saxon.me
NLP/Vision+Language PhD Candidate @ UCSB
Evals, metrics, multilinguality, multiculturality, multimodality, and (dabbling in) reasoning
https://saxon.me/
233 posts
2,640 followers
667 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
The townhouse we rent out is worth 1.2 million dollars. It is taxed at $175k!
comment in response to
post
I support rent caps based on property tax rate. You can pay 1976 tax rates on your house if you're gonna rent it out for 1976 prices
comment in response to
post
True!
comment in response to
post
Commendable for those few privates who don't but unfair to compare them to public unis which of course shouldn't favor legacies, because they're getting that subsidizing cash from taxpayers.
This is why public universities are morally superior btw
comment in response to
post
Or not!
bsky.app/profile/anam...
comment in response to
post
Ugh that is really frustrating!
comment in response to
post
Never thought we'd have to ""back pain" for medical weed" for vaccines
comment in response to
post
They probably don't
Also, as an ethics reviewer I have found that ~100% of the ethics reviews I've been assigned is just an obvious "no issues" to someone who flagged for some insipid reason
bsky.app/profile/saxo...
comment in response to
post
Bright side: it has gotten so long and cumbersome that almost nobody cares if you actually do it right. I do not scrutinize the checklist on papers I review very closely and I certainly don't waste my time making sure it was correctly filled out by cross-referencing the paper
comment in response to
post
my junior coauthor who realized too late they didn't provide the license for every individual GLUE task: *sobbing* are you sure it's ok??
me: please come down off the ledge
comment in response to
post
Looking forward to being back in Seattle! :D
comment in response to
post
Ok I wouldn't go THAT far
comment in response to
post
Wow, great post! It's content like this that brings the innovations we need to accelerate the future! πππ
comment in response to
post
We need elected officials who are ready to be Yeltsin standing on the tank, but that means we need people who will turn out to support them when the time comes
comment in response to
post
I guess it's a function of the people. AI hubs, simple as? It's still interesting to me that these ideas, moreso than immediately demonstrable ones, are so socially transmitted. I think the continuing rise of respect for MI in the community at large is changing things
comment in response to
post
Looking forward to reading! π
comment in response to
post
Mic drop from @tallinzen.bsky.social: "Itβs sometimes confusing when we pretend that thereβs a scientific conversation happening, but some of the people in the conversation have a stake in a company thatβs potentially worth $50 billion."
comment in response to
post
I wonder if the negative unit economics for purposeless use might resist this, what with the "thank you" problem and all
but nowadays I guess you should never bet against shit getting worse
comment in response to
post
Here are some recs from r/Albuquerque (because I can't remember the name of the places I've had it, only been to ABQ like 4 or 5 times lol)
www.reddit.com/r/Albuquerqu...
comment in response to
post
True!
Do you think LMs would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?
comment in response to
post
oooo no English subtitles, good opportunity to practice listening π
η·΄ηΏγγͺγγγγγΎγγ
comment in response to
post
Lmao maybe I should have taken my friend who told me to watch it more seriously
comment in response to
post
I've been working my way through this one! Great work