Charlie StrossPut ChatGPT in a rumpled suit and a mussed-up wig and you could call it Boris and make it Prime Minister.
(via @atomicpoet)
Roger Levy
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Director, MIT Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory (cpl.mit.edu). Chair, MIT Committee on the Library System.
Alex HolcombeWhite House (OSTP) launches Year of Open Science to advance national open science policies across the U.S. government
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/01/11/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-to-advance-open-and-equitable-research/ #OpenScience
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/01/11/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-to-advance-open-and-equitable-research/ #OpenScience
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Advance Open and Equitable Research | OSTP | The White House
OSTP launches Year of Open Science to advance national open science policies across the federal government in 2023 Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced new actions to advance open and equitable research, including new grant funding, improvements in research infrastructure, broadened research participation for emerging scholars, and expanded opportunities…
Applications are open (due Feb 15) for MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences' Post-Baccalaureate Research Scholars Program! This is a two-year, fully funded, program offering additional research and academic training in cognitive, systems or cellular neuroscience, cognitive science, computational cognitive science, computational neuroscience, or neuroengineering to individuals from under-represented groups and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Please circulate widely! https://bcs.mit.edu/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-bcs-and-building-46/outreach/research-scholars-program
Anne CarpenterUS citizens or permanent residents from an under-represented group! High school thru postdoc/faculty.
Contact any NIH-funded researcher you admire & suggest applying for this supplement to join their lab! Many, like me, are happy to host! Pls boost
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-21-071.html
(side note: women DO count as under-represented in some fields). Eligible groups listed here:
https://www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/mechanisms/Pages/promotediversityFAQ.aspx
#ResearchFunding #BlackInSTEM #Grants #PostdocFellowships #PhDFunding #PhDFellowships @academicchatter
PA-21-071: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Admin Supp Clinical Trial Not Allowed) PA-21-071. NIH
Rodney Brooks 2023 tech predictions: bearish on the metaverse, crypto, dextrous humanoid robots, and language models. Plus an update scorecard! Well worth reading.
https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2023-january-01/
Benjamin RuischNew in PNAS: 3-year-olds have no concept of “might”—rather, they build overly specific, all-or-nothing models of situations. This explains why (as my own son demonstrates) they make “surprisingly unwise decisions in the face of multiple possibilities” https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207499119
Wendy Palmer“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).
Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”
Michael Frank
Anna IvanovaIt’s been some year. I defended my thesis, became Dr Anna Ivanova (as some say, Dr AI), started a postdoc and began applying for faculty jobs - all while watching my home country, Russia, [[redacted because my family is still there]].
Grateful for the support I’ve received. Here’s to a bright, just, and peaceful 2023
A nice MIT News writeup on a recent paper of ours, led by Michael Hahn, on a theory of how uncertainty and memory constrain human language understanding: https://news.mit.edu/2022/cognitive-scientists-develop-new-model-explaining-difficulty-language-comprehension-1222
Cognitive scientists develop new model explaining difficulty in language comprehension
Building on recent advances in machine learning, MIT researchers developed a model that better predicts the ease, or lack thereof, with which individuals produce and comprehend sentences.