Cara Leong
@craa.bsky.social
linguistics phd student at nyu; machine acquisitionist (she/her)
New paper! 🍈
User simulators could open up the world of scalable training on interactive tasks, e.g., simulating realistic students to train better AI tutors, but only if they make the *same* type of errors that people do... Do they? Joint work with @tallinzen.bsky.social & @nickatomlin.bsky.social
User simulators could open up the world of scalable training on interactive tasks, e.g., simulating realistic students to train better AI tutors, but only if they make the *same* type of errors that people do... Do they? Joint work with @tallinzen.bsky.social & @nickatomlin.bsky.social
October 28, 2026 at 9:59 AM
New paper! 🍈
User simulators could open up the world of scalable training on interactive tasks, e.g., simulating realistic students to train better AI tutors, but only if they make the *same* type of errors that people do... Do they? Joint work with @tallinzen.bsky.social & @nickatomlin.bsky.social
User simulators could open up the world of scalable training on interactive tasks, e.g., simulating realistic students to train better AI tutors, but only if they make the *same* type of errors that people do... Do they? Joint work with @tallinzen.bsky.social & @nickatomlin.bsky.social
Reposted by Cara Leong
🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years.
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023
This study presents estimates of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. APCs are fees charged for publishing in some ...
arxiv.org
November 18, 2024 at 4:16 PM
🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years.
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD)
$2.5B in 2023 alone.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci
Reposted by Cara Leong
Our new piece in Nature Machine Intelligence: LLMs are replacing human participants, but can they simulate diverse respondents? Surveys use representative sampling for a reason, and our work shows how LLM training prevents accurate simulation of different human identities.
February 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Our new piece in Nature Machine Intelligence: LLMs are replacing human participants, but can they simulate diverse respondents? Surveys use representative sampling for a reason, and our work shows how LLM training prevents accurate simulation of different human identities.
a watched clock never ticks
February 15, 2024 at 11:04 PM
a watched clock never ticks
working on a project that has taught me more about cat breeds than i have ever cared to know
January 31, 2024 at 12:08 AM
working on a project that has taught me more about cat breeds than i have ever cared to know
why make graph when illegible table with one bolded cell do trick?
December 21, 2023 at 6:31 AM
why make graph when illegible table with one bolded cell do trick?
Non-exhaustive list of things I have suddenly become very invested in at or near paper deadlines:
1. Beekeeping
2. Sumo
3. Lego art
4. Terrarium building
5. Stardew Valley speedruns
6. The Qing dynasty
1. Beekeeping
2. Sumo
3. Lego art
4. Terrarium building
5. Stardew Valley speedruns
6. The Qing dynasty
December 14, 2023 at 6:14 AM
Non-exhaustive list of things I have suddenly become very invested in at or near paper deadlines:
1. Beekeeping
2. Sumo
3. Lego art
4. Terrarium building
5. Stardew Valley speedruns
6. The Qing dynasty
1. Beekeeping
2. Sumo
3. Lego art
4. Terrarium building
5. Stardew Valley speedruns
6. The Qing dynasty
Reposted by Cara Leong
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot? #NewYorker www.newyorker.com/hu...
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?
The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.
www.newyorker.com
November 15, 2023 at 11:03 PM
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot? #NewYorker www.newyorker.com/hu...
new syntax example sentence just dropped
September 19, 2023 at 10:43 PM
new syntax example sentence just dropped
Special thanks to the very loud patrons of the Irish bar across the street for the unsolicited live updates on the Jets-Bills game that I didn't know was happening until I literally googled "sports"
September 12, 2023 at 3:20 AM
Special thanks to the very loud patrons of the Irish bar across the street for the unsolicited live updates on the Jets-Bills game that I didn't know was happening until I literally googled "sports"
Just spent 2 hours helping a friend sort out her conda environments and apparently that was exactly what I needed to make me excited to start work..?
September 9, 2023 at 12:45 AM
Just spent 2 hours helping a friend sort out her conda environments and apparently that was exactly what I needed to make me excited to start work..?