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Titus von der Malsburg
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I study how the brain makes sense of language. I use Emacs for most of my work.
An Emacs function to temporarily make one buffer fullscreen. You can quickly restore the old window setup.
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A simple script for converting vCard files to org-contacts.
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There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email.
This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using
email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please
read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt
and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level.
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A criticism of "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Languae Models be Too Big"
Yoav Goldberg, Jan 23, 2021.
The FAccT paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Languae Models be Too Big" by Bender, Gebru, McMillan-Major and Shmitchell has been the center of a controversary recently. The final version is now out, and, owing a lot to this controversary, would undoubtly become very widely read. I read an earlier draft of the paper, and I think that the new and updated final version is much improved in many ways: kudos for the authors for this upgrade. I also agree with and endorse most of the content. This is important stuff, you should read it.
However, I do find some aspects of the paper (and the resulting discourse around it and around technology) to be problematic. These weren't clear to me when initially reading the first draft several months ago, but they became very clear to me now. These points are for the most part