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compling phd student @ boulder rare languages, morphology, finite state automata michaelginn.com
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“Linguistically-motivated” techniques for data augmentation sounds good on paper, but is it worth the cost?

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Excited to be presenting my work with @teaywright.bsky.social at #COLING2025 next week in Abu Dhabi! Find us in poster session 6/E on Jan 22nd (11 AM in the atrium). Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.17427

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There’s no conspiracy to make tech products worse by AI in things, AI is just very immediately and clearly productivity enhancing to the people making tech products in a way that it isn’t necessarily to the people using them.

submitted 161 days ago • 9 comments

Randomly stumbled on an arxiv paper where im pretty sure the listed affiliations are false, what would you even get out of that?

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

Been reading a lot of old-school finite-state automata papers for a project It is so refreshing to read an interesting, colorfully-written paper that isn’t hyperoptimized for reviewer preferences

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

I have very mixed feelings on the current era in tech—I started a PhD because I thought LLMs were pretty cool, but I absolutely cannot stand the disingenuous hype, insane competitiveness, and slop features that have since come with them

submitted 165 days ago • 2 comments

Adding my love letter to arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01315 Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning by Andrew Patterson, Samuel Neumann, Martha White, Adam White JMLR 25 (2024) 1-63 #ReinforcementLearning These aren’t the heroes we deserve, but they are the heroes we need.

submitted 211 days ago • 7 comments

I’m a big proponent of an accumulating reviewer score (complementary to h-index). I think people would absolutely care about optimizing it even with no concrete incentive.

submitted 210 days ago • 1 comment

I feel like reviewers often expect short papers to be long papers condensed into 4 pages. They should really be a venue to showcase focused and incremental work.

submitted 210 days ago • 0 comments

Interested in ML open source? There’s a great list for you

submitted 211 days ago • 0 comments

Python typing is great until you want to use any package ever

submitted 212 days ago • 0 comments

Just got ICL surgery (implantable lenses) and on one hand, modern medicine is incredible, but on the other hand seeing your eye get sliced open is terrifying

submitted 212 days ago • 0 comments

Arxiv should have a comment section

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Just remade my personal website (michaelginn.com) with pure old-school HTML/CSS, and it’s honestly all you need

submitted 216 days ago • 1 comment