Writings

• Consider metformin for patients with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes

  A guide and resource for patients to self-advocate for a metformin prescription with their doctor.

• Abstract Writing for NLP Papers

  A guide and framework for writing abstracts for technical research papers.

• Solicited review of OpenPhil’s “Forecasting Transformative AI with Biological Anchors”

  An in-depth review of a mid-2021 version of the OpenPhil Biological Anchors report on transformative AI timelines.

• To Dissect an Octopus: Making Sense of the Form/Meaning Debate

  A blog post taking a deep dive into the form/meaning debate around language models.

• Comments on benchmark progress and labor automation

  A long comment thread on the Alignment Forum discussing limits on the extrapolations we can make about automation potential based on ML benchmarks.

• GLUE diagnostic set guide

  An overview of the linguistic phenomena covered in the GLUE diagnostic set, which doubles as a quick tour of fun phenomena in semantics.

• Fulfilling Imperatives

  An essay investigating of the semantics of imperative sentences.

• Modern Cosmology: Explaining the Universe

  An essay investigating whether inflation theory qualifies as science.