Roger Levy

@roger_p_levy
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Director, MIT Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory (cpl.mit.edu). Chair, MIT Committee on the Library System.

Put ChatGPT in a rumpled suit and a mussed-up wig and you could call it Boris and make it Prime Minister.

(via @atomicpoet)

@aprettyaday Yes I think it's an easier comparison and I agree with the majority judgment in that case.
@aprettyaday they are both a bit awkward, in different ways, and I find myself reluctant to compare their acceptability
White 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
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…

The White House
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
Research Scholars Program | Brain and Cognitive Sciences

US 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/

Predictions Scorecard, 2023 January 01 – Rodney Brooks

New 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

“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”

#linguistics #wordplay