Like, do I think an LLM is likely to produce some of my favorite lines of poetry? Like Boyer’s “There is the condition of feeling like a city most interesting for its ruins”? Maybe it’s human chauvinistic of me to say these are kinda low probability

They didn’t check but honestly it’s hard to even measure. I mean, what’s the usual hit rate for poetry—even great poetry? I’m not big into poetry, and I’ve probably encountered under a hundred that I really enjoyed. I’m not even sure a retrieval system could predict my tastes.

LLM poetry has an incredible hit rate for people whose favorite poems are hallmark cards

Poetry is my go to example of human eval failure because studies have shown that most people like LLM poetry. The main exception is people who actually generally enjoy poetry

These are all for the ACM journal Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP).

It's hard to find reviewers. Let’s continue the momentum of the best paper awards in #EMNLP dominated by #linguistics -aware papers and give more love to such papers also in reviewing!

I hope you don’t mind me poaching your followers for a bit, @nsaphra, assuming many of them care abt linguistic issues in #NLP (meaning, not just ML or genAI).

TALLIP (Asian*+African & other low-resource languages) journal is looking for reviewers for the following articles.
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Through this release, we aim both to support the emerging ecosystem for pretraining research (NanoGPT, NanoChat), explainability (you can literally look at Monad under a microscope) and the tooling orchestration around frontier models.

My gf and I are binging the hell out of this extremely well-read audiobook series. I suspect I wouldn't have enjoyed them as print books nearly as much but we've gone through like 100 hours in a month. GF's not on bsky so I know you guys won't snitch that I got her Princess Donut merch for her bday.

My gf and I started listening to goofy audiobooks together and this one is super fun. Written though surprising NOT read by Kate McKinnon, but by her sister?

And Barbosa was very good, but it was obvious he was primarily a danseur and secondarily a tapper. Nobody really has a perfect replacement for McRae's OG Hatter, because nobody else is at his level in both ballet and tap.

And Jaiani was incredible as Queen of Hearts! Some notes of the original choreography's physical comedy didn't surface because she's just not as comically short as Yanowsky, but if you didn't know they were supposed to be there, you'd never notice it because Jaiani is SO SO FUNNY.

Curious what else she/you thought. Obviously Edson Barbosa is no Steven McRae, but there's only one McRae and it would suck if nobody ever performed Alice again because they didn't have him on hand for the hatter. Barbosa wasn't bad!

omg I literally flew to Chicago to see the Joffrey's Alice because I'm obsessed with Wheeldon. Wild that she thought it was too Balanchine! What I love about Wheeldon is how he puts so much mutual joy into every pas, not just the romantic ones, and not just giving the woman all the expressive moves.

Anyway my thesis is Jewels reflects more of Balanchine's specific trajectory as an art monster more than it does some deep national character. If you don't know the vibe of each piece, the Boston Ballet has a season preview playlist gives a pretty good idea of it. #balletsky tell me if I'm off base

my followers here don't care about this post. this post is for me. or maybe I'll finally break into balletsky