Sky CH. Wang
@skychwang
CS PhD Candidate @Columbia. @ColumbiaNLP & Computational Social Science. @NSF GRFP fellow. Formerly @GoogleAI @MSFTResearch @AmazonScience @NASA @UMich.
Thrilled to (finally) be able to share our paper: 🐑 Do language models know when they're hallucinating? TL;DR answer: yes! 🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2312.17249, and a🧵 w/ Semantic Machines @MSFTResearch: @ben_vandurme & @adveisner & Chris Kedzie

Excited to share my paper on unemployment and suicide with @pescosol. Using big administrative data on suicide, we show that unemployed people are more likely to die by suicide, but their suicide risk is lower when and where more people are unemployed. doi.org/10.1177/000312…
iteratively prompting chatgpt to give me working javascript code to customize this god-awful annotation interface
alas summer is gone and so too goes its bountiful harvest as i am yet again relegated to eating the overpriced and minified versions of its melons
So I wanted to cancel my new phone line I made in China over the summer—because, well, I'm not in China anymore—and it turns out I can't because I didn't turn on "global roaming" to receive SMS confirmation messages and I can only turn it on if I'm physically in China so welp I'm…
Hi friends, colleagues, followers. I am on the faculty job market! I am a PhD student @BerkeleyISchool + @berkeley_ai. I work on NLP, and I believe all language, whether AI- or human-generated, is ✨social and cultural data✨. My work includes: 🧵
right opposite MSR (and the old offices of NYU sociology!)
Cool for NYC AI - new big OpenAI office Cohere opened one recently In addition to many other existing AI co offices Meta FAIR, DeepMind, Palantir, HuggingFace, Dataiku, etc (and yes, Kushner/Thrive building)
Our paper "OSLO: One-Shot Label-Only Membership Inference Attacks" was recently accepted to #NeurIPS24 🎉. Paper link: arxiv.org/pdf/2405.16978
Very pleased to be working alongside Delia, Maria Abascal, @bklee009 and @skychwang on this project! Our project will translate classic social cohesion experiments to online context at scale using LMs, clone social media environments, and a wealth of original digital trace data
Department of Defense Awards $46.8 Million in Grants for Minerva Research Initiative. Congratulations to Prof. Delia Baldassarri on her proposal being on of the selected awarded projects. defense.gov/News/Releases/…
Great news! I am very excited to work with Delia Baldassarri, Maria Abascal, @cbarrie, @skychwang, and @CSMaP_NYU on the project "Social Cohesion in Action: How Collectivists and Interdependent Communities React to Adverse Events" for the next five years!!
Department of Defense Awards $46.8 Million in Grants for Minerva Research Initiative. Congratulations to Prof. Delia Baldassarri on her proposal being on of the selected awarded projects. defense.gov/News/Releases/…
had to get an iphone replacement under apple care cuz I dropped and shattered the back glass walking back from ACL but omg unlike US iphones i got a replacement with an actual SIM slot in it praise jesus
my friends texting me where i am but ive already irish goodbyed and am in bed
📣 I will be in New York 🗽 for the foreseeable future, and join @stonybrooku @sbucompsc @SUNY as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2025. I plan to recruit 1-2 PhD students starting next fall. Come tackle exciting problems with me on Human Centered AI :-)
i’ve had to rely on a multiple of this one well-known open-source developer’s libraries for a project. except, none of their code actually works. every single repo of theirs is plagued by user reported issues. zero actual documentation. still, thousands of stars. WHY BE LIKE THIS
“do not hallucinate” ez pz
Digging through the new 3B Apple Intelligence Model on Sequoia and found some interesting things. The base model itself seems to be around 1.7GB. and most of the new features like priority notifications, text-image, localization, guardrails etc. are just prompts to the LLM.
i can't believe I just successfully multi-round prompted ChatGPT to help me solve a satisfiability problem I didn't know how to solve
lmao
Enjoying a Wolf Spritzer at El Presidente restaurant here in DC.