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.
Various snippets, tricks, and lessons I've developed and learned from messing around in LaTeX and scrutinizing source files on arXiv.
Meditations and reflections of a (former?) epileptic in recovery
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...
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...
To test that my blog implementation works, I'll share my pytorchlightning-based replication of dataset cartography!