' was accepted to EMNLP 2024 FEVER! We present a novel AMR and Textual similarity based approach for more interpretable fact verification. aclanthology.org/2024.fever-1.2… #EMNLP2024 #FEVER

What is the story behind the ACL Anthology? How did NLP escape issues around closed access, high publication costs, and governance by external societies/publishers? I guess there must be some interesting history and heroes to thank for this situation!

On one end of the line: ELIZA, the psychotherapist from the 60s. First chatbot to make people believe it was human. Rulebound, scripted, deterministic. Still around on the web. On the other end of the line: yr favorite LLM. How will they react? Will they know?

Spamming "hi" at every LLM: a thread.

🎯In a white paper published by Verite Research, it was recommended that 15 cabinet ministries, with not more than 45 ministers in total, can create a rational structure for government.

today i found out that this one australian guy has been toiling away making incredibly detailed Neural Circuit Diagrams with the vibe of a 1950s issue of Popular Mechanics, but content fit for the 2020s behold. the Transformer

Today, we’re launching Aya, a new open-source, massively multilingual LLM & dataset to help support under-represented languages. Aya outperforms existing open-source models and covers 101 different languages – more than double covered by previous models. cohere.com/research/aya

Meet Professor Neelika Malavige (@GMalavige), a Sri Lankan scientist ranked among the World’s Top 2% in 2021 by Stanford University. As a fellow woman in STEM, she inspires young women and girls to embrace their dreams. Tap the link to hear her story: youtu.be/ZrZB4b9hBJA

Sri Lankan director Jagath Manuwarna won the ‘Best Director’ award in the Asian Competition Section of the 22nd Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF) for his film ‘Whispering Mountains’. (Rahas Kiyana Kandu)

Sri Lanka star Chamari Athapaththu has won the ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year for 2023 after a stellar 12 months.

A standing ovation for twice Nobel prize honored "Madame Curie"

Remembering Tsunami Victims🪔🙏 Let's observe 2 minutes of silence today from 9:25 to 9:27 a.m. to honor the 19th anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami 🌊 and to remember the victims 🙏 #TwitterSilence 📵 lankaxpress.com/sri-lanka-obse… #LKA #SriLanka #Tsunami #Tsunami2004

Adrian Tomine es un artista de la contraposición. He aquí 5 de sus mejores ejemplos. I) La pareja que pone un candado en un puente como muestra de la fuerza y durabilidad de su amor VS el operario que de manera diaria o semanal los retira y los echa al contendor de basura

#OTD in 1996, Carl Sagan died: 27 years without Carl «When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me ― it still sometimes happens ― and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful». ― Ann Druyan

97 year old comic about what would happen if "pocket telephones" were to be invented.

"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping." -- Hubert Reeves