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A curated collection of academic papers and quotes that influence my research and thinking across various domains. Click on a card for some thoughts.

Quotes

Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations

Philosophy as reactive to real problems

...First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must 'once in his life' withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting. Philosophy wisdom (sagesse) is the philosophizer's quite personal affair.

Robert Brandom, on Descartes

Skepticism of Platonist formulations

For he defined the mind by its epistemic status, as what is best known to itself by falling within the reach of the subject's incorrigibility and local omniscience.

Influential Papers

Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition

Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition

Subhash Kantamneni, Max Tegmark

Interpretability

The title is all you need! Super cool!

Prompting as Scientific Inquiry

Prompting as Scientific Inquiry

Ari Holtzman, Chenhao Tan

Positions and Visions

Makes a really interesting case for disambiguating prompt 'engineering' from a possible 'prompt science'. The writing is very compelling. A helpful analogy presented in the paper is the idea that plant breeders were able to infer a lot of the internal structure of plants before genetic theory explained it. Not sure where I stand on this still but it's given me a lot to think about, especially w.r.t. 'aesthetic' concerns in ML research that bar 'prompting' from being seen as a legitimate research method. I do agree with the paper's claim that many important works in NLP are basically interfaces/structures upon prompting, and we shouldn't be afraid to more closely associate them with a 'prompt science'.

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