Lab Notebook
Week of Nov. 11, 2024:
(back after a short hiatus and with a modified format!)
Things I liked this week:
- Thomas Garrity on mathematical maturity [1][2]
- Framing research in the broader historical context (e.g., Ben Recht talk)
Week of Feb. 19, 2024:
Thursday:
- lit reviews are an extremely ill-formed problem (really, ill-conditioned by the Wikipedia definition)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-posed_problem
- https://serc.carleton.edu/sp/carl_ltc/quantitative_writing/wellversusill
- this problem is improved massively with AI tools: https://exa.ai/search
- how long will it be before AI starts making discoveries by just running Exa in the background all the time and just reasoning basically (but in a new way since it can hold 100s of papers in memory at once)?
Friday:
- worked on email to Ron Yurko from Carnegie Mellon today. Would be thrilled to work with him since we share an interest in advancing sports analytics methodology
- as a follow-up to AI question from yesterday: how long might it be before people start trusting AI over human experts in debates (about research findings or other topics)
Week of Feb. 26
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday:
- Prep for Sloan Conference (read schedule, email Profs, read papers)
Thursday-Saturday:
- Sloan Conference!
Week of Mar. 4:
Monday:
- So. Many. Emails. (to Professors I met last weekend and other I found online)
Tuesday:
- Meet with Destin (my new RA!) and discuss our project.
- Read lots of papers about ambiguity in NLP
Wednesday:
- Sent emails to profs from Sloan in morning
- Felt super jittery in the afternoon, so went on long walk and listened to Cal Newport podcast on research
Thursday:
- Prep for Meeting with Parker -- reading sports analytics papers (titles redacted to be safe :))
- Boykis on Learning Machine Learning (aspire to her clarity of writing!)
Friday:
- Making a lot of PPT slides to capture key info from papers to share w/ Parker
- Meeting with Parker--super exciting!
- Think about research directions in ambiguity with Destin
- Work on some PyTorch code
Week of Apr. 15:
Monday:
- Summarized key findings to prep for advisor meeting
- Edited introduction Tuesday:
- Met with Prof. Chin to discuss research Wednesday:
- Started slides for LISP Lab presentation on Friday Thursday:
- Reviewed work on image captioning and multimodal ambiguity
- Wrote more in Overleaf
- Finished LISP Lab presentation