Lucy Li

Imagine an art gallery where all of the art on display are really excellent figures from research papers

if anyone ever looks at me and thinks "wow she has it together" did you know one time I tried to leave the middle of a talk quietly but ended up walking into a glass wall and drawing the attention of everyone in the room and one of my friends who witnessed it always manages to reappear in my life every few years or so to haunt me with this memory

tfw you’re trying to talk to your advisor about your dataset which includes the book 1984 but you keep saying 1989 because you listen to Taylor Swift too much

fun facts this morning about me:
- I accidentally wrote a while loop that never ends
- I discovered a dress I've worn before has pockets

I often start doing something and then get distracted. Today I was going through my open tabs and found this gem

Why was I asking this and why is the default bird a peregrine falcon

I started reading this book today, and I'm LOVING it so far. Such amazing ethnographic research:

How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

by Priya Fielding-Singh

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57007694

had an epiphany today

there exists the phrase "get my ducks in a row"

this phrase is very relevant to my workflow and I love ducks

from now on I will use it often

Goodreads webpages for books are now dynamic so guess whose beautiful soup is now ugly soup duct-taped together with selenium

I'm trying to finish as many things as I can before the power goes out (if it goes out) 🤪

I am excited for all of the computational social science and text as data research that can come out of LLMs being able to perform reasoning / "understanding" tasks better than before, but disentangling biases/info models learned during pretraining from domain-specific information for your use case will be tricky

We often talk about the hottest newest latest thing, but in what ways has AI research been cyclical or repetitive over time?

If you are a student around Berkeley campus next summer, consider taking my new class: https://lucy3.github.io/summer2024-social-nlp/

Summer 2024 course listings will appear at summer.berkeley.edu in December!

A great collection of workshops for women and URMs by Cornell PhD student Chinasa T. Okolo: https://github.com/chinasaokolo/csWorkshops

@arjunsubgraph@mastodon.social before I saw the location I honestly thought you had seen an ostrich in the bay area