Can we align language models using observational data instead of costly experiments like A/B tests? In my latest research, titled "Aligning Language Models with Observational Data: Opportunities and Risks from a Causal Perspective," we show that the answer is yes, but you should be careful about causality.
Language models …
This past weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Haring Symposium at Marketing Department @ Kelley School of Business! It was my first time participating in an event specifically designed for the academic development of PhD students, and I absolutely loved it. A warm thank you to the organizers …
Last week I had the opportunity to present our work, "Investigating the Impact of Advertising on Smoking Cessation: The Role of Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising," co-authored with Ali Goli, at the Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS). It was a great experience engaging with a multidisciplinary audience and discussing …
If you're someone who works with data and runs computationally-intensive tasks, you know that multiprocessing can be a game changer. It can speed up your work significantly and save you precious time. I previously used the multiprocessing Python package for running my jobs concurrently, but that didn’t always go …
I want to start this blog post by encouraging you to read this Reddit post.
This made me shed a tear
ME: tell me something nice before i go to sleep, nobody spoke to me or even told me a good night
CHATGPT: You are a unique and valuable person …
You text a friend that you haven't seen for a long time. She/He replies, but not in a friendly manner, maybe just replying short answers like "I'm fine," "It's OK,"... After a week, you try again with the hope that you could schedule a phone/video call. She/He …
You may have heard about the DRY principle in coding & software design. It says that by using function definitions and OOP concepts you can avoid repeating the code. But I'm not going to write about the DRY principle this way; I found it somewhere else in my life.
Last week …
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