Vera Tobin

@vtobin
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cognition, language, narrative, possums, blather
Elements of Surprisehttps://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980204
Spoilershttps://veratobin.org/publications/elements-of-surprise/spoiler-warnings/
Officehttps://cognitivescience.case.edu/faculty/vera-tobin/
Vera TobinOct 11, 2023
Vera TobinSep 22, 2023
My lovely Cognitive Science department is hiring for a Visiting Assistant Professor position, starting January 2024 and ending December 2024. 2/2 teaching load (our undergrads are WONDERFUL), renewable for a second year. Tell your friends!
http://apply.interfolio.com/131626
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Vera TobinSep 22, 2023
@kjhealy your dedication to parallel structure is both impressive and inspiring
Vera TobinSep 22, 2023
My lovely Cognitive Science department is hiring for a Visiting Assistant Professor position, starting January 2024 and ending December 2024. 2/2 teaching load (our undergrads are WONDERFUL), renewable for a second year. Tell your friends!
http://apply.interfolio.com/131626
Apply - Interfolio

Vera TobinSep 20, 2023
JessamynSep 20, 2023

Important tech tip for Slack users not sold on the new "design"

If you hard-refresh Slack Command-Shift-R, and then type Command-Shift-S, you get an extra vertical sidebar that disaggregates your individual slacks.

Thanks to @snarkout who has improved my life for the better, this day.

Vera TobinAug 23, 2023
Show threadDan HirschmanAug 22, 2023
@alex @emilymbender I mean, I kinda hope a bot wrote this? https://teaching.cornell.edu/generative-artificial-intelligence
Generative Artificial Intelligence | Center for Teaching Innovation

Show threadVera TobinJul 11, 2023
@wzuidema it's not my own, alas, but I also don't remember where I first encountered it!
Vera TobinJul 11, 2023
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jul 10, 2023

ah, the good ole :

THERE IS NO WAR IN BA SING SE

school of business management

#facebook #threads #meta

Vera TobinJul 10, 2023
Geoffrey Hinton argued in his #ACL2023NLP plenary that similarities between human and LLM performance should convince us that LLMs "understand" things and have "thoughts". He was not willing or able to provide a definition of either term. But in any case, as a linguist, I think the better way to update our priors about language understanding is to recognize that a lot of our own language use is in fact spicy autocomplete
Show threadVera TobinJun 14, 2023
@danluu I've not read the book other than the excerpt you share here, but this bit at least really vibes to me like PUA prattle, both in the way that it doesn't actually seem to reflect the way successful players actually behave and in its insistence that people who claim they are happy being decent are simply losers who don't know what fun really is.
Show threadVera TobinJun 6, 2023
@trochee the other place I am right now is just "hey! everybody! let's think more about negative transfer everywhere!!1!"