7:00 – 5:00 ASRC MKT

• Listening to an interview with Leonard Mlodinow. He talks about research that shows that even modest exposure to novelty results in more expansive thinking. Need to find that research.
  • From Scientific American: The future belongs to the elastic mind. This is the argument behind best-selling author Leonard Mlodinow’s new book, Elastic, which examines the swirl of change we find ourselves living through, and the ways of thinking best suited to it. We all have what is needed for “elastic thinking”—to a greater extent, perhaps, than we realize. It’s just a matter of recognizing the needed skills, Mlodinow argues, and nurturing them
• Norm Change: Trendsetters and Social Structure
  • In this paper, we focus on norm abandonment and examine the role played by the initiators of norm abandonment—“trendsetters”—in spearheading change. We highlight the characteristics that make someone a potential trendsetter, model a social norm game where choices are determined by such characteristics, and show with simulations based on our model how the network that trendsetters interact with may help or hinder norm change
• For Aaron:
  • Breaking NLI Systems with Sentences that Require Simple Lexical Inferences
  • Annotation Artifacts in Natural Language Inference Data
  • Performance Impact Caused by Hidden Bias of Training Data for Recognizing Textual Entailment
  • Hypothesis Only Baselines in Natural Language Inference
• Bunch of discussion with Aaron on how to set up text NNs
• Reworking the embedded display to be less dumb. Yay! Less dumb. Had to figure this part out:

  common = set.intersection(*setlist) # the '*' gives all the arguments as a tuple

  

5:00 – 8:00 ASRC Tech Conference