Charles Sutton

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Machine learning researcher at Google. I like machine learning, sourdough, coffee, and cats.
Homepagehttps://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/csutton/
Bloghttps://www.theexclusive.org
Charles SuttonMar 4, 2024
Esther SchindlerMar 1, 2024
Communications of the ACM (CACM) is now a fully Open Access publication. This means that more than six decades of CACM’s renowned research articles, seminal papers, technical reports, commentaries, real-world practice, and news articles are now open to everyone, regardless of whether they are members of ACM or subscribe to the ACM Digital Library. https://cacm.acm.org/news/cacm-is-now-open-access-2/
CACM Is Now Open Access – Communications of the ACM

Charles SuttonApr 16, 2023
Meredith WhittakerApr 16, 2023
NYT "AI" explainer misleads. Deep learning techniques date from the 1980s, & "AI" had been hot/cold for decades, not slow until 2012. There was no new "single idea" in 2012. What WAS new, & propelled the AI boom, was concentrated resources (data/compute) controlled by tech cos.
Charles SuttonApr 14, 2023
AmyFeb 15, 2023
This is how they arrive on Earth.
Charles SuttonApr 14, 2023
Paul SmaldinoApr 13, 2023

New paper on auditing Elon's early impact on Twitter.
- Hateful users became more hateful
- Hate increased dramatically
- There was no overall change in bots

Paper (accepted to ICWSM 2023) is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.04129

Auditing Elon Musk's Impact on Hate Speech and Bots

On October 27th, 2022, Elon Musk purchased Twitter, becoming its new CEO and firing many top executives in the process. Musk listed fewer restrictions on content moderation and removal of spam bots among his goals for the platform. Given findings of prior research on moderation and hate speech in online communities, the promise of less strict content moderation poses the concern that hate will rise on Twitter. We examine the levels of hate speech and prevalence of bots before and after Musk's acquisition of the platform. We find that hate speech rose dramatically upon Musk purchasing Twitter and the prevalence of most types of bots increased, while the prevalence of astroturf bots decreased.

arXiv.org
Charles SuttonApr 9, 2023
Mark RiedlApr 9, 2023

Elden Ring or Tenure Track?

McSweeney’s hits hard as usual

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/elden-ring-or-tenure-track-professor

Elden Ring or Tenure-Track Professor?

1. You’ve invested an enormous amount of time and energy, and you still have no idea what is happening. 2. Everybody you meet speaks in half riddle...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Charles SuttonMar 29, 2023

Honoured to receive this award for Most Influential Paper (10-year) from #MSR2023!

Hard to believe it's been a decade since we started working on machine learning for code.

It's been a delight working with @miltos1, as well as all of my other collaborators over the years!

https://twitter.com/msrconf/status/1640632483967295488?s=46&t=7uDrrb9YgiGtBBR0uVO9aA

MSR 2023 on Twitter

“1“Mining source code repositories at massive scale using language modeling” by Miltiadis Allamanis and Charles Sutton. It has been awarded for pioneering the use of large-scale language models on source code, something that is now extremely relevant and timely after 10 years. 2/3”

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Charles SuttonFeb 14, 2023
I’ve spent the morning sorting and packing the contents of my office at Edinburgh. What slob left all of that junk in there? I actually found clothing that I didn’t recognize
Charles SuttonFeb 11, 2023
At my hotel in Munich, I passed a member of the hotel staff in the hallway. She glanced at me, quickly assessed me with the eye of an experienced hotelier, and greeted me, “Bonjour.” Clearly I exude a Gallic air of style and sangfroid.
Charles SuttonFeb 3, 2023
I write an email that starts “so if you see an open slot on my calendar, please feel”. GMail helpfully suggests that I continue “free to let me know”. I DID NOT NEED THIS LEVEL OF SASS FROM YOU, GMAIL
Charles SuttonJan 30, 2023
Show threadmhoyeJan 28, 2023

@arclight
Excel is not a spreadsheet. Excel is a full-featured virtual machine running a smalltalk-inspired REPL whose display layer happens to resemble a spreadsheet.

Something like a third of the world’s money goes through Excel every single day, and the reason you don’t think Excel is a Real Programming Language is because if we admitted that, we’d have to admit that most of the most important software in the world was written by underpaid women in pink collar jobs, and we can’t have that.