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Shared emphasis Self-confessed Fabrications and Rise of TBDs Research & technical analysis · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Models & releases Development 15d ago
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OpenAI angers mathematicians again

math/overview.pdf at main · openai/math

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Naomi Saphra Sung Kim Vincent Conitzer Colin Shubhendu Trivedi

“(1/2) Contrary take on these dumps of math results: *if* these models are going to be built & released anyway, then better that the results come out like this, than that random users get the proofs out of the model and all try to claim credit & priority. gi…”

“I probably should have linked to this”

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Accelerating AI field signal Signal 3h ago

Self-confessed Fabrications and Rise of TBDs

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Naomi Saphra Gautam Kamath Christian Wolf
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Established Models & releases Research 19d ago
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LLM grammar shared circuits paper

Shared Circuits for Shared Grammar: Tracing Subject-Verb Agreement Across Languages

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Naomi Saphra arxiv cs.CL

“If you're at COLM next week, check out our interpretability work, led by Isabella Gidi, on how grammatical inflection transfers across languages! Poster on Tuesday afternoon.”

“Isabella Gidi, Antonio Almud\'evar, Core Francisco Park, Naomi Saphra, Ricard Marxer Shared Circuits for Shared Grammar: Tracing Subject-Verb Agreement Across Languages https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18545”

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3 experts · 12 posts · 17d ago
Naomi Saphra Christian Wolf Shubhendu Trivedi
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Shubhendu Trivedi: The past month or so, I came across people here raising a ruckus about some articles being AI written, by people who were clearly in situations of distress and needed to write what they thought, to…
Shubhendu Trivedi: Caught this within the 6-8 minutes of scrolling, then searched for said writings, and it was broader. Some were even making it about water usage and pollution. 🤣
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2 experts · 3 posts · 16d ago
Naomi Saphra Mark J. Nelson
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Naomi Saphra: All scientific field distinctions are ultimately socially defined categories. So the Transformers paper was an “NLP paper” not because it was about language modeling and MT, but because Vaswani wen…
Mark J. Nelson: by a similar token, the Transformers paper is a PL paper because Łukasz Kaiser has invented or been primary contributor to like three or four functional DSLs, classic PL researcher behavior
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