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5 years

נביא בעירו ביצ'ז

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I am THRILLED to announce that starting October, I am joining the CS department at Ben-Gurion University as a Senior Lecturer! Looking forward to many years of pursuing NLP shenanigans under the blessed dry heat of the Negev.

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אני היחיד שחשב בילדותו שלחברת המגבונים/מטפחות קוראים "עלילי"?

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@warren__terra @sovietvisuals @drfarls Coca-cola is landlocked.

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I am excited to announce that I passed my thesis proposal and am now officially a PhD fiancé! I'd like to thank my awesome committee @jacobeisenstein @mark_riedl @Diyi_Yang @dannydanr for their feedback and efforts, and to my family, labmates and friends for their support!

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המזלג הוכנס לתא הסכו"ם במדיח עם השיניים כלפי מטה 😡😡😡 אני נשוי לסוכנת של כאוס 😡😡😡

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why do they call it "needs to be proofread by a native speaker" and not "requires L1 regularization"

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So I took some time and wrote this medium post about the "Attention is not Explanation" paper.

Attention is not not Explanation

[This post is intended for an NLP practitioner audience, and assumes its readers know what attention modules are and how they are being…

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@Jkchunt @yaelnetzer new parchment who dis

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כשתצייץ על יונה וולך תרפרר לשיר תותים ותצטט מהשיר תותים ותגיד בקול רם ומתוק תראו אותי אני משכיל אני מכיר את תותים וכל שאר שיריה כחוטים בלתי נראים או נראים על הזין שלך

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@bitjockey84 @gdb @ilyasut app-alling way to live one's life

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@chrisbicknell12 @ranny_bloch @kareemMajjour @nytimesworld Following past weeks' protests dozens of IEDs have been found along the fence. I guess the explosives fairy put them there?

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שופט הצעות לפרויקטים של סטודנטים בענייני למידת מכונה. הראשונה עוסקת במידול תנועות של דגים. מזה כארבעים דקות כל סיב בגופי ובנפשי נאבק נגד הדחף לשאול בריוויו שלי "but will it scale?".

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Had a great breakfast chat with Ray Mooney today at #naacl2019 by the way, here's a summary: [0.0633 -0.1229 0.8301 0.4016 0.0032 -0.0807 -0.3997 -0.5255 1.000 0.0462 -0.8971 0.7613 0.3179 -0.1358 0.9683 -0.5493]

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@waimoichi @djavjr @redditships tbh i would find it weird if she used the other one, distancing herself from her like that

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@Whyenn_Reader @massive_cranium so it's not a... safe space?

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The main reason I've been upset recently at Hebrew not having cased letters is the inability to convey tHe spOnGebOB mEMe SenTiMeNT accurately.

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Happy to announce our paper to be published at Findings of #emnlp2020 : "Will it Unblend?", with @BayesForDays @jacobeisenstein The preprint, data, and code will be out soon enough, but I'm so excited about this project that I just gotta do the thread thing now. 1/9

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@yousefslym So your advocacy of "Palestine in reality" is a multicultural city, possible only under Israeli rule, where the picture is taken from a mostly-Jewish neighborhood, overlooking a Baha'i temple, a neighborhood built by Germans, another where Christians live and some mixed ones?

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If you're looking for our recent paper on model editing on the ACL anthology and cannot find it, it's because it has been taken down without cause or due process. The paper is still available on arXiv, feel free to read it there.

Emptying the Ocean with a Spoon: Should We Edit Models?

We call into question the recently popularized method of direct model editing as a means of correcting factual errors in LLM generations. We contrast model editing with three similar but distinct...

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@DinkyShop @AlanMCole @michael_hendrix That chart seems to prove Alan's point, ridiculous re-scaling notwithstanding.

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@Lontar47 @osamabishounen least-understandable sarcasm ever then,

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@yossidavidov10 אוקיי אתה יכול אולי להקריא את הציוץ הזה שלך בוידאו עם קרטוני פיצה על השולחן?

