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One month ago, I started an internship at EPFL in Bob West’s lab, collaborating with Chris Wendler Veniamin Veselovsky and Giovanni Monea. I'm excited to share that we reproduced those results on the new Llama 3 series!
Here are our results for the French to German translation task: (1/3)

Most online communities fail really quickly, never getting more than a few contributors.

What role do community founders have in which communities grow?

In this blog post, I summarize research that Sanjay Kairam (@[email protected]) and I did surveying Reddit founders.

blog.communitydata.science/founders-influ…

On tasks like coding we can keep increasing accuracy by indefinitely increasing inference compute, so leaderboards are meaningless. The HumanEval accuracy-cost Pareto curve is entirely zero-shot models + our dead simple baseline agents.
New research w Sayash Kapoor Benedikt Ströbl 🧵

Hey look -- we're coming to #CHI2024 !

Jeremy Foote | @[email protected] & I explored how subreddit founders on Reddit approach their new communities, and how these differences impact early community success.

r/RedditEng has an explainer post here: reddit.com/r/RedditEng/co…

But, here's what we found:

Just listened to some good chunks of this amazing conference (which was live-streamed!!!)—great talks by Claudia Wagner James Evans & others—highly recommended

youtube.com/watch?v=kz_cdk…

A friendly reminder to those (especially social scientists) who are trying to claim broad claims on whether LLMs can/have or cannot/don't: 1) Are you sure you have sampled a) base models b) instruction-tuned models c) preference-tuned model

I got to see my anonymous IC2S2 comments for a second and the only non-NA one was pretty wholesome, something like PRETTY COOL FIELD EXPERIMENT

Venia is an amazing researcher, collaborator, and friend! Super excited for him :DDD

Just submitted my thesis!

Francesco's (Francesco Salvi) master thesis is being highlighted on (in? gosh English is hard) the front page of EPFL's website!

epfl.ch/en/

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I'm ecstatic to share that preorders are now open for the AI Snake Oil book! The book will be released on September 24, 2024.

Arvind Narayanan and I have been working on this for the past two years, and we can't wait to share it with the world.

Preorder: princeton.press/awecv19z