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Naomi Saphra

@nsaphra@sigmoid.social
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Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family.

#machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

2326 Followers
490 Following
20 Posts
Joined November 04, 2022
🌏 Website:
http://nsaphra.github.io/
Employer:
NYU
Role:
Postdoc
Pronouns:
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Oct 18, 2024
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

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What makes some LM interpretability research “mechanistic”? In our new position paper in BlackboxNLP, Sarah Wiegreffe and I argue that the practical distinction was never technical, but a historical artifact that we should be—and are—moving past to bridge communities. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09087

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Aug 25, 2024
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

sigmoid.social

AI researchers: By analogy with evolutionary biology, this model's most efficient and advantageous traits will ultimately be selected during optimization.

Actual evolutionary biology:

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Jul 20, 2024
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

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The last year has been the hardest year of my life on a personal level—an unrelenting wave of illness and death—but I’m excited about what I’ve been working on. What I’m saying is if you’re going to ICML this week, reach out and buy me a drink or 5.

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Jul 20, 2024
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@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

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Replying to @thedansimonson@lingo.lol
@thedansimonson@lingo.lol yeah lol what a wild time
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Jul 19, 2024
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@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

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If I say I think often about an ASR researcher I used to like who ended up getting fired for hiring homeless people to beat up student BLM protesters, and who has since defended Hitler and called Jews anti-white, does everyone still know who I'm talking about?

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Jul 19, 2024
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

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Kicking off my week in Vienna as a panelist at the joint queer/disability in AI workshop! Extremely pumped for this intersectional event, speaking as an intersection

(For those who don't know me, I'm gay and have a progressive neurological disease. And I am in AI.)

https://www.queerinai.com/icml-2024

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Aug 22, 2023
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

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I feel like we now have a domain-generic version of IANAL. I’m gonna start prefacing any statement I make about an area outside of my expertise with AAAILM (As An AI Language Model).

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Jul 11, 2023
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

sigmoid.social

Super pumped that @thegradient@sigmoid.social has published "Interpretability Creationism", my manifesto for considering the training process in AI interpretability research!

https://thegradient.pub/interpretability-creationism

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Dec 19, 2022
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

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Replying to @lasha_nlp@sigmoid.social
@lasha_nlp@sigmoid.social Apparently it does! I'm not sure if it gets automatically blocked though.
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Dec 19, 2022
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

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Replying to @lasha_nlp@sigmoid.social
@lasha_nlp Are we going to roll over like dogs here and let sleazy hypnotists take #nlp, while we cower under #nlproc just like on Twitter? Or will we fight and plant our flag upon our hashtag? ⛳️
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Dec 19, 2022
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

sigmoid.social
Replying to @andrey@sigmoid.social
@andrey@sigmoid.social Have you been following the sample moderation problems from @futurebird@sauropods.win? Might prepare you for some of what you may it encounter in an admin role! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LK8QL-OFpiXBy0YqUw7U4qmJOUIOaryisaqQB0jBQMs
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Dec 16, 2022
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

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Replying to @nsaphra@sigmoid.social
Forgot a few cool servers that you might want to check out. There's https://mastodon.acm.org and https://fediscience.org There's also specialty servers for everything from PL theory to infosec to 18th century history. https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Dec 16, 2022
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

sigmoid.social
Replying to @nsaphra@sigmoid.social
P.S. Don't forget to add your handle to your bio or display name on Twitter! That way, other people can automatically follow you through apps like movetodon.
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Dec 16, 2022
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

sigmoid.social
Replying to @nsaphra@sigmoid.social
You can also visit another server and look at the people there and follow them! I found people to follow on https://dair-community.social/ https://lingo.lol/ https://mathstodon.xyz/ and https://data-folks.masto.host/ But guess what! I'm also following a ton of paleontologists and paleoartists from https://sauropods.win/
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Dec 16, 2022
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

sigmoid.social
Replying to @nsaphra@sigmoid.social
By the way, unlike twitter, sigmoid has an often genuinely useful and interesting #Explore tab! I wanted to take a screen shot to show you all the cool stuff people are posting, but right now it's mostly chatter about the latest grievance is on twitter.
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Dec 16, 2022
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

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Replying to @nsaphra@sigmoid.social
Another really fun exploration feature is the ability to look at your local timeline, which is just all of the recent posts on your server. If you're on a specialty server like sigmoid, it's just as useful as your home feed!
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Dec 16, 2022
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

sigmoid.social
Replying to @nsaphra@sigmoid.social
There are more serious tags as well! Sigmoid has a lot of paper summaries under #paperthread and #newpaper, which is a great way of following people's latest work. I also follow #nlp (which we own there!!! no hypnosis PUA shit!) and #nlproc.
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Dec 16, 2022
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

sigmoid.social
Replying to @nsaphra@sigmoid.social
First, I love that you can follow hashtags. Just use the little follow button on the upper right when viewing a hashtag! For fun, I follow the wildly popular tags #mosstodon and #lichensubscribe for moss/lichen photos, plus #booktodon, #paleoart and #fossilFriday.
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Dec 16, 2022
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

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I posted a thread on twitter about what I enjoy about mastodon, but I thought that maybe people on mastodon would also like hearing what I'm enjoying! So I'm reposting it here. 🧵

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra@sigmoid.social · Nov 21, 2022
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra@sigmoid.social

Waiting on a robot body. All opinions are universal and held by both employers (NYU CILVR -> Harvard Kempner) and family. #machinelearning #nlp #nlproc #trainingdynamics

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You still have time to replace all your \hat{}s with real hats for your AAAI camera readies https://mirror.las.iastate.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/realhats/realhats.pdf

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