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4 years

תושב חוץ בקיבוץ מקבל מקרר.

ROMINA || adventureneurship

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Can you describe your favorite movie as boring as possible?

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#IGotOut @GeorgiaTech

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So one aspect of my set design for #superintelligence made it to the movie!

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סייקו קילר קס קה סה (הפרחים ל- @amirvaxman )

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@redditships First thing that comes to mind

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Invited talk from @yoavgo : Trying to Understand Recurrent Neural Networks for Language Processing #BlackboxNLP #emnlp2018

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@RadioMcLean @redditships not dedicated enough to stick to a consistent dialect tho

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@AhmadMuhammad3_ @Oscarth74862164 @yosoyasaf Do you understand what quotes are, dumbass? Of course it's not occupied. Share anything about the culture, then, by all means! The rich British-occupied culture of 1917-1948, or the Turkish-occupied culture of 1517-1917? The Mamluks before them? The Crusaders? Romans?

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5 years

this is just to say i have sampled from the pre-trained models that were in the private repo and which you were probably not releasing for fear of the ai apocalypse forgive me they were unicorny so perplex and so uncanny

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Committing to the bit: the visual manifestation #naacl2019

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@kareemMajjour @chrisbicknell12 @ranny_bloch @nytimesworld Oh you mean like it was in 2005 after Israel's full withdrawal from Gaza? Here's a short lesson on what happened next: 1) Hamas burrowed under the border and kidnapped Cpl. Gilad Shalit 2) Hamas took over Gaza, killing 120 Fatah opponents. So no. Lesson learned.

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@idokius למה מה חשבת שיהיה שם, שיני קולה?

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@felix_croc @qikipedia They haven't even gotten that far as they think it's the sAmE WOrD

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@AndrewKemendo @gdb maybe they're spending time with their families

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@HighBiscuits @DeputyWarlock that's why she brought her a broad sheet

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6 years

מהקלאסיקות

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אוקיי אז #שרשור_מדע קצר על מה שהולך עם גוגל טרנסלייט וג'יבריש. זה נהיה ויראלי אתמול בעברוספירה, ואני אחזור לגורם הראשוני בסוף, אבל בינתיים נסביר. 1/10

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@redditships BUT HOW OLD IS THE DOG

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@theotherdemon02 @netanyahu now THIS is a profile pic that says "I'm a reasonable person, take me seriously".

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6 years

אני מבין שהגיע הזמן לסכם את עידן נתניהו השני. מבחינתי, בשורה התחתונה, בזבוז עצום. היה פה ראש ממשלה עם פוטנציאל 90, שעשה 40, והנחמה היחידה היא ההכרה שכל אחד אחר היה עושה 30 ומטה. >

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@ekcollapse @christapeterso And grenades and RPGs, yes. You somehow always leave out the RPGs. They were there for HOURS before the IDF managed to get any control. Survivors say they waited hiding until sundown. It isn't called a "rampage" for nothing.

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3 years

you're so well you probably think this email has found you

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@timnitGebru have not been engaging with yoav, or facts, or reason, or basic human decency,

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@yaalenaatinet @Olympics @gymnastics what's this flag you're showing? i didn't see it anywhere in the competition or the ceremony 🤔🤔🤔

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folks, it is now white supremacist to have your family slaughtered in their home by people who idolize hitler

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this is neither ethics nor a broader impact statement. it's simply white-supremacism and settler-colonialism

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#שרשור_מדע על רשתות נוירונים בעיבוד שפה טבעית, והפעם: מהו מודל צומי? אז ככה. את ראשית מדע לימוד המכונה (משין לרנינג), שהוא הבסיס לחקר הבינה המלאכותית של ימינו, נהוג למקם בשנות ה-50. רשת הנוירונים הראשונה, כלומר חיבור כמה אלמנטים של לימוד מכונה אחד לשני, נהגתה בתחילת שנות ה-60.

