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Caleb Moses

@mathematiguy.bsky.social
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Indigenous language technology. PhD candidate at McGill University in Montreal. Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu.

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NZ First running Elliot Ikilei proves that they are the crackpot party
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Avatar Aang movie includes this very cool nod to traditional polynesian navigation in this scene where Tagah uses airbending to navigate the ocean But how would an air bender translate their knowledge into navigation? Are there any examples of Indigenous people studying air currents?
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
My mentor told me once: "The guy who throws the bomb doesn't make it over the line" It's good practice to kill with kindness sometimes, it turns out.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I’m headed to Mexico city in a few hours. Suggestions welcome lol. We’ll see how much I’m able to transfer my French skills across in a few days 🤔. dw I have low expectations 😂.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
It's funny that everyone who has *ever* programmed, knows how important attention to detail is. Hours wasted because you made a typo, forgot to add a character, etc. The tiniest thing you literally don't notice is wrong, and your program screams at you and dies. This is a universal experience.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It’s cool how taking an image of the moon at half-moon phase is arguably better than a full moon because the full moon doesn’t show the shadows in the craters so well.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
There are more similarities between te reo Mãori and French than I would have expected
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
"If anyone builds it everyone dies" but the "it" is colonialism
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I honestly just got lucky. I made the decision based on not a lot of information, mostly vibe. Talking to their students if you can (I wasn’t able to) is certainly recommended. Also perhaps it’s good to be willing to trade things off. Often the really high powered academics are bad supervisors.
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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Looking for a PhD program? It all starts with great supervision. Choose wisely. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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bhyravajjula.bsky.social @bhyravajjula.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
When you read a poem, do you wonder how the poet structures it through whitespace between/before words and lines? We did! Our findings on whitespace - how to measure/preserve it, how usage varies across form/time, how it affects LLMs - now in an #EMNLP2025 (main) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.16713 🧵👇
"so much depends / upon / a whitespace: Why Whitespace Matters for Poets and LLMs" by Sriharsh Bhyravajjula, Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, Maria Antoniak
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Hana-Rawhiti accepting the Time Magazine award in NYC is a great example of how the world is really not paying attention to the NZ govt at all. They can go lose in their Oxford Union debates and kiss up to Trump all they like but they won’t get anywhere near that kind of attention.
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Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
#nzpol Labour is proposing to create a Capital Gains Tax on property - excluding farms and the family home. That income will help make GP visits free for the majority of people. Is that a better policy than continuing tax-free profits on, say, someone's seventh property? Absolutely. A🧵
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Release: Targeted tax to grow the economy and fund free doctor’s visits
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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 24/10/2025
my 17yo niece is part of a choir that won an international championship earlier this week, just casually singing at the montserrat benedictine monastery she has had a hard start to life and when i was 17 looking after her we would sing phantom of the opera over and over (even the organ parts)
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I grew up visiting my friends and family nearly always unannounced unless it was for some kind of occasion. I wish we would all drop by each others places more often. In my family, if you just drive past it’s considered rude if you don’t say hi. Maybe it’s too much for some but I liked it.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I wonder what it felt like for Elon to be publicly rebuked by Dr Jane Goodall from beyond the grave
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morgan godfery @morgangodfery.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
hate to say it but people like sina and i who’ve been around more than 5 minutes have been warning about the direction TPM’s been travelling in since at least 2023. it’s a highly divisive party, especially within māori society itself. solidarity with eru www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Toitū Te Tiriti's Eru Kapa-Kingi rules out starting rival political party after split from Te Pāti Māori
The activist hopes the split will spur Te Pāti Māori into creating genuine change from the inside.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I’m picking D for sure. G is my only regret bc of Mexico. Also someone needs to redo the boundaries so that they at least cover equal surface area.
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Kofi @kofiemeritus.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
“States should think very carefully about what they actually want to get out of this before spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to indigenize the entire AI stack. You still won’t be able to eliminate dependencies and vulnerabilities on foreign states.” restofworld.org/2025/chinese...
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The myth of sovereign AI: Countries rely on U.S. and Chinese tech
As countries pursue self-sufficiency in AI, they risk depending on foreign companies, undermining their independence and their goals.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Ask not what your country can do for you. Definitely, definitely don’t ask what your country can do for you. I beg you, seriously.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
It’s pretty funny that Amazon rug pulled their data centre plans moments after Luxon tried to take credit for them. If he kept his mouth shut then he could’ve blamed the rug pull on labour but now he looks like a dunce even though it’s literally not his fault. Amazon predictably doesn’t give a f-
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I noticed today that they’re starting to sell postcards at the magazine shop with AI art on them. You can tell which because they don’t credit an artist on the back. The irony of using a picture of a native bird to sell AI art is not lost on me.
An AI generated postcard depicting an image of a kororā. It’s more of an attempt than a depiction.An AI art postcard image of a Kiwi. The back side of a postcard, it is copyrighted to “Pikitia”, the postcard company
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Labour resents having to work with the rest of the left wing block to their own detriment. The main reason Luxon won the last election is that he simply wanted it the most. There’s nothing he wasn’t willing to say, and no compromise too damaging to his pride.
