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Science of Reading - March 27, 2024 is SOLD OUT, but don't worry. Join Doug Lemov on May 29, 2024, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm EST. Explore the research of cognitive scientists who study the science of reading and learning -- and how the Reading Reconsidered Curriculum integrates these principles in lesson materials. Register here: https://buff.ly/42VZEzq

I’m excited to share that my latest article, “From theory to reality: Unraveling the development of mature death concept,” has just been published! 

🎤 Live Talk on "TICKing All the Boxes: Generated Checklists Improve LLM Evaluation and Generation" - Next Monday 📢 Join us for a live talk in the 🐫 CAMEL-AI Discord with Jonathan Cook about the paper "TICKing All the Boxes: Generated Checklists Improve LLM Evaluation and Generation" by The University of Oxford, UCL & Cohere.    The paper introduces TICK (Targeted Instruct-evaluation with Checklists), a novel evaluation framework for LLMs that generates tailored checklists to assess specific instruction-following abilities by structuring evaluations around yes/no questions; TICK improves alignment with human judgments, while STICK (Self-TICK) allows LLMs to iteratively refine their responses based on this targeted feedback, enhancing performance across diverse benchmarks.✨ 🔗 Dive into the research beforehand: https://lnkd.in/eanJVuCk - ⏰ When: 11/11/24 @ 6:00 PM BST / 10:00 AM PDT - 🗺️ Where: https://lnkd.in/ey_D6e9x

we have published paper you can find it here

Reflecting on a crucial topic from last year's blog: What do 'substantive' and 'disciplinary' knowledge mean in primary foundation subjects? A timely reminder that both are key to enable students to think critically and engage with subjects on a deeper level: https://hfl.mobi/HFLBlog

Did you know that me and Cassandra Tyson have created a visual lexicon of science communications terms (including science of scicomm and psychology “jargon”) to help scientists, science communicators, and others learn more about this field of research and practice? Start learning today! A-Z! Tell me what your favorite term is! #scicomm #sciart #psychology #dictionary

This paper has a solution to in context knowledge conflicts in LLMs, where a model is supplied something that's different to its training. The method, SpARE, let's you control the use of either knowledge source at inference time. So you can give a sequence to steer_to_use_parameter or steer_to_use_context and the LLM is guided to rely on that thing over the rest. In the demo, the authors give sequences with erroneous information in like that Taylor Swift won a nobel prize or Hinton sung 'shake it off' Check out the paper and demo. It's pretty early stage, but interesting to try out.

Here is a delightful interview with John G. Proakis, one of the most prolific authors in the fields of mathematics and communications engineering of our time. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/gdXmi5CE

End confusion about the Science of Reading (SOR) and how to apply its principles to instruction in your adult education program by joining LINCS moderators Dr. Carmine Stewart, Steve Schmidt, and Dr. Kathy Tracey as they unpack the SOR and provide information on LINCS resources that will help elevate your reading instruction. Register for this free live event to be held on August 20 at 3:30 PM ET at https://lnkd.in/ebz5N8Ur #ScienceofReading #readingscience #adultedu

Calls: The 3rd Workshop on Charting Honorific and Addressee Morphosyntactic Processes... to create a window into the syntax-pragmatics interface: Call for Papers: The purpose of CHAMP 3 is to bring together researchers with different backgrounds (both in terms of sub-discipline and theoretical stance) to engage in a dialogue regarding the empirical landscape of addressee-sensitive phenomena as well as their implications for our understanding of the division of labour of morphosyntax and pragmatics. We aim to create an inclusive, stimulating, and constructive atmosphere where ideas can be discussed from a variety of perspectives. To this