rtommccoy.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Yale Linguistics. Studying computational linguistics, cognitive science, and AI. He/him.
👤 Joined on 10 December 2023
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@rtommccoy.bsky.socialBeing on a search committee is eye opening in many ways but my #1 impression is that so many people are sooo incredible. It makes me want to work harder, cuz wow I don't deserve my job any more than anyone else
Show PostI think the 2004 Elman paper (and its 2008 follow-up) might be my all time fav Elman papers!
Show Postthe part i like: SAEs and circuits keep finding symbol-like units, and the paper still won't call the nets mere symbol systems. graceful degradation and soft constraints come from the symbols being only approximate
Show PostNice paper! Jeff Elman's intuitions were prescient! (from his 2004 TiCS paper - based on the 1990 SRN sims; I know it's not strictly the same point)
Show PostThat is very interesting, can this be used to “distill” smaller models with the same intelligence?
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