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Modeling Linguistic Variation to expand ownership of NLP tools Views my own, but affiliations that might influence them: ML PhD Student under Prof. Diyi Yang 2x RS Intern🦙 Pretraining Alum NYU Abu Dhabi Burqueño he/him
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@willheld.bsky.social@willheld.bsky.social → @williamheld.com18.71 billion documents. 25.25 trillion tokens. 152 data sources, deduplicated, decontaminated, and sorted into 200 buckets before a single training run. A new blog from Will Held @williamheld.com on Datakit, the Marin team's pretraining data pipeline: openathena.ai/blog/marin-d...
Show PostIn a new blog, Russell Power explains how the Marin team nearly doubled its sustained TPU usage by creating a custom global scheduler: Iris. Iris searches every region where Marin has compute, places each job wherever capacity appears, and moves data along as needed. 🔗 openathena.ai/blog/cluster...
Show Post🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
Show PostReflecting (in late Aug 2025) on Seattle at sunset, DC under occupation, and how targeted cities around the country need to plan to fight back — both against the propaganda justifying occupation and the occupation itself: www.facebook.com/share/p/15C8... (Using FB to reach my Seattle network.)
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