Naomi Saphra

I called the hospital’s urgent line today.

I am fortunate to have a decent follower count on X.

When European scientists first encountered the eggs of the tawny-flanked prinia Prinia subflava, an African nesting bird, they believed they understood what they had found.

For centuries, Europeans agreed that the presence of a cuckoo egg was a great honor to a nesting bird, as it granted an opportunity to exhibit Christian hospitality.

Reaching the endpoint of a PhD studying how language models learn, I have spent several years telling people that I study “machine learning and natural language processing”.

In August of 2015, my hands stopped working.

Models can be built incrementally by modifying their hyperparameters during training.

[Note - This is a repost of a post I made on my old blog while I was in undergrad.