How does a halfjew, woman/Jersey girl now in New England/Neuroatypical computational linguist and/a feminist/nervous&awkward/Grow up to be a Googler & a mother?
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Rebecca Mason retweeted
39 years ago nearly to the day I was a Tufts student facing Boston police in riot gear. A few hundred of us clumped the administration building to encourage the university to divest from South African investments. That ended peacefully and I pray tonight does as well
Solar eclipse. near Dallas Texas
ALT Courtyard of hotel during solar eclipse
ALT Total solar eclipse close up
ALT Partial solar eclipse behind clouds
Rebecca Mason retweeted
I really love the active discussion abt the role of ethics in AI, spurred by Google Gemini's text-to-image launch & its relative lack of white representation. As one of the most experienced AI ethics people in the world (>4 years! ha), let me help explain what's going on a bit.
ALT This screen grab shows CNN asking Google Gemini to create an AI-generated image of a pope, as well as the tool's response. Clare Duffy/CNN via Google Gemini. Source: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/tech/google-gemini-ai-image-generator/index.html
Rebecca Mason retweeted
Mass Pike Command reporting the entire contents of the tanker, 10,000 gallons of milk has spilled on to the roadway. They are working a diesel fuel spill as well.
#gotmilk #matraffic @WBZTraffic
Nothing makes me feel more American than watching people buy the 12 pound blocks of cheddar on Super Bowl weekend.
ALT Wegmans 16-18 month cheddar cheese. weight 11.84 lb. Price $147.88
Rebecca Mason retweeted
A new idea for work-life balance: Join a union
ALT Bloomberg business ad for an opinion article with the title a new idea for work life balance: don’t have kids
Apparently this is in the news again, I had two separate reporters show up at my home this evening.
So I'll just say here, I have a 101 degree fever, and I'm honestly not thinking about the MBTA right now. Or anything else for that matter. 🤒
Rebecca Mason retweeted
Very cool paper on the curse of multilinguality. Those guys trained more than 10k models over 250 languages !
arxiv.org/pdf/2311.09205.pdf
Cherry on the cake: they use the (Smith et al. ) citations format !!!
I so want to sing their praises all day :)
Rebecca Mason retweeted
One of the union leaders looked the CEO in the eye and said, “I matter, we matter and we deserve better.”
I think about that moment a lot, and what this new era of worker power means for workers.
Rebecca Mason retweeted
the blue line has the opportunity to do the funniest possible thing
Rebecca Mason retweeted
This got some attention; FYI, here's a nice piece on "Berkson's Paradox" (bias) which is related to conditioning on a collider. In fact, the first ex is abt college admissions, and "weird" induced correlations for admitted students:
brilliant.org/wiki/berksons-…
Rebecca Mason retweeted
This paper is a banger.
*surreptitiously crosses it off of her "open problems someone should work on" list*
🚨 [New Paper]
If you're involved in AI safety or jailbreaking, you don't want to miss this:
Techniques from human communication now effectively breach aligned LLMs (Llama-2 Chat, GPT-3.5, GPT-4) with over 92% attack success rate.
👇🧵(1/7 - page link: chats-lab.github.io/persuasi…)
Just had a terrifying experience on the MBTA Green Line. I was helping my 4 year old get off the train and my leg got trapped in the door!
It happened at the Medford/Tufts station, on a car like this where you have to step down to get off... 🧵
I don't understand how something like this can happen. Was the MBTA understaffed today because of the holiday? I'd be interested to see if there is some sort of incident report, but I don't know how to ask for that.