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The final number appears to be *ten* papers taken down from EMNLP proceedings despite having gone through peer review, a month after the conference, without basis in any ACL guideline (I am now certain of this part as well).

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@oren_data So far I've encountered seven "forbidden" papers.

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@RFHanrahan @EinatWilf Why aren't Sudeten Germans terrorizing Czechia demanding to return after 77 years? Why aren't Indian Hindu at Pakistan's doorstep? Turks on Greece's? Should I go on? Why are you obsessed with singling out the one case that involves depriving *Jews* of self-determination?

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3 years

cockney engineers be like oi that's a

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@PillowRay2Times @The_Law_Boy You'll never convince me that they were the same guy.

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oh gosh, almost stored these two together, would have never heard the end of it 🙄

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WELL HAVE WE GOT NEWS FOR YOU. Introducing NYTWIT, the New York Times Word Innovation Types Dataset. Over 2,500 words filtered and manually annotated by @BayesForDays and myself over a hecka long time, covering nearly a year and a half of NYT innovation. >

GitHub - yuvalpinter/nytwit: New York Times Word Innovation Types dataset

New York Times Word Innovation Types dataset. Contribute to yuvalpinter/nytwit development by creating an account on GitHub.

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3 years

ב ו א ו פ י ד #טריפינטר

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Hello there @Airbnb ! I see you care a ton about occupation and human rights. Is this why you offer apartments in Dakhla, part of Morrocan-occupied Western Sahara?

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4 years

Social distancing

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- אז אתה בונה את גרף החישוב, משנה את הצורה של הטנסור בכניסה, ובסוף עושה ()cat. - למה cat()? - התקמפלת!

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@eran_ha @idokius @GLZRadio @IKweller אפשר להגיד שהיא שפה... בלתי לגאלית

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2 years

you're telling me a desk rejected this paper,

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Our turn our turn! @jacobeisenstein went out and achieved, and proud we are! #tenure #PROF @ICatGT @gtcomputing

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@TerribleMaps But in which is it /ðə/ and in which is it /ðiː/

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@chrisbicknell12 @ranny_bloch @kareemMajjour @nytimesworld The IDF takes precautions when it patrols the fence, yes. Especially after massive "protests" with dozens of fence breaches. You wouldn't believe this, but Israelis actually think that human lives are worth something, they don't send out tens of thousands in cannon fodder.

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Stop 👏 reviewing 👏 short 👏 papers 👏 as 👏 if 👏 they 👏 were 👏 long 👏

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Official blog post with acceptance statistics:

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Hey @openai come get your toy back

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wow, honestly didn't know this screen existed

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@notlookuhs @fstspecial they call me The Standard Deviator

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@alienelf @roeeaharoni

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A paper I co-authored IN TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN has just been accepted to a journal. Take that, reviewers 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, and 23!

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"we thank reviewers 2 and 3 for their insightful comments"

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@Avinoam_Y אורנה ברביבאי אין א ברבי וורלד

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@AhmadMuhammad3_ @Oscarth74862164 @yosoyasaf What did Haifa look like before "the Zionists occupied it"? Care to share a picture?

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*slaps roof of WordNet* this bad boy can fit so many relation-predicting motifs in it Yours truly and @jacobeisenstein . "Predicting Semantic Relations using Global Graph Properties". Accepted to #emnlp2018

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why do we call them geminate consonants when we could just say hold the phone

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@tiffany_caban Did stabbing a Jew to death in the middle of Israel today advance Palestinian Liberation?

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*chef kiss*

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Marc Marone ( @ruyimarone ), @jacobeisenstein , and yours truly, set out to try and understand what properties of language are encoded in the behaviors of individual hidden units in character-level LSTMs. 🔤👀 #nlproc Our findings are now out: [1/8]

Character Eyes: Seeing Language through Character-Level Taggers

Character-level models have been used extensively in recent years in NLP tasks as both supplements and replacements for closed-vocabulary token-level word representations. In one popular...

