No idea. What TA is showing up to OOPSLA that won’t recognize you?

I’ll take this opportunity to say that UMass Amherst is amazing in many ways. But, their “8x #1 in dining by Princeton Review” dining halls are not as good as Mount Holyoke dining.

I still don’t understand why anyone cares about food quality. How else is a 21 year old boy to learn to cook if the dining hall food doesn’t suck?

I know folks in college PR and I heard when a Reddit thread about my exam was reported up to the college president.

I learned things about containers I didn’t know from her containers book. Very annoying. I always get annoyed the more I learn about containers, independent of source.

jvns.ca/blog/2018/08...

Are you hiring new grads (BS) for this kind of work? I can suggest some people.

I distinctly remember the moment in grad school when I realized I was not going to learn any more PL by taking classes. I fell bad for an instant, and then moved on.

Yes. Still there. Also the pinball machine, the PDP, and @shriram.bsky.social .

I think language devs can help in a few ways. Benchmarking is the easiest for us to do and necessary to guide LLM development. I’ve been meaning to writeup my experience being only PL person in the room for the StarCoder LLM development process. It was very informative.

Or, ask these products to write a 2 page ICFP workshop paper in one’s area of expertise. OK if it’s incremental, just has to be novel for 2025 and clearly positioned wrt related work. I know PhD students who can do this.

Our tech report has more fun examples of short prompts that make reasoning models crunch for several minutes or longer: khoury.northeastern.edu/~arjunguha/m...

If you want to read some deranged thoughts from frustrated models (R1 and Gemini Thinking), check them out here: huggingface.co/spaces/nuprl...