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
(trying to explain "fuck, marry, kill" to a black widow spider) no it's *three different* guys
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Me, contemplating returning back to Montreal soon: Mm it’s gotta be possible to get boil up ingredients somehow 🤔 I need to explore the blue line more except my French is not good
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DrDucko 🦆 @drducko.myatproto.social · 21/08/2025
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a group of people are sitting in a field with a horse in the background
Alt: The "I'm Spartacus" scene
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
One way I can tell I've been back home for a while is that I'm back to thanking the bus driver every time I get off the bus
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Today I started a project to scrape a website and gather together some data. After some quick testing, I found that they had implemented countermeasures which implied that they didn't want to be scraped. Then I quit the project and did something else. Crazy idea I know.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Only being able to speak one language is much more of a disservice to young children than knowing a few words in Māori. The whole drama proves that racism is not just a moral deficiency, but an intellectual one. We should resist them not just because it's unethical, but because it's stupid.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I sometimes think about how once I get this PhD I’m going to be seen by a lot of people as part of “the establishment” when I really don’t see myself that way at all. I wonder what it was like for other academics, if they noticed a shift in how others (probably mostly strangers) perceive them.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Politicians are desperate not to improve material conditions because the moment someone does it by abandoning neoliberalism it’s going to put them on very shaky ground
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The problem with this idea is: while most have qualms about being a jerk to customer service, if they even suspect they’re talking to an AI you’re going to see levels of manipulation and nastiness you can scarcely imagine
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Some more research from one of my labmates on probabilistic models for irony interpretation (using the Rational Speech Act model)
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Cesare @cesare-spinoso.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A blizzard is raging through Montreal when your friend says “Looks like Florida out there!” Humans easily interpret irony, while LLMs struggle with it. We propose a 𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭-𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺-𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 probabilistic framework as a solution. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09301 to appear @ #ACL2025 (Main)
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Hellina Hailu Nigatu @hellinanigatu.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Are you an HCI researcher from or who studies the Global Majority? Reviewed research about Global Majority for HCI venues? @farhana-shahid.bsky.social & I are conducting research on peer review experience of research by and about Global Majority. participation form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Review Experience of Global Majority Scholars
We invite scholars who are either from the Global Majority or conduct research in the Global Majority to share their experiences of publishing in interdisciplinary venues such as CHI, CSCW, FAccT, Ubi...
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
One time I was talking to someone (Daniel Wilson, I think) and he mentioned that someone in Te Pūnaha Matatini did a study on bird names in te reo Māori and how they vary from place to place. Does anyone know anything about that work? I'm trying to track it down.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
A random (silly) idea I just had: there should be a project that prints the internet onto paper as a sort of record-keeping for the future, to keep the history from being lost
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
In terms of the desecration of an ancient archive of human knowledge, the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest is the 21st century equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria. (In fact, it's significantly worse)
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I'm habitually late to watch things but I just finished watching Frieren. I mostly decided to watch it on the basis of the rave reviews. I was pleasantly surprised and not at all disappointed.
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a cartoon character is reading a book while sitting next to a fire
ALT: a cartoon character is reading a book while sitting next to a fire
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I don’t have a word for this, but there should be a term for: “hey *minority A*! *minority B* is trying to take your xyz - Signed, *Oppressive majority*”
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Before I went on I had 3 points I hoped to get across: First, Māori are being blamed for poor response rates to the census but it is the govts actions that has degraded public trust over time. Stats NZ have been set up to fail. They can’t fix trust issues that were created by the rest of govt.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I’m going to be on Marae with Scotty this morning at 10am on TV One to discuss the govt’s decision to drop the census in five years time
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
These days I’m trying to keep my head down and do my research but boy do I get tested sometimes. Distraction is a primary tactic of colonialism. To make so much noise that we take our eyes off of the future and fight them in the here and now where they have all the power.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/06/2025
Zuckerberg is offering random guys $100m to join Meta to “build super intelligence” despite his lead scientist saying it isn’t possible. Sam Altman and Jony Ive may have ripped someone off, Microsoft is ready to let them die. Silicon Valley, where dreams go to die a billion dollars at a time.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I'm two days late because I've been trying to talk myself out of having a take because I have enough work to do right now, but I decided I have to get it off my chest so here are my takes: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Five-yearly Census to be scrapped from 2030, replaced with administrative data, annual surveys
The traditional Census will be replaced with a combination of government data and smaller annual surveys.
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Related article: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Netflix's biggest competitor? Sleep
Uber v self-driving cars, Facebook v video games. Some of the tech industry’s biggest rivalries are not what you would expect
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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
In NZ some supermarkets have a membership card where items are “discounted” if you have the card, but it’s for tracking spending habits. Last night I was *livid* for not having the card because the price mark-up for not having it is as high as 40%(!) on basic items like pasta or laundry detergent.
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