Greg Durrett
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Greg Durrett
@gregd_nlp
Associate professor at NYU (Courant CS + Center for Data Science) | advisor for @bespokelabsai | large language models and NLP | he/him
Joined December 2017
- 📢I'm joining NYU (Courant CS + Center for Data Science) starting this fall! I’m excited to connect with new NYU colleagues and keep working on LLM reasoning, reliability, coding, creativity, and more! I’m also looking to build connections in the NYC area more broadly. Please
- there's not enough hype around NLP so i made this to kick off my class today:
- Revoking visas to Chinese PhD students is economically shortsighted and inhumane. Most Chinese PhD students stay in the U.S. after graduation (first image, stats from 2022). They're staying and building technology in the U.S., not taking it to China. Immigrant students create
- Over the past two years at UT I've developed some NLP course materials. I talked to a couple folks at NAACL who had found these useful, so I wanted to give a quick self plug. Still a work in progress, of course: Grad: cs.utexas.edu/~gdurrett/cour… Ugrad: cs.utexas.edu/~gdurrett/cour…
- 📣 Today we launched an overhauled NLP course to 600 students in the online MS programs at UT Austin. 98 YouTube videos 🎥 + readings 📖 open to all! cs.utexas.edu/~gdurrett/cour… w/5 hours of new 🎥 on LLMs, RLHF, chain-of-thought, etc! Meme trailer 🎬 youtu.be/DcB6ZPReeuU 🧵
- HVAC guy: you need to replace the transformer...do you know what a transformer is? me: yes of course ... wait ...
- We ( @bhavana_dalvi , @peterjansen_ai , @danilodnr2 , @_jasonwei , and Lionel Wong from @MITCoCoSci ) are excited to announce the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Reasoning and Structured Explanations, co-located with ACL 2023. 🧵 nl-reasoning-workshop.github.io
