a random snap from an evening walk. The bushes look like they are from an oil painting

lost my prescription sunglasses, the cap that I bought just a few months ago and the conference booklet. At least I made it back home myself ☺️ sad about the sunglasses tho

hele@helekuul.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’ll be at #LREC in Palma de Mallorca this week. Let’s hang out? Until then, enjoy some pictures of Mallorca cats.

I’ll be at #LREC in Palma de Mallorca this week. Let’s hang out? Until then, enjoy some pictures of Mallorca cats.

A bit late with this announcement, but I’m super happy to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis recently 🎉🥂

a sailboat perfectly aligned with a rain cloud in Malta #bluesky #bluewater

Do you speak Estonian? 🇪🇪 If yes, please consider contributing to the Estonian Chatbot Arena at baromeeter.ai. Your votes help us map the strengths and weaknesses of current SOTA models and guide future research. Thank you! 🙏

I'm testing Gemini 3 Flash (thinking_level=low) on a reasoning task and occasionally the output is prepended with tens of thousands of tokens ̶o̶f̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶o̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶r̶a̶m̶b̶l̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ of what seems to be a cut off of its internal thinking process. What's up with that?

that moment when the random snap of snowy trees taken from the train on the way to Tartu turns out oddly aesthetic

superficial intelligence

hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 12mo ago

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

announcing that I have just completed a challenge of doing all my thesis revisions in 3 days

superficial intelligence

JA Westenberg@joanwestenberg.com · 10mo ago

they really named it "artificial intelligence" when "expensive guessing machine" was right there. cowards

👀 Have you heard? #EACL2026 will be in beautiful Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦 🏖️🕌🌴🌊 Get ready for great research, inspiring talks, and stunning views!

One week ago today, I was at #NAACL in Albuquerque, New Mexico presenting a poster on our work about creating LLMs for extremely low-resource Finno-Ugric languages. It was an experience for sure — and likely my last conference as a PhD student 🥹 #NAACL25

Exploring Sandia Peak and enjoying the last days in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

We’re presenting our poster today at #NAACL25 in Albuquerque! We're in Session C (Oral/Poster 2), 14:00–15:30, Hall 3. Stop by and say hi! 😊

hele@helekuul.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy to share that our paper "LLMs for Extremely Low-Resource Finno-Ugric Languages" got accepted at #NAACL2025 Findings 😊 Looking forward to Albuquerque 👀

Doesn't work for me in Google search but I created one using Google AI studio

Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · last yr.

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

Exploring Kallaste and enjoying +12°C while others are enjoying +25°C 😁 Something haunting but beautiful about this place at this time of the year.

I'm actually quite excited that the Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (@nodalida.bsky.social) is so close to home this year. I thought I'd miss traveling, but I can see the perks of it now 😁

Our research group, together with our collaborators, received the University of Tartu's annual language award for the Neurotõlge translation engine that supports 23 Finno-Ugric languages, many of which are endangered. Proud to be part of this inspiring team! 😊 Congratulations to everyone! 🎉

Since it's Valentine's Day, allow me to share some important Valentine's Day news from last year:

I have a post-doc position to study the effect of AI on education. How can we ensure that AI tools enhance natural intelligence? The position is a part of the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence. Please repost - not easy to get people to work in Estonia 🥶 #edusky #neuroAI

Happy to share that our paper "LLMs for Extremely Low-Resource Finno-Ugric Languages" got accepted at #NAACL2025 Findings 😊 Looking forward to Albuquerque 👀