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Evaluating empirical claims: practical advice

Who's afraid of the null hypothesis?

Is ChatGPT "grown, not made"?

On what to work on

The epistemology of lower-back pain (pt. 2)

The scientific vocation in a disenchanted world

Generalizability in LLM-ology, revisited

The search for more efficient LLMs

Language models and language change: recent evidence

Language models and the ineffable

Poll results, and other updates

Counterfactual poll

Vision-language models (VLMs), explained (pt. 2)

Newsletter updates

How I started studying large language models

We should be cautious about LLM-generated benchmarks

How I use (and don't use) ChatGPT

Why isn't language more iconic?

When words sound (or look) like what they mean

Informed consent is central to research ethics

Identifying signatures of LLM-generated text

LLM-ology and the "moving target" problem

An overlooked problem with LLM benchmarks

Building inductive biases into LLMs

Learning across timescales

On reading the "classics"

Did cooking make us human?

The epistemology of lower back pain

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