Vivek Srikumar
@svivek.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Utah. Work on NLP, ML, AI. https://svivek.com
I have given a talk several times to incoming PhD students about thriving in grad school. It was meant to liven up orientation day, but touched upon some valid points about resilience and the hidden struggles of research. I wrote an essay based on the talk here: svivek.com/writing/2026...
Thriving in Grad School :: Vivek Srikumar
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New post on named neurons: how mapping neural network elements to symbolic logic gives us the vocabulary to reason about what networks do. svivek.com/writing/2026...
Named Neurons :: Vivek Srikumar
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After I shared “How to professor” last year, some people asked for a similar post on writing. Now I finally got around to typing up our lab's writing workshop slides. It covers basic advice for research papers and grant applications. Curious? Read it here: dirkhovy.com/post/2025_11...
How to Write Gooder | Dirk Hovy
After publishing “ How to professor”, several people said they found it helpful, and asked whether I had a similar post on writing. Luckily, we have held an annual writing workshop in the lab for the last few years, so there already was a presentation.
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After about a decade, I finally updated my website. And also decided to start a blog. First post: How long will an ancient hominid take to read a modern pre-training corpus? Answer: 5.7 million years. svivek.com/writing/2025...
Five Million Years of Solitude :: Vivek Srikumar
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Honestly it's happening so much that I can't keep up with adding all of them to our tracker. I have ~30 cases that people have sent my way that I'm still ingesting, so will be over 100 soon. www.polarislab.org/ai-law-track...
Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · last yr.It’s not a day that ends in y unless some law firm is getting caught for using AI to hallucinate non-existent case law.
"This is an achievement that took Fitzgerald himself around two stressful years—and the faster writing time offers proof that the Xerox 914, via its use of electricity, bright light, and powdered toner, has exceeded the creative powers of the human mind."
Book Review: The Great Gatsby by the Xerox 914 Photocopier
Amid the rise of artificial intelligence, technophobes and Luddites have continued to insist that machines “can’t really write”—at least not the wa...
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Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.
For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence". The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them. Hope you will check it out! www.science.org/doi/full/10....
The metaphors of artificial intelligence
A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...
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