An #introduction!👋 I'm a PhD student with @rockt and @egrefen interested in language and reinforcement learning. I think the next step for LLMs is improving their understanding of pragmatic language in context (e.g. the A: "I wore gloves" to the Q: "did you leave fingerprints?" means "No") and want to investigate more dynamic ways of learning language than next-word prediction
Seeing other people's introductions I realise mine _very_ much looks like I don't have a personality beyond research but I do!!eleven!! I also run and play field hockey, care a lot about my side hustle (teaching 10 y/o's in London math), dabble in the occasional techno party (sometimes with my co-author and homepal @akbir), and am an amateur wine lover🍷
@LauraRuis @akbir good that you are realistic about your credentials as a wine lover. Hate overselling
would've said professional if on FB but people that invested in my functioning brain are on this site
@LauraRuis follow @egrefen on Vivino—a whole new world.
@rockt @egrefen I did not know Vivino as a social network was an option when I moved to Sigmoid.social 🧐
@LauraRuis I’m glad that you’ve posted this. Will be doing the same to round out my introduction
@LauraRuis @rockt @egrefen TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO TECHNO
EXACTLY that's what it sounds like
@LauraRuis @rockt @egrefen Welcome! Your research seems very relevant to mine. I’m figuring out language learning/emergence through communication tasks.
@lpag Hi Lukas! Happy to connect :)
@LauraRuis @rockt @egrefen Great introduction - love having you in the CDT. Great advice about mentors too -a good mentor can literally change your life!