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year-round ACL cruise ship stopping at ports dropping off and picking up random groups of registered members is the only way to go forward really

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– Seeing a small and somewhat arbitrary sample of the community doesn't feel worse than seeing a big sample. This makes me more open to the idea of smaller regional events replacing conferences, if we can figure out some way to preserve some cross-pollination across regions.

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@B_A_R_E_L_O_S @mefazer מלפני ארבע שנים, כשביקשנו מדומינוס "חיתוך בסגנון חופשי, תפתיעו אותנו"

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אז אם הבנתי נכון, כדי שישראל תכיר בחיסון שאני אקבע לי בארה"ב אני צריך שהמחסן לא יהיה רפורמי?

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this has become frighteningly real

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if i were to implement an nlp system, i would simply make it perform significantly better than the baseline

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@eran_ha @idokius @GLZRadio @IKweller אה סבבה אני אגיד לקהילת עשרות הבלשנים שחוקרים ומתעדים אותה שהייטקיסט אקראי אומר שאין בכלל שפה כזאת 👍

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the enshittification of ACL

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I'm feeling like the pace of events in NLP isn't even allowing us to properly exhaust the memeing potential.

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הפתרון שלי הוא שכל שבוע יפתחו חלק חדש של ניר דוד לציבור ולאט לאט יתקרבו עם זה למים אבל אף פעם לא יגיעו ממש אפשר לקרוא לזה אסי מפטוטה אם אין שישים חתיכה אינפול עד הערב שעוני אני רואה בזה כשלון של החברה האנושית כולה.

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מה יותר מלבב מלקבל בדיחה מעצמך של לפני חמש שנים.

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Forget the "120 hostages" narrative. Hamas has been holding 2 million hostages since 2007. Free Gaza from #HamasisISIS

MEMRI

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#Hamas And Palestinian Islamic Jihad To #GazaStrip Residents: Do Not Evacuate From Areas About To Be Targeted In Airstrikes - Audio of report here #MEMRI

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@iamruheen @BarackObama cool now do "beheading children is not liberation"

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@diogoalvesmaia @TerribleMaps By not ignoring the 1000+ indigenous languages living in its space?

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@BendavidAmir @shimritmeir איזה מזל יש לשמרית, עיתונאית עם מקורות שמחוברת לשיח הלבנוני ומבינה מהחיים שלה, שיש לה אותך שיגיד לה מה למעשה כן קורה על-סמך, ואני מצטט, "נראה לי".

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@itztabegarehet @Tamarski1 שלך זה כנראה יציק (לי בטוח) ועוד יותר אם תבקש שוב ותזכה להתעלמות, רק שאצלי ואצלך זה סתם יהיה איזה דוש ולא מישהו עם כוונות רעות שעומדות מאחוריו אידאולוגיות מחקניות שטראנסים ברחבי העולם נרצחים או מתאבדימ בשמן ובגללן, ושהשימוש במיסג'נדרינג משמש אותו תפקיד כמו כינויי גנאי גזעניים.

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part of the distorted fuckery that's consuming the world these days is that somehow demanding hamas to dismantle and to return the hostages is perceived as pointless whereas demanding israel cease fire is achievable. we need to change these expectations. >

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תודה לאתר הבי די אס שעזר לי למצוא את כל המוצרים הישראליים בסופר החדש!

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3 years

Farewell @GeorgiaTech

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@rafaelhorta @amazingmap Er, nope. It's just that what you call "south" is much closer to the equator than what you call "north". Latitude-to-latitude the n/s sizes are the same.

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humans hear 10^9 words over their lives and 10^8 of them are in debates about poverty of stimulus

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5 years

@mark_riedl Mine GRU up so fast

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