CJ
@virmalised.us
Assistant professor with too many opinions. Texpat, politics academia, gay stuff, anti-carbrain. Not an AI brain genius guy. "Train Linguist." 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
"See you divas on the streets."
E me aperta pra eu quase sufocar
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"See you divas on the streets."
E me aperta pra eu quase sufocar
[email protected] on Mastodon.
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CJ
@virmalised.us
· Dec 30
Less is more: Probabilistic reduction is best explained by small-scale predictability measures
The primary research questions of this paper center on defining the amount of context that is necessary and/or appropriate when investigating the relationship between language model probabilities and ...
arxiv.org
We wrote a thing -- showing you don't need LLMs to model language production dynamics like the tendency for speakers to reduce predictable words. All you have to do is better model how speech rate varies depending on where a word is and how long the utterance is. arxiv.org/abs/2512.23659
Nicest compliment I've gotten in a long time: "it sounds like [...] you are pretty technical"
February 6, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Nicest compliment I've gotten in a long time: "it sounds like [...] you are pretty technical"
Feeling kinda bitchy that my citation counts are wrong on Google Scholar
January 28, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Feeling kinda bitchy that my citation counts are wrong on Google Scholar
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“We are going to force DHS to follow the law” should have been the compromise position before you decided to allow a 175B budget for ICE to pass. Falling back to that now is just weak. Do some fucking rescissions of its funding, you feckless cowards.
January 27, 2026 at 2:15 PM
“We are going to force DHS to follow the law” should have been the compromise position before you decided to allow a 175B budget for ICE to pass. Falling back to that now is just weak. Do some fucking rescissions of its funding, you feckless cowards.
love a good snekdown
Snowfall is going to put traffic engineers out of a job. Just replace the snow with sidewalk level concrete and tada you’re done
January 26, 2026 at 4:36 AM
love a good snekdown
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"Abolish ICE" is the law-and-order position
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 PM
"Abolish ICE" is the law-and-order position
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in other words, we’re still in the middle of abolition, the civil war, the civil rights era
in other words, we’re still smack dab in the middle of the george floyd protests, rising up to say we want to live in a society based in healing and compassion, not fascism and violence
January 24, 2026 at 5:38 PM
in other words, we’re still in the middle of abolition, the civil war, the civil rights era
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
January 23, 2026 at 10:20 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
Literally one of my HSP reviewers didn't know that "roost" is a word lmao
January 23, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Literally one of my HSP reviewers didn't know that "roost" is a word lmao
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This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges
The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colle...
apnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:45 PM
This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
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Last year we went to Memphis to document the emissions from the xAI datacenter turbines. They were bad. Even Trump's EPA seems to agree.
"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines..."
"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines..."
Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules
Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Last year we went to Memphis to document the emissions from the xAI datacenter turbines. They were bad. Even Trump's EPA seems to agree.
"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines..."
"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines..."
Ok I'm logging off again I'll be back when I have more fun science to share
January 7, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Ok I'm logging off again I'll be back when I have more fun science to share
LLMs are making for academic monoculture and the time is nigh for dropping them entirely imo
January 7, 2026 at 12:13 AM
LLMs are making for academic monoculture and the time is nigh for dropping them entirely imo
We wrote a thing -- showing you don't need LLMs to model language production dynamics like the tendency for speakers to reduce predictable words. All you have to do is better model how speech rate varies depending on where a word is and how long the utterance is. arxiv.org/abs/2512.23659
Less is more: Probabilistic reduction is best explained by small-scale predictability measures
The primary research questions of this paper center on defining the amount of context that is necessary and/or appropriate when investigating the relationship between language model probabilities and ...
arxiv.org
December 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We wrote a thing -- showing you don't need LLMs to model language production dynamics like the tendency for speakers to reduce predictable words. All you have to do is better model how speech rate varies depending on where a word is and how long the utterance is. arxiv.org/abs/2512.23659
I love that all the surprisal bros have suddenly discovered mutual information like the collocations people haven't been working with this for the last thirty years
December 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I love that all the surprisal bros have suddenly discovered mutual information like the collocations people haven't been working with this for the last thirty years
It is always so exciting when people who have publicly anguished about transitioning finally transition
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It is always so exciting when people who have publicly anguished about transitioning finally transition
Not including random effects by items when you're studying effects for which different items are known to show vastly different patterns of results is scientific malpractice in 2025
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Not including random effects by items when you're studying effects for which different items are known to show vastly different patterns of results is scientific malpractice in 2025
I'm not on here anymore and I think everything is just as horrifying as it was. I'm on mastodon
what if i look away for just a second and everything is different
November 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I'm not on here anymore and I think everything is just as horrifying as it was. I'm on mastodon
what if i look away for just a second and everything is different
September 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
what if i look away for just a second and everything is different
Insane to do a coup in broad daylight jesus
Secretary of State Marco Rubio backed by CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller are pushing to remove Venezuela’s Maduro from power, the NYT reports.
There have already been meetings with opposition leaders.
There have already been meetings with opposition leaders.
September 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Insane to do a coup in broad daylight jesus
new benchmark: any profile that looks like a prompt is a bot
September 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
new benchmark: any profile that looks like a prompt is a bot
god the botnets are swarming this fucking sucks
September 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
god the botnets are swarming this fucking sucks
i just got followed by a bot account called purple house photos????????
September 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
i just got followed by a bot account called purple house photos????????