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Abstract of our NatCompSci article

Using LLMs as a Tool for Inference in the Political and Social Sciences

8 August 2025

How should political and social scientists use LLMs? In a new paper, my team provides some guidelines.

Splash page from ADoBo 2025

Automated Detection of Spanish Borrowings at IberLEF 2025

22 June 2025

I entered another academic competition with the goal of demonstrating how well commercial LLMs perform NLP tasks.

Don Asay as a missionary in Manila circa 1965

Preserving Grandpa Don's Mission Journal

18 June 2025

I made an interactive viewer for my grandpa, Don Asay's, mission journal.

Experimental design from our SMR paper

Balancing Large Language Model Alignment and Algorithmic Fidelity in Social Science Research

23 May 2025

Aligning LLMs to behave like helpful, friendly assistants is great, but can that hamper their abilities? In new research, we explore the tradeoff between alignment and capability.

Several original Lego creations from my account.

Growing Alex Lyman Studios

7 May 2025

I made an Instagram account to showcase my original Lego creations.

Abstract from our PNAS paper on Political Microtargeting

Testing Theories of Political Persuasion Using AI

2 May 2025

In recent work, published in PNAS, we explore LLMs' ability to microtarget politically persuasive messages.

Screenschot of LMMS, a Digital Audio Workstation

Learning to Produce Music for a Meme

11 March 2025

I got really into a dumb idea for a meme and learned a lot along the way.

Screenshot from level 1 of my video game, Prismo

Prismo Part 2

31 January 2025

I finished my 2-D platformer game.

Similar Verse Finder UI

Similar Verse Finder

20 November 2024

I created an AI-powered concordance.

Menu for my video game, Prismo

BabyLM 2024

17 November 2024

I participated in an academic challenge to teach a Language Model English the same way you'd teach a baby.

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