COLM 2025: 9 cool papers and some thoughts

October 16, 2025 >> 14 min read

Reflections on the 2025 COLM conference, and a discussion of 9 cool COLM papers on benchmarking and eval, personas, and improving models for better long-context performance and consistency.

Michael's TeXronomicon (LaTeX tips, tricks, and hacks)

April 10, 2025 >> 24 min read

Various snippets, tricks, and lessons I've developed and learned from messing around in LaTeX and scrutinizing source files on arXiv.

A seizure-free year for Michael!

January 7, 2025 >> 11 min read

Meditations and reflections of a (former?) epileptic in recovery

NSF GRFP Application Tips for NLP, AI, CS

August 31, 2024 >> 9 min read

Reflections and advice from my successful NSF GRFP proposal in NLP. Why I think my applications worked well, what I wish I did differently, and links to my actual statements...

The ACL Anonymity Embargo Period is exclusionary, actually: an early-career researcher's perspective

September 15, 2023 >> 21 min read

Preprinting and promoting one's work online is one of the most impactful and accessible career advancement methods for early-career researchers. Policies that hinder this process are thus disproportionately harmful to...

Extremely soft blog launch!

June 3, 2023 >> 2 min read

To test that my blog implementation works, I'll share my pytorchlightning-based replication of dataset cartography